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
Random House Trade Paperbacks, August 2004. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views."--USA Today "If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment's thinking about health care..... More
Akadine Pr, January 2001. Trade Paperback. 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
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
Anchor, August 2007. Trade Paperback. More
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
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
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
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 School of Life, June 2023. Hardcover. A selection of unique and beautiful destinations around the world, which offer powerful new perspectives on life. The world is full of places that inspire and bring us joy: they might be exceptionally beautiful, resonant with history, untouched by civilization or rich in..... More
Mountaineers Books, July 2018. Trade Paperback. "In the wild, something inside me opens to innovation, inspiration, creativity, and imagination. It's a good feeling, one that leaves me light and full of energy, free to imagine who I want to be in this life. . . . Yet it's slippery and..... More
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 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
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
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
