Ballantine Books. Mass Market Paperback. "Rough, tough, combative . . . a passionately felt, deeply poetic book."--Edwin Way Teale, The New York Times Book Review "This is not primarily a book about the desert," writes Edward Abbey in his introduction. "In recording my impressions of the natural scene I have..... More
Tin House Books, September 2021. Hardcover. More
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
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
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
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
Tin House Books, May 2022. Trade Paperback. More
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
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
Penguin Classics, June 2006. Trade Paperback. More
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
Forge Books, February 2005. Trade Paperback. Kevin O'Hara's journey of self-discovery begins as a mad lark: who in their right mind would try to circle the entire coastline of Ireland on foot--and with a donkey and cart no less? But Kevin had promised his homesick Irish mother that he would..... More
Little, Brown and Company, May 2022. Hardcover. More
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
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
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
Dover Publications, February 2019. Trade Paperback. More
Mariner Books, June 2006. Trade Paperback. More
Mariner Books, November 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Mariner Books, December 2006. Trade Paperback. More
Applewood Books, July 2017. Trade Paperback. More
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
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
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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