Essays & Travelogues
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Long Lost: Three Trails, 8,000 Miles, One Unexpected Journey Across America’s Triple Crown
$16.99 Add to cartWhat began as research for a trail guide became something far deeper: an odyssey of humility, wonder, and grit-forged lessons. Hiking all three longest and most iconic U.S. National Scenic Routes was
- Author: Asars, Tami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798318818516
- Language: English
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I’ll Try Anything Twice: Misadventures of a Self-Medicated Life
$17.99 Add to cartFor readers who wish Eat, Pray, Love had a cynical streak comes this propulsive, wildly original memoir about a journalist’s quest to conquer depression and addiction, set against the backdrop of inte… [more below]
- Author: Schwartz, Carly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798896360940
- Language: English
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Train Beyond the Mountains: Journeys on the Rocky Mountaineer
$19.95 Add to cartA captivating journey blending memoir, history, and biography that takes the reader on one of the world’s most famous trains and tells of carving the dramatic route it follows, while pondering other i… [more below]
- Author: Antonson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1778403778
- Language: English
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The Best American Food Writing 2019
$18.99 Add to cartA NATIONAL BESTSELLER
New York Times best-selling author and James Beard Award winner Samin Nosrat collects the year’s finest writing about food and drink. “Good food writing evokes the senses,” writ- Series: Best American
- Author: Killingsworth, Silvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 132866225X
- Language: English
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A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful
$27.00 Add to cartIn medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape.
Determined to avoid the fear and self-sacrific- Author: Lewis-Kraus, Gideon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1594631492
- Language: English
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Paris in Mind: From Mark Twain to Langston Hughes, from Saul Bellow to David Sedaris: Three Centuries of Americans Writing about Their Romance (and Fr
$20.00 Add to cart“Paris is a moveable feast,” Ernest Hemingway famously wrote, and in this captivating anthology, American writers share their pleasures, obsessions, and quibbles with the great city and its denizens. … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Lee, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 1400031028
- Language: English
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Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation
$24.95 Add to cartA queer, Jewish writer searches for belonging across countries, identities, and histories in a moving collection of essays about orientation and home.
Growing up in places where his family had no past- Series: Machete
- Author: Lowenthal, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0814259669
- Language: English
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To See Beyond
$17.99 Add to cartA globe-spanning essay collection on the human condition from the author James McBride calls “one of the most creative and important nonfiction writers in our era”
Our hyper-informed digital era of cli
- Author: Badkhen, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1954276540
- Language: English
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Who Needs Friends: An Unscientific Examination of Male Friendship Across America
$31.00 Add to cartA moving and provocative exploration of male friendship and loneliness, from New York Times bestselling author, filmmaker, and actor Andrew McCarthy as he crisscrosses the country to reconnect with hi… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1538783215
- Language: English
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An Illustrated Journey: Inspiration from the Private Art Journals of Traveling Artists, Illustrators and Designers
$26.99 Read moreTravel + Sketching = Inspiration
When we travel, we don’t want to follow the same itinerary as everyone who’s come before us. We want to feel like explorers, adventurers in undiscovered territory. And- Author: Gregory, Danny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 28 2013
- ISBN10: 144032025X
- Language: English
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Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
$19.00 Add to cartWith The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and original travel writers around. Getting Stoned with Savages again reveals his wry wit and infectious… [more below]
- Author: Troost, J. Maarten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 13 2006
- ISBN10: 0767921992
- Language: English
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Curious Men: Lost in the Congo
$21.95 Add to cartAn experienced adventurer partners with an innocent nineteen-year-old to plan a journey on the most dangerous river in the world. What starts as one man’s dream ends up as another man’s nightmare. It … [more below]
- Author: Kunzinger, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 04 2026
- ISBN10: 1963695437
- Language: English
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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
$22.00 Add to cartFor the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the treacherous beauty of a world that is defined by ice. In This Cold Heaven she combines the story of he… [more below]
- Author: Ehrlich, Gretel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0679758526
- Language: English
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Running with the Kenyans: Discovering the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth
$19.00 Add to cart“Completely satisfying, as well-paced and exhilarating as a good run.”–The Boston Globe
Whether running is your recreation or your religion, Adharanand Finn’s incredible journey to the elite training- Author: Finn, Adharanand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0345528808
- Language: English
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Along the Edge of America
$20.99 Add to cartThe best-selling author and walker Peter Jenkins, landlubber par excellence, now takes to the waves and explores, as only he can, a part of America rich in history, mystery, and lore: from the Florida
- Author: Jenkins, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0395877377
- Language: English
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The Best American Travel Writing
$19.99 Add to cartIn his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2008, editor Anthony Bourdain writes that the pieces that “spoke the loudest and most powerfully to me were usually evocative of the darker side… [more below]
- Series: Best American
- Author: Wilson, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0618858644
- Language: English
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The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
$20.00 Add to cartThe White Spider dramatically recreates not only the harrowing, successful ascent made by Harrer and his comrades in 1938, but also the previous, tragic attempts at a wall of rock that was recently en… [more below]
- Author: Harrer, Heinrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0874779405
- Language: English
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Who Needs Friends: An Unscientific Examination of Male Friendship Across America
$29.00 Add to cartA moving and provocative exploration of male friendship and loneliness, from New York Times bestselling author, filmmaker, and actor Andrew McCarthy as he crisscrosses the country to reconnect with hi… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1538768941
- Language: English
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Walking the Line: Discoveries Along the Los Angeles City Limits
$21.95 Add to cartA 342-Mile Exploration of America’s Second Largest City
Walking the Line is an inspirational urban walking adventure that explores Los Angeles, away from the glamor and fame of its well-known centrally
- Author: Meals, Roy A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999577702
- Language: English
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Everything Changes Everything: Love, Loss, and a Really Long Walk
$30.00 Add to cartA resonant and timely story about love, loss, and forging a path forward in the aftermath of grief.
After tragedy upended the contours of her life, Lauren Kessler, an unflinching immersion journalist- Author: Kessler, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0306835754
- Language: English
