Essays & Travelogues
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How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays
$16.95 Add to cartA collection of “impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” (The Atlantic) how-to essays that highlight the absurdities of modern life, from the author of The Name of the Rose
How to Travel With a Sal
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 015600125X
- Language: English
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My Little Donkey: And Other Essays
$27.00 Add to cartA collection of searching, curious, and surprising essays catalyzed by the author’s move in her sixties to a small Italian village, exploring selfhood, coincidence, inheritance, and the impermanence o… [more below]
- Author: Cooley, Martha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1646223020
- Language: English
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Wine Pairing for the People: The Communion of Wine, Food, and Culture from Africa and Beyond
$35.00 Add to cartA first-of-its-kind guide to pairing wine with foods from Africa and beyond, including a tour of wine regions across the globe and a foreword by Stephen Satterfield, from renowned Certified Sommelier
- Author: McCoy, Cha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063329670
- Language: English
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Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed, and Wonder
$29.00 Add to cartDiscover the wonders and perils of the earth’s precious metals–what they have offered us as humans, and how they’ve forever changed our relationship with the world around us
The ground beneath our fe- Author: Marsden, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1640097449
- Language: English
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Lost Japan: Last Glimpse of Beautiful Japan
$21.99 Read moreOriginally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author’s experiences in Japan over 30 years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his i… [more below]
- Author: Kerr, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0141979747
- Language: English
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Islands Apart: A Year on the Edge of Civilization
$24.95 Add to cartAuthor Ken McAlpine stands in his front yard one night in Ventura, California, trying to see the stars. His view is diminished by light pollution, making it hard to see much of anything in the sky. Ou… [more below]
- Author: McAlpine, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: July 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1590305302
- Language: English
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Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It: Essays
$23.33 Read moreMordantly funny, thought-provoking travel essays, from the acclaimed author of Out of Sheer Rage and “one of our most original writers” (New York Magazine).
This isn’t a self-help book; it’s a book a- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 1400031672
- Language: English
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Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein’s Brain
$20.00 Add to cartAlbert Einstein’s brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him … [more below]
- Author: Paterniti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 038533303X
- Language: English
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There She Goes: New Travel Writing by Women
$19.95 Add to cartAn anthology of new travel writing by and for rebellious women adventuring through the world.
Travel writing can be exclusive, centering macho narratives of discovery and intrepid exploration, often ma
- Author: Aldegheri, Esa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1916812090
- Language: English
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Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier
$24.00 Add to cartWhen Alexandra (“Bo”) Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a “tough bugger.” Her fat… [more below]
- Author: Fuller, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035010
- Language: English
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Greyhound: A Memoir
$18.95 Add to cartCombining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood, and the purpose creativity gives to our lives when … [more below]
- Author: Pocock, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 159376801X
- Language: English
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The Skeptical Romancer: Selected Travel Writing
$18.00 Add to cartOne of the seminal writers of the twentieth century, W. Somerset Maugham was also a fearless and constant traveler who chronicled his adventures with a rare mix of wit and excitement. In The Skeptical
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Maugham, W. Somerset
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 030747318X
- Language: English
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The Innocents Abroad: Or, the New Pilgrims’ Progress
$25.00 Add to cartThe Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967054
- Language: English
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The Dari?n Gap: A Reporter’s Journey Through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas
$29.95 Add to cartThe narrow Dari?n Gap, the only land bridge connecting South and Central America, encompasses a spectacularly hostile jungle, covered in steep mountains, dense rainforests, and flood-prone marshes. Kn… [more below]
- Author: Fernández, Belén
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1978842082
- Language: English
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Altered on the Appalachian Trail
$20.00 Add to cartOn August 3, 1973, from atop Katahdin, a sacred mountain in north-central Maine,
Mike Rayder had not only found himself but much more since he had worked hard to
overcome adversity along the way making
- Author: Rayder, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: April 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218547912
- Language: English
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The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints
$19.00 Read moreCould an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Exploration
- Author: Severin, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0375755241
- Language: English
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
$9.95 Add to cartIn the spring of 1804, Lewis and Clark set out on a voyage launched by Thomas Jefferson, to explore the wilderness between the Missouri River and the Pacific coast. This volume contains the vivid dail… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Bakeless, John
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0451531884
- Language: English
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The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Video Nights in Kathmandu comes this intriguing new book that deciphers the cultural ramifications of globalization and the rising tide of worldwide displacement.
Beginni- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Iyer, Pico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0679776117
- Language: English
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The Anthony Bourdain Reader: New, Classic, and Rediscovered Writing
$40.00 Add to cartThe definitive, career-spanning collection of writing from Anthony Bourdain, assembled for the first time in book form
Anthony Bourdain represented many things to many people–and he had many sides. Bu
- Author: Bourdain, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0062863959
- Language: English
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Now Is the Time: A Van Life Road Trip
$14.99 Add to cartLovestruck and newly unemployed, Andrew Singer cashes in his savings to investigate a key question: Is #vanlife as awesome as it looks? After all, what could go wrong when two millennials-who have nev
- Author: Singer, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992699609
- Language: English
