Essays & Travelogues
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Turning 50 on El Camino de Santiago: A Solo Woman’s Travel Adventure
$9.99 Add to cartReady to rove? In Turning 50 on El Camino de Santiago, Janine Harrison fosters wanderlust in armchair travelers and prepares trekkers about to tackle the French Way from St.-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France,
- Author: Harrison, Janine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0578894459
- Language: English
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Lacrónica / Thechronicle
$24.95 Read more*Premio Ortega y Gasset de Periodismo a la Trayectoria profesional 2023*
40 a?os de periodismo narrativo condensados en una obra magistral; Lacr?nica reafirma a Caparr?s como una de las voces impresci… [more below]- Author: Caparr?s, Mart?n
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 8439742088
- Language: Spanish
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$7.95 Add to cartTravels with a Donkey in the Cévennes brims with Robert Louis Stevenson’s wry and exquisite observations and his obvious delight in the farmers and peasants he encounters in the Cévennes, a region o… [more below]
- Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1959891383
- Language: English
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Travels on the St. Johns River
$26.95 Add to cartIn 1765 father and son naturalists John and William Bartram explored the St. Johns River Valley in Florida, a newly designated British territory and subtropical wonderland. They collected specimens an… [more below]
- Author: Bartram, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0813080444
- Language: English
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A Long Way from Paris
$16.00 Add to cartIn this searing, authentic memoir, Elizabeth is hired to herd goats on a remote mountain farm in the South of France where she carves out a life for herself without heat, running water, or even a good
- Author: Murray, E. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0990310213
- Language: English
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Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean
$16.95 Add to cartAtlantis The legendary lost continent comes under the close scrutiny of archaeologist David Hatcher Childress. From Ireland to Turkey, Morocco to Eastern Europe, or remote islands of the Mediterranea… [more below]
- Series: Lost Cities Series
- Author: Childress, David Hatcher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: February 14 1996
- ISBN10: 0932813259
- Language: English
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Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska–Including Extensive Hitherto Unpublished Passages from the Original Journal
$19.95 Read moreA new paperback edition of Kent’s first book, often referred to as “Alaska’s Walden.”
In August 1918 Rockwell Kent and his 9-year-old son settled into a primitive cabin on an island near Seward, Alaska
- Author: Kent, Rockwell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 237
- Publish Date: July 26 1996
- ISBN10: 0819552933
- Language: English
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Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
$19.99 Add to cartPaul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. He hops
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618658971
- Language: English
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The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
$15.95 Add to cartAfter eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like.
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618658955
- Language: English
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The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut
$19.00 Add to cartIn 1934, famed British traveler Freya Stark sailed down the Red Sea, alighting in Aden, located at the tip of the Arabian peninsula. From this backwater outpost, Stark set forth on what was to be her … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Stark, Freya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 24 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757546
- Language: English
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Finding George Orwell in Burma
$27.00 Add to cartA fascinating political travelogue that traces the life and work of George Orwell, author of 1984 and ANIMAL FARM, in Southeast Asia
Over the years the American writer Emma Larkin has spent traveling- Author: Larkin, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 06 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037110
- Language: English
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A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
$14.99 Add to cartA Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) is a work of travel literature by British explorer Isabella Bird. Adventurous from a young age, Bird gained a reputation as a writer and photographer intere
- Series: Mint Editions (the Natural World)
- Author: Bird, Isabella L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1513206710
- Language: English
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Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Landsca
$17.99 Add to cartMcKibben is] a marvelous writer who has thought deeply about the environment, loves this part of the country, and knows how to be a first-class traveling companion.–Entertainment Weekly
In Wandering- Author: McKibben, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1627790209
- Language: English
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Prairie Time
$29.95 Add to cartWinner, Carroll Abbott Memorial Award, presented by the Native Plant Society of Texas In its prime, the Texas Blackland Prairie formed a twelve-million-acre grassy swath across the state from the San … [more below]
- Series: Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce #10
- Author: White, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2013
- ISBN10: 1623491363
- Language: English
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The Animal One Thousand Miles Long: Seven Lengths of Vermont and Other Adventures
$17.95 Read moreThe phrase “an animal a thousand miles miles long,” attributed to Aristotle, refers to a sprawling body that cannot be seen in its entirety from a single angle, a thing too vast and complicated to be … [more below]
- Author: Tonino, Leath
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1595348581
- Language: English
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When the Church Burns Down, Cancel the Wedding: Adventures from the Other Half of Single
$17.99 Add to cartHilarious, inspiring, and thoroughly authentic, Sara E. Braca’s debut memoir takes readers along on her post-divorce adventures around the world, sharing a life lived fully – if untraditionally – and
- Author: Braca, Sara E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: October 05 2022
- ISBN10: 9798885045988
- Language: English
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Back to Istanbul: On Foot Across Europe to the Great Silk Road
$32.50 Read moreAfter trekking nearly 7,500 miles, from Istanbul, Turkey to Xi’an, China, French travel writer Bernard Ollivier thought he had put the Silk Road behind him–enough for a retiree to rest on his laurels… [more below]
- Author: Ollivier, Bernard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1510776826
- Language: English
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The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious–And Perplexing–City
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of My Paris Kitchen and L’Appart, a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections.
Like so m… [more below]- Author: Lebovitz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 076792889X
- Language: English
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The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
$19.99 Add to cart“A book to be plundered and raided.” — New York Times Book Review
“A portal into a world of timeless travel literature curated by one of the greatest travel writers of our day.” — USA Today Paul The- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0547737378
- Language: English
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Three Weeks with My Brother
$35.00 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and hope.
As moving as his bestselling works of fi- Author: Sparks, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 07 2007
- ISBN10: 0446500100
- Language: English
