Essays & Travelogues
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America
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night–“a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity”–Baudrillard mixes aper us and observations with a wicked sense of fu… [more below]
- Author: Baudrillard, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 20 2010
- ISBN10: 184467682X
- Language: English
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For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories
$23.99 Add to cartAfter 40+ years of writing about Europe, Rick Steves has gathered 100 of his favorite memories together into one inspiring, award-winning collection: For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People… [more below]
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1641711310
- Language: English
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A Long Tangent: Musings by an old man & his young dog hiking every day for a year
$36.00 Add to cartWHEN M. JOHN FAYHEE first arrived in New Mexico’s rugged Gila Country, he was a naive 20-year-old who didn’t know a javelina from an enchilada. Much has changed in the intervening half century.
In this
- Author: Fayhee, M. John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: September 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1958870072
- Language: English
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Interrogating Travel: Guidance from a Reluctant Tourist
$34.95 Add to cartNever in human history has travel been so accessible to so many. But–amid an escalating climate crisis that threatens the homes of vulnerable people across the world–has the human cost of trekking t
- Author: Lindholdt, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179493
- Language: English
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Neither Here Nor There:: Travels in Europe
$19.99 Add to cartIn the early seventies, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe–in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. He was accompanied by an unforgettable sidekick named Stephen Katz (who will be gloriously fa
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0380713802
- Language: English
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Leg Over Leg: Volumes One and Two
$24.00 Add to cartThe life, birth, and early years of ‘the Fariyaq’–the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of “the Fariyaq,” alter ego o- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #1
- Author: Al-Shidy?q, A?mad F?ris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1479800724
- Language: English
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Oaxaca Journal
$17.00 Add to cartFrom “the poet laureate of medicine” and national bestselling author of Awakenings comes a fascinating investigation of Southern Mexico that explores the origins of chocolate and mescal, pre-Columbian… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Sacks, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 307947440
- Language: English
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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
$18.99 Add to cartA book for lovers of all things Italian — an homage to the city of Trieste.
This history-drenched city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After vi- Author: Morris, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0306811804
- Language: English
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Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan’s Food Culture
$37.50 Add to cart2016 Travel Book of the Year by the Society of American Travel Writers
Finalist for the 2016 IACP Awards: Literary Food Writing
Named one of the Financial Times’ “Best Books of 2016”
An innovative new ta
- Author: Goulding, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0062394037
- Language: English
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Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women
$18.99 Add to cartThe unrelenting consequences of 100 years of Balkan wars force three generations of Croatian women-Katarina, Zora, Tania-to flee their homelands multiple times. Eventually Tania, a successfully integr… [more below]
- Author: Romanov, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1609521277
- Language: English
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Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
$18.95 Add to cartTed Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska–an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his … [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 153
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 080327811X
- Language: English
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Cinematic Places
$22.00 Read moreGo beyond the big screen and explore the real places that inspired some of the greatest films of all time – brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork.
Tr- Series: Inspired Traveller’s Guides #7
- Author: Baxter, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0711264309
- Language: English
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Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China, exploring the intertwined cultures and often fraught history of these neighboring countries.
There is- Author: Booth, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1250114055
- Language: English
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Borealis
$14.95 Add to cartArt about glaciers, queer relationships, political anxiety, and the meaning of Blackness in open space–Borealis is a shapeshifting logbook of Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s experiences moving through the Ala
- Series: Spatial Species
- Author: Sabatini Sloan, Aisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1566896193
- Language: English
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One Man’s Wilderness, 50th Anniversary Edition: An Alaskan Odyssey
$43.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 11, 2018
- ISBN10: 1513261800
- Language: English
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A Russian Journal
$17.00 Add to cartSteinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.
A Penguin Classic Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0141180196
- Language: English
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The Travels
$25.00 Add to cartA sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo’s seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition.
Marco Polo was the most fa- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Polo, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 29 2015
- ISBN10: 014119877X
- Language: English
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The Maine Woods
$17.00 Add to cart“What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone!…Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature.” -Henry David Thoreau
Over a period of three years, Thoreau made three t- Series: Classic, Nature, Penguin
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0140170138
- Language: English
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Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
$21.99 Add to cartAt sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe
- Author: Kaufman, Kenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0618709401
- Language: English
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The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
$19.00 Add to cartIn 1995, Iowa native Bill Bryson took a motoring trip around Britain to explore that green and pleasant land. The uproarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, is one of the most acute por… [more below]
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0804172714
- Language: English
