Essays & Travelogues
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The Invention of Amsterdam: A History of Europe’s Greatest City in Ten Walks
$20.00 Add to cartAn essential guide to one of the world’s most remarkable, and often misunderstood, cities by the author of Why the Dutch Are Different.
When Ben Coates injures his leg and needs to rebuild his strengt
- Author: Coates, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1964992095
- Language: English
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Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy
$22.00 Add to cartFrances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, a
- Author: Mayes, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2000
- ISBN10: 076790284X
- Language: English
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On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
$30.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Stow away with Rick Steves for a glimpse into the unforgettable moments, misadventures, and memories of his 1978 journey on the legendary Hippie Trail. In the 1970s, the- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1641716436
- Language: English
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The Passenger: Naples
$22.00 Add to cartFully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: Paolo Macry on Naples’ “monarch mayors”・Francesco Abazia on
- Series: Passenger
- Author: VV Aa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1787705315
- Language: English
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A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the Southern Road
$27.99 Read moreThe author’s road trips through the American South lead to a personal confrontation with history
In A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the Southern Road, Pete Candler offers a travel n
- Author: Candler, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1643364790
- Language: English
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12 Trips in 12 Months: Make Your Own Solo Travel Magic
$16.99 Read moreA LibraryReads pick for Notable Nonfiction
Bestselling author Jen Ruiz takes readers on a trip around the globe in 12 Trips in 12 Months, defying societal expectations of what a woman is supposed to be
- Author: Ruiz, Jen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9798212978354
- Language: English
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Playing Off the Rail
$19.99 Add to cartAt the age of 17, David McCumber was stricken with “road fever” that irresistible call to the itinerant life of a professional gambler. Twenty-two years later, he got the chance to follow that dream-n
- Author: McCumber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0380729237
- Language: English
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A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
$18.00 Read moreA celebrated Danish writer explores the unsung histories and geographies of her beloved slice of the world.
Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what wa- Author: Nors, Dorthe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 164445209X
- Language: English
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Hidden Cities: Travels to the Secret Corners of the World’s Great Metropolises: A Memoir of Urban Exploration
$27.00 Add to cartIn this fascinating glimpse into the world of urban exploration, Moses Gates describes his trespasses in some of the most illustrious cities in the world from Paris to Cairo to Moscow.
Gates is a new b
- Author: Gates, Moses
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 21 2013
- ISBN10: 1585429341
- Language: English
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The Passenger: Thailand
$22.00 Add to cartFully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: Buddhism, the State, and Superpowers by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
- Series: Passenger
- Author: AA VV
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1787705773
- Language: English
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A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis
$46.65 Add to cartCollected here, from a period of nearly five decades, are thirty-six of Norman Lewis’s best articles. In each, his writing crackles with poker-faced wit and stylistic brilliance. As a witness to his t… [more below]
- Series: Eland Classics
- Author: Hatt, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 31 2025
- ISBN10: 1780602316
- Language: English
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I’ve Never Been Here Before: Our Family’s Year of Budget Travel, Wandering the World, and Finding the Sacred
$36.99 Add to cartA globetrotting mom of five chronicles her family’s life-changing trip to over 20 countries in a year and shares transforming takeaways to inspire readers’ own adventures.
“When I step into a culture- Author: Campbell, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0736991050
- Language: English
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The Black Nile: One Man’s Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World’s Longest River
$27.00 Add to cart“A supremely entertaining work, and also an important one.” -David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z
Upon hearing the news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a pl- Author: Morrison, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119370
- Language: English
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Meet Me in Atlantis: Across Three Continents in Search of the Legendary Sunken City
$27.00 Add to cartThe New York Times Bestselling Travel Memoir
The author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu travels the globe in search of the world’s most famous lost city. “Adventurous, inquisitive and mirthful, Mark A- Author: Adams, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1101983930
- Language: English
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Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story
$27.00 Add to cartFollow in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson with J. Maarten Troost, the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals.
Readers and critics alike adore J. Maarten Troost for his signature wry- Author: Troost, J. Maarten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1592408737
- Language: English
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All Humans Outside: Stories of Belonging in Nature
$39.95 Add to cartAn extraordinary celebration of diversity and belonging in the outdoors
- Full-color photography and profiles of 101 unique individuals from hikers to climbers, beekeepers to park rangers
- 250-plus por
- Author: Corey, Tommy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1680517066
- Language: English
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Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran
$19.00 Add to cartWhen Roger Housden decided to travel to Iran and finally see the subject of his youthful fascination, he was in his sixties. By then, he thought he had seen the world. He was wrong.
It was a quest th- Author: Housden, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0307587746
- 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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Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
$28.00 Read more“A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world’s most combustible region.”–The New York Times Book Review
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tony Horwitz’s 1991 classic a
NATIONAL BESTSELLER- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0452267455
- Language: English
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Walking the Amazon: 860 Days. One Step at a Time.
$28.00 Read moreFrom the star of Discovery Channel‘s Naked and Marooned comes a a riveting, adventurous account of one man’s history-making journey along the entire length of the Amazon–and through the most bio-dive… [more below]
- Author: Stafford, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0452298261
- Language: English
