Iron and Silk (Vintage Departures)
Vintage, November 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Travel Literature
An Unfinished Journey
Penguin (Non-Classics), March 1988. Trade Paperback. More
Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
Liveright, March 2014. Trade Paperback. The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend and foe. The Romantic poets tramped all over the Lake District searching for inspiration. Now Simon Armitage, with equal parts enthusiasm and trepidation..... More
The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans
Harper Perennial, October 2000. Trade Paperback. A True Portrait of One of the World's Most Chaotic and Beautiful Regions That Explains Why Violence Has Always Occurred There--And Why It May Continue For Years To Come The vast and mountainous area that makes up the Balkans is rife with discord, both..... More
The Bridge of the Brocade Sash: Travels and Observations in Japan
World, 1959. First American. Cloth. First/first US edition in mildly edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with dark green lettering with darkened/faded edges. Pink end pages with previous owner's lettering in ink. Green topstain faded. Sound binding. Unmarked text. More
The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Modern Library, July 2001. Trade Paperback. In 1934, famed British traveler Freya Stark sailed down the Red Sea, alighting in Aden, located at the tip of the Arabian peninsula. From this backwater outpost, Stark set forth on what was to be her most unforgettable adventure: Following the ancient frankincense routes..... More
Travels in the south of France
Orion Press, January 1970. First Thus. Cloth. In dustjacket. Not price clipped. In mauve cloth covered boards with gold lettering & decorations (author & title framed on spine in red rectangle). End page design is mauve on white fleur-de-lys design. Mauve topstain. Clean, sound. Tight binding. (276 pages). First published..... More
The Old Post Road: The Story of the Boston Post Road. (The American Trails Series; EDITED by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.)
McGraw-Hill, January 1962. Hardcover. Eighth Printing. Tan cloth with silver lettering & brown, silver & red horse & rider. Beige end pages. Slight slant to spine. In price-clipped, jacket with edgewear and several small tears (half inch or less). Chip & stain at bass of spine. More
The Places In Between
Harvest Books, May 2006. Trade Paperback. In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and..... More
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness
Broadway Books, October 2001. Trade Paperback. Faced with an identity crisis in his work and his life, seasoned traveler and journalist Jeffrey Tayler made a bold decision. He would leave behind his mundane existence in Moscow to re-create the legendary British explorer Henry Stanley's trip down the Congo in a...... More
Wildsam Field Guides: Austin (American City Guide Series)
Wildsam Field Guides, March 2018. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Austin leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the Texas city, working closely with a team of trusted locals. Contributors include Texas Monthly editor John Spong, chef Bryce Gilmore, hotelier Liz Lambert, and neon artist Todd Sanders, among others..... More
The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World (Vintage)
Vintage, February 2011. Trade Paperback. From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack, an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world. Roads bind our world--metaphorically and literally--transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them. Roads have unparalleled..... More
Sunrise With Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries 1964-1984
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 1985. Hardcover. Jacket has some shelf wear and spine is sun-faded. More
Arabian Sands
Penguin Group USA Inc, February 1985. Trade Paperback. The author recounts his travels in the Empty Quarter of Arabia between 1945 and 1950, and describes the vanishing way of life of the Bedouins. More
Andy Warhol's New York City: Four Walks, Uptown to Downtown
Little Bookroom, July 2011. Trade Paperback. Andy, Andy everywhere. Twenty-three years after his death, few figures hover over New York City--its art, its street life, its commerce, its creativity, its nightlife, its myths, and its idea of itself--like Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol's New York City provides a panoramic view of..... More
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Picador, August 2003. Trade Paperback. In an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the modern world Captain James Cook's three epic journeys in the 18th century..... More
The great landslide case: Three versions (Series of Keepsakes issued by the Friends of the Bancroft Library for its members)
Friends of the Bancroft Library, January 1972. Soft Cover. Seven' x Ten &1/4'; quarto; Cover darkened at margins & spine. There is a one & one-half inch mostly closed-tear to paper wrapper at base of spine up and across the quarter-inch width of spine. Binding remains sound. There is a...... More
Citix60: Amsterdam
Victionary, April 2015. Soft Cover. More
Citix60: Los Angeles
Victionary, April 2015. Trade Paperback. More
Passenger: Greece
Passenger, August 2020. Paper Back. A new series from Europa Editions, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Once Upon A Time: The Greek Taverna by Petros Markaris・Land of Migration by Matteo Nucci・The Lost Generation by Christos Ikonomou・plus: Yorgos..... More
Passenger: Japan
Passenger, August 2020. Paper Back. A new series from Europa Editions, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Ghosts of the Tsumani by Richard Lloyd Parry・Living in Shimokitazawa by Yoshimoto Banana・Why Japan Is Populist-Free? by Ian Buruma・plus: a Shinto..... More
Fool's Paradise
Vintage, April 1988. Trade Paperback. More
When the going was good
Little, Brown, April 1984. Cloth. In edgeworn, soiled dustjacket. NOT price clipped. Umber cloth with gold lettering. Clean text. Sound binding. Includes excerpts from 4 of Evelyn Waugh's classic literary travel books: Labels, Remote People, Ninety-Two Days & Waugh in Abyssinia. First published together under the present title in 1945..... More
Riding Toward Everywhere
Harper Perennial, January 2009. Trade Paperback. Arelentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence, William T. Vollmann now takes to the rails. In the company of experienced fellow train-hopper Steve, Vollmann trawls the secretive waters of a unique underground lifestyle--subjecting both our national romance with and skepticism..... More
