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Viking, January 1941. Reprint. Hardcover. Small quarto. Dustjacket is missing. Light tan cloth with darkened spine and margins with green lettering upon spine and green line drawing on front board. Heavy foxing & darkening og end pages front and rear. Early reprint. [143 pages]. More
Boston Mills Press, April 1996. Trade Paperback. Windsor, Leamington, Sarnia, Grand Bend, London, Stratford, Port Dover, Waterloo, St. Jacobs, Guelph, Hamilton, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, and lots more. 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
Vintage, April 1997. Paper Back. E.M. Forster observed, "One does not come to Italy for niceness. One comes for life". And there is life abounding in this rhapsodic, witty, and lushly atmospheric anthology, in which forty-one literary travelers train their sensibilities on various aspects of the Italian scene. Italy in..... 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
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
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
Mariner Books, April 2005. Trade Paperback. In Spoken Here, Mark Abley takes us on a world tour from the Arctic Circle to Oklahoma to Australia in a fervent quest to document some of the world's most endangered languages. His mission is urgent: Of the six thousand languages spoken in the..... More
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
Sterling Publishing (NY), March 2006. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. Part of the Weird US series, this title talks about the strange things to see in California, from the Pitch Monster of La Brea to the ghost of Elvis (yes, he really is dead), and from the biggest pineapple in the..... 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
Broadway, May 2000. Trade Paperback. Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy. Having spent her summers in Tuscany for..... 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
Vintage, January 2010. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Killers of the Flower Moon In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find..... More
Vintage, March 2000. Trade Paperback. From Oscar Wilde to James Joyce, from Virginia Woolf to Frank McCourt: three centuries of Irish, English, and American writers in search of the real Ireland. From the editor of the outstandingly popular Italy in Mind comes another superb collection: three centuries of fiction, poems..... 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
Modern Library, March 1999. Paper Back. Ever since the time of Captain Cook, Antarctica has captured the imagination of countless explorers who set off against great odds in search of riches and honor, for science or a better world. Sara Wheeler weaves together her own experiences on the ice with..... More
Starrhill Pr, February 1989. Paper Back. Perfect for the book-loving vacationer or the hometown reader, this attractive Starrhill Press series provides walking tours to literary history. Learn about each city's culture, authors, bookstores, colleges, and literary meeting places. Take one along when you travel, or collect the entire series for..... More
Random House Inc, January 2003. Trade Paperback. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - With a new foreword by Tim Ferriss - "Vagabonding easily remains in my top-10 list of life-changing books. Why? Because one incredible trip, especially a long-term trip, can change your life forever. And Vagabonding teaches you how to travel (and..... More
Great Escapes, 2000. Trade Paperback. On cover: The reference guide for anyone working with electric motors. More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2019. Hardcover. The legendary travel writer drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then takes the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind the everyday headlines. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the..... More
St Martins Pr, March 2001. Hardcover. Bloomsbury is proud to announce the first title in an occasional series in which some of the world's finest novelists reveal the secrets of the city they know best. These beautifully produced, pocket-sized books will provide exactly what is missing in ordinary travel guides..... 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
In Print Publishing, January 1998. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
John Murray, 1951. Hardcover. Gilt-titled green cloth. Some foxing and light shelfwear. More
