Essays & Travelogues
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Lonely Planet Women Travel Solo: 30 Inspiring Stories of Adventure, Curiosity and the Power of Self-Discovery
$24.99 Add to cartDiscover 30 inspirational stories from women who have harnessed the power of self-discovery and experienced amazing adventures around the world alone.
Packed with candid first-person accounts from bri
- Series: Lonely Planet
- Author: Planet, Lonely
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1837585202
- Language: English
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Running in the Family
$17.00 Read moreAn autobiographical journey of discovery gathers together fragments of memory, experience, and family history in order to understand the meaning of his parents’ legacy and his own heritage.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Ondaatje, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 30 1993
- ISBN10: 0679746692
- 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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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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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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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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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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Just Up the Road: A Year Discovering People, Places, and What Comes Next in the Pine Tree State
$18.95 Read moreJust Up The Road follows Chelsea Diehl’s year-long journey through Maine following the suggestions from those who know and love it most. With candid, humorous and personal recounts of new and revisite… [more below]
- Author: Diehl, Chelsea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1952143756
- Language: English
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The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country
$19.99 Add to cartWhen she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn’t Disneyl… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1785780239
- Language: English
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Tales from the Queen of the Desert
$16.95 Read moreExtracts from two of Bell’s most compelling works of travel writing, Persian Pictures and Syria: The Desert and the Sown, as well as some of her most fascinating letters
A woman far ahead of her time,
- Author: Bell, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1843915472
- Language: English
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Minarets in the Mountains: A Journey Into Muslim Europe
$16.99 Read moreA magical, eye-opening account of a journey into a Europe that rarely makes the news and is in danger of being erased altogether. Another Europe. A Europe few people believe exists and many wish didn’… [more below]
- Author: Hussain, Tharik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1784778281
- Language: English
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Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water
$20.00 Read moreThe critically acclaimed Dutch novelist, poet, and travel writer Cees Nooteboom pays tribute to Venice–the city, its history, and its treasures
“Mr. Nooteboom . . . [has] a highly distinctive voice–- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Nooteboom, Cees
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0300264607
- Language: English
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Imagined London: A Tour of the World’s Greatest Fictional City
$10.95 Read moreAnna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home-in one of her beloved childhood mystery novels. She has been back to London countless times since, through the pages o… [more below]
- Series: Literary Travel
- Author: Quindlen, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: January 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0792242076
- Language: English
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Watermark
$17.00 Add to cartIn this brief, intense, gemlike book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Joseph Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of forty-eight sh
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Brodsky, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0374539049
- Language: English
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The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 12: True Stories from Around the World
$19.99 Add to cartThis 12th volume in the popular series presents the best travel writing by women for women that’s been done in the past few years. Adventures range from a trip into a new neighborhood to expeditions t… [more below]
- Series: Best Women’s Travel Writing
- Author: Spalding, Lavinia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1609521897
- Language: English
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Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago
$18.00 Read more“Chicago is a tale of two cities,” headlines declare. This narrative has been gaining steam alongside reports of growing economic divisions and diverging outlooks on the future of the city. Yet to kee… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Kotlowitz, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 16 2019
- ISBN10: 022661901X
- Language: English
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Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain
$18.00 Read moreA 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
