Skye High: The Record of a Tour Through Scotland in the Wake of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell
Akadine Pr, January 2001. Trade Paperback. More
Travel Literature
Into the Wild
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
Into the Wild
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
Into the Wild (MTI)
Anchor, August 2007. Trade Paperback. More
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (Modern Library Exploration)
Villard, May 1997. Hardcover. When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in 57 hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, 20..... More
In Bolivia
Vintage Books USA, November 1989. Trade Paperback. Lawlor provides a rollicking and occasionally harrowing journey through one of the Western world's least-known and most backward nations, Bolivia. More
D. H. Lawrence and Italy (Travel Library, Penguin)
Penguin Books, May 1985. Trade Paperback. More
Sea and Sardinia - Twilight in Italy
Doubleday Anchor Book, 1949. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass Market paperback with sun-bleached spine. [277 pages plus two page list of Anchor available titles.]. More
Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion
Holt Paperbacks, July 2011. Trade Paperback. An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in flux In September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart..... More
The Stone Boudoir: Travels Through the Hidden Villages of Sicily
Counterpoint, May 2003. Trade Paperback. In this sparkling book, Theresa Maggio takes us on a journey in search of Sicily's most remote and least explored mountain towns. Using her grandparents' ancestral village of Santa Margherita Belice as her base camp, she pores over old maps to plot her adventure, selecting..... More
Writer's Paris: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul
Writer's Digest Books, October 2005. Cloth. Enrich your creative life and write with more intensity than ever before on a spirit-renewing adventure in the City of Light. Experience it not as a tourist but as a creator, where you dedicate yourself to the bohemian writing life in picturesque parks, cafes..... More
The Last Fish Tale
Riverhead Trade, May 2009. Trade Paperback. "A marvelous, compelling tale"(Rocky Mountain News) from the New York Times bestselling author of Salt and Cod. Gloucester, Massachusetts, America's oldest fishing port, is defined by the culture of commercial fishing. But the threat of over-fishing, combined with climate change and pollution, is endangering..... More
West with the Night
North Point Press, May 1983. Trade Paperback. "West with the Night" is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s. More
No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Love of Venice can strike anyone, not just romantic wusses. Among the toughies with serious cases were Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, Ezra Pound, and Ernest Hemingway. Symptoms include: Wishing that the movie stars in films set in Venice would move..... More
On a Chinese Screen
Heinemann, 1922. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition, missing dustjacket. Octavo withslightly cocked spine and worn at edges and spine ridges. Gold stamped lettering and decorative tree on spine. Front cover shows Pegasus 3 times between title and author,all in gold. Deckled fore-edge. A few grey streaks of discoloration on..... More
DON FERNANDO OR VARIATIONS ON SOME SPANISH THEMES; A Reflective Picture of Spain in the Golden Age.
Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1935. First American. Cloth. First American edition. Octavo in tattered, torn & much edgeworn dustjacket. Dark stains on white areas of jacket design. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with blindstamped Doubleday, Doran colophon on front panel and gold lettering at decorations..... More
Acquired Tastes
Bantam, April 1993. Trade Paperback. In Acquired Tastes, Peter Mayle, the erudite sojourner and New York Times bestselling author of A Year in Provence, sets off once more, traveling the world in search of the very best life has to offer. Whether telling us where to buy the world's best..... More
Toujours Provence
Vintage Departures, June 1992. Trade Paperback. More
Stones of Florence
Mariner Books, November 2002. Paper Back. A journey through the glorious Italian city's scenery, history, and culture, from the New York Times best-selling author of Venice Observed and The Group. Renowned for her sharp literary style, essayist and fiction writer Mary McCarthy offers a unique history of Florence, from its..... More
Lost Upland
Knopf Publishing Group, February 1992. Hardcover. Distinguished poet Merwin offers a brilliantly evocative and loving account of southwestern France, vividly conveying his intimate knowledge of the people and the country. In three narratives, he depicts the small town life in this ancient part of the world where the past is..... More
Land of the Quetzal: Excerpts from The Journal (the Mexican Years, 1940-1944) ('Outcast' series of chapbooks)
O. Baradinsky, January 1946. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Iberia
Random House, January 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing; Solid binding; Clean, sturdy yellow cloth boards w/ immaculate gilt lettering/design at front and spine; Text free of markings; Unclipped dust jacket VG w/ the slightest bit of edge-wear present; Jacket housed in protective mylar; An exceptional copy. More
The Voice of Asia
Random House, October 1951. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in heavily chipped & torn DJ with large one-inch triangular chip at head of spine. Darkening of verso. Flap not clipped. Grey cloth covered boards with gold lettering in rectangular field of black and gold floral design above and below the title..... More
Six Days in Havana
University of Texas Press, January 1989. Hardcover. In today's fast-changing world, Cuba will be next on center stage.--James A. Michener. Michener's impressions of Castro's Havana open a unique window on a country and a people so close yet so inaccessible. 160 color prints. More
Rascals in Paradise : True Tales of High Adventure in the South Pacific
Random House, January 1957. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In edgewor dustjacket with slight darkening. Front flap is not clipped. Beige cloth covered boards with black title plates on spine with gold horizontal bars separating these three black rectangles of text in beige coloring of backgound. End pages feature map of..... More
