Essays & Travelogues
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Never a Stranger: From her past in Croatia and Russia, to finding a son in Bhutan, to befriending women in Africa, one woman’s stories o
$15.99 Add to cartI hang from the final limb of a family tree of generations of unintentional travelers–exiles, refugees, displaced people.
My first journey–involuntary–took place less than a year after my birth. Wh- Author: Romanov, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: December 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0997761938
- Language: English
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Paddling My Own Canoe: A Solo Adventure on the Coast of Molokai
$16.95 Read moreGo Simple, Go Solo, Go Now
In 1958, while flying from one island to another, Audrey Sutherland sees the remote and roadless northeast side of Molokai, with its spectacular sea cliffs and waterfalls. A
- Author: Sutherland, Audrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 1938340760
- Language: English
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With Light Steam
$41.58 Add to cartIn 1996 Bryon MacWilliams left the relative stability of the United States for the chaos of post-Soviet Russia and stayed. Over the course of nearly twelve years he reported on academe and the science
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Macwilliams, Bryon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 875807089
- Language: English
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Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations
$24.99 Add to cartExplore more than forty forsaken urban destinations around the world in a “highly entertaining read . . . for history buffs, mystery fanatics and travel junkies alike” (GoNomad).
Cities are mortal,- Author: De Tocqueville, Aude
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0316352020
- Language: English
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Rome and a Villa
$19.99 Add to cart“These essays gather up Rome and hold it before us, bristling and dense and dreamlike, with every scene drenched in the sound of fountains, of leaping and falling water.” — The New Yorker
“Perhaps the
- Series: P.S. (Paperback)
- Author: Clark, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0062363409
- Language: English
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The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA
$15.95 Add to cartEveryone knows that America is 50 states and…some other stuff. Scattered shards in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the not-quite states–American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Island
- Author: Mack, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355616
- Language: English
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Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
$19.99 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s Best Books of the Year
From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy on the human side of the economic revolution i
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hessler, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 006180410X
- Language: English
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Nepal One Day at a Time: One woman’s quest to teach, trek and build a school in the remote Himalaya
$17.95 Add to cartA Himalayan adventure travel memoir with a humanitarian twist. About to turn sixty-eight, Patti’s life was disintegrating. Leaving behind her injured husband she packs her bags and heads to Nepal. Sol
- Author: Lefkos, Patti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: June 23 2020
- ISBN10: 1999229800
- Language: English
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The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland
$18.99 Add to cartFrom a member of Parliament and best-selling author of The Places in Between, an exploration of the Marches–the borderland between England and Scotland–and the political turmoil and vivid lives that
- Author: Stewart, Rory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1328745651
- Language: English
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Two Lane Gems, Vol. 2: Bison are Giant and Other Observations from an American Road Trip
$53.32 Add to cartTwo Lane Gems, Vol. 2: Bison are Giant and Other Observations from an American Road Trip is a delightful tale of buffalo, waterfalls, and frosty treats. Theresa L. Goodrich and her ever-so-patient hus
- Series: Two Lane Gems #2
- Author: Goodrich, Theresa L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: December 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0960049509
- Language: English
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Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
$19.99 Add to cartIt started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor — acclaimed actor and self-confessed bike nut — noticed that it was possible to ride all … [more below]
- Author: McGregor, Ewan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743499344
- Language: English
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First Wilderness, Revised Edition: My Quest in the Territory of Alaska
$29.99 Add to cartThe story behind the best-selling book One Man’s Wilderness and how author Sam Keith and Dick Proenneke met and forged an everlasting friendship.
“Sam, you know right well you don’t want to leave this
- Author: Keith, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1513261657
- Language: English
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World Piece: A Pie Baker’s Global Quest for Peace, Love, and Understanding
$18.00 Add to cartCAN PIE REALLY PROMOTE WORLD PEACE?
Beth Howard always dreamed of circumnavigating the planet; not to tick off a list of tourist sites, but to immerse herself in the culture of each country by making p
- Author: Howard, Beth M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1732672563
- Language: English
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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
$28.99 Add to cartA stunning tour of China, its people, and its history. Chosen as one of the best travel books of 1996 by the New York Times Book Review.
Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze Riv- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312423373
- Language: English
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The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris
$16.99 Add to cart“Splendid… Reading The Most Beautiful Walk in the World is the next best thing to a Paris vacation.” –Boston Globe
“Anyone who loves Paris and loves to walk will feel this book was written just for t
- Author: Baxter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0061998540
- Language: English
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The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America
$28.00 Add to cart2020 Natan Notable BookWinner, 2020 Latino Book Awards Best Travel Book
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countrie… [more below]- Series: Pitt Latin American
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 082296631X
- Language: English
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The Lycian Shore: A Turkish Odyssey
$17.95 Add to cart‘There are not so many places left where magic reigns without interruption and of all those I know, the coast of Lycia was the most magical.’ Lycia, on the southwestern coast of Turkey, is an ancient … [more below]
- Series: Freya Stark Collection
- Author: Stark, Freya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 1848853122
- Language: English
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A Time to Keep Silence
$15.95 Read moreWhile still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. During World War II, he fought with l… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Leigh Fermor, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 30 2007
- ISBN10: 1590172442
- Language: English
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The Expat
$9.99 Add to cartAS AN EXPAT, HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH UNFAMILIAR SITUATIONS AND PLACES AND NAVIGATE LIFE ALL OVER AGAIN?
For Jovelle, this is a constant cycle in her life as an expat. This book will reveal the life lesson
- Author: Fernandez, Jovelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: January 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887594798
- Language: English
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A Woman in the Polar Night
$19.95 Add to cart“An epic story, elegantly told and full of mystery.” — Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle
A rediscovered classic memoir – the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman’s year spent living in- Series: Pushkin Press Classics
- Author: Ritter, Christiane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1805330896
- Language: English
