Product Catalog

Travel Writing A-H

Series:

• Great Journeys
  
  

  Individual titles:

• 36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan - by Cathy N. Davidson
• AA Gill Is Away - by AA Gill
• Across the Hellespont: A Literary Guide to Turkey - by Richard Stoneman
• Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World - Morris travels to the corners of the earth to document the stories of extraordinary women
• An African in Greenland - by Tete-Michel Kpomassie
• African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe - by Doris Lessing
• Alibis: Essays On Elsewhere - by Andre Aciman
• Almost French: Love and New Life in Paris - Fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor, Almost French is an enthralling read.
• Along the River That Flows Uphill: Between the Orinoco and the Amazon
• An American Traveler: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Sport - A scintillating new collection from one of America's premier travel writers.
• American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville - What it means to be an American, and what American can be, at the dawn of the 21st century.
• Among the Russians - A fresh perspective on the last tumultuous years of the Soviet Union and an exquisitely poetic travelogue.
• Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples
• Arabian Sands - This now-classic account is invaluable to understanding the modern Middle East.
• The Aran Islands - by J.M. Synge
• Aran Islands and Connemara - by J.M. Synge
• Around Madagascar On My Kayak - by Riaan Manser
• As Told at the Explorer's Club - Takes you to all corners of the globe, from Amundsen to Lindbergh, from the Arctic to Antarctica, and all points in between.
• Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will - by Judith Schalansky
• Bad Land: An American Romance - by Jonathan Raban
• Bad Lands: A Tourist On the Axis of Evil - Examines nine contrasting countries that are largely closed off from the outside world.
• Barcelona: The Great Enchantress - A decade after the publication of his bestselling chronicle Barcelona, this renowned author and art critic revisits Barcelona.
• Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast - Travels through a place and a way of life that are vanishing virtually before our eyes.
• Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy - Filled with recipes from her Tuscan kitchen and written in the sensuous prose that has become her hallmark.
• The Best American Travel Writing 2007 - Bestselling author and "New Yorker" staff writer Susan Orlean edits this years volume of the finest travel writing from the past year.
• Best American Travel Writing 2008 - by Anthony Bourdain
• Best American Travel Writing 2009 - edited by Simon Winchester
• Best American Travel Writing 2010 - edited by Bill Buford
• Best American Travel Writing 2011 - edited by Sloane Çrosley
• Between the Woods and the Water (New York Review Classic series) - by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan - by Jamie Zeppa
• Bicycle Diaries - by David Byrne
• Biografi: A Traveller's Tale - by Lloyd Jones
• The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers - Each essay is a passionate experience of life refracted through the eyes and voice of a singularly evocative and original writer.
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia - The author's travels to Yugoslavia in 1937
• The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World - by Dan Morrison
• Blood River - by Tim Butcher
• Blue Highways: A Journey into America - by William Least Heat-Moon
• Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers
• The Book of Exploration - by Ray Howgego
• Breakfast at the Exit Cafe: Travels Through America
• The Burren and Aran Islands: A Walking Guide
• Burton Holmes Travelogues: The Greatest Traveler of His Time, 1890-1938 - Will transport you to a time that has all but evaporated, and inspire you to strike out on a journey of your own.
• The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca - The story of a family's move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca
• Caucasus: A Journey to the Land Between Christianity and Islam - by Nicholas Griffin
• Charles Darwin Slept Here
• Chasing the Devil: Sub-Saharan Africa in the Footsteps of Graham Greene - An award-winning British journalist retraces the young novelist Graham Greene's 1935 walk through Sierra Leone and Liberia
• Chicago: The Second City - by A. J. Liebling
• China Road : A Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power
• City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi - by William Dalrymple
• The City of Falling Angels - The author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" returns with an intimate look at the city of Venice and its inhabitants.
• Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness - by Peter Matthiessen
• Cold Sassy Tree - by Olive Ann Burns
• The Colossus of New York - by Colson Whitehead
• Coming into the Country - by John McPhee
• The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places - A collection of travel tales from some of todays finest writers.
• Conversations with Kafka
• Country Driving: Journey Through China - by Peter Hessler
• A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee - by Tom Coyne
• Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa - by Richard Grant
• The Crofter and the Laird - by John McPhee
• The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu - Adventuress Salak became the first person to travel alone from Mali's Old Segou to Timbuktu.
• Cuba and the Night - by Pico Iyer
• Dakota: A Spiritual Geography - by Kathleen Norris
• Darien Gap: Travels in the Rainforest of Panama - by Martin Mitchinson
• The Dark Heart of Italy - Jones recounts his four-year voyage across the Italian peninsula, where he discovers unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia.
• Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town - Takes readers on the ultimate journey across the world's most complex and mysterious continent.
• A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions - The past and present of a country that affects our imagination like few other places on earth
• Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity - by Sam Miller
• Descending the Dragon:: My Journey Down The Coast of Vietnam - by Jon Bowermaster
• Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness - by Edward Abbey
• Diario De Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico - by Peter Kuper
• Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece - by Patricia Storace
• Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? - Takes readers beyond his often questionable guidebook entries to reveal a disillusioned young man struggling to make good on an impossible assignment
• Don't Look Behind You! : A Safari Guide's Encounters wtih Ravenous Lions... - by Peter Allison
• Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff - The tale of Mahoney's solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, and the obstacles of civil unrest and local traditions
• Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River - An extraordinary view of the Colorado's great and enduring splendor
• Driving Home: An American Journey - by Jonathan Raban
• Eight Feet in the Andes - by Dervla Murphy
• Einstein On the Road
• Empires of the Indus - by Alice Albinia
• Encounters with the Middle East - Original takes on commonplace "things to do" for the traveler in the Middle East
• Europe On 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide - by Doug Mack
• Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens - A wonderfully fresh, funny, and inquiring account of Zinovieff's first year as an Athenian.
• An Evening Among the Headhunters and Other Reports from Roads Less Taken - by Lawrence Millman
• Evia: Travels on an Undiscovered Greek Island - The story of a five-month journey Wheeler made from the southern tip to the north of the island
• Face of Spain - by Gerald Brenan
• Facing Athens: Encounters with the Modern City - A legendary city seen afresh from an expatriate's point of view
• Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World - by Pico Iyer
• Fast Company: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Motorcycles in Italy - A love letter to an uproarious city and its style-obsessed denizens, and to the motorcycle that gave him the freedom to live life at its very fastest.
• A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat - by Jeremy Seal
• Finding George Orwell in Burma - by Emma Larkin
• The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris - Edmund White takes us into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many Parisians.
• Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour - by Gustave Flaubert
• Following the Equator - by Mark Twain
• Foreign Devils On the Silk Road - by Peter Hopkirk
• A Fortune Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East - A ground-level trek through Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar and other nations
• Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World - The tale of how four 18th-century sailors endured six years on a barren Arctic island.
• Four Quarters of Light: An Alaskan Journey - Keenan discovers a land as fantastical as a fairytale but whose vastness has a very peculiar type of allure.
• French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France - by Richard Goodman
• French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew - Treats readers to the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France.
• French Toast - by Harriet Welty Rochefort
• Fried Eggs with Chopsticks - Polly's eye-opening account of a culture torn between stunning modern architecture and often bizarre ancient mysteries
• From a Persian Tea House: From Old Iran
• Frost On My Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer - by Tim Moore
• Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle - by Dervla Murphy
• The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World - Takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness."
• Getting Genki in Japan - by Karen Pond
• Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of FIji and Vanuatu - by J. Maarten Troost
• Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar - Thirty years after his classic "The Great Railway Bazaar," Theroux revisits Eastern Europe, Central Asia, India, China, Japan, and Siberia.
• God's Middle Finger : Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre - Part gonzo misadventure, part cultural history, "God's Middle Finger" explores a fascinating land--the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico--where few outsiders are foolish enough to venture.
• Going Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild - The women in these essays eloquently convey the thrills of the solo adventure.
• Greasy Rider: Two Dudes One Fry-Oiled Car &: a Cross Country Search for a Greener Future - by Greg Melville
• The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia - by Paul Theroux
• Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World - by Seth Stevenson
• Haiku Journey: Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province - by Matsuo Basho
• The Handsomest Man in Cuba: An Escapade - An engaging, witty account of the culture of Cuba framed by a fascinating approach to travel
• The Happiest Man in the World: An Account of the Life of Poppa Neutrino - A disturbing and profound look at one man's life outside the boundaries of what most consider normality.
• Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific - by Paul Theroux
• Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip
• Here Is New York - by E.B. White
• Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris - by George Orwell
• Hong Kong - Jan Morris chronicles the exploits of traders, pirates, colonists, and financiers
• Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road, &the Rise of Modern China - by Eric Enno Tamm
• A House in Corfu: A Family's Sojourn in Greece - by Emma Tennant
• A House in Fez - by Suzanna Clarke
• The House On Via Gombito
• House Somewhere : Tales of Life Abroad - by Donald W. George
• A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal - by Asne Seierstad