Harper Perennial, September 1990. Trade Paperback. An inspiring and hilarious account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town. "The kind of book Steinbeck might have written if he'd traveled with David Letterman."-- "New York" magazine. More
Citadel Press, October 2008. Trade Paperback. "Peter Zheutlin's thoroughly researched account will make you wish you'd been around to catch a glimpse of the extraordinary woman as she went wheeling by." -Bill Littlefield, National Public Radio's Only A Game Until 1894 there were no female sport stars, no product endorsement..... More
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
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
Mariner Books, October 1989. Trade Paperback. Each time Paul Theroux takes a trip - "The Great Railway Bazaar, Riding the Iron Rooster" - the result is unmistakably Paul Theroux. And he has never been sharper than in "The Old Patagonian Express." Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station..... More
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
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
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
Harper, January 2022. Hardcover. By patient accumulation of anecdote and detail, Rustad evolves Shetler's story into something much more human, and humanly tragic, into a layered inquisition and a reportorial force....suffice it to say Rustad has done what the best storytellers do: tried to track the story to its last..... More
Victionary, April 2015. Trade Paperback. An insiders tour of Los Angeles, with tips for exploring popular attractions as well as the hidden gems of the city. Recommendations include Frank Lloyd Wrights Ennis House, catching a film event at the Cinefamily, exploring Dave Eggers Time Travel Mart, brunch at the fire..... More
The Hogarth Press, January 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Simon & Schuster, November 2016. Trade Paperback. Tag along on this New York Times bestselling "witty, entertaining romp" (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Winer travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley--and back through history, too--to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.In..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, November 2014. Trade Paperback. Wildsam Field Guides: New Orleans reveals this one-of-a-kind city through local stories, travel intel and modern lore, seeking out the real and rooted things, what's truly authentic and sharing the soul of a place, for travelers and locals alike. Revel in the eccentric..... More
R. R. Donnelley & Sons / Lakeside Press, December 2015. Cloth. 12mo. {4 & 1/2' x 7'} Green cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold border lines front and back boards and gold publisher colophon within oval. Bright, clean, tightly bound. Gold top tinted textblock. Unmarked interior pages. Handsome book..... More
Anchor, August 2007. 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
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
Vintage Departures, June 1992. Trade Paperback. More
Alfred A. Knopf, October 1995. Hardcover. Edmund White, one of our most celebrated writers, and the French artist Hubert Sorin offer us a lighthearted, gently satiric portrait of their favorite people and places in and around their neighborhood, the run-down heart of Paris called the Chatelet. It is an enchantingly..... 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
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
Vintage, March 2013. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of..... More
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
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
Viking Books, September 1989. Trade Paperback. 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. Back cover creased. Small indentation on cover. More
