Essays & Travelogues
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Seeking Sicily: A Cultural Journey Through Myth and Reality in the Heart of the Mediterranean
$35.00 Add to cart“Keahey’s exploration of this misunderstood island offers a much-needed look at a much-maligned land.”–Paul Paolicelli, author of Under the Southern Sun
Sicily is the Mediterranean’s largest and most- Author: Keahey, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0312597053
- Language: English
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The House at Capo d’Orso
$24.95 Read moreRocks, wind, sea, and sky frame a house on the Sardinian coast, and the house frames a family’s life and art, suspended in memory.
How does a house shape experience? How does architecture establish a- Author: Brandolini, Sebastiano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0262544962
- Language: English
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Farewell Transmission: Notes from Hidden Spaces
$16.95 Read moreIn Farewell Transmission, Will McGrath guides us on a rambling quest into the enlightenment of other lives. Funny and heartbreaking, intimate and galvanizing, these essays venture from Yemen to Lesoth
- Author: McGrath, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1950539504
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
$20.00 Read more“An invaluable book . . . A country finally facing its past could scarcely hope for a better, or more enamored, chronicler of its present.”-Sarah Wildman, New York Times Book Review
The appearance, m- Author: Tremlett, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0802716741
- Language: English
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Forks: A Quest for Culture, Cuisine, and Connection: Three Years, Five Continents, One Motorcycle
$50.00 Read moreHave you ever thought of quitting your job, selling your earthly belongings, and chucking the rest to travel the world? Allan Karl did just that. After waking up to the realization that his career and… [more below]
- Author: Karl, Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0989441814
- Language: English
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now
$16.95 Read moreFrom 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 Inland Sea
$22.95 Add to cart“An elegiac prose celebration . . . a classic in its genre.”–Publishers Weekly
In this acclaimed travel memoir, Donald Richie paints a memorable portrait of the island-studded Inland Sea. His existent
- Author: Richie, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1611720249
- 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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Istanbul: Memories and the City
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.
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- Author: Pamuk, Orhan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 11 2006
- ISBN10: 1400033888
- Language: English
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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
$19.00 Add to cartThe 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 Astral Geographic: The Watkins Guide to the Occult World
$27.95 Read moreEXPLORE THE LANDSCAPES OF THE OCCULT – EXPAND THE HORIZONS OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS
This ground-breaking new approach to the history of magic explores the occult through geography, inviting you to embark- Author: Sharp, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1786786737
- Language: English
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Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays
$17.95 Read more2022 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction
Essays about migration, displacement, and the hope for connection in a time of emotional and geopolitical disruption by a Soviet-born writer and forme- Author: Badkhen, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1681377063
- Language: English
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My Pisces Heart: A Black Immigrant’s Search for Home Across Four Continents
$28.00 Read moreWith heart, humor, and razor-sharp observation, this intimate and incisive memoir traces the journey of a Black, queer woman as she searches the world for a place of security and acceptance to call ho… [more below]
- Author: Neal, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1646221842
- Language: English
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A Long Walk South: Adventures and Tales from the Appalachian Trail
$18.95 Add to cartThere’s something to be said about being average. It’s not a bad thing, but it isn’t necessarily great either. After growing up in suburban New England, following the social norms and reluctantly fall
- Author: Herrick, Bradley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889605485
- Language: English
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The Passenger: South Korea
$22.00 Read moreFully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: Hell Joseon by Elisa Shua Dusapin – The View from the North by Lee
- Series: Passenger
- Author: VV Aa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1787705153
- Language: English
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Thrilling Cities: Fourteen Cities Seen Through the Eyes of Ian Fleming, the Creator of James Bond
$18.99 Add to cartA CAPTIVATING JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD FROM THE CREATOR OF JAMES BOND
Ian Fleming’s world travels and interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote
- Author: Fleming, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0063299143
- Language: English
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Cape Cod
$8.95 Read more“Unquestionably the best book that has ever been written about Cape Cod, and it is the model to which all new books about the Cape are still compared.” — Walter Harding, The Days of Henry Thoreau
The- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 19 2004
- ISBN10: 486434931
- Language: English
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Wanderlust: Extraordinary People, Quirky Places, and Curious Cuisine
$17.95 Read moreIn this engaging follow-up to her first book, Travel Mania, Karen Gershowitz reflects on the unusual places she’s visited (in more than ninety countries!). Along the way, readers will be introduced to… [more below]
- Author: Gershowitz, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425573
- Language: English
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Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
$19.95 Read moreA new and expanded edition of Peter Allison’s hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “Only food runs!”
With biting wit and tales of outrageous adventure, Peter Al
- Author: Allison, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149303538X
- Language: English
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Off Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets, and Gatemouth’s Gator: Essays
$14.99 Add to cartWhether he’s fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and footloo
- Author: Perry, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0060755504
- Language: English
