Essays & Travelogues
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The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert
$19.99 Add to cartDeserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to seasoned explorers.
Craig Childs has spent years in the deserts of the American West, and his treks through arid lands in search of water rev- Author: Childs, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0316610690
- Language: English
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Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
$19.00 Add to cartIn Dispatches from Pluto, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”–the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta.
Richard Grant and his girlfriend were l- Author: Grant, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1476709645
- Language: English
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
$18.99 Add to cart“The kind of book Steinbeck might have written if he’d traveled with David Letterman.” —New York magazine
An inspiring and hilarious account of one man’s rediscovery of America and his search for the
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0060920084
- Language: English
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The Snow Leopard
$19.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
“A masterpiece that exceeds the boundaries of the travel genre and envelops you with its incredible prose.” —Wall Street Journal An unforgettable spiritual journey t- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105515
- Language: English
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She Explores: Stories of Life-Changing Adventures on the Road and in the Wild (Solo Travel Guides, Travel Essays, Women Hiking Books): Stories of Life
$24.95 Add to cartFor every woman who has ever been called outdoorsy comes a collection of stories that inspires unforgettable adventure.
Beautiful, empowering, and exhilarating, She Explores is a spirited celebration- Author: Straub, Gale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 26, 2019
- ISBN10: 1452167664
- Language: English
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The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
$18.99 Add to cartThe seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald Tribune)
A chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod b- Author: Beston, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 080507368X
- Language: English
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The White Masai
$17.99 Add to cartThe runaway international bestseller is now an American must-read for lovers of adventure, travel writing, and romance. Corinne Hofmann tells how she falls in love with an African warrior while on hol
- Author: Hofmann, Corinne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 0061131539
- Language: English
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Getting about: Travel Writings of William F. Buckley Jr.
$39.99 Read moreWell known as a political commentator and the author of sixteen novels, William F. Buckley Jr. was also a superb chronicler of travel. Getting About gathers more than one hundred of his articles about
- Author: Meehan, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1641773170
- Language: English
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The Heartbeat of the Wild: Dispatches from Landscapes of Wonder, Peril, and Hope
$28.00 Read moreIn this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed author David Quammen journeys to places where civilization meets raw nature and explores the challenge of balancing the needs of both.
For more than t- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1426222076
- Language: English
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Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life
$21.95 Read moreALOHA (love) – ‘ĀINA (land) – MO’OLELO (stories) – ‘OHANA (family)
DISCOVER FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF HAWAIIAN LIVING
FOR A PEACEFUL AND BALANCED LIFE.
More than just a beautiful paradise, Hawai’i has … [more below]- Author: Daly, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1797216937
- Language: English
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Oh, Florida!: How America’s Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
To some people, Florida is a paradise; to others, a punch line. As Oh, Florida! shows, it’s both of these and, more important, it’s a Petri dish, producing trends that end- Author: Pittman, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250143640
- Language: English
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A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the star of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain’s New York Times-bestselling chronicle of travelling the world in search the globe’s greatest cuilnary adventures
“Bourdain shows himself to be one of
- Author: Bourdain, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05, 2002
- ISBN10: 0060012781
- Language: English
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Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
$15.99 Add to cart“Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information.”
–New York Times Book Review
Based on Zora Neale Hurston’s pers
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 30, 2008
- ISBN10: 0061695130
- Language: English
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Three Weeks with My Brother
$16.99 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and hope.
As moving as his bestselling works of fi- Author: Sparks, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1538705451
- Language: English
