Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women
Tin House Books, September 2021. Hardcover. More
Travel Writing
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Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories
Free Press, October 2011. Trade Paperback. INCLUDES WAITING FOR THE TALIBAN, PREVIOUSLY AVAILABLE ONLY AS AN EBOOK2011 JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION WRITING AND LITERATURE AWARD FINALISTTravel books bring you places. War books bring you tragedy. In Peace Meals, war reporter Anna Badkhen brings us not only an unsparing and intimate history..... More
The Way of the World
NYRB Classics, October 2009. Trade Paperback. In 1953, twenty-four-year old Nicolas Bouvier and his artist friend Thierry Vernet set out to make their way overland from their native Geneva to the Khyber Pass. They had a rattletrap Fiat and a little money, but above all they were equipped with the..... More
In Patagonia
Penguin Classics, March 2003. Trade Paperback. The masterpiece of travel writing that revolutionized the genre and made its author famous overnight An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwin's exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative..... More
The Songlines
Penguin Classics, June 2012. Trade Paperback. For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. Set in the desolate lands of..... More
The Art of Travel
Vintage, May 2004. Trade Paperback. A wise and utterly original book of travel essays from an international bestselling author that will "give one an expansive sense of wonder" (The Baltimore Sun). Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how..... More
Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
Tin House Books, May 2022. Trade Paperback. More
Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
Vintage, February 2019. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "James and Deborah Fallows have always moved to where history is being made.... They have an excellent sense of where world-shaping events are taking place at any moment" --The New York Times - The basis for the HBO documentary streaming on HBO..... More
Travels in Siberia
Picador, September 2011. Trade Paperback. New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of 2010 A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2010 A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Books of 2010 A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Kansas City..... More
Journey Without Maps
Penguin Classics, June 2006. Trade Paperback. More
The Wild Places (Landscapes)
Penguin Books, June 2008. Trade Paperback. From the author of The Old Ways and Underland, an "eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earth's surface." --Bill McKibben Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and..... More
Hong Kong
Vintage, February 1997. Trade Paperback. In its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of Hong Kong is the world's most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably..... More
The High Sierra: A Love Story
Little, Brown and Company, May 2022. Hardcover. More
The Stranger Beside Me
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2022. Trade Paperback. In 1971, while working the late-shift at a Seattle crisis clinic, true-crime writer Ann Rule struck up a friendship with a sensitive, charismatic young coworker: Ted Bundy. Three years later, eight young women disappeared in seven months, and Rule began tracking..... More
Humans
St. Martin's Press, October 2020. Hardcover. The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Just when we need it, Humans reminds us what it means to be human . . . one of the most influential art projects of the decade." --Washington Post Brandon Stanton's new book, Humans--his most moving and..... More
American Places
Penguin Classics, July 2006. Trade Paperback. A book about America by one of the greatest writers of the American West "This book is an attempt, by sampling, to say something about how the American people and the American land have interacted, how they have shaped one another; what patterns of..... More
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes: and Other Travel Writings
Dover Publications, February 2019. Trade Paperback. More
The Great Railway Bazaar
Mariner Books, June 2006. Trade Paperback. More
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
Mariner Books, November 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
Mariner Books, December 2006. Trade Paperback. More
The Silent Traveller in Boston
Applewood Books, July 2017. Trade Paperback. More
The Silent Traveller in New York
Applewood Books, April 2016. Trade Paperback. The Silent Traveller Returns! Distinguished author, artist, calligrapher, and poet Chiang Yee wrote and illustrated a dozen "Silent Traveller" books, from 1937-1972. The first to focus on an American city was The Silent Traveller in New York, originally published in 1950. Long out-of-print, the..... More
The Silent Traveller in San Francisco
Applewood Books, August 2016. Trade Paperback. The Silent Traveller Returns! Distinguished author, artist, calligrapher, and poet Chiang Yee wrote and illustrated a dozen "Silent Traveller" books, from 1937-1972. The last to focus on an American city was The Silent Traveller in San Francisco, originally published in 1964. Long out-of-print, the..... More
Journeys
Pushkin Press, September 2019. Trade Paperback. A collection of the great writer's observations, made during his travels across the Europe he loved so much When I am on a journey, all ties suddenly fall away. I feel myself quite unburdened, disconnected, free - There is something in it marvellously uplifting..... More
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