Essays & Travelogues
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Into the Thin: A Pilgrimage Walk Across Northern Spain
$20.00 Add to cartIt felt like an emotional crucifixion-a dark year in which a father figure passed, a friend and mentor suffered a terminal illness, one child entered psychosis, another child took his life, a 14-year … [more below]
- Author: Drew, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1956368698
- Language: English
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The Caliph’s House: A Year in Casablanca
$18.00 Add to cartIn the tradition of A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun, acclaimed English travel writer Tahir Shah shares a highly entertaining account of making an exotic dream come true. By turns hilarious… [more below]
- Author: Shah, Tahir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0553383108
- 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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Journey without Maps
$27.00 Add to cartHis mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar republic founded for released slaves. Now with a new introduction by Paul Thero… [more below]
- Author: Greene, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039725
- Language: English
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The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story
$19.99 Add to cartAfter fifteen years of living like a vagabond on her reporter’s schedule, Julia Reed got married and bought a house in the historic Garden District. Four weeks after she moved in, Hurricane Katrina st
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Reed, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 30 2009
- ISBN10: 0061136654
- Language: English
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Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s
$17.00 Add to cart“This is a book ripped from the headlines, from Black Lives Matter to recently thriving downtowns stripped of office workers and service workers. Those catching the brunt of it all, those with the ste… [more below]
- Author: Maharidge, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 195121322X
- Language: English
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Texas Wit & Wisdom
$19.95 Add to cartThis book is a friendly, entertaining collection of stories, anecdotes, amusing quotations, funny signs, some classic Texas jokes, and even some surprisingly sound advice from the often wacky but alwa… [more below]
- Author: Chariton, Wallace O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 01 1992
- ISBN10: 1556222572
- Language: English
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The World of Venice: Revised Edition
$19.99 Add to cartA fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seasons, arts, food, and people of an incomparable city. “A highly intelligent portrait of an eccentric city, written in powerful prose and enlivened … [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Morris, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0156983567
- Language: English
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The Tree Where Man Was Born
$19.00 Read moreA timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
A finalist for th- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0143106244
- Language: English
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China
$19.99 Add to cartA century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hessler, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0060826592
- 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
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A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life
$18.99 Add to cart–
In these essays, Marcia simultaneously navigates
the globe while carving out a second career as a travel writer for major
magazines, while navigating her own past and the bumpy and sometimes comp- Author: DeSanctis, Marcia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1609522060
- Language: English
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Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family’s Past Among Taiwan’s Mountains and Coasts
$17.95 Read moreThis “stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial past . . . makes breathtakingly clear the connection between nature and humanity, and off… [more below]
- Author: Lee, Jessica J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1646220005
- Language: English
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Refraction: An Arctic Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartRefraction recounts the experience of working in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, a remote Arctic outpost and home to the largest oilfield in North America. It’s the story of one person’s journey, told in a serie
- Author: Rettig, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1956368256
- Language: English
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Last of the Donkey Pilgrims
$20.99 Add to cartKevin O’Hara’s journey of self-discovery begins as a mad lark: who in their right mind would try to circle the entire coastline of Ireland on foot–and with a donkey and cart no less?
But Kevin had pr- Author: O’Hara, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 076530984X
- Language: English
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The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground
$22.95 Add to cartThe Singular Pilgrim is a riveting account of one woman’s personal quest to find the root of belief among modern religious pilgrims. The intrepid Rosemary Mahoney undertakes six extraordinary journeys
- Author: Mahoney, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: March 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0618446656
- Language: English
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Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France
$19.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling memoir of pilgrimage and self-discovery by Sue Monk Kidd, the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings, and her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor
Sue Monk Kid- Author: Kidd, Sue Monk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0143117971
- Language: English
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Border Crossings: A Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway
$24.99 Read moreAn illustrated travelogue that brilliantly captures artist and illustrator Emma Fick’s epic train journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway–from Beijing through Mongolia to Moscow–including more than 20
- Author: Fick, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0063080362
- Language: English
