Travel - Essays & Travelogues
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100 Bike Rides of a Lifetime: The World's Ultimate Cycling ExperiencesThis inspiring illustrated guide from National Geographic reveals the ultimate bucket list destinations for cyclists, from the vineyards of New Zealand to the peaks of Patagonia. Get your pedals turning with this ultimate guide to the 100 greatest bike routes around the world. Beautifully...
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A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme CuisinesFrom 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 his language, and his...
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A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next TeeThe hysterical story bestseller about one man's epic Celtic sojourn in search of ancestors, nostalgia, and the world's greatest round of golf By turns hilarious and poetic, A Course Called Ireland is a magnificent tour of a vibrant land and paean to the world's...
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost"An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism." --Los Angeles Times From the award-winning author of Orwell's Roses, a stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown Written as a series of autobiographical...
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A Little Piece of Cuba: A Journey to Become Cubana-AmericanaFor fans of Chanel Cleeton's Next Year in Havana, a real-life story of how a young woman's five-day trip to Cuba, her mother's birthplace, completely changed her view of herself as a second-generation American. When Barbara Caver was growing up in South Carolina, her...
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A Philosophy of WalkingThis "passionate affirmation of the simple life, and joy in simple things" explores how walking influenced history's greatest thinkers--from Henry David Thoreau and Jack Kerouac to Gandhi and Nietzsche (Observer). In this French bestseller, leading thinker and philosopher Frédéric Gros charts the many different...
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A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of FranceGeorgeanne Brennan moved to Provence in 1970, seeking a simpler life. She set off on her many adventures in Provençale cuisine by tracking down a herd of goats, a cool workshop, some rennet, and the lost art of making fresh goat cheese. From this...
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A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman LewisCollected here are thirty-six of Norman Lewis's best articles, from more than five decades of publication in newspapers, anthologies and magazines. As a witness to his times - the good, the bad and the absurd - he was unmatched, and his instinct for important...
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A Russian JournalSteinbeck and Capa's account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing. Featuring newly reset, high-resolution black and white photography by Robert Capa A Penguin Classic Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer...
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and ArgumentsThese widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on...
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian TrailThe Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America-majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you're going to take a hike, it's probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most...
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian TrailNEW 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 way of escaping into nature."--The New...
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversThoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves descriptions of natural phenomena, the rural landscape, and local characters with digressions on literature and philosophy, the Native American and Puritian histories of...
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A Woman in the Polar Night"An epic story, elegantly told and full of mystery." -- Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle A rediscovered classic memoir - the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic "A refreshing voice in the canon...
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A Year in ProvenceNATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He...
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Abroad in JapanTHE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Chris Broad explores Japan in all its quirky glory..Endlessly fascinating!'Will Ferguson, author of Hokkaido Highway Blues 'Carves a unique path across Japan bringing him into contact with far too many cats, heartening renewal in Tohoku, and even pizza with Ken...
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Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at SeaA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: The riveting account of a harrowing month spent stranded at sea--an incredible story of one man's struggle and bravery.Steven Callahan shares his dramatic tale of survival at sea in this undeniable seafaring classic. His engrossing firsthand account reveals how...
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Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of TravelLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence This witty personal and cultural history of travel from the perspective of a Third World-raised woman of color, Airplane Mode, asks: what does it mean to be a joyous traveler when we live in the ruins...
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AlibisFrom André Aciman, the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, comes an eclectic collection of essays on memory and exile inspired by the quiet moments of an introspective traveler A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of the YearCelebrated as...
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All Humans Outside: Stories of Belonging in NatureAn extraordinary celebration of diversity and belonging in the outdoors Full-color photography and profiles of 101 unique individuals from hikers to climbers, beekeepers to park rangers 250-plus portrait and action photos feature a wide range of ages, ethnicities, body sizes, sexualities, gender identities, and...
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