Essays & Travelogues
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Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan’s Food Culture
$37.50 Add to cart2016 Travel Book of the Year by the Society of American Travel Writers
Finalist for the 2016 IACP Awards: Literary Food Writing
Named one of the Financial Times’ “Best Books of 2016”
An innovative new ta
- Author: Goulding, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0062394037
- Language: English
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Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women
$18.99 Add to cartThe unrelenting consequences of 100 years of Balkan wars force three generations of Croatian women-Katarina, Zora, Tania-to flee their homelands multiple times. Eventually Tania, a successfully integr… [more below]
- Author: Romanov, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1609521277
- Language: English
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Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1889 Gertrude Bell, the great British archaeologist, writer and explorer, arrived in Constantinople (Istanbul) on the first of many visits to what is now Turkey. Over the next 25 years, she would t
- Author: Yale, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1912716356
- Language: English
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Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
$18.95 Add to cartTed Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska–an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his … [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 153
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 080327811X
- Language: English
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Cinematic Places
$22.00 Read moreGo beyond the big screen and explore the real places that inspired some of the greatest films of all time – brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork.
Tr- Series: Inspired Traveller’s Guides #7
- Author: Baxter, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0711264309
- Language: English
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Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China, exploring the intertwined cultures and often fraught history of these neighboring countries.
There is- Author: Booth, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1250114055
- Language: English
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AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
$14.95 Add to cartIn 2003, software engineer David Miller left his job, family, and friends to fulfill a dream and hike the Appalachian Trail. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail is Miller’s account of this thru-hike along t
- Author: Miller, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 1935597191
- Language: English
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Lady Long Rider: Alone Across America on Horseback
$18.95 Add to cartRiding 2,000 miles on horseback from Montana to New Mexico sounds like a crazy but thrilling dream or pure hardship and exhaustion. According to Bernice Ende, the trip was all that and more. Since swi… [more below]
- Author: Ende, Bernice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1560377224
- Language: English
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Here Not There: 100 Unexpected Travel Destinations
$30.00 Add to cartDesign a truly unique vacation with 100 intriguing alternatives to more predictable, expensive, and overcrowded destinations.
Let’s face it. These days, many of the world’s most beloved places have be- Author: Nelson, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1426222580
- Language: English
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French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris
$16.99 Add to cartA Midwest Indie Bestseller
When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris, little does he suspect the dramas that await: scheming neighbors, police denunciations, surly demonstrators, cooking disa
- Author: Carpenter, Scott Dominic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1609521838
- Language: English
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A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts
$18.95 Add to cartSalem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. A single event in its 400 years of history–the Salem Witch Trials of 1692–transformed it into the Capital of Creepy in America. But Sal… [more below]
- Author: Ocker, J. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1581573391
- Language: English
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A Therapeutic Atlas: Destinations to Inspire and Enchant
$32.99 Add to cartA selection of unique and beautiful destinations around the world, which offer powerful new perspectives on life.
The world is full of places that inspire and bring us joy: they might be exceptionally- Author: The School of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 191289193X
- Language: English
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Marking the Sparrow’s Fall: The Making of the American West
$26.99 Add to cartWinner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Wallace Stegner was a literary giant…. [more below]
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0805062963
- Language: English
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Impossible Owls: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. SEMI-FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR ART OF THE ESSAY.
One of Amazon, Buzzfeed, ELLE, Electric Literature and Pop Sugar‘s Best Books of 2018. Named one- Author: Phillips, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0374175330
- Language: English
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Letter to the Americans
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, … [more below]
- Author: Cocteau, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231593
- Language: English
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The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New
$19.99 Add to cartIn recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the Pulitzer-Prize winning a
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062432966
- Language: English
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The Best American Travel Writing 2021
$19.99 Add to cart“The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person’s experience in some other physical place and culture,” writes Padma Lakshmi in her introduction, “and, at its best,
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Lakshmi, Padma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0358361311
- Language: English
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The Best American Travel Writing 2020
$16.99 Add to cartThe year’s best travel writing, as chosen by series editor Jason Wilson and guest editor Robert Macfarlane.
Writing, reading, and dreaming about travel have surged, writes Robert MacFarlane in his in- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Wilson, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0358362032
- Language: English
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Migratory Birds
$15.95 Add to cartA sensitive, stunning debut on movement, migration, and loss, in the vein of Valeria Luiselli’s Sidewalks.
- Series: Undelivered Lectures
- Author: Oliver, Mariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 194549252X
- Language: English
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The Tristan Gooley Collection: How to Read Nature, How to Read Water, and the Natural Navigator
$59.99 Add to cartClocks, compasses, GPS, and Google can only get us so far. In this special collection, lifelong wanderer and New York Times-bestselling author Tristian Gooley walks us through, book-by-book, the near-… [more below]
- Series: Natural Navigation
- Author: Gooley, Tristan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1615197443
- Language: English
