Essays & Travelogues
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In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler’s Tale
$20.00 Add to cartOnce upon a time, an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out as an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small vil… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Ghosh, Amitav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 29 1994
- ISBN10: 0679727833
- 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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Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
$18.00 Read moreA New York Times Notable Book – “An elegant, nonlinear reflection on how flying on a commercial airliner–even while painfully folded into a seat in coach–can lift the soul.” —The New York Times Boo
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Vanhoenacker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0804169713
- Language: English
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Going It Alone: Ramblings and Reflections from the Trail
$19.95 Read moreJoin author Tim Hauserman on his solo journeys through the Sierra Nevada and the forests of Minnesota. Hauserman shares his experiences hiking by himself through some of the most spectacular landscape… [more below]
- Author: Hauserman, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1647790654
- Language: English
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Fifty Places to Bike Before You Die: Biking Experts Share the World’s Greatest Destinations
$29.99 Read more“OMG views, killer hills and open road . . . everything a pedal pusher could ask for.” —Fitness magazine
“What makes this book exciting is that Chris included interviews with cycling-industry experts… [more below]- Series: Fifty Places
- Author: Santella, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1584799897
- 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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Sailing by Starlight: The Remarkable Voyage of Globe Star
$29.95 Add to cartSailing by Starlight is the story of the adventure of a lifetime–in fact, of many lifetimes. In the early 1980s, retired geography professor Marvin Creamer set out to do what hadn’t been done for a t
- Author: Scher, Rod
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493065696
- Language: English
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English Wine: From Still to Sparkling: The Newest New World Wine Country
$22.99 Read moreFully revised and updated by Oz, with new entries on key wineries, vineyards and producers from around the country.
‘It’s brilliant. Exactly what’s wanted. -‘ Hugh Johnson
One of the great pleasures
- Author: Clarke, Oz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 191168275X
- Language: English
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Out Here: Wisdom from the Wilderness
$20.00 Read moreCarolyn Highland’s outdoor writing will drive readers and outdoor enthusiasts to “get outside” and experience all that the natural world has to offer.
Out Here is a collection of essays that explores w
- Author: Highland, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1771604492
- Language: English
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Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
$18.00 Read more“In many ways, I was an independent woman,” writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alice Steinbach. “For years I’d made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow.” But somehow she had … [more below]
- Author: Steinbach, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0375758453
- Language: English
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Literary Places
$19.99 Read moreInspired Traveller’s Guides: Literary Places takes you on an enlightening journey through the key locations of literature’s best and brightest authors, movements and moments – brought to life through … [more below]
- Series: Inspired Traveller’s Guides #2
- Author: Baxter, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1781318107
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet a Moveable Feast
$14.99 Read moreLonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher*
Life-changing food adventures around the world.
From bat on the island of Fais to chicken on a Russian train to barbecue in the American heartl
- Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature
- Author: Planet, Lonely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1786572095
- Language: English
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Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City
$28.00 Read moreA San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller
From two bestselling, prizewinning, and critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco comes a ri
A Beat Most Anticipated Graphic Novel of Fall 2020- Author: Kamiya, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1635575885
- 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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Global Nomad: My Travels Through Diving, Tragedy, and Rebirth
$22.95 Add to cartAs a youngster growing up in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, suburb, Tom Haig ran wild with the neighborhood’s kids. By seventh grade, the thirst for adventure and fearlessness he learned from them led him to
- Author: Haig, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1638640033
- Language: English
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Sidewalks
$16.95 Read moreGrantland Book of the Year
Vol. 1 Brooklyn, A Year of Favorites, Jason Diamond
Book Riot, 2014’s Must-Read Books from Indie Presses“Valeria Luiselli is a writer of formidable talent, destined to be an
- Author: Luiselli, Valeria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 1566893569
- Language: English
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La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World’s Most Enchanting Language
$18.00 Read moreA celebration of the language and culture of Italy, La Bella Lingua is the story of how a language shaped a nation, told against the backdrop of one woman’s personal quest to speak fluent Italian.
Fo- Author: Hales, Dianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 20 2010
- ISBN10: 0767927702
- Language: English
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Whispers from the Valley of the Yak: A Memoir of Coming Full Circle
$17.95 Read moreJackie has known tumultuous times: she escaped war-torn China as a toddler with her medical missionary parents, grew up with emotional abuse, and came of age in the 1960s. But after returning to China… [more below]
- Author: Lenox Tuxill, Jacquelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425492
- Language: English
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Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain
$18.00 Add to cartA 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
