O My America!: Notes on a Trip
Simon and Schuster, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy; in a dust jacket with a closed 1 inch closed tear to the spine and a bit of loss to spine affecting text.
Travel & Exploration
What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir
Three Rivers Press, May 2014. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A funny, sexy, and ultimately poignant memoir about mastering the art of the vacationship. Kristin Newman spent much of her twenties and thirties buying dresses to wear to her friends' weddings and baby showers. Not ready to settle down and.....
Im a Stranger Here Myself : Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
Bantam Dell Pub Group, July 2000. Trade Paperback. A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he.....
Biafra Goodbye
Twowindows press, 1970. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 45 pages. 6-1/4 by 9-3/4 inches. This story of Gold's trip Biafra originally appeared in Harper's Magazine. Cover art by Satty. First trade edition (first printing). A near fine copy in lightly toned wrappers (paperback). Light edge wear.
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Ecco, April 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of.....
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
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.....
What Am I Doing Here
Jonathan Cape, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. With a short introduction by Chatwin. The author's own selection of his best stories, profiles and travelogues, prepared by him shortly before his death and published posthumously. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Campfire Stories: Tales from America's National Parks
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.....
On Trails: An Exploration
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.....
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Ecco, April 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of.....
Over the Edge of the World Updated Edition: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
William Morrow Paperbacks, July 2019. Trade Paperback. "A first-rate historical page turner." --New York Times Book Review The acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan's historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage. Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing.....
Into the Wild
Anchor, February 1997. Trade Paperback. In April 1992 a 24-year-old from the Washington, D.C., suburbs named Chris McCandless walked into the Alaska wilderness below Mt. McKinley with a small-caliber rifle and a 10-pound bag of rice. Four months later, his emaciated corpse was found at his campsite by a moose.....
The National Parks: An American Legacy
Earth Aware Editions, May 2017. Trade Paperback. The National Parks: An American Legacy tells the story of the parks through the photography of Ian Shive and poignant essays by today's leading naturalists, scientists, explorers, and artists. From the cascading waterfalls of Yosemite to the unique geothermal features of Yellowstone, the.....
Under the Mountain Wall
The Viking Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea live the Kurelu, a Stone Age tribe that survived into the twentieth century. Peter Matthiessen visited the Kurelu with the Harvard-Peabody Expedition in 1961 and wrote Under the Mountain Wall as an account not of.....
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail)
Broadway, June 1999. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The classic chronicle of a "terribly misguided and terribly funny" (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body "The best.....
Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wilderness and Risk
Anchor, October 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. His pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big.....
The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West
Penguin Books, May 2019. Trade Paperback. "A convincing case for Powell's legacy as a pioneering conservationist."--The Wall Street Journal A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history.--Nature A timely, thrilling account of the explorer who dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado.....
Tochar: Walking Ireland's ancient pilgrim paths
New Island, May 2013. Trade Paperback. Tochar ('Causeway') is a walking-pace travelogue through the country that was dubbed 'the Island of Saints and Scholars' long before the Celtic Tiger took up residence. Set against the backdrop of spectacular scenery in every corner of Ireland, the book recounts the trials and.....
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
William Morrow Paperbacks, March 2019. Trade Paperback. Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a suspenseful (WSJ) and adrenaline-fueled (Outside) entwined narrative of the race to the top, bottom, and heights of the world: in 1909 three daring expeditions, led by Ernest Shackleton, Robert Peary.....
BAD KARMA: The True Story of a Mexico Trip from Hell
Ocean Front Publishing, December 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good in wappers (paperback). In the summer of 1978, twenty-one-year-old Paul Wilson jumps at the chance to join two local icons on a dream surf trip to mainland Mexico, unaware their ultimate destination lies in the heart of drug cartel country. Having.....
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
Harper Perennial, November 2002. Trade Paperback. A new copy. From the star of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain's New York Times-bestselling chronicle of travelling the world in search the globe's greatest cuilnary adventures The only thing gonzo gastronome and internationally bestselling author Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling.....
North to the Night : A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic
Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 1999. Trade Paperback. 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 trap Simon alone on.....
The Snow Leopard (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, September 2008. Trade Paperback. An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), the National Book Award-winning author of the new novel In Paradise In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the.....
Travels with Charley in Search of America
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.....
The Art of Travel
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.....