Vintage Departures
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Paris in Mind: From Mark Twain to Langston Hughes, from Saul Bellow to David Sedaris: Three Centuries of Americans Writing about Their Romance (and Fr
$20.00 Add to cart“Paris is a moveable feast,” Ernest Hemingway famously wrote, and in this captivating anthology, American writers share their pleasures, obsessions, and quibbles with the great city and its denizens. … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Lee, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 1400031028
- Language: English
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Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Last Mughal, an enlightening book that explores with remarkable compassion and expansive insight nine varieties of religious devotion in India today.
In portraits of people we m- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0307474461
- Language: English
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Cairo: The City Victorious
$19.00 Add to cartFrom a noted journalist who has spent much of his life in Cairo, here is a dazzling cultural excavation of that most ancient, colorful, and multifaceted of cities. The seat of pharaohs and sultans, th… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Rodenbeck, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 22 2000
- ISBN10: 0679767274
- 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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Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of the Year
“Full of insights, marvelously entertaining . . . haunting and beautifully written.”
–The New York Review of Books “I lived in Athens, at the intersection of- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Storace, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 02 1997
- ISBN10: 0679744789
- Language: English
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Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert
$18.00 Add to cartIt is as vast as the United States and so arid that most bacteria cannot survive there. Its loneliness is so extreme it is said that migratory birds will land beside travelers, just for the company. W… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Langewiesche, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 24 1997
- ISBN10: 0679750061
- Language: English
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A gripping story of man pitted against nature’s most fearsome and efficient predator. This “travelogue about tiger poaching in Russia’s far east opens up a new genre … [the] co… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Vaillant, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0307389049
- Language: English
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Cuba in Mind: An Anthology
$16.95 Read moreSince Columbus arrived in 1492 and called Cuba “the most beautiful country that human eyes have ever seen,” few places on earth have evoked such passion. The thirty-one writers in Cuba in Mind offer a… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Dominguez, Maria Finn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 1400076137
- Language: English
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The Road from Coorain: A Woman’s Exquisitely Clear-Sighted Memoir of Growing Up Australian
$17.00 Add to cartIn a memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood–a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, ideas,… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Conway, Jill Ker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 11 1990
- ISBN10: 0679724362
- Language: English
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In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler’s Tale
$20.00 Read moreOnce upon a time, an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out as an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small vil… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Ghosh, Amitav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 29 1994
- ISBN10: 0679727833
- Language: English
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Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
$18.00 Read moreA New York Times Notable Book – “An elegant, nonlinear reflection on how flying on a commercial airliner–even while painfully folded into a seat in coach–can lift the soul.” —The New York Times Boo
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Vanhoenacker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0804169713
- Language: English
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Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain
$18.00 Add to cartA funny, generous, wonderfully written account of a family making a life and home in remote but enchanting southern Spain–from the first drummer of the rock band Genesis.
No sooner had Chris Stewart- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Stewart, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0375709150
- Language: English
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribut… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Mayle, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1101974281
- Language: English
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The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
$19.00 Add to cartWhen Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find ou… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Iyer, Pico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 27 1992
- ISBN10: 0679738347
- Language: English
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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
$19.00 Read moreThe bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land takes us along the Inside Passage, 1,000 miles of often treacherous water, which he navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat, offering captivating discour… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0679776141
- Language: English
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
$23.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A gripping story of man pitted against nature’s most fearsome and efficient predator. This “travelogue about tiger poaching in Russia’s far east opens up a new genre … [the] co… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Vaillant, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0307389049
- Language: English
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The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the Nort… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0307948900
- Language: English
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India in Mind
$19.00 Add to cartEver since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This superb anthology gives us some of the best fiction, no… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Mishra, Pankaj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0375727450
- Language: English
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From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
$16.00 Add to cartAfter two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story of his remarkable journey and … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Seth, Vikram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 12 1987
- ISBN10: 039475218X
- Language: English
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Samba
$20.00 Add to cartTo the 70 million poor of Brazil, dreaming and planning for Carnival is an upside down ritual for exorcising their pain–a brilliant cultural and sexual release in which sequins are brighter than diam… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Guillermoprieto, Alma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 30 1991
- ISBN10: 067973256X
- Language: English
