Essays & Travelogues
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The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
$17.99 Add to cartElaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. “I c
- Author: Sciolino, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353400
- Language: English
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Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel
$21.95 Add to cart2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner
2021 National Indie Excellent Awards Finalist
2020 Bronze Award for Travel Book or Guide from the North American Travel Journalists Associat… [more below]- Author: Roberts, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496222849
- Language: English
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A Maze in Thailand: The Fortunes and Fiascoes of a Free Spirit
$17.95 Add to cartDespite my self-knowledge of an overtaxed imagination and a weakening grip on reality resulting from a lack of quality sleep, I was still confident in the strength of my mind and spirit. I still trust… [more below]
- Author: Thumann, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1957723823
- Language: English
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Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey Into the Heart of Russia
$27.99 Add to cartFar away from the trendy caf?, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists.
Midnight in Siberia chronicles David Greene’s journey on the Trans-Siberian
- Author: Greene, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351874
- Language: English
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Travels with My Donkey
$24.00 Add to cartHaving no knowledge of Spanish and even less about the care and feeding of donkeys, Tim Moore, Britain’s indefatigable traveling Everyman, sets out on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Santiago de Comp
- Author: Moore, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0312320833
- Language: English
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A Short History of Charleston
$22.99 Read moreA lively chronicle of the South’s most renowned city from the founding of colonial Charles Town through the present day
A Short History of Charleston–a lively chronicle of the South’s most renowned an
- Author: Rosen, Robert N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1643361864
- Language: English
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Hidden Travel: The Secret to Extraordinary Trips
$15.99 Add to cartHave you ever had a magic moment on a trip that so moved you, you knew you’d remember it forever? Hidden Travel shows you how to experience more such moments anywhere. While most travel guide books re… [more below]
- Author: Brock, Stephen W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 173511880X
- Language: English
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Walking my Dog, Jane
$25.00 Add to cartIn the late 1970s, workers laid a pile of gravel over the length of Alaska. This was the service road for the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline, from the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay to the ice-free saltwat
- Author: Rozell, Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: June 10 2020
- ISBN10: 173394821X
- Language: English
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Talking to the Ground
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God comes an entrancing, eloquent, and entertaining account of the author’s adventurous journey on horseback through the… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1982112190
- Language: English
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A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time
$21.99 Add to cartTeasing out the history of a place celebrated for timelessness where countless paddle strokes have disappeared into clear waters requires a sure and attentive hand. Stephen Wilbers s account reaches b… [more below]
- Author: Wilbers, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1596299703
- Language: English
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The Twenty: One Woman’s Trek Across Corsica on the Gr20 Trail
$17.95 Add to cartIn this past-the-blush-of-youth adventure story, Marianne Bohr and her husband head to Corsica to celebrate turning sixty by hiking the 124-mile GR20, Europe’s toughest long-distance footpath, and fin… [more below]
- Author: Bohr, Marianne C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1647424321
- Language: English
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Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off & Other Lessons from the Le Wis & Clark Trail
$17.95 Add to cartMore than two hundred years later, the “voyage of discovery”–with its outsized characters, geographic marvels, and wondrous moments of adventure and mystery–continues to draw us along the Lewis and … [more below]
- Series: Bison Original
- Author: Tubbs, Stephenie Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803215851
- Language: English
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Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
$17.99 Add to cartTim Parks’s books on Italy have been hailed as “so vivid, so packed with delectable details, [they] serve as a more than decent substitute for the real thing” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in … [more below]
- Author: Parks, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0393348822
- Language: English
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Riding Toward Everywhere
$18.00 Add to cartArelentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence, William T. Vollmann now takes to the rails. In the company of experienced fellow train-hopper Ste
- Author: Vollmann, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0061256765
- Language: English
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Teche: A History of Louisiana’s Most Famous Bayou
$25.00 Add to cartRecipient of a 2017 Book of the Year Award presented by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Shane K. Bernard’s Teche examines this legendary waterway of the American Deep South. Bernard delves- Series: America’s Third Coast
- Author: Bernard, Shane K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1496809416
- Language: English
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Sola: One Woman’s Journey Alone Across South America
$22.00 Add to cartSOLA chronicles the true story of a young woman’s plunge from her pleasant narrow life into a rich foreign continent brimming with Panpipe-playing Zen masters, nighttime motorboat rides redlining thro
- Author: Field, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: October 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0996626409
- Language: English
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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
$19.99 Add to cartINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. The Old Patagonian Express chronicles Paul Theroux’s train journey from his home in Boston, Massachusetts to the foot of South America, in 1978. Full of witty and sharp obser… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 07 1989
- ISBN10: 039552105X
- Language: English
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We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam
$19.99 Add to cart“Powerful. . . . A candid, highly informative, and heartfelt tale of forgiveness between former fierce enemies in the Vietnam War.” —St. Petersburg Times
The #1 New York Times bestseller We Were Soldi
- Author: Moore, Harold G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 006114777X
- Language: English
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent takes us on an explosive adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where Civil War reenactors, battlefield visitors, and fans … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 22 1999
- ISBN10: 067975833X
- Language: English
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Kon-Tiki
$8.99 Add to cartNow a major motion picture, Kon-Tiki is the record of Thor Heyerdahl’s astonishing three-month voyage across the Pacific.
Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure–a journey of 4,300 nautica- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Heyerdahl, Thor
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0671726528
- Language: English
