Essays & Travelogues
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The Braindead Megaphone
$16.00 Read moreFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
T- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 159448256X
- Language: English
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What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain’s Camino de Santiago de Compostela
$19.95 Add to cartTo celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of mid-life, Jane Christmas joins 14 women to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Despite a psychic’s warning of catfights, death, and a s… [more below]
- Author: Christmas, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 28 2007
- ISBN10: 1553652401
- Language: English
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Sailing Alone Around the World
$16.95 Read more“The classic of its kind.” —Travel World
“One of the most readable books in the whole library of adventure.” —Sports Illustrated
“The finest single-handed adventure story yet written.” —Seafarer
Chall- Author: Slocum, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 1956
- ISBN10: 0486203263
- Language: English
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Travel as a Political ACT
$21.99 Add to cartChange the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ev… [more below]
- Series: Rick Steves
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1631217631
- Language: English
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The Spell of New Mexico
$16.95 Add to cartA rich gathering of essays that evoke the unique and mysterious appeal New Mexico has had for some of the twentieth century’s best-known writers. Included are selections by Mary Austin, Oliver La Farg
- Author: Hillerman, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 113
- Publish Date: May 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0826307760
- Language: English
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The Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca: His Account of the Disastrous First European Exploration of the American Southwest
$10.95 Add to cartOf the 300 Spanish explorers who set out to discover North America, only four returned. Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the 1528-1536 expedition crackles with excitement, relating the survivors’ journey a… [more below]
- Author: Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 02 2011
- ISBN10: 0486431800
- Language: English
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The Road to Oxiana
$19.98 Add to cartIn 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan an… [more below]
- Author: Byron, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0195325605
- Language: English
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Strange Stories of Alaska & Th
$15.95 Add to cartFrom the pages of early-day northern newspapers comes a startling collection of accounts of the extraordinary and the unexplained: Mammoths discovered frozen whole in the icy grip of a glacier. A trop… [more below]
- Author: Ferrell, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0945397518
- Language: English
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My Venice and Other Essays
$17.00 Add to cartDonna Leon’s wildly popular novels starring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti have been praised for their intricate plots and gripping narratives, but also for their insight into the culture, politi… [more below]
- Author: Leon, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122809
- Language: English
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From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
$16.00 Add to cartAfter two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story of his remarkable journey and … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Seth, Vikram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 12 1987
- ISBN10: 039475218X
- Language: English
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The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond
$18.99 Add to cartFor centuries the Alps have been witness to the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers, and the dreams of engineers. In The Alps, Stephen O’Shea (“a graceful an
- Author: O’Shea, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355691
- Language: English
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of East Central Europe (Part 2: The Western Mountains)
$30.95 Add to cartFinalist, 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel and Regional Non-Fiction categories.
The journey continues in Part 2 of Into the Carpathians: an engaging and informative chronicle of a 2005 hi
- Series: Into the Carpathians #2
- Author: Sparks, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0578705702
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast
$26.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
Published po- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0684833638
- Language: English
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Prairyerth: A Deep Map
$24.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. By the author of Blue Highways, PrairyErth is “a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains” (Hungry Mind Review).
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- Author: Heat Moon, William Least
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 634
- Publish Date: February 15 1999
- ISBN10: 039592569X
- Language: English
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Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
$27.98 Add to cartThe diary of Dervla Murphy’s bicycle trek from Dunkirk, across Europe, the Middle East, and the Himalayas, to India. An amazing narrative from an amazing woman.
- Author: Murphy, Dervla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: December 31, 2010
- ISBN10: 1906011419
- Language: English
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Toward Beauty: Reigniting a Creative Life on the Camino de Santiago
$15.95 Add to cart“A vivid, thoughtful, and openhearted pilgrim’s tale of regeneration, Toward Beauty will charm and move you and make you laugh.” -Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room
At the Grand
- Author: Garnhum, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1778265308
- Language: English
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Rim to River: Looking Into the Heart of Arizona
$24.95 Add to cartTom Zoellner walked across the length of Arizona to come to terms with his home state. But the trip revealed more mountains behind the mountains.
Rim to River is the story of this extraordinary journ- Author: Zoellner, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0816553289
- Language: English
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The Innocents Abroad
$8.95 Add to cartOne of the most famous travel books ever written by an American, The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain’s irreverent and incisive commentary on nineteenth century Americans encountering the Old World.
Co- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0451530497
- Language: English
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Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History (New Edition)
$23.00 Add to cartFrom the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genoc
- Author: Kaplan, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312424930
- Language: English
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Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, a Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
$18.95 Add to cartThis national bestseller chronicles one man’s 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco–sure to appeal to readers of naturalist works like Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, Paul Thoreau’s … [more below]
- Author: Neely, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 164009444X
- Language: English
