Harper Perennial, June 1996. Trade Paperback. Some fathers and sons go fishing together. Some play ball. David Hays and Daniel Hays sailed 17,000 miles through the world's most feared and fabled waters in a little boat they built together. This is their story. Alone with nothing but the mammoth waves..... More
Little Brown & Company / An Atlantic Monthy Press Book, December 1982. Reprint. Hardcover. 16th printing. In very good dustjacket. {6 & 1/4' x 9 & 1/2'} Blue textured paper (faux cloth} with gold lettering along spine. Pale yellow end papers. [412 pages}. More
Tarcher, September 1997. Trade Paperback. Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and spent the next seven years in Tibet, observing its social practices, religion, politics, and people. More
Alfred A. Knopf, November 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. A portrait of the sun-drenched volcanic city from an American who has lost his heart to the place and to a beguiling and mysterious Neapolitan woman. Weaving the tale of an elusive romance with a vivid and haunting evocation of a legendary..... More
Plume, January 1992. Trade Paperback. "A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region."--The New York Times Book Review NATIONAL BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tony Horwitz's 1991 classic account of his travels across the Middle East and through the Arabian Peninsula, now in eBook for..... More
Plume, January 1992. Trade Paperback. "A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region."--The New York Times Book Review NATIONAL BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tony Horwitz's 1991 classic account of his travels across the Middle East and through the Arabian Peninsula, now in eBook for..... More
Henry Holt and Co., April 2008. Hardcover. The bestselling author of "Blue Latitudes" takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus's sail in 1492 to Jamestown's..... More
Knopf, October 1995. Hardcover. After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania - listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become something more than despised outsiders. In Bury Me..... More
Random House, 1949. First American. Cloth. Black spine with gold lettering starting to fade; brown cloth with gold lettering. Mild spine slant. Light edge discoloration. Map of South America on end pages. Photographs & frontpiece by Caskey. Previous owners' name inked front free end page. Top edge tinted black. Some..... More
Arno Press, 1967. Hardcover. Dust jacket has several tears and is mylar wrapped. More
Doubleday Anchor, 1962. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with soiling & dust stains. Rubbing and chipping. Heavily stained top textblock edge. Damp staining. {498 pages plus eight page list of Anchor/Dolphin titles.]. More
Convergent Books, December 2019. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycles across two continents and delves deeply into his own beautiful heart."--Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of..... More
Alden, Beardsley & Co.; [etc., etc.], January 1852. Hardcover. Heavy marginal wear to boards and loss to spine and top & bottom. Internally clean with tanning to end pages. Binding is weak. More
William Morrow & Company, June 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Twenty years ago, when the author and his best friend, Mike Moe, were eighteen years old, they lit out from Wyoming to explore the world. They washed up in Africa and without forethought or planning set off for the most remote..... More
Intercultural Pr, November 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Marlowe & Company, June 1994. Trade Paperback. More
Walker & Co, November 1996. Hardcover. More
lulu.com, February 2014. Trade Paperback. Just weeks before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 21-year-old Jordan Young arrived in Brazil with $35 in his pocket and dreams of adventure. Unable to return to the U.S. because of war travel restrictions, Jordan studied at the University of Sao Paulo, worked as a...... More
W.W. Norton, May 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. "Drifting down on swimmers is standard rescue procedure, but the seas are so violent that Buschor keeps getting flung out of reach. There are times when he's thirty feet higher than the men trying to rescue him. . . . [I]f the boat's..... More
Random House (NY), February 1996. Hardcover. The bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts takes readers on a journey through troubled regions where age-old cultural rivalries threaten to reshape the world of tomorrow. From West Africa to the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands of Central Asia..... More
Karl Baedeker, January 1904. Hardcover. Limp boards. 'With 49 Maps and 75 Plans'. 14th Revised edition. More
John Murray General Publishing Division, June 2001. Hardcover. Corners bumped; else, very good. More
Peregrine Smith Books, June 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Fodor's Travel Publications, March 2001. Trade Paperback. A NEW SERIES DESIGNED FOR TRAVELERS WHO WANT MORE THAN A GUIDEBOOK Each edition of this unique series marries a collection of previously published essays with detailed practical information, creating a colorful and deeply absorbing pastiche of opinions and advice. Each book is..... More
Anchor, February 1997. Trade Paperback. In April 1992 a 24-year-old from the Washington, D.C., suburbs named Chris McCandless walked into the Alaska wilderness below Mt. McKinley with a small-caliber rifle and a 10-pound bag of rice. Four months later, his emaciated corpse was found at his campsite by a moose..... More
