I know of no other book exactly like this one, yet it is part of a tradition. One thinks of the best work of John McPhee......more
The Sierra Nevada is one of the most scenic, biologically diverse, and historically rich mountain ranges in North Americ......more
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The private secretary to the Duke of Newcastle assembled this book, a collection of semi-political and mostly trivial me......more
Excerpt from Hamilton s Itinerarium: Being a Narrative of a Journey From Annapolis, Maryland Through Delaware, Pennsylva......more
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The missionary’s account of time spent in Oregon (and Washington) after a horrible shipwreck which took the lives of som......more
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In the middle of the night I crawled out of my tent into a silvery vastness truly unchanged since Genghis Khan and his h......more
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Coldhearted River recounts the canoe odyssey of Kim Trevathan and photographer Randy Russell down the Cumberland River--......more
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2007 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award Winner, 2006 Independent Book Publisher Award Winner in Travel Essays, 2006 Na......more
Simon rode a motorcycle around the world in the seventies, when such a thing was unheard of. In four years he covered 78......more
The Huck Finn of foreign correspondents provides a colorful account of old Honolulu, the island nobility, the City of Re......more
Written in 1831, Washington Irving’s dreamlike description of the Alhambra, the beautiful Moorish castle that defined th......more
This is the author s account of walking a 180-mile route over mountains, across bogland, along canal and riverbanks and ......more
This is a collection of 19th-century journals, diaries, articles, memoirs, and reports of the first explorations of what......more
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One hundred and eighty years after Lewis and Clark’s "Voyage of Discovery" (1804-1806), Dayton Duncan set out in a Volks......more
Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the experience of slugging it out......more
The noted Scotsman travels again through the U.S., examining the development of the country. Traveling extensively up an......more
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Longtime New York magazine restaurant critic Adam Platt offers a delicious peek behind the scenes of a storied career.........more
Brilliant. --The Daily Telegraph No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. In Elephant Complex, he ventures into ......more
The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers an impassioned and prescient travelogue of his journeys through his ancestral ho......more
The humorous true story of a woman who abandons her tidy life to honeymoon across the Pacific on a leaky, old boat--only......more
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New Yorker writer and author of The Library Book takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty......more
East Side, West Side, from the Little Red Lighthouse to Battery Park City, the wonders of Manhattan s waterfront are bot......more
The Norte Grande of Chile, the world’s driest desert, had ’’engendered contemporary Chile, everything that was good abou......more
In this enchanting meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy......more
When Laura Fraser’s husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, and discove......more
The acclaimed author of Motoring with Mohammed brings us a compelling adventure into the remarkable world of the orchid ......more
For centuries Italy has been many things to many people. In this brilliant anthology and traveler’s companion, twenty-ei......more
Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny Nepalese village, was living high in the Himalayas when she be......more
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It’d been a long time since I claimed some solitude in this blessed landscape; since I’ve done without lifes little prop......more
Getting roughed up by Islamic fundamentalists, the weekly "feline sex-fest" in Kyiv, bribing Russian police to avoid jai......more
Wonders of life are revealed if lived passionately... Isn’t it better to identify the commonalities of Science & Spiritu......more
A joyous comparative study of two kindred voyages undertaken a lifetime apart. In early summer 2015, following recent re......more
Chambal Revisited is the English rendering of Suvendu Debnath’s Abar Chambal, contemporary non-fiction, by Nabanita Seng......more
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Live Without Regrets Then Master the Three Cs...Choice, Chance, Change. Based on the author’s true-life experiences, wor......more