This book, written by a former Chinese ambassador to London, is a cultured and entertaining view of the gastronomic side......more
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A funny, moving, rousing collection, greater than the sum of its excellent parts. --New York Times Book Review Edited b......more
From heiresses to actors, aristocrats to pop stars, writers, composers, dancers, and designers, Travellers Tales featur......more
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Whether it’s a chocolate tour of the Caribbean or a swim to the tiny monastery island on Italy’s Lago d’Orta, dive in an......more
From the flower-filled meadows of the Dolomites to a blanket of stars above Chile’s Elqui Valley: set forth and share in......more
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Elizabeth Smith Shortt was one of the first three women to obtain a medical degree in Canada, and her husband, Adam Shor......more
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First published in 1844, these letters are the collected observations of Sophia Poole, who lived in Cairo from 1842 unti......more
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Shacochis has extended his knowledge and imagination into places most of us have never ventured. --Washington Post Best ......more
The acclaimed, award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of t......more
One woman s quest to learn Mandarin in Beijing, Arabic in Beirut, and Spanish in Mexico, with her young family along for......more
For twenty years John Aitchison has been traveling the world to film wildlife for a variety of international TV shows, t......more
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"A perceptive, old-school travel writer whose prose brings celebrated and obscure destinations to life." --The New York ......more
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A hilarious travelogue for a social media generation ... Bedford leaves] the door open for another journey. If it is any......more
When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Rus......more
Memories of other places, travel notebooks chronicle the experience of getting to know each other and ourselves. They ha......more
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A charming and insightful memoir about coming of age as a fashion journalist in 1980s Paris, by former Vogue and Harper ......more
A Bill-Brysonesque romp through this often-overlooked travellers’ gem of East Asia. For seventeen years, journalist, tea......more
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author In recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection i......more
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From 1993 to 1994, Sigrid Rausing completed her anthropological fieldwork on the penninsula of Noarootsi, a former Sovie......more
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing other creatures and other cultures, from her own backyard to th......more
The Nile, one of the world s great rivers, has long been an object of fascination and obsession. From Alexander the Grea......more
The Beat Generation is one of the great homegrown countercultures of the United States, but in fact its writers traveled......more
A loving and hilarious--if occasionally spiky--valentine to Bill Bryson s adopted country, Great Britain. Prepare for to......more
A loving and hilarious--if occasionally spiky--valentine to Bill Bryson s adopted country, Great Britain. Prepare for to......more
Longlisted for the 2016 RBC Taylor Prize Zoroaster s Children brings together the best of Marius Kociejowski s travel wr......more
First published in 1981, The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964 is Joanne Kyger s journal of her four tumultuous years ......more
How far would you go to save the planet? One man s cross-country journey to radical sustainability. You want to do somet......more
Marco Polo voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic mis......more
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In the winter of 1874-75, Edward Worrell Jarvis (1846-1894) and Charles Francis Hanington (1848-1930) survived an exacti......more
In The City at Three PM, award-winning fiction writer Peter LaSalle offers 11 startlingly original personal essays deali......more
After backpacking her way around Europe journalist Sarah Turnbull is ready to embark on one last adventure before headin......more
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It is 1968. Across America, citizens march for social reform and an end to the Vietnam War. Amid all this, Surya Green⎯a......more
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A brand new collection of remarkable travel tales from Silver Travelers . Dervla Murphy traveling in Havana at the age ......more
This book captures the most stunning studies, the difficulties, the dangers, and the experiences during a 10-year period......more
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The real-life adventures of award-winning thriller writer Jon Evans as he travels through sixty-six countries in Africa,......more
The stretch of the longest river in the world that nurtured the world s first great civilization has drawn and impressed......more
Tangier, the white city poised atop the dark continent which turns out to be the continent of light. Tangier in the 60......more
From the earliest resthouses serving travelers on the Overland Route between Britain and Bombay to the grand Edwardian p......more
Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, devotee of the stars and cultivator of the ......more
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Peter Carey captures our imagination with a brilliant and unexpected portrait of Sydney. In the midst of the 2000 Olympi......more
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Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American pop......more
In his introduction, guest editor Andrew McCarthy says that the best travel writing is the anonymous and solitary trave......more
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Quitting his teaching job to hitchhike Australia, John didn t expect to be put in prison, get headbutted, or endure mild......more
Isabella Lucy Bird (1831 - 1904) was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. With Fa......more
Our modern day, multimedia, information-obsessed culture has fundamentally altered much of what we do day-to-day. The wa......more
In the bestselling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, Rinker Buck s The Oregon Trail is a major work of partic......more
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UNPLUG & WRITE Wanderlust Journals are a Travel Journal Collection to go with you in every trip you take. Check out the ......more
As a professional travel writer and editor for the past 40 years, Don George has been paid to explore the world. Through......more
With Singapore evolving at blistering pace, old Singapore is being left behind, neglected or just plain dying? As a resu......more
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Susan Kelley writes a hilarious memoir of one couple s sixteen-year romp living, working, and playing in Florence, the a......more
A selection of twelve undisputed masterpieces, twelve symbols of the city, from the Renaissance to the contemporary age.......more
Bob Harvey not only describes the natural beauty of the Waitakeres, but also outlines the ancient Maori history, the pio......more
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Roads bind our world--metaphorically and literally--transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them......more
Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by a loving adoptive family, she grew into a wa......more
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