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Workman Publishing Company, May 2007. Trade Paperback. It's the phenomenon: "1,000 Places to See Before You Die" has 2.2 million copies in print and has spent 144 weeks and counting on "The New York Times" bestseller list. Now, shipping in time for the tens of millions of travelers heading out.....
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National Geographic, March 2002. Hardcover. The best-selling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks is well know as an explorer of the human mind--a neurologist with a gift for complex, insightful portrayals of people and their conditions. However, he is also a......
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Phoenix, June 2001. Paperback. At only 22 years of age, the author of the acclaimed Road to Oxiana traveled with his friends for the first time to Mount Athos in Greece. The eye-opening visit inspired a classic appraisal of its treasures and men--one that immediately established Byron as a major.....
Penguin Books, January 1990. Paperback.
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Eland Publishing, December 2003. Paperback. Originally published in 1951, it is said that A Dragon Apparent inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American. Norman Lewis traveled in Indo-China during the precarious last years of the French colonial regime. Much of the charm and grandeur of.....
Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, January 1989. Hardcover.
W.W. Norton, 1983. Hardcover.
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NYRB Classics, October 2009. 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 certainty.....
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Penguin Books, March 1987. Paperback. "Cape Cod" chronicles Henry David Thoreau's journey of discovery along this evocative stretch of Massachusetts coastline, during which time he came to understand the complex relationship between the sea and the shore. He spent his nights in lighthouses, in fishing huts, and on isolated farms.....
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Vintage, May 2004. 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 and.....
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Ruminator Books, September 2000. Hardcover. Tayler's haunting travel adventure follows his 1,100-mile trip up the Congo River on a barge teeming with merchants, deckhands, prostitutes, mothers, spiritual followers, fishermen, and children. Readers feel the oppressive heat hanging wet in the night air over the floating marketplace, and shudder at the.....
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Little Brown & Co, 1995. Paperback. More than 65per cent of the African continent is Francophone. This book describes in detail the experiences of the very English Peter Biddlecombe as he traipses round Senegal, Cameroon, the Congo and other countries in Africa, trying to make sense of the exotic and.....
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Mariner Books, December 2006. Paperback. The author of The Great Railway Bazaar explores the South Pacific by kayak: “This exhilarating epic ranks with [his] best travel books” (Publishers Weekly). In one of his most exotic and adventuresome journeys, travel writer Paul Theroux embarks on an eighteen-month tour of the South.....
E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Translated by Richard Graves. Translated by Richard Graves.
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iUniverse, December 2008. Paperback. Here are stories about Fire Island's pirates, ghosts, shipwrecks and treasure chests of buried gold and silver. One tale relates the story of the possibility of the Viking discovery of Fire Island; another describes the torture of the island's slave trade prison. There is a story.....
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Metropolitan Books, May 1998. Hardcover. Harold Brodkey first visited Venice in 1960, and his love of the city - its churches and vaporetti, its capacity to bewilder and seduce - brought him back time and again to the shores of the Adriatic in search of fresh inspiration. Brodkey's Venice is.....
Scribner Paper Fiction, April 1988. Paperback.
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Vintage, January 2004. Paperback. Mordantly funny, thought-provoking travel essays, from the acclaimed author of Out of Sheer Rage and "one of our most original writers" (New York Magazine). This isn't a self-help book; it's a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In these genre-defying tales.....
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Oil on Water Press, October 2023. Paperback. Following an unexpected discovery during a bout of lockdown-inspired spring cleaning, Duncan McNamara, soon to turn 30, leaves a distinctly average academic career for the Camino de Santiago, an ancient and dangerous trail of 500 miles across Spain's Pyrenees Mountains. He carries only.....
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Random House Trade Paperbacks, September 2001. Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The finest book on France in recent years."--Alain de Botton, The New York Times Book Review In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the.....
Low Price Publications, January 2000. Hardcover.
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Harper, May 2017. Hardcover. From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a calling, set against one of the most turbulent regions in the world. A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the.....
Ticknor & Fields, September 1990. Paperback. This book is a journey down the Italian peninsula that will make even the most experienced traveler relive its splendor anew. Harrison offers a fascinating mixture of Italian history, politics, folklore, food, architecture, art, and literature.
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Broadway Books, May 2001. Paperback. Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on.....
Thames & Hudson, January 1991. Hardcover. This book is not a serious contribution to travel-literature. [The author has] made no attempt to interpret the way of life in the lands [he has] visited or even to describe the beauties of nature and the works of art to be found there.....
