Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vols. I and II
Editorial Dante, 1986. Trade Paperback. Two volume set; 127 engravings, including three fold out illustrations by Catherwood. Mild wear. (321, volume one & 352 volume two.). More
Travel Literature
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. A New York Times Bestseller This acccount of a 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, is "stupendous...an instant travel classic" (Entertainment Weekly). In January 2002, Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan, surviving by his wits, his knowledge of..... More
Managing Ignatius : The Lunacy of Lucky Dogs and Life in the Quarter
Bantam Dell Pub Group, February 1999. Paper Back. In the 1960s John Kennedy Toole wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces, which details the uproarious misadventures of Ignatius J. Reilly, an overweight genius misfit. Though he has visions of grandeur, Ignatius winds up selling wienies for Paradise Vendors..... More
Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere
Henry Holt & Company, July 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. ""I'm the one they send to the trailer park outside Chimayo, New Mexico, to see the place where the guy went crazy and shot somebody. I'm the one who gets sent to the monster truck show, Lollapalooza concerts, the world's biggest..... More
The Pacific Crest Trail : Escape to the Wilderness
J.B. Lippincott Company, January 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in chipped & torn jacket. Flap is not clipped. Blue cloth covered spine with gold lettering on spine. Blue paper covered boards. Ochre end pages. [239 pages]. More
Appalachian Trail: Wilderness on the Doorstep
HarperCollins Publishers, January 1976. Paper Back. Octavo with mild wear. Previous owner's name & a date inked on half title page.{[180 pages]. More
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
Mariner Books, April 2004. Trade Paperback. The legendary travel writer's thrilling and dangerous account of his journey across Africa A rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux endures danger, delay..... More
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
Penguin Group, June 2010. Trade Paperback. Starting off on the Eurostar from London, Paul Theroux sets out on a railway journey through the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, and eventually reaching India and Asia. More
The Great Railway Bazaar
Ballantine. Mass Market PaperBack. Covers creased on upper outer corners, cracked 1/2' on lower spine. More
Shadow of the Silk Road
HarperCollins, July 2007. Hardcover. 2nd printing; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Dust jacket Very Good w/ no significant flaws to disclose; An excellent copy. More
South to Cadiz
Harper and Brothers, October 1934. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in brown cloth with gold lettering. Worn edges. Mild discoloration of cloth. Previous owner's name and a date inked ffep. Foxing. [196 pages]. More
North of Naples, South of Rome (Us)
Thomas Dunne Books, November 1998. Hardcover. Since childhood, Paolo Tullio has returned each summer to his hometown of Gallinaro, to the labyrinthian nest of his relations and to the passionate, warm-hearted people of his valley. North of Naples, South of Rome describes a hilariously chaotic wine competition, samples the Italian..... More
In the Wake of the Jomon: Stone Age Mariners and a Voyage Across the Pacific
International Marine Publishing, July 2006. Trade Paperback. An extraordinary adventure. --Sea Kayaker In 1996 a 9,500-year-old skeleton unearthed beside the Columbia River galvanized anthropologists with the possibility that prehistoric humans reached North America from northern Japan by crossing the ocean in small open boats. In In the Wake of the..... More
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Dover Publications, September 1989. Trade Paperback. Bound on a lecturing trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to far lands in "Following the Equator." The first of two volumes, this vivid record of a sea voyage on the Pacific Ocean displays Twain's instinctive eye for the..... 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
Twain: Letters from Hawaii
University of Hawaii Press, February 1989. Paper Back. "I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever." --Mark Twain So Samuel Langhorne Clemens made his excuse for late..... More
The Eternal City: Guide, album, souvenir of a short visit to Rome
Lozzi Publisher, 1954. Soft Cover. 11th edition. 12mo. With foxing & darkening. Includes large folded laid in illustrated map of Rome in ochre, green and black ink. [281 pages]. More
A Literary Guide to Provence
Swallow Press / Ohio University Press, November 2001. Hardcover. Provence through the eyes of its writers--those who wrote of it in Provençal or French and also those visitors who were moved by its beauty--that is the inspiration behind A Literary Guide to Provence. In this compact travel guide, Marseilles native..... More
Passenger: Greece
Passenger, August 2020. Trade Paperback. 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
Fool's Paradise
Vintage, April 1988. Trade Paperback. More
The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
Crown, July 2012. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The extraordinary true story of a journey into the deepest recesses of the Amazon to track one of the planet's last uncontacted indigenous tribes. Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided..... More
When The Going Was Good
Little, Brown, April 1984. Cloth. Dust jacket is mylar wrapped for preservation. Jacket is torn along top edge, shelfworn. More
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
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
Our Paris: Sketches from Memory
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
