Oxford University Press, November 2006. Trade Paperback. In January 1912, Britain's Captain Robert F. Scott reached the South Pole, only to find he had been beaten by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. Scott and his companions faced an 850-mile march to safety. All perished on the return. A few months later.....
Modern Library, September 1999. Trade Paperback. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford re-examines every detail of the great race to the South Pole.....
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, November 2015. Trade Paperback. Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic.....
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.....
Mountaineers Books, August 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North, legendary trail angel and thru hiker Barney Scout Mann spins a compelling tale of six hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2007 as they walk from Mexico to.....
Workman Publishing Company, October 2019. Hardcover. A new copy. Discover wonder. "A wanderlust-whetting cabinet of curiosities on paper."-- New York Times Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of a travel book that shot to the top of bestseller lists when it was first published and.....
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.....
Penguin Books, June 2001. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A passionate, thought provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of the memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual.....
Random House Inc, May 1989. Trade Paperback.
Aurum Press, March 2018. Hardcover. From the natural splendour of Devils Tower in Wyoming, to the medieval pilgrimage of Camino de Santiago that stretches to Spain, Inspired Traveller's Guides: Spiritual Places explores locations that will be a balm to the mind and a tonic to the soul. Travel journalist Sarah.....
Penguin Books, June 2006. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown from the author of Orwell's Roses Written as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Rebecca Solnit's.....
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 Bourdain shows himself to be one of the country's best food writers. His opinions are as strong as.....
Santa Fe Trailways, n.d., ca. 1939. Trade Paperback. Single sheet, color illustrated, folded, 4.3 x 8.75 inches when folded. With cutout image from rear of a seated couple viewing a passing Trailways bus. 'This Year take an Air Conditioned Bus Vacation' - on rear leaf. A near fine color illustrated.....
Vintage, October 2012. Trade Paperback. The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just.....
Binfords & Mort, 1958. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 137 pages. 2-page map of northwest coast of North America. Story of the search for the water connection between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. First edition (first printing). Very good copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Vintage, March 2013. Trade Paperback. A new copy. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her.....
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.....
Yosemite Conservancy, June 2014. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The spirit of adventure is alive and well in Yosemite -- all one needs to do is walk off and find it. But adventure need not mean scaling The Nose of El Capitan. The vast park is.....
Bantam Dell Pub Group, July 2000. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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.....
Ballantine Books, November 1993. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Paul Theroux's journeys have taken readers to the ends of the earth and back again--across China in Riding the Iron Rooster, deep into the Americas in The Old Patagonian Express, through Europe and Asia in The Great Railway Bazaar. Now Theroux.....
Penguin Books, March 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Polished, poignant... an inspiring story of true love.--Entertainment Weekly A BEST BOOK OF 2019, NPR's Book Concierge SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD OVER 400,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE The true story of a couple who lost everything and embarked on a......
Mountaineers Books, June 1991. Trade Paperback. Two of Roberts' most sought-after works collected into one volume.
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.
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.....
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.