Essays & Travelogues
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In Xanadu: A Quest
$19.00 Add to cartWilliam Dalrymple’s award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco Polo’s 700-year-old route from Jerusalem to Xanadu, the… [more below]
- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0307948889
- Language: English
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A Little Piece of Cuba: A Journey to Become Cubana-Americana
$17.99 Add to cartFor fans of Chanel Cleeton’s Next Year in Havana, a real-life story of how a young woman’s five-day trip to Cuba, her mother’s birthplace, completely changed her view of herself as a second-generation… [more below]
- Author: Caver, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896360148
- Language: English
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Cheese Trekking: How Microbes, Landscapes, Livestock, and Human Cultures Shape Terroir
$29.95 Add to cartExploring the intersection between traditional and modern, this is a no-holds-barred guide to natural cheesemaking, dairying, and pastoralism–and one man’s global quest to make milk Sacred again.
In- Author: Warmedahl, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1645022986
- Language: English
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River-Horse: Across America by Boat
$27.00 Add to cartThe author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth “takes us on a lifetime voyage full of imagery, insight and appreciation.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer
In his most ambitious journey ever, William Least Heat-Moo
- Author: Heat Moon, William Least
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140298606
- Language: English
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Far Appalachia: Following the New River North
$24.00 Add to cartWith his sharp eye and gentle wit, Noah Adams doesn’t just tell stories, he lets them unfold quietly, powerfully, and eloquently. Now the beloved host of NPR’s All Things Considered and bestselling au… [more below]
- Author: Adams, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0385320132
- Language: English
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
$16.95 Add to cartThirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world’s most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0547237936
- Language: English
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Getting Lost on My Way: Self-Discovery on Ireland’s Backroads
$17.99 Add to cartFor fans of McCarthy’s Bar, a debut memoir about a woman’s humorous and poignant solo adventures of self-discovery on Ireland’s backroads following a painful divorce.
When an introverted, divorced, m- Author: Hartman, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1647429765
- Language: English
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This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
$18.99 Add to cartA profoundly different way of looking the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Reporting from Jerusalem for The New York Times and Fox News respectively, Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin, witnessed a decades-ol
- Author: Myre, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1684425662
- Language: English
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How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays
$16.95 Add to cartA collection of “impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” (The Atlantic) how-to essays that highlight the absurdities of modern life, from the author of The Name of the Rose
How to Travel With a Sal
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 015600125X
- Language: English
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My Little Donkey: And Other Essays
$27.00 Add to cartA collection of searching, curious, and surprising essays catalyzed by the author’s move in her sixties to a small Italian village, exploring selfhood, coincidence, inheritance, and the impermanence o… [more below]
- Author: Cooley, Martha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1646223020
- Language: English
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Wine Pairing for the People: The Communion of Wine, Food, and Culture from Africa and Beyond
$35.00 Add to cartA first-of-its-kind guide to pairing wine with foods from Africa and beyond, including a tour of wine regions across the globe and a foreword by Stephen Satterfield, from renowned Certified Sommelier
- Author: McCoy, Cha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063329670
- Language: English
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Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed, and Wonder
$29.00 Add to cartDiscover the wonders and perils of the earth’s precious metals–what they have offered us as humans, and how they’ve forever changed our relationship with the world around us
The ground beneath our fe- Author: Marsden, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1640097449
- Language: English
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Lost Japan: Last Glimpse of Beautiful Japan
$21.99 Read moreOriginally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author’s experiences in Japan over 30 years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his i… [more below]
- Author: Kerr, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0141979747
- Language: English
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Islands Apart: A Year on the Edge of Civilization
$24.95 Add to cartAuthor Ken McAlpine stands in his front yard one night in Ventura, California, trying to see the stars. His view is diminished by light pollution, making it hard to see much of anything in the sky. Ou… [more below]
- Author: McAlpine, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: July 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1590305302
- Language: English
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Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It: Essays
$23.33 Read moreMordantly funny, thought-provoking travel essays, from the acclaimed author of Out of Sheer Rage and “one of our most original writers” (New York Magazine).
This isn’t a self-help book; it’s a book a- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 1400031672
- Language: English
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Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein’s Brain
$20.00 Add to cartAlbert Einstein’s brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him … [more below]
- Author: Paterniti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 038533303X
- Language: English
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There She Goes: New Travel Writing by Women
$19.95 Add to cartAn anthology of new travel writing by and for rebellious women adventuring through the world.
Travel writing can be exclusive, centering macho narratives of discovery and intrepid exploration, often ma
- Author: Aldegheri, Esa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1916812090
- Language: English
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Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier
$27.00 Add to cartWhen Alexandra (“Bo”) Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a “tough bugger.” Her fat… [more below]
- Author: Fuller, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035010
- Language: English
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Greyhound: A Memoir
$18.95 Add to cartCombining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood, and the purpose creativity gives to our lives when … [more below]
- Author: Pocock, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 159376801X
- Language: English
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The Skeptical Romancer: Selected Travel Writing
$18.00 Add to cartOne of the seminal writers of the twentieth century, W. Somerset Maugham was also a fearless and constant traveler who chronicled his adventures with a rare mix of wit and excitement. In The Skeptical
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Maugham, W. Somerset
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 030747318X
- Language: English
