Travel

Travel author Norman Douglas shares his experiences and photographs of Calabria, a beautiful and historic yet secluded region of rural Italy, as it was at the turn of the 20th century. A wonderful guide to a region home to breathtaking landscapes and ancient ruins,...

Told from the perspective of a fun-loving dog named Tammy, this guide shows the best of Boston on a four-day tour. From the Freedom Trail and Museum of Fine Art to Fenway Park and the Boston Marathon, these sights are explored fully for travelers...

Though happy enough with his lot, Michael Simkins has never truly shaken the nagging doubt--helpfully upheld by his partner Julia--that he somehow lacks worldly sophistication. While she spent her teenage years as a nanny on a boat moored at Cannes, his utter lack of...

This dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a metropolis since Suketu Mehta's Maximum City. Through precisely crafted snapshots, Ivan Vladislavic observes the unpredictable, day-today transformation of his embattled city: the homeless using manholes as cupboards,...

This book is a collection of 300 contemporary images of the natural beauties of Ireland, covering every one of the 32 counties. The photographs are taken by two of the country's leading landscape photographers, Peter Zoller and Michael Diggin.Author: Michael Diggin, Peter ZoellerPublisher: Gill...

The Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Old Russian Block House, St. Michael's, Alaska, features a hand-tinted illustration of two Indigenous Alaskans sitting in front of the old Russian Block House at St. Michael's, Alaska, built in 1833. An American Flag is drapped over...

The Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Mining Camp in Winter, features a hand-tinted photograph of an isolated mining camp nearly covered in snow in the mountains of Alaska. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect...

The Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Malamute on Chair, features a portrait of Malamute ""Bob"", Eskimo sled dog, posed on a chair. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect companion for your next trip, writing...

The Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Art Deco Yukon Cruise, features an Art Deco era illustration advertising a cruise on the Yukon in Alaska. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect companion for your next...

The brand new The Rough Guide to Slovenia is the ultimate travel guide to one of Europe's smallest but most enchanting countries. Discover Slovenia's myriad charms with the help of stunning photography, colour-coded maps and smart recommendations of the best places to eat, drink...

The best and most thrilling book of exploration that we have ever read ... [an] immensely important book. -- New York Evening PostA series of excellent stories about one of the most interesting corners of the American world, told by a keen and sensitive...

Since the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world's imagination. David Day's brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating detail every aspect of this vast land's history--two centuries of exploration, scientific investigation, and contentious geopolitics....

Shares adventures in Bosnia & Croatia & explains how we could be on the brink of lasting world peace.Author: James F. TwymanPublisher: Grand Central PublishingPublished: 10/01/1998Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.29w x 0.78dISBN: 9780446674195

Roads to Santiago is an evocative travelogue through the sights, sounds, and smells of a little known Spain-its architecture, art, history, landscapes, villages, and people. And as much as it is the story of his travels, it is an elegant and detailed chronicle of...

Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he's sailing around the serpentine, 2,000-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns...

Jim Corbett was every inch a hero, something like a "sahib" Davy Crockett: expert in the ways of the jungle, fearless in the pursuit of man-eating big cats, and above all a crack shot. Brought up on a hill-station in north-west India, he killed...

It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it "the last...

It began in 1913 with a glorious new highway--stretching across 3,389 miles and 13 states--that connected the bright lights of Broadway with the foggy shores of San Francisco. It was a magnificent and meandering road that enticed millions of newly motoring Americans to hop...

In 1844, Charles Dickens embarked on a year-long visit to Italy, where he turned his perceptive views of the human condition toward a thoughtful appraisal of the country's soul and character. Combining travelogue with social commentary, he formed a kaleidoscopic portrait of nineteenth-century Italian...

H. V. Morton turns his traveler's intuition and his reporter's eye for detail to the city that has fascinated him since childhood-London past, present, and timeless. He explores the City and the Temple, Covent Garden, SoHo, and all the "submerged villages beneath the flood...