Essays & Travelogues
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Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America Along the Oregon Desert Trail
$24.95 Read moreFormer high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West. Following the recently created 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, she embarks
- Author: Waterston, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0295747501
- Language: English
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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
$18.00 Add to cartA fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing in an important new translation
Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab explorers journeyed widely and frequently into the far north,… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Ibn Fadlan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0140455078
- Language: English
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See You in the Piazza: New Places to Discover in Italy
$20.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses the country, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cui… [more below]
- Author: Mayes, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0451497708
- Language: English
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America
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night–“a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity”–Baudrillard mixes aper us and observations with a wicked sense of fu… [more below]
- Author: Baudrillard, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 20 2010
- ISBN10: 184467682X
- Language: English
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Iberia
$24.00 Add to cart“Massive, beautiful . . . unquestionably some of the best writing on Spain [and] the best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any subject.”–The Wall Street Journal
Spain is an immemorial land like no o… [more below]- Author: Michener, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0812969804
- Language: English
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
$21.99 Add to cartThe legendary travel writer’s thrilling and dangerous account of his journey across Africa
A rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and en… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 485
- Publish Date: April 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0618446877
- Language: English
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
$19.99 Add to cartSkeletons on the Zahara chronicles the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hell… [more below]
- Author: King, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 0316159352
- Language: English
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For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories
$23.99 Add to cartAfter 40+ years of writing about Europe, Rick Steves has gathered 100 of his favorite memories together into one inspiring, award-winning collection: For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People… [more below]
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1641711310
- Language: English
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A Long Tangent: Musings by an old man & his young dog hiking every day for a year
$36.00 Add to cartWHEN M. JOHN FAYHEE first arrived in New Mexico’s rugged Gila Country, he was a naive 20-year-old who didn’t know a javelina from an enchilada. Much has changed in the intervening half century.
In this
- Author: Fayhee, M. John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: September 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1958870072
- Language: English
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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
$20.00 Add to cartCarsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with America’s most beloved weirdo.
John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thi- Author: Waters, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535450
- Language: English
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Come, Tell Me How You Live
$18.99 Add to cartOver the course of her long, prolific career, Agatha Christie gave the world a wealth of ingenious whodunits and page-turning locked-room mysteries featuring Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and a host of… [more below]
- Author: Mallowan, Agatha Christie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0062093703
- Language: English
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Interrogating Travel: Guidance from a Reluctant Tourist
$34.95 Add to cartNever in human history has travel been so accessible to so many. But–amid an escalating climate crisis that threatens the homes of vulnerable people across the world–has the human cost of trekking t
- Author: Lindholdt, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179493
- Language: English
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Leg Over Leg: Volumes One and Two
$24.00 Add to cartThe life, birth, and early years of ‘the Fariyaq’–the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of “the Fariyaq,” alter ego o- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #1
- Author: Al-Shidy?q, A?mad F?ris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1479800724
- Language: English
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The Survival of the Bark Canoe
$18.00 Add to cartIn Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374516936
- Language: English
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Midnight in Sicily: On Art, Feed, History, Travel and La Cosa Nostra
$23.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily. South of mainland Italy lies- Author: Robb, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0312426844
- Language: English
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Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond
$17.99 Add to cart“Johnson writes with a fervor that can only be described as religious. Seek is scary and beautiful and ecstatic and uncontrolled…he elevates the mundane to the sublime; he boils things down to their
- Author: Johnson, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 19 2002
- ISBN10: 0060930470
- Language: English
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Far and Near: On Days Like These
$19.95 Read moreNow in trade paper Whether navigating the backroads of Louisiana or Thuringia, exploring the snowy Quebec woods, or performing onstage at Rush concerts, Neil Peart has stories to tell. His first volum… [more below]
- Author: Peart, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1770412670
- Language: English
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Oaxaca Journal
$17.00 Add to cartFrom “the poet laureate of medicine” and national bestselling author of Awakenings comes a fascinating investigation of Southern Mexico that explores the origins of chocolate and mescal, pre-Columbian… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Sacks, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 307947440
- Language: English
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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
$18.99 Add to cartA book for lovers of all things Italian — an homage to the city of Trieste.
This history-drenched city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After vi- Author: Morris, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0306811804
- Language: English
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Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman’s Last Journey
$22.99 Add to cartIn 1977, Feynman and his sidekick fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending
- Author: Leighton, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320693
- Language: English
