Essays & Travelogues
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Setting a Place for Us: Recipes and Stories of Displacement, Resilience, and Community from Eight Countries Impacted by War
$37.99 Add to cartAn enthralling, intimate collection of essays and over 75 recipes exploring the history of eight countries to understand the impact of geopolitical conflict and its outcomes on cuisine and food system… [more below]
- Author: Hassan, Hawa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1984860976
- Language: English
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Back Where I Came from: On Culture, Identity, and Home
$22.00 Add to cartIn this collection of personal essays, twenty-six writers from across North America share journeys back to their motherlands as visitors. Set against mountainous terrain, tropical beaches, bustling ci
- Series: Essais
- Author: Jaffer, Taslim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1771669179
- Language: English
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Sit, Cinderella, Sit: A Mostly True Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartA debut memoir and (sort of) Cinderella story about a woman who’d been told she was “too old” to create magic who flew to rural China, edited a film without speaking a word of Mandarin, and discovered… [more below]
- Author: Cheek, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1647427282
- Language: English
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The Long Road to Cullaville: Stories from my travels to every country in the world
$19.99 Add to cartAre You Ready to Explore the World’s Most Intriguing Destinations?
“Boris’s candor and writing style draws you in, and his journeys are fascinating. I felt like I was sitting beside him, running with h
- Author: Kester, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: May 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1960299026
- Language: English
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Discovering the Allagash: A Canoeing Guide to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, North Maine Woods
$33.99 Add to cartThis book is the ultimate guide to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway (AWW) because it covers every aspect of the canoeing/camping experience from the skilled eyes of a seasoned camper, accomplished can… [more below]
- Author: Sims, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: May 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1532046065
- Language: English
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The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
$16.99 Add to cart“A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in touch with mankind.” —New York Times
Newly reissued with an introduction by Plum Sykes, this cult favorite is a delightful diary–think Nan
- Author: Hanff, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 006244218X
- Language: English
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The Places in Between
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
This acccount of a 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, is “stupendous…an instant travel classic” (Entertainment Weekly).In J… [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Rory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0156031566
- Language: English
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Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination
$14.99 Add to cartIt’s time we celebrated women in adventure
An inspiring anthology full of stories from women who have completed incredible adventures and achieved amazing feats around the globe. The perfect collectio- Author: Tough, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1787833003
- Language: English
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Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
$18.99 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: The riveting account of a harrowing month spent stranded at sea–an incredible story of one man’s struggle and bravery.
Steven Callahan shares his dramatic tale of survival… [more below]
- Author: Callahan, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0618257322
- Language: English
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The Snow Leopard: (Penguin Orange Collection)
$19.00 Add to cartPart of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback
Winner of- Series: Penguin Orange Collection
- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 014312952X
- Language: English
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How to Live: A memoir-in-essays
$21.95 Add to cart“At its simplest, this is the story of a restless search for a place to be- a way to live- after a series of devastating events. But there’s nothing simple about it. Kelle Groom has created a marvel: … [more below]
- Author: Groom, Kelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1946482838
- Language: English
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The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each–from Ep… [more below]
- Author: Weiner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1501129023
- Language: English
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Out There: The Wildest Stories from Outside Magazine
$18.95 Add to cartOut There chronicles fringe athletes, fitness freaks, and others obsessed by ill-advised dreams. It takes us to far-flung places no sane person would want to go.
- Author: The Editors of Outside Magazine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1493048511
- Language: English
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Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
$16.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1646222393
- Language: English
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Paris in Winter: An Illustrated Memoir
$29.95 Read moreA newly expanded edition of the beloved Paris in Winter absorbs readers into magic of the City of Light, showcasing its serendipitous essence and cultural treasures anew with a captivating contemporar… [more below]
- Author: Coggins, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1648230857
- Language: English
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How to Win at Travel
$30.00 Add to cartTurn your wanderlust into reality with expert strategies from Brian Kelly, the founder of The Points Guy–the leading voice in travel and loyalty programs–with this ultimate resource for everything f… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668068656
- Language: English
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The Curve of Time
$18.95 Add to cartA beloved and bestselling Pacific Northwest adventure classic, now available in paperback!
Widowed at the age of thirty-five, Muriel Wylie Blanchet packed up her five children in the summers that foll
- Author: Blanchet, M. Wylie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1990776787
- Language: English
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Native Texan: Stories from Deep in the Heart
$17.95 Add to cartNative Texan: Deep in the Heart of the Lone Star State is a lively and personal tour of small town and big city Texas in search of what makes the state unique. Nationally acclaimed columnist Joe Holle
- Author: Holley, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1595349456
- Language: English
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Wild Atlantic Women: Walking Ireland’s West Coast
$13.99 Add to cartA journey along the Irish coast with powerful Irish woman beside you.
At a crossroads in her life, Gr?inne Lyons set out to travel Ireland’s west coast on foot. She set a simple intention: to walk in t… [more below]
- Author: Lyons, Gr?inne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1848409281
- Language: English
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In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space
$30.00 Add to cart“An awe-striking masterpiece of love.”
“The sentences alone in In Open Contempt make it one of the most memorable books of the decade. But it’s th
–Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times bestselling author- Author: Weathersby, Irvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593299159
- Language: English
