Essays & Travelogues
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Out There: The Wildest Stories from Outside Magazine
$18.95 Add to cartOut There chronicles fringe athletes, fitness freaks, and others obsessed by ill-advised dreams. It takes us to far-flung places no sane person would want to go.
- Author: The Editors of Outside Magazine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1493048511
- Language: English
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Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
$16.95 Add to cartLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence
This witty personal and cultural history of travel from the perspective of a Third World-raised woman of color, Airplane Mode, asks: what does- Author: Habib, Shahnaz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1646222393
- Language: English
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How to Win at Travel
$30.00 Add to cartTurn your wanderlust into reality with expert strategies from Brian Kelly, the founder of The Points Guy–the leading voice in travel and loyalty programs–with this ultimate resource for everything f… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668068656
- Language: English
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The Curve of Time
$18.95 Add to cartA beloved and bestselling Pacific Northwest adventure classic, now available in paperback!
Widowed at the age of thirty-five, Muriel Wylie Blanchet packed up her five children in the summers that foll
- Author: Blanchet, M. Wylie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1990776787
- Language: English
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Native Texan: Stories from Deep in the Heart
$17.95 Add to cartNative Texan: Deep in the Heart of the Lone Star State is a lively and personal tour of small town and big city Texas in search of what makes the state unique. Nationally acclaimed columnist Joe Holle
- Author: Holley, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1595349456
- Language: English
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Wild Atlantic Women: Walking Ireland’s West Coast
$13.99 Add to cartA journey along the Irish coast with powerful Irish woman beside you.
At a crossroads in her life, Gr?inne Lyons set out to travel Ireland’s west coast on foot. She set a simple intention: to walk in t… [more below]
- Author: Lyons, Gr?inne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1848409281
- Language: English
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In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space
$30.00 Add to cart“An awe-striking masterpiece of love.”
“The sentences alone in In Open Contempt make it one of the most memorable books of the decade. But it’s th
–Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times bestselling author- Author: Weathersby, Irvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593299159
- Language: English
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Just Up the Road: A Year Discovering People, Places, and What Comes Next in the Pine Tree State
$18.95 Read moreJust Up The Road follows Chelsea Diehl’s year-long journey through Maine following the suggestions from those who know and love it most. With candid, humorous and personal recounts of new and revisite… [more below]
- Author: Diehl, Chelsea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1952143756
- Language: English
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides res… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Johnson, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198798741
- Language: English
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When Your Heart Says Go: My Year of Traveling Beyond Loss and Loneliness
$17.95 Add to cartNearing fifty and grieving the death of her husband, Judy Reeves sells everything, buys an around-the-world airline ticket, and sets off on a solo journey. Months of solitude and loneliness in foreign… [more below]
- Author: Reeves, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425638
- Language: English
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The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country
$19.99 Add to cartWhen she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn’t Disneyl… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1785780239
- Language: English
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Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
$31.00 Add to cartA vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world’s oldest and rarest cultural traditions.
Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preservi- Author: Stein, Eliot
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1250281091
- Language: English
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Abroad in Japan
$19.99 Read moreFrom YouTube sensation Chris Broad, the hilarious and insightful memoir of a Brit trying assimilate into life in Japan as he unravels the wonders and eccentricities of one of the world’s most mysterio… [more below]
- Author: Broad, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1804992224
- Language: English
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Tales from the Queen of the Desert
$16.95 Read moreExtracts from two of Bell’s most compelling works of travel writing, Persian Pictures and Syria: The Desert and the Sown, as well as some of her most fascinating letters
A woman far ahead of her time,
- Author: Bell, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1843915472
- Language: English
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The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
$28.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each–from Ep… [more below]
- Author: Weiner, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1501129015
- Language: English
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Minarets in the Mountains: A Journey Into Muslim Europe
$16.99 Read moreA magical, eye-opening account of a journey into a Europe that rarely makes the news and is in danger of being erased altogether. Another Europe. A Europe few people believe exists and many wish didn’… [more below]
- Author: Hussain, Tharik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1784778281
- Language: English
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Project Escape: Lessons for an Unscripted Life
$17.95 Add to cartLucinda Jackson, a harried scientist and business executive, sets off to make a break from her corporate decades and have an “extraordinary” retirement. She launches into a five-phase “Project Escape,… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Lucinda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 237
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1647424038
- Language: English
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Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water
$20.00 Read moreThe critically acclaimed Dutch novelist, poet, and travel writer Cees Nooteboom pays tribute to Venice–the city, its history, and its treasures
“Mr. Nooteboom . . . [has] a highly distinctive voice–- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Nooteboom, Cees
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0300264607
- Language: English
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Tracing Inca Trails: An Adventure in the Andes
$17.95 Read moreEddy Ancinas and her friends set out on on a seven-day horseback trip that takes them over Peru’s rugged terrain to 20,574-foot-high Mt. Salcantay, along an ancient Inca route, and then down into the … [more below]
- Author: Ancinas, Eddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1647422779
- Language: English
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Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation
$19.99 Read moreDeclaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would “work out the details of the transfer of power etc. as soon as possible.” With over 300 ethnic groups spread across over 13,500 islands, the wor
- Author: Pisani, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351270
- Language: English
