Essays & Travelogues
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The Nomadic Notebook – Norway: True short stories of travel adventures and encounters
$17.95 Add to cartA wonderfully immersive collection of short stories describing the otherworldly beauty of Norway’s arctic fjords and villages seasoned with the comedy of an inexperienced group of international volunt
- Series: The Nomadic Notebook #1
- Author: Purdy, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1088265227
- Language: English
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The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir’s Greatest Adventures
$12.99 Add to cartHere is an entertaining collection of famed conservationist John Muir’s most exciting adventures in nature, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosem… [more below]
- Author: Stetson, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1930238371
- Language: English
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Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
$18.00 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Robyn Davidson’s opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company with the fol- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Davidson, Robyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 30 1995
- ISBN10: 0679762876
- Language: English
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The Colossus of New York
$17.00 Add to cartIn a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the two time Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartb… [more below]
- Author: Whitehead, Colson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 1400031249
- Language: English
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The Only Kayak: A Journey Into the Heart of Alaska
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Classic! In this coming-of-middle-age memoir, Kim Heacox, writing in the tradition of Abbey, McPhee, and Thoreau, discovers an Alaska reborn … [more below]
- Author: Heacox, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493049402
- Language: English
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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors
$16.99 Add to cartFor more than three decades, bestselling author Louise Erdrich has enthralled readers with dazzling novels that paint an evocative portrait of Native American life. From her dazzling first novel, Love
- Author: Erdrich, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 006230996X
- Language: English
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The Passenger: Mexico
$22.00 Add to cartFully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: Underground Tenochtitlan by Guadalupe Nettel – Crime and (No) Punis
- Series: Passenger
- Author: VV, Aa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1787704696
- Language: English
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Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey
$19.99 Read moreThe charming and joyful follow-up book from ‘the nation’s taster in chief, ‘ Felicity Cloake.
If there’s one thing that truly unites Britain, from Aberdeen to Aberystwyth, St Ives to St Pancras, it’s
- Author: Cloake, Felicity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 0008413665
- Language: English
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Goodbye to a River: A Narrative
$19.00 Add to cartIn the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometime… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Graves, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375727787
- Language: English
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French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France
$19.99 Add to cartA story about dirt–and about sun, water, work, elation, and defeat. And about the sublime pleasure of having a little piece of French land all to oneself to till.
Richard Goodman saw the ad in the p- Author: Goodman, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: April 05, 2002
- ISBN10: 1565123522
- Language: English
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Nature Swagger: Stories and Visions of Black Joy in the Outdoors
$24.95 Read moreAn exquisite combination of beautiful photography and compelling stories, this book from Outdoor Afro founder, Rue Mapp, celebrates Black joy in nature.
Filled with breathtaking photography, inspiring- Author: Mapp, Rue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1797214292
- Language: English
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To Walk It Is to See It: 1 Couple, 98 Days, 1400 Miles on Europe’s Gr5
$18.95 Add to cartA memoir that shares what happens when Kathy Elkind, a curious woman about to enter the last third of her life, decides to take a long walk- 1,400 miles–across Europe with her husband of almost thirt
- Author: Elkind, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425255
- Language: English
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Here is New York
$18.95 Add to cartPerceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times ha… [more below]
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1892145022
- Language: English
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Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya
$19.00 Add to cartIn this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular and exotic Himalayan land, where she and her companions are gathering seeds fo
- Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 1, 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538107
- Language: English
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Hidden Japan: An Astonishing World of Thatched Villages, Ancient Shrines and Primeval Forests
$15.99 Add to cart“A sharp-tongued spokesman for Japan’s environment and traditions” —The New York Times
In Alex Kerr’s critically acclaimed Lost Japan and Dogs and Demons, he documented the decline of the traditional- Author: Kerr, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 5, 2023
- ISBN10: 4805317515
- Language: English
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Why We Travel: 100 Reasons to See the World
$24.95 Read moreFrom the author of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, a rallying cry to get off the couch and out into the world.
WHY WE TRAVEL is filled with personal stories and anecdotes, quotes that inspire, an
- Author: Schultz, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1523510978
- Language: English
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A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee
$20.00 Add to cartThe hysterical story bestseller about one man’s epic Celtic sojourn in search of ancestors, nostalgia, and the world’s greatest round of golf
By turns hilarious and poetic, A Course Called Ireland- Author: Coyne, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1592405282
- Language: English
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Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier
$18.00 Add to cart**The National Bestseller**
From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating, wild, and wonder-filled journey into Alaska, America’s last frontier In 1899, railroad- Author: Adams, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 28, 2019
- ISBN10: 1101985127
- Language: English
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Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
$20.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIR
What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the- Author: Adams, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0452297982
- Language: English
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
$32.00 Add to cartTHE CLASSIC BOOK THAT HAS INSPIRED MILLIONS
A penetrating examination of how we live and how to live better
Few books transform a generation and then establish themselves as touchstones for the generati
- Author: Pirsig, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01, 1974
- ISBN10: 0688002307
- Language: English
