Essays & Travelogues
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100 Bike Rides of a Lifetime: The World’s Ultimate Cycling Experiences
$35.00 Add to cartThis inspiring illustrated guide from National Geographic reveals the ultimate bucket list destinations for cyclists, from the vineyards of New Zealand to the peaks of Patagonia.
Get your pedals turni- Author: Smith, Roff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1426222653
- Language: English
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Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
$27.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence
This witty personal and cultural history of travel from the perspective of a Third World-raised woman of color, Airplane Mode, asks: what does- Author: Habib, Shahnaz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1646220153
- Language: English
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A Philosophy of Walking
$19.95 Add to cartThis “passionate affirmation of the simple life” explores how walking has influenced history’s greatest thinkers–from Henry David Thoreau and John Muir to Gandhi and Nietzsche (Observer)
“It is only- Author: Gros, Fr?d?ric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1804290440
- Language: English
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World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
$45.00 Add to cartA guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world tha
- Author: Bourdain, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0062802798
- Language: English
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Destinations of a Lifetime: 225 of the World’s Most Amazing Places
$40.00 Add to cartNatGeo takes you on a photographic tour of the world’s most spectacular destinations, inspiring tangible ideas for your next trip. Travel to hundreds of the most breathtaking locales–both natural and
- Author: National Geographic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 27, 2015
- ISBN10: 1426215649
- Language: English
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Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey Into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
$19.99 Read more“An old-fashioned jungle adventure, one with rare immediacy and depth of feeling for the people and creatures [Rosolie] encounters.” —Wall Street Journal
For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Am
- Author: Rosolie, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0062259520
- Language: English
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The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals – And Other Forgotten Ski
$17.95 Add to cartWhen writer and navigator Tristan Gooley journeys outside, he sees a natural world filled with clues. The roots of a tree indicate the sun’s direction; the Big Dipper tells the time; a passing butterf
- Series: Natural Navigation
- Author: Gooley, Tristan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 31, 2015
- ISBN10: 1615192417
- Language: English
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What Really Happens in Vegas: True Stories of the People Who Make Vegas, Vegas
$30.00 Add to cartWhat happens in Vegas stays in Vegas–until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through “lively tales of those who labor and dream in Sin City” (Kirkus).
“Wild and wonderf- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316406902
- Language: English
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Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself
$28.99 Read moreINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In Look for Me There, Luke Russert traverses terrain both physical and deeply personal. On his journey to some of the world’s most stunning destinations, he visits the
- Author: Russert, Luke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0785291814
- Language: English
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Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
$19.99 Add to cartLAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
A transgender reporter’s “powerful, profoundly moving” narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book R… [more below]- Author: Allen, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0316516023
- Language: English
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How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
$19.00 Add to cart“[A] joyously peculiar book.” — The New York Times
‘Bjarnason’s intriguing book might be about a cold place, but it’s tailor-made to be read on the beach.’ –New Statesman
The untold story of how on- Author: Bjarnason, Egill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 143135880
- Language: English
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Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City
$20.00 Add to cartThe bestselling book from two prizewinning, critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco–a rich, illustrated, idiosyncratic portrait of this great city–now in paperback.
In Spirits o- Author: Kamiya, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1635579813
- Language: English
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The Road Unpaved: Border to Border with a Brain Tumor and a Bike
$16.95 Add to cart1,845 miles. 41 days. 12 cyclists. 1 brain tumor named Bubba.
After a shocking diagnosis for a rare pituitary disease, and with her eighteen-year marriage in shambles, Risa’s life has fallen far from
- Author: August, Risa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: October 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988631705
- Language: English
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Travels with Charley in Search of America
$17.00 Read moreAn intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers
A Penguin Classic In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have los- Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140187413
- Language: English
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A Year in Provence
$17.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote co
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Mayle, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 04 1991
- ISBN10: 0679731148
- Language: English
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In Patagonia
$18.00 Add to cartThe masterpiece of travel writing that revolutionized the genre and made its author famous overnight
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Br- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Chatwin, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437190
- Language: English
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The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert
$19.99 Add to cartDeserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to seasoned explorers.
Craig Childs has spent years in the deserts of the American West, and his treks through arid lands in search of water rev- Author: Childs, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0316610690
- Language: English
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Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
$19.00 Add to cartIn Dispatches from Pluto, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”–the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta.
Richard Grant and his girlfriend were l- Author: Grant, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1476709645
- Language: English
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
$18.99 Add to cart“The kind of book Steinbeck might have written if he’d traveled with David Letterman.” —New York magazine
An inspiring and hilarious account of one man’s rediscovery of America and his search for the
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0060920084
- Language: English
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The Snow Leopard
$19.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
“A masterpiece that exceeds the boundaries of the travel genre and envelops you with its incredible prose.” —Wall Street Journal An unforgettable spiritual journey t- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105515
- Language: English
