Travel Writing

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle ...

From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to The Year Without Summer, Bill Streever journeys through history...

Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the ...

a Shimmering Evocation, By Turns Intimate And Panoramic, Of One Of The World’s Great Cities, By Its Foremost Writer. Orhan Pamuk Was Born In Istanbul And S...

“When I was a boy, I cried. But now I see it well.” Steve Saint was only five years old when his father was brutally killed by Waodani warriors, men from ...

"In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Alice Steinbach. “For years I’d made my own choices, paid my own bills...

WITH AN IRREPRESSIBLE TASTE for adventure, candor, and a vivid sense of place, award-winning travel writer and actor Andrew McCarthy takes us on a deeply p...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A delightful sampler plate of our national parks, written with charisma and erudition.”—Nick Offerman, author of Paddle...

unique Among Books Of Maritime Adventure.—new York Times Book Review when tzu Hang, A 46-foot Ketch, Set Sail From Melbourne, Australia, In December 1956 ...

A New York Times bestseller Finding love and freedom in a pen, a paintbrush...and Paris How much money does it take to quit your job? Exhausted and on the ...

in April 1992 A Young Man From A Well-to-do Family Hitchhiked To Alaska And Walked Alone Into The Wilderness North Of Mt. Mckinley. His Name Was Christophe...

That unexcelled exploration of our nation based on a 13,000-mile journey in a Ford van along back roads (printed in blue on old maps) is available for the f...

In this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and ho...

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Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in ...

An Account Of Theroux's Trip By Train From Boston To Bogota, Columbia. The Lake Shore Limited -- The Lone Star -- The Aztec Eagle -- El Jarocho To Veracruz ...

A revelatory, entertaining account of the world’s most indispensable mode of transportationTom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion. In his new...

After two decades spent living in England, popular humorist Bill Bryson returned to the United States, his English wife and four children in tow. Much has ...

Play hide-and-seek with Instagram’s favorite border collie, hiding in every page of this book of beautiful landscape photography.Momo, the adorable borde...

After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslav...

The extraordinary and enduring memoir of Axel Munthe, a travel bestseller since first published in 1929, captures the spirit and feel of an eraCategories: T...

How To Travel As A Political Act -- Lessons From The Former Yugoslavia: War And Peace In Modern Times -- Europe Unites: Successes And Struggles -- Resurrect...

The Nile, one of the world’s great rivers, has long been an object of fascination and obsession. From Alexander the Great and Nero, to Victorian adventure...

It's 3 A.m. And Elizabeth Gilbert Is Sobbing On The Bathroom Floor. She's In Her Thirties, She Has A Husband, A House, They're Trying For A Baby - And She D...

A Chef Buys An Apartment In Paris And Endures The Headaches And Excitement Of Renovating His Own Corner Of Paradise In The City Of Light-- Bestselling Autho...

Whether chugging up the Congo on a paddle-wheel steamboat, rubbing elbows with pygmy chiefs (or wealthy colonial neighbors), being pursued through the dark...

"There was a smell in the air of tar and rope and rusted chain, a smell of tidal water. Down harbour, around the point, was the open sea. Here was the freed...

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted ...

Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner—in short, an exquisite rom...

Landlubbers joke that sailors are always wanting to head off to the ends of the earth, but Chris Santella takes that life-changing desire very seriously. In...

'the Memory Chalet' Is A Memoir Unlike Any You Have Ever Read Before. Each Essay Charts Some Experience Or Remembrance Of The Past Through The Sieve Of Tony...

this Lyrical, Evocative, Thought-provoking Journal Of A Man's Quest For Truth—and For Himself—was An Instant Classic, Now Available Unabridged On Cd villag...

In the twenty-five years since The North American City was first published, urban geography has become one of the most important and vital areas in geograph...

A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote IslandsThe Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky’s beautiful and deeply personal ac...

A new collection of essays from the #1 New York Times bestselling author who has been called "the preeminent humorist of his generation" (Entertainment Wee...

as Moving As His Bestselling Works Of Fiction, Nicholas Sparks's Unique Memoir, Written With His Brother, Chronicles The Life-affirming Journey Of Two Bro...

There's an incredible similarity between the mechanics of a fly cast and the swing of a golf club. Perhaps that's why Chris Santella, author of Fifty Places...

Puglia Is The Heel Stretching Down From The Spur Of The Italian Boot. It Boasts Very Beautiful Landscapes, Wonderful Old Cities With Romanesque Cathedrals, ...

Larry McMurtry criscrosses America -- driving in search of the present, the past, and himself -- as he shares his fascination with this nation's great trai...

the Celebrated Author Of the Last American Man Creates An Irresistible, Candid, And Eloquent Account Of Her Pursuit Of Worldly Pleasure And Spiritual Devo...

Anthony Doerr has received many awards — from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then...

Describes Travel Experiences In Vanuatu And Fiji, Which Include Coping With Mother Nature--typhoons, Earthquakes, Volcanoes--and Observing The Relaxed Lifes...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocativ...

To celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of mid-life, Jane Christmas joins 14 women to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Despite a ...

Ever since October 1967, when he set off in a battered motor home to explore America and talk to its people, Charles Kuralt has been one of our premier chr...

Embracing the true American experience, the author details his fascinating odyssey through America where he encountered a vast array of colorful characters ...

In this sequel to her New York Times bestsellers Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, the celebrated bard of Tuscany (New York Times) lyrically chronic...

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself...