Essays & Travelogues
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Obata’s Yosemite: Art and Letters of Obata from His Trip to the High Sierra in 1927
$29.99 Add to cartChiura Obata, a gifted Japanese-born artist from California, made his first trip to Yosemite in 1927. The trip left a lasting impression in a remarkable collection of sketches, postcards, and letters…. [more below]
- Author: Obata, Chiura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: September 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0939666677
- Language: English
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Holiday: The Best Travel Magazine That Ever Was
$95.00 Add to cartThe first book on magazine sensation Holiday, which between 1946 and 1977 was one of the most exciting publications in the world. Renowned for its bold layouts, literary credibility, and ambitious cho… [more below]
- Author: Fiori, Pamela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 847866254
- Language: English
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On the Pony Express Trail: One Man’s Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle
$24.95 Add to cartOn The Pony Express Trail: One Man’s Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle recounts Scott Alumbaugh’s experience bikepacking the Pony Express Trail during the summer
- Author: Alumbaugh, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493068695
- Language: English
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How to Travel
$18.99 Add to cartA philosophical guide to the joys of travel and adventure.
In this compact collection of twenty essays, The School of Life applies their signature mix of philosophy, practicality, and wit to the act o- Author: Life of School the
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1999917960
- Language: English
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All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the author of If You Can’t Take the Heat comes a travel memoir of finding yourself exactly where you need to be– even if you aren’t quite sure where you are
Some people are meant to travel the- Author: Deruiter, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1541724658
- Language: English
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American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal
$18.99 Add to cart“American Ramble is a dazzling mixture of travelogue, memoir, and history. At times profound, funny, and heartbreaking, this is the story of a traveler intoxicated by life. I couldn’t put it down.” —
- Author: King, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0063352443
- Language: English
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An African in Greenland
$19.95 Add to cartT t -Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland–and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the cou… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Kpomassie, T?t?-Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 31 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322889
- Language: English
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Brothers on the Bashkaus: A Siberian paddling adventure
$15.95 Add to cartFrom rafts made from old germ-warfare suits and felled logs to lifejackets stitched together from soccer balls and wine bladders, river running in the former Soviet Union has evolved much like Austral
- Author: Buchanan, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: February 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0692615059
- Language: English
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The Travels of IBN Battuta: In the Near East, Asia and Africa, 1325-1354
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1326, Ibn Battuta began a pilgrimage to Mecca that ended 27 years and 75,000 miles later. His engrossing account of that journey provides vivid scenes from Morocco, southern Russia, India, China, a… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Travel, Adventure
- Author: Ibn Battuta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: December 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0486437655
- Language: English
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Shadow of the Silk Road
$18.99 Add to cartTo travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, d
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061231770
- Language: English
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Eurohobo: (And I’m a Hobo!) a How-To Zine about Tramping, Freight Train Hopping, and Free Riding Passenger Trains in Europe
$6.95 Read moreHave you ever dreamed of train hopping across Europe, but had no idea how you’d be able to do it? Fear not Hobo Lee has you covered.
- Author: Lee, Hobo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1648410057
- Language: English
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Death & Survival in Glacier National Park: True Tales of Tragedy, Courage, and Misadventure
$18.95 Read moreSheer cliffs, avalanches, turbulent rivers, cold lakes, severe weather, grizzly bears – these are just a few of the ways you can die while visiting Glacier National Park. Since 1910 when the park was … [more below]
- Author: Guthrie, C. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: May 26 2017
- ISBN10: 1560376589
- Language: English
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Steaming to Bamboola: The World of a Tramp Freighter
$18.95 Add to cartThe Columbianna, an ancient tramp steamer with a notably eccentric crew, 200 layers of paint on her decks, a sailing history going back to 1945, and demons in her plumbing, was crossing the Atlantic f
- Author: Buckley, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493073923
- Language: English
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Two Lane Gems, Vol. 1: Turkeys are Jerks and Other Observations from an American Road Trip
$53.32 Add to cartTwo Lane Gems, Vol. 1: Turkeys are jerks and other observations from an American Road Trip is a road trip romp from the Chicago area to San Diego and back. Theresa Goodrich grabs her laptop, her camer
- Series: Two Lane Gems #1
- Author: Goodrich, Theresa L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0960049541
- Language: English
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Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
$19.00 Add to cartEvery morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn’t in a hurry, and he never ignore… [more below]
- Author: Sorkin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0865477574
- Language: English
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Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan
$19.95 Read moreThe 75th anniversary printing of the captivating story of Kent’s journey to Tierra del Fuego.
Rockwell Kent is one of America’s most famous graphic artists. He was also an avid traveler. Kent was espec
- Author: Kent, Rockwell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0819564095
- Language: English
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Out West: A Journey Through Lewis and Clark’s America
$24.95 Add to cartOne hundred and eighty years after Lewis and Clark’s “Voyage of Discovery” (1804-1806), Dayton Duncan set out in a Volkswagen camper to retrace their steps. Out West is an account of three separate jo… [more below]
- Author: Duncan, Dayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 080326626X
- Language: English
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
$20.00 Add to cartAt the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost–who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs–decided t… [more below]
- Author: Troost, J. Maarten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0767915305
- Language: English
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Personal Story of the Only White Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
$19.95 Read more“What decided me to go to Lhasa was, above all, the absurd prohibition which closes Thibet.” One of the great adventure classics, published in 1927, and considered one of the best adventure books of t… [more below]
- Author: David-Neel, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851109
- Language: English
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank–not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keen… [more below]
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Lewis, Meriwether
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142437360
- Language: English
