Essays & Travelogues
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Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
$27.99 Add to cartOne of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imp
- Author: Albinia, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338606
- Language: English
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The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the Nort… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0307948900
- Language: English
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Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
$16.00 Add to cartAdvice on achieving a fulfilling old age from one of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .
After being advised by his dentist to get tooth implants, Daniel Klein decide- Author: Klein, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0143126628
- Language: English
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To a Mountain in Tibet
$17.99 Add to cart“A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted.” –Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books
“Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living,
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0061768278
- Language: English
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Beyond the Sunset, a travel memoir: Volume 1: Adventures Outside My Comfort Zone
$24.95 Add to cartFrom Woodstock to the Okavango. How a bookworm turned flower child turned healthcare executive found joy in traveling the world
Structured in a series of essays and anecdotes, this memoir tells the st
- Series: Beyond the Sunset #1
- Author: Knowlton, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1620069164
- Language: English
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North American Odyssey: 12,000 Miles Across the Continent by Kayak, Canoe, and Dogsled
$28.00 Add to cart“Deep down, there is just something that draws us to the land, to wild places. We were there to listen to the land.”
When National Geographic Adventurers of the Year Amy and Dave Freeman marry, they se
- Author: Freeman, Amy And Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1571311688
- Language: English
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Bedside Companion for Travel Lovers: An Anthology of Intrepid Journeys for Every Night of the Year
$29.95 Add to cartTake the trip of a lifetime through poetry, journalism, historical fact, and science fiction with this daily anthology of travel writing.
Traveling’s never been easier. Wherever you are, find yourself- Author: Hunter, Jane McMorland
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1849949190
- Language: English
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Burton Holmes. Travelogues. the Greatest Traveler of His Time 1892-1952
$29.17 Read moreIt was the Belle ?poque, a time before air travel or radio, at the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, when Burton Holmes (1870-1958) began a lifelong journey to bring the world home.
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Caldwell, Genoa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 31 2018
- ISBN10: 3836557800
- Language: English
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Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan
$28.00 Read moreJamie Zeppa was 24 when she left a stagnant life at home and signed a contract to teach for two years in the Buddhist hermit kingdom of Bhutan. Much more than just a travel memoir, Beyond the Sky and … [more below]
- Author: Zeppa, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 2000
- ISBN10: 157322815X
- Language: English
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Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light
$16.95 Add to cartThirty-two writers share their observations and revelations about the world’s most seductive city.
“Whether you have lived in Paris or not, this captivating collection will transport you there.” –Na- Author: Rowlands, Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1565129539
- Language: English
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Mermaids and Ikons: A Greek Summer
$14.95 Add to cartAward-winning poet and novelist Gwendolyn MacEwen explores her strongly personal responses to the landscape, culture, and people of Greece in this exquisitely written travel diary, which was originall
- Author: Macewen, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1487002637
- Language: English
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Does the Land Remember Me?: A Memoir of Palestine
$17.95 Add to cartSummoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palestine reclaimed by Israelis and to a country no longer t… [more below]
- Series: Arab American Writing
- Author: Shihab, Aziz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 30 2011
- ISBN10: 081560968X
- Language: English
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The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
$21.99 Add to cart“Theroux is at his best when he tells [people’s] stories, happy and sad . . . Theroux’s great mission had always been to transport us beyond that reading chair, to challenge himself–and thus, to chal… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 054422793X
- Language: English
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The Last Pool of Darkness: The Connemara Trilogy
$20.00 Add to cartIn the second volume of his beloved Connemara trilogy, cartographer Tim Robinson continues to unearth the stories of this rich landscape in Ireland–weaving placelore, etymology, geology, and the meet… [more below]
- Series: Seedbank
- Author: Robinson, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1571313745
- Language: English
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Travels With My Grief: A personal journey of love, loss and recovery
$30.65 Add to cartWhen Susan Bloch lost her partner John far too early, she faced her grief with courage – and what many would term a moment of madness.
Giving up her successful career in the UK, she moved overnight to
- Author: Bloch, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1912666979
- Language: English
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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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This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
$30.99 Add to cartA profoundly different way of looking the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Reporting from Jerusalem for The New York Times and Fox News respectively, Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin, witnessed a decades-old
- Author: Myre, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0470550902
- 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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99 Drams of Whiskey: The Accidental Hedonist’s Quest for the Perfect Shot and the History of the Drink
$24.00 Add to cartKate Hopkins knew there had to be more to whiskey than using it as a mixer. She had an unquenchable thirst to learn more about the drink and set out on an ambitious itinerary researching its history.
- Author: Hopkins, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0312638329
- Language: English
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The Foghorn’s Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast
$19.99 Read more‘A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea’ Brian Eno
‘As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests’ John- Author: Allan, Jennifer Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 147461504X
- Language: English
