The West From a Car Window
Harper and Bros. 1903. Hardcover. A very good copy; no dust jacket.
Harper and Bros. 1903. Hardcover. A very good copy; no dust jacket.
Tauris Parke Paperbacks, January 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Wade Davis, anthropologist, ethnobotanist and author of The Serpent and the Rainbow, explores remote corners of the world in search of sacred plants and disappearing ways of life.
Lyons Press, November 2014. Trade Paperback. Douglas Mawson was determined to make his mark on Antarctica as no other explorer had done before him. What really happened on the ice has been buried for a century. Flaws in the Ice is the untold true story of Douglas Mawson's 1911-1914 Antarctic.....
Vintage, May 2004. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures.....
Penguin Classics, July 2001. Trade Paperback. A fascinating account of nineteenth-century America sketched with Charles Dickens's characteristic wit and charm When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there - curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had.....
Crown, April 1999. Hardcover. A very good used copy in a very good dust jacket. May 1996 began like most other climbing seasons on Mount Everest. The arrival of spring brought the usual pre-monsoon period, with teams of hopeful mountaineers ready to reach for the roof of the world. Among.....
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world's.....
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world's funerary.....
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world's funerary.....
University Of Chicago Press, October 2012. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. In 1880 a young medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle embarked upon the "first real outstanding adventure" of his life, taking a berth as ship's surgeon on an Arctic whaler, the Hope. The.....
Minnesota Historical Society Press, May 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. What goes through your mind when you're dropped alone in the middle of the Alaska Range, the cold and darkness surrounding you without another human being for miles? Arctic explorer Lonnie Dupre had made a career out of.....
Penguin Books, January 1976. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The true and hilarious story of how Gerald Durrell and his wife set up their own zoo.
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, October 2004. Hardcover.
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, October 2004. Hardcover.
Artisan, December 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. A mountain lodge 5,000 feet up in Washington State's Cascades mountains, accessible only by skis--or an SUV tricked out with bulldozer-size snow tires. A sleek cabin just 80 minutes from Manhattan, overlooking the property's pond and 19 acres of woodland. A romantic, eco-friendly.....
Artisan, December 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. A mountain lodge 5,000 feet up in Washington State's Cascades mountains, accessible only by skis--or an SUV tricked out with bulldozer-size snow tires. A sleek cabin just 80 minutes from Manhattan, overlooking the property's pond and 19 acres of woodland. A romantic, eco-friendly.....
Vintage, February 1992. Trade Paperback. In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a......
The Macmillan Company, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. 429 pages. New England travel narratives originally printed in the weekly magazine The Outlook; by the historian and Unitarian minister. With 200 black-and-white illustrations. First edition (first printing). Green cloth with yellow illustration and gold lettering on the cover and spine, and gilt.....
Penguin Classics, January 2012. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing in an important new translation Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab explorers journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. Ibn Fadla-n's chronicles.....
William Morrow, January 2001. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Penguin Books, July 1993. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2017. Hardcover. Those who have encountered Cape Cod--or merely dipped into an account of its rich history--know that it is a singular place. Robert Finch writes of its beaches: "No other place I know sears the heart with such a constant juxtaposition of pleasure.....
Paul Elder and Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. 178 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. First edition (first printing). A very good copy; no dust jacket.
Random House Inc, May 1989. Trade Paperback.
David McKay Company, Inc., 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 414 pages. 5 by 7-1/4 inches. Illustrated with black-and-white street maps and color photo reproductions, and a color fold-out map. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with a crease to the spine and a short closed tear to.....