Vintage Departures
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent takes us on an explosive adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where Civil War reenactors, battlefield visitors, and fans … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 22 1999
- ISBN10: 067975833X
- Language: English
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Oaxaca Journal
$17.00 Add to cartFrom “the poet laureate of medicine” and national bestselling author of Awakenings comes a fascinating investigation of Southern Mexico that explores the origins of chocolate and mescal, pre-Columbian… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Sacks, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 307947440
- Language: English
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Bad Land: An American Romance
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. – “As good a book as I have read … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 07 1997
- ISBN10: 0679759069
- Language: English
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The Nile: Travelling Downriver Through Egypt’s Past and Present
$19.00 Add to cartThe Nile, like all of Egypt, is both timeless and ever-changing. In these pages, renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey downriver that is both history and travelogue. We begin at t
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03, 2015
- ISBN10: 0804168903
- 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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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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The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
$19.00 Add to cartThe Seattle correspondent for The New York Times ranges through the Pacific Northwest–from the salmon fisheries and logging camps to the used-up “resource towns” and the manicured English gardens of … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Egan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 03 1991
- ISBN10: 0679734856
- Language: English
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A Beginner’s Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
$17.00 Add to cart“Arguably the greatest living travel writer” (Outside magazine), Pico Iyer has called Japan home for more than three decades. But, as he is the first to admit, the country remains an enigma even to it… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Iyer, Pico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1101973471
- Language: English
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction “with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller”(The New Yo… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Grann, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 1400078458
- 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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Among the Thugs
$19.00 Add to cartWith an Orwellian social imagination, Granta editor Buford offers a terrifying record of his passage through an alternate society–that of England’s soccer thugs–in this malevolently funny, supremely… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Buford, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0679745351
- Language: English
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Greetings from Bury Park
$16.00 Add to cartThe inspiration for the smash Sundance hit, soon to be a major motion picture, “Blinded by the Light” The acclaimed memoir about the power of Bruce Springsteen’s music on a young Pakistani boy growing
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Manzoor, Sarfraz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0307388026
- Language: English
