Houghton Mifflin, January 1990. Hardcover. Millman traveled to the remote North Atlantic to renew his love affair with the primitive splendor of places far away and forgotten. Through his travels he meets an array of animals and eccentric characters. More
Barnes & Noble, October 2004. Hardcover. What's weird around here? That's a question Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman have enjoyed asking for years--and their offbeat sense of curiosity led them to create the best-selling phenomenon, Weird N.J. But why should they stop at New Jersey when there's so much that's..... More
Penguin Putnam, January 2001. Hardcover. Sir Ernest Shackleton has been called "the greatest leader that ever came on God's earth, bar none". In 1914 he led 27 men in his Endurance expedition to Antarctica, through a long and harrowing fight for their lives after they became stranded on an ice..... More
Oxford University Press, April 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. On June 25, 1945, 14,000 American service men and women sailed into New York aboard the British liner Queen Mary. They were the first big contingent to return from the victory over Nazi Germany, and the city that awaited them stood at..... More
Harcourt, May 1995. Trade Paperback. A fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seasons, arts, food, and people of an incomparable city. "A highly intelligent portrait of an eccentric city, written in powerful prose and enlivened by many curious mosaics of information...a beautiful book to read and to possess" (The Observer)..... More
Viking Adult, August 2010. Hardcover. " A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea " With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who'd never been off American soil and set out..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), March 1988. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, February 1990. Trade Paperback. Naipaul's first book about America. A revealing, disturbing book about the American South--a part of the country that nonetheless remains a world unto itself. More
Vintage, September 1987. Trade Paperback. A hilarious and informative account of a 1983 journey to the center of Borneo, an expedition not attempted since 1926, which was made by naturalist Redmond O'Hanlon, poet James Fenton, and three native guides. Travel writing at its best, mixed with broad humor. More
Simon & Schuster, July 2001. Trade Paperback. An American Jewish immigrant to Jerusalem paints a funny and painful picture of the city's daily life based on the various personalities she encounters, including peaceniks, settlers, famous artists, political elite, and housewives. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. More
Mariner Books, April 1998. Trade Paperback. "In Light of India" is Paz's celebration of that country and his most personal work of prose to date. As in all of his essays, he brings poetic insight and voluminous knowledge to bear on the subject; the result is a series of fascinating..... More
Little Brown & Co., January 1960. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto in dust jacket with tanned spine and large (three inch tear bottom of spine. Some bow to boards. Stated 'first printing'. More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1987. First American. Hardcover. Previous owner's name; a little bit of soiling and sunning; else, very good condition. More
Hastings House, January 1973. Cloth. Octavo. In dust stained, darkened at margins dustjacket. Heavily darkened/foxed jacket verso. Flap not clipped. Bright, clean red cloth covered boards with black lettering. Dust stains textblock top edge and fore-edge. Foxing end pages. [496 pp.]. More
New Press, September 1995. Trade Paperback. Originally published in 1939 at the time of the World's Fair, this is a reissue of this guide for time-travellers. It offers New York-lovers and 1930s-buffs a look at life as it was lived in the days when a trolley ride cost only a...... More
National Geographic Society, March 2003. Hardcover. A blending of art and cultural criticism, travel writing, and personal narrative, Sicilian Odyssey is Francine Prose's imaginative consideration of the diverse cultural legacies found juxtaposed and entangled on the Mediterranean island of Sicily. She writes of the intensity of Sicily, the commitment to..... More
Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, October 2003. Oversize Softcover. John Ruskin's masterpiece The Stones of Venice (1851-53) was one of the most influential books on art and architecture ever written and is still regarded as a classic work. However, the problems posed by its length (almost half a million words in..... More
Henry Holt & Co, March 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. More
Vintage Books USA, February 2000. Trade Paperback. From a noted journalist who has spent much of his life in Cairo, here is a dazzling cultural excavation of that most ancient, colorful, and multifaceted of cities. The seat of pharaohs and sultans, the prize of conquerors from Alexander to Saladin to..... More
Viking, March 1987. Hardcover. Small chip at top of dust jacket, spine is sun faded. More
Dalkey Archive Press, September 2003. Trade Paperback. In My Paris, a Canadian woman keeps an extraordinary journal of her time in a Parisian studio. Not a typical tourist, she prefers indoor spaces, seeing Paris go by on TV or watching from her window the ever-changing displays of men's designer clothing..... More
Harcourt, March 1996. Trade Paperback. Inspired by a dusty fez in his parents' attic, Jeremy Seal set off in 1993 to trace the astonishing history of this cone-shaped hat. Soon the quintessentially Turkish headgear became the key to understanding a country beset by contradictions. "A modern travel classic" (Herald Express)..... More
Basic Books (AZ), April 2000. Hardcover. Among travel and adventure writers, Tim Severin occupies a unique place in that, as Jan Morris says, he "uniquely combines in himself the gifts of the adventurer, the historian, and the litterateur." Over the years, Severin has sailed in a leather boat across the..... More
