W. W. Norton & Company, January 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall.....
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.....
Penguin Books, September 2013. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland examines the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move Chosen by Slate as one of the 50 best nonfiction books of the past 25 years In this.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1980. Trade Paperback. A new copy. To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light— these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he.....
Doubleday, May 2022. Hardcover. A new 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 For millennia the location.....
Little, Brown Spark, February 2020. Trade Paperback. Remainder copy. For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks.....
Mariner Books, December 2006. Trade Paperback. Remainder copy. 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.....
Ecco, March 2017. Trade Paperback. Remainder copy. A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North. Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had left her home in California.....
Eamon Dolan/Mariner Books, May 2019. Trade Paperback. Remainder copy. "A portrait of an optimist with curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms."--The New York Times Book Review "Theroux is at the top of his game with his third collection of essays, a magisterial grouping of intimate remembrances, globe-trotting.....
Mariner Books, October 2020. Trade Paperback. Remainder copy. The legendary travel writer drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then takes the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind the everyday headlines. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search.....
Broadway, May 2001. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (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.....
Crown, April 2021. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A delightful sampler plate of our national parks, written with charisma and erudition."--Nick Offerman, author of Paddle Your Own Canoe From CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Conor Knighton, a behind-the-scenery look at his year traveling to.....
Back Bay Books, September 2005. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy (The Atlantic). In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the.....
Harper Perennial, June 2004. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British empire Originally published in 1985, Outposts is Simon Winchester's journey.....
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall.....
Crown, February 2022. Trade Paperback. A new 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, Antarctic.....
Simon & Schuster, July 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. New York Times Bestseller - Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award - Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing - Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award - "The best outdoors book of the year." --Sierra Club From.....
Mountaineers Books, June 2018. Hardcover. A new copy. Our national parks are beautiful and unique places, often serving as an introduction to the outdoors and inspiring an appreciation for nature and wilderness. Similarly, stories and storytelling can serve as an introduction to other places and foster a powerful emotional connection.....
Andrews McMeel Publishing, May 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Pack up your Ouija board, wine bra, and squirt guns full of holy water ... we're going on a road trip! From the hit podcast And That's Why We Drink, this is your interactive travel guide to the hosts' favorite.....
Ulysses Press, June 2005. Trade Paperback. The once-in-a-lifetime experience of personally meeting with the Dalai Lama changed author Gaby Naher's life and started her on a personal pilgrimage to meet Tibet's second most renowned lama, the 17th Karmapa. In Journey to Tibet's Lost Lama, Naher invites readers to join her.....
Harper, January 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. By patient accumulation of anecdote and detail, Rustad evolves Shetler's story into something much more human, and humanly tragic, into a layered inquisition and a reportorial force....suffice it to say Rustad has done what the best storytellers do: tried to track the story.....
Edwin Snell & Sons, 1945. Trade Paperback. 16 pages. Limited to 100 copies. Richard Curle (1883-1968) was a Scottish author, critic, and bibliophile and co-executor of Conrad's estate. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in yellow wrappers (paperback).
D. Appleton & Co., 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. 392 pages with 12 pages of publisher's ads. Tales of Egypt. Color illustrated frontispiece. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in dark blue wloth with gilt illustrationss and lettering on front cover and spine. Edge and corner wear. Former owner.....
James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. 289 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in green cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Edge and corner wear. Spine ends worn. Former owner signature on title page. No dust jacket as issued.
Gallery Books, May 2000. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE STORY OF AN ORDINARY MAN WHO BECAME THE CENTURY'S MOST IMPORTANT EXPLORER Adventurers the world over have been inspired by the achievements of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man ever to set foot on the summit.....