Essays & Travelogues
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Horizon
$21.00 Add to cartONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most fa
THE NEW YORK TIMES – NPR – THE GUARDIAN- Author: Lopez, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0375708472
- Language: English
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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of The Agitators, the acclaimed and captivating true story of two restless society girls who left their affluent lives to “rough it” as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916.
In th- Author: Wickenden, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1439176590
- Language: English
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The Art of Travel
$18.00 Add to cartA wise and utterly original book of travel essays from an international bestselling author that will “give one an expansive sense of wonder” (The Baltimore Sun).
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ou… [more below]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: de Botton, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 11 2004
- ISBN10: 0375725342
- Language: English
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize
In the heart of China’s Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many o
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hessler, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0060855029
- Language: English
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Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
$19.99 Add to cart“Theroux’s eye for landscape remains as sharp as ever . . . It’s Theroux’s remarkable gift for getting strangers to reveal themselves that makes going along for this ride worthwhile.” — New York Time
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 18, 2016
- ISBN10: 0544705173
- Language: English
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Zoo World: Essays
$21.95 Add to cart“A pocket adventure for environmentalists and those who enjoy meditative writing.” —Kirkus
We contain the elements of our world in archives, boxes, collections, mausoleums, history books, and museum- Series: Non/Fiction Collection Prize
- Author: Quade, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258778
- Language: English
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The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
$20.00 Add to cartThe Christian Science Monitor’s #1 Best Book of the Year
A witty, informative, and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they may not be as happy or as perfect as we assume, “The- Author: Booth, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1250081564
- Language: English
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Very Charleston: A Celebration of History, Culture, and Lowcountry Charm
$23.00 Add to cartCobblestone streets leading to perfectly preserved historic homes. Intricate wrought-iron gates opening to lush, fragrant gardens. A skyline of steeples and a river harbor bustling with schooners and … [more below]
- Author: Gessler, Diana Hollingsworth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 14 2003
- ISBN10: 1565123395
- Language: English
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
$32.00 Add to cart“Rebecca West’s magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time.” —The New Yorker
Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West’s classic examination of the history, people, and politics … [more below]- Author: West, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1232
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 014310490X
- Language: English
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The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing
$18.00 Read moreFrom the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts comes a collection of alternately playful and exquisite essays–including seven collected here for the first time–borne of … [more below]
- Author: McGuane, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0525565302
- Language: English
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of Central and Eastern Europe (Part 1: The Eastern Mountains) [Black and White
$17.95 Add to cartBronze Medal, 2016 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards: Best Regional Non-Fiction – Europe. Finalist, 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel.
An engaging and informative chronicle of a hik
- Author: Sparks, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: May 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1633932427
- Language: English
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Remarkable Treks
$40.00 Read moreRemarkable Treks is a compendium of exhilarating walks from around the planet – some lasting weeks, some lasting just a few days, but all of them set against spectacular backdrops.
Following the same f
- Author: Salter, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 1911682598
- Language: English
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New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
$14.95 Read moreFor two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvani
- Author: Codrescu, Andrei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31, 2006
- ISBN10: 1565125053
- Language: English
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Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
$16.95 Add to cartWith a New Preface by the Author
Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America’s still unfolding history and ideas of “race” have marked its p- Author: Savoy, Lauret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1619028255
- Language: English
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Green Hills of Africa
$30.00 Add to cartThe most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengeti–presented with archival material from the Hemingway Collecti… [more below]
- Series: Hemingway Library Edition
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1476787557
- Language: English
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On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
$17.99 Add to cartThe legendary travel writer drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then takes the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind the everyday headlines. Paul Th
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0358362792
- Language: English
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The Nile: Travelling Downriver Through Egypt’s Past and Present
$19.00 Add to cartThe Nile, like all of Egypt, is both timeless and ever-changing. In these pages, renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey downriver that is both history and travelogue. We begin at t
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03, 2015
- ISBN10: 0804168903
- Language: English
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Green Hills of Africa
$20.00 Add to cartThe most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengeti–presented with archival material from the Hemingway Collecti
- Series: Hemingway Library Edition
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 19, 2016
- ISBN10: 1476787581
- Language: English
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Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
$25.00 Add to cartThe collaboration of two friends–one a novelist, one a marine biologist–produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man’s dreams, his ideals, and his accompli… [more below]
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0143117211
- Language: English
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Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
$20.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
The fl neur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who stride
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017- Author: Elkin, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537437
- Language: English
