Essays & Travelogues
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
$19.00 Add to cart“An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism.” —Los Angeles Times
From the award-winning author of Orwell’s Roses, a stimula- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 143037242
- Language: English
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Round Here and Over Yonder: A Front Porch Travel Guide by Two Progressive Hillbillies (Yes, That’s a Thing.)
$29.99 Read moreJoin Southern comedian duo Trae Crowder and Corey Ryan Forrester in this hilarious and irreverent travel guide as they wander about ponderin’ the peculiarities beyond their small-town front porches.
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- Author: Crowder, Trae
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1404117547
- Language: English
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
$20.99 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – #1 Indie Next Pick – Winner of the PEN New England Award
“Enchanting…A book filled with so much love…Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best w- Author: Buck, Rinker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 07, 2016
- ISBN10: 1451659172
- Language: English
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On Trails: An Exploration
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award – Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing – Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award – “The best outdoors book of
- Author: Moor, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 04, 2017
- ISBN10: 1476739234
- Language: English
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One Man’s Wilderness, 50th Anniversary Edition: An Alaskan Odyssey
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the National Outdoor Book Award.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of when Dick Proenneke first broke ground and made his mark in the Alaskan wilds in 1968, this bestselling memoir features a
- Author: Proenneke, Richard Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 11, 2018
- ISBN10: 1513261649
- Language: English
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Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route Into Spain
$18.99 Add to cartWhen Jack Hitt set out to walk the 500 miles from France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, he submitted to the rigorous traditions of Europe’s oldest form of packaged tour, a pilgrimage that has been … [more below]
- Author: Hitt, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 11, 2010
- ISBN10: 0743261119
- Language: English
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
$14.00 Add to cartAn intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers
To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light–these were Jo- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31, 1980
- ISBN10: 0140053204
- Language: English
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
$9.99 Add to cartThe Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America-majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hi
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 26, 2006
- ISBN10: 0307279464
- Language: English
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Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
$27.00 Read moreLonglisted 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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Travels with Charley in Search of America
$17.00 Add to cartAn 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
$18.00 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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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
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She Explores: Stories of Life-Changing Adventures on the Road and in the Wild (Solo Travel Guides, Travel Essays, Women Hiking Books): Stories of Life
$24.95 Add to cartFor every woman who has ever been called outdoorsy comes a collection of stories that inspires unforgettable adventure.
Beautiful, empowering, and exhilarating, She Explores is a spirited celebration- Author: Straub, Gale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 26, 2019
- ISBN10: 1452167664
- Language: English
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Getting about: Travel Writings of William F. Buckley Jr.
$39.99 Read moreWell known as a political commentator and the author of sixteen novels, William F. Buckley Jr. was also a superb chronicler of travel. Getting About gathers more than one hundred of his articles about
- Author: Meehan, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1641773170
- Language: English
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Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life
$21.95 Read moreALOHA (love) – ‘ĀINA (land) – MO’OLELO (stories) – ‘OHANA (family)
DISCOVER FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF HAWAIIAN LIVING
FOR A PEACEFUL AND BALANCED LIFE.
More than just a beautiful paradise, Hawai’i has … [more below]- Author: Daly, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1797216937
- Language: English
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Oh, Florida!: How America’s Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
To some people, Florida is a paradise; to others, a punch line. As Oh, Florida! shows, it’s both of these and, more important, it’s a Petri dish, producing trends that end- Author: Pittman, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250143640
- Language: English
