Essays & Travelogues
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Mississippi Solo: A River Quest
$19.99 Add to cartSince the publication of his first book, Mississippi Solo, Eddy L. Harris has been praised for his travel writing. In this exciting reissue of his classic travelogue, readers will come to treasure the
- Author: Harris, Eddy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0805059032
- Language: English
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The Valleys of the Assassins: And Other Persian Travels
$20.00 Add to cartHailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation’s most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Stark, Freya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 24 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757538
- Language: English
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Never a Stranger: From her past in Croatia and Russia, to finding a son in Bhutan, to befriending women in Africa, one woman’s stories o
$15.99 Add to cartI hang from the final limb of a family tree of generations of unintentional travelers–exiles, refugees, displaced people.
My first journey–involuntary–took place less than a year after my birth. Wh- Author: Romanov, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: December 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0997761938
- Language: English
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Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations
$24.99 Add to cartExplore more than forty forsaken urban destinations around the world in a “highly entertaining read . . . for history buffs, mystery fanatics and travel junkies alike” (GoNomad).
Cities are mortal,- Author: De Tocqueville, Aude
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0316352020
- Language: English
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The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA
$15.95 Add to cartEveryone knows that America is 50 states and…some other stuff. Scattered shards in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the not-quite states–American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Island
- Author: Mack, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355616
- Language: English
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Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
$19.99 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s Best Books of the Year
From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy on the human side of the economic revolution i
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hessler, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 006180410X
- Language: English
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The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland
$18.99 Add to cartFrom a member of Parliament and best-selling author of The Places in Between, an exploration of the Marches–the borderland between England and Scotland–and the political turmoil and vivid lives that
- Author: Stewart, Rory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1328745651
- Language: English
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Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
$19.99 Add to cartIt started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor — acclaimed actor and self-confessed bike nut — noticed that it was possible to ride all … [more below]
- Author: McGregor, Ewan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743499344
- Language: English
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The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America
$28.00 Add to cart2020 Natan Notable BookWinner, 2020 Latino Book Awards Best Travel Book
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countrie… [more below]- Series: Pitt Latin American
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 082296631X
- Language: English
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The Lycian Shore: A Turkish Odyssey
$17.95 Add to cart‘There are not so many places left where magic reigns without interruption and of all those I know, the coast of Lycia was the most magical.’ Lycia, on the southwestern coast of Turkey, is an ancient … [more below]
- Series: Freya Stark Collection
- Author: Stark, Freya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 1848853122
- Language: English
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A Woman in the Polar Night
$19.95 Add to cart“An epic story, elegantly told and full of mystery.” — Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle
A rediscovered classic memoir – the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman’s year spent living in- Series: Pushkin Press Classics
- Author: Ritter, Christiane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1805330896
- Language: English
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Holiday: The Best Travel Magazine That Ever Was
$95.00 Add to cartThe first book on magazine sensation Holiday, which between 1946 and 1977 was one of the most exciting publications in the world. Renowned for its bold layouts, literary credibility, and ambitious cho… [more below]
- Author: Fiori, Pamela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 847866254
- Language: English
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All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the author of If You Can’t Take the Heat comes a travel memoir of finding yourself exactly where you need to be– even if you aren’t quite sure where you are
Some people are meant to travel the- Author: Deruiter, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1541724658
- Language: English
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An African in Greenland
$19.95 Add to cartT t -Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland–and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the cou… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Kpomassie, T?t?-Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 31 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322889
- Language: English
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The Travels of IBN Battuta: In the Near East, Asia and Africa, 1325-1354
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1326, Ibn Battuta began a pilgrimage to Mecca that ended 27 years and 75,000 miles later. His engrossing account of that journey provides vivid scenes from Morocco, southern Russia, India, China, a… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Travel, Adventure
- Author: Ibn Battuta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: December 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0486437655
- Language: English
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Shadow of the Silk Road
$18.99 Add to cartTo travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, d
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061231770
- Language: English
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Eurohobo: (And I’m a Hobo!) a How-To Zine about Tramping, Freight Train Hopping, and Free Riding Passenger Trains in Europe
$6.95 Read moreHave you ever dreamed of train hopping across Europe, but had no idea how you’d be able to do it? Fear not Hobo Lee has you covered.
- Author: Lee, Hobo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1648410057
- Language: English
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Steaming to Bamboola: The World of a Tramp Freighter
$18.95 Add to cartThe Columbianna, an ancient tramp steamer with a notably eccentric crew, 200 layers of paint on her decks, a sailing history going back to 1945, and demons in her plumbing, was crossing the Atlantic f
- Author: Buckley, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493073923
- Language: English
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Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
$19.00 Add to cartEvery morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn’t in a hurry, and he never ignore… [more below]
- Author: Sorkin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0865477574
- Language: English
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Personal Story of the Only White Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
$19.95 Read more“What decided me to go to Lhasa was, above all, the absurd prohibition which closes Thibet.” One of the great adventure classics, published in 1927, and considered one of the best adventure books of t… [more below]
- Author: David-Neel, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851109
- Language: English
