Crown, February 2022. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing" (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry--with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless.....
Anchor, May 2023. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy--from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic A BEST.....
Perennial, January 1992. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
St. Martin's Griffin, September 2002. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation. His memoir of what he found, A Walk Across America, captured the hearts of.....
Mountaineers Books, May 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. No one knows this premier hiking region better than author John Soares, who now offers his fourth and fully updated edition of 100 Classic Hikes: Northern California. And while he's still in love with many of the old trails, some of.....
Verso, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. This travel book explores the forgotten countries on the edge of the new Europe--Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Uzbekistan. Mixing anecdote and reportage with history and legend, Malcomson teases out the long-running tensions between nation and empire, whether Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman or.....
Harper Paperbacks, June 1999. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. No one thought that Ubar, the most fabled city of ancient Arabia, would ever be found-if it even existed. Buried in the desert without a trace, it had become known as "the Atlantis of the Sands." Many had searched for.....
Vintage, September 1997. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. A travel writer describes in detail forty of the world's most singular and offbeat travel adventures, from paddling by sea kayak around the fjords of Greenland to an elephant safari through Botswana, detailing tour outfitters, gear, health tips, and more...
Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 1999. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. In June 1994 Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set off in their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of icebergs, tundra, and fjords lying high above the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would.....
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.....
Vintage, March 2013. Trade Paperback. A new copy. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In.....
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, July 2020. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. An essential strategy book for how to have transformative, sustainable, responsible travel experiences--starting at your own front door. Recognized Peacemaker and National Geographic Explorer Aziz Abu Sarah shows how, by crossing boundaries, we can heal our world from stereotypes, prejudice.....
Mariner Books, August 2000. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe not all that unusual a thing.....
Anchor, October 1999. Trade Paperback. #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more--including Krakauer's--in guilt-ridden disarray. "A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and.....
Rdr Books, October 1994. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. An anthology of 50 travel writers, journalists and novelists who tell their worst travel nightmares. It includes stories from people such as Isabel Allende who froze in a battered camper in Paris, Richard Harris under suspicion of smuggling a reptile.....
Vintage, March 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. In "Pass the Butterworms" Cahill takes us to the steppes of Mongolia, where he spends weeks on horseback alongside the descendants of Genghis Khan and masters the "Mongolian death trot"; to the North Pole, where he goes for a pleasure-dip in.....
Catapult, August 2020. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. This "stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial past . . . makes breathtakingly clear the connection between nature and humanity, and offers a singular portrait of the complexities inherent to our.....
Chronicle Books, April 2016. Hardcover. A very good copy with no dust jacket. To coincide with the 2016 centennial anniversary of the National Parks Service, the Creative Action Network has partnered with the National Parks Conservation Association to revive and reimagine the legacy of WPA travel posters. Artists from all.....
Perennial, January 1992. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Vintage, March 2013. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything.....
Independently published, November 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Once a person hikes a long trail, they catch the bug, but does it get any easier the second time around? Four years after starting the Appalachian Trail with his brother, Brian takes to the Continental Divide Trail for his.....
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.....
Crown, August 2023. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. "Personal, warm, and lovely . . . a charming.....
Little, Brown and Company, May 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. A "sublime" and "radically original" exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder). Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra.....
Wordsworth Editions Ltd., April 2010. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. 'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?' So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The.....