Viking Books, September 1989. Hardcover. Here is a journey into the interior of a celebrated novelist and traveler, charged with all of the narrative power and intellectual challenge of his fiction. Later printing. More
Atheneum, 1962. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with dark stains on cover. Moderate edgewear. A previous owner's name written in ink first inside pa[303 pages plus one page list of Atheneum titles availble]. More
Hamilton, Adams, and Co., January 1848. Cloth. Second Edition, Enlarged. Green cloth boards with heavy wear & leaning spine. Rubbing, discoloration. Bruised corners. Frayed/worn spine, top & bottom. Darkened spine. Previous owner's name inked front free end page. Binding tender but intact. More
Interlink Pub Group Inc, October 1998. Trade Paperback. The Traveller's History series is designed for travellers who want more historical background on the country they are visiting than can be found in a tour guide. Each volume offers a complete and authoritative history of the country from the earliest times..... More
Harper Perennial, September 1995. Trade Paperback. A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia--the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane, site of the legendary Silk Route and scene of Stalin's cruelest deportations--is a remote and fascinating region. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union..... More
Vintage, August 1987. Trade Paperback. To discover what becomes of Mexicans who come illegally to the United States, Conover disguised himself as an illegal alien, traveling and working across America for more than a year. This is the chronicle of his journey. "Ted Conover lived the bizarre life of the..... More
Henry Holt & Company, October 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket VG w/ no significant flaws to disclose; Jacket housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation; An excellent copy. More
David McKay Company, Inc., New York, First Thus. Cloth. 12mo. [4 & 1/2' x 7'} In edgeworn dustjacket. Not clipped. Blue cloth with gold lettering. Map of the Hawaiian Islands endpages front & rear. [314 pp.]. More
North Atlantic Books, 1999. First Edition. Paper Back. Those for whom travel narrows the mind will relish leftwing philosopher (and one-time comrade of Che Guevara) Regis Debray's anti-travel book, Against Venice. Clean, sound, gently read. Paperback original. More
Atlantic Monthly Press, February 1994. Trade Paperback. Award-winning Newsweek reporter Christopher Dickey offers an interesting look at the Arab world as seen through the eyes of some the western expatriates--lost colonels and aging explorers, oilmen, sea captains, even retired spies--lingering in the Middle East. More
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1955. Magazine. Worn at edges & corners. Darkened spine. Stained cover, with red ring front. Dust stained textblock edges, especially top. (349 pages plus three page list of available Anchor titles.). More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British, but the English, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find their transatlantic neighbors just as strange. Only an alien race would admiringly refer to a colleague as "aggressive," use superlatives..... More
New English Library, January 1979. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gold lettering. In Edgeworn dust jacket. More
Chronicle Books, August 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Dan Eldon lived more in 22 years than most people do in 80y. He traveled through four continents, led expeditions across Africa, wrote a book, worked as a graphic designer in New York, made a film, and became a respected photojournalist -- all..... More
Liveright, September 2015. Hardcover. Over the course of an adventured-filled life, now in its tenth decade, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been many things: a poet, painter, pacifist, publisher, courageous defender of free speech, and owner of San Francisco's legendary City Lights bookstore. Now the man whose A Coney Island of the..... More
Pub Group West, October 2005. Trade Paperback. This beloved account about an intrepid young Englishman on the first leg of his walk from London to Constantinople is simply one of the best works of travel literature ever written. At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the..... More
Random House Inc, August 1983. Trade Paperback. This volume brings together two delightful books--Map of Another Town and A Considerable Town--by one of our most beloved food and travel writers. In her inimitable style, here M.F.K. Fisher tells the stories--and reveals the secrets--of two quintessential French cities. Map of Another..... More
Workman Publishing Company, September 2016. Hardcover. It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders--the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1987. First Edition. Cloth. Bound in heavy blue cloth with grey blocking and gold lettering along the spine. Some foxing/staining on the edges of the print block. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
In Print Publishing, January 1998. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
Random House Inc, May 2002. Trade Paperback. The true story of an ordinary woman living an extraordinary existence all over the world. "Gelman doesn't just observe the cultures she visits, she participates in them, becoming emotionally involved in the people's lives. This is an amazing travelogue." --Booklist At the age..... More
Modern Library, July 2001. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Notable Book - Finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction "Highly readable biography . . . The woman who emerges from these pages is a complex figure--heroic, driven . . . and entirely human."--Richard Bernstein, The New York..... More
Viking Penguin, January 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Marion Boyars Publishers, 1993. First Thus. Paper Back. Born an American in Paris in 1900, Green accompanies the reader on an imaginative stroll through the French capital sharing his discoveries at every turn. From haunted visions of Notre Dame to memories of the old Trocadero, Green lovingly describes these strange..... More
The Citadel Press, 1968. Reprint. Cloth. Tattered, torn, chipped and flaking dustjacket with front flap clipped. Quite messy masking tape 'repair' of tear at top of jacket spine. Turqoise cloth covered boards with fading at edges and black lettering on spine. Ochre colored end pages front and back. Faded/dust stained..... More
