The Fever Coast Log: At Sea in Central America
Touchstone Books, January 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Travel Literature
Songlines (Picador Books)
Pan Books Ltd, June 1988. Trade Paperback. More
The Viceroy of Ouidah
January 1980. Trade Paperback. More
What Am I Doing Here? (American)
Viking Books, September 1989. Hardcover. 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
What Am I Doing Here? (American)
Viking Books, September 1989. Hardcover. 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. Later printing. More
Rome and a Villa
Atheneum, 1962. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with dark stains on cover. Moderate edgewear. A previous owner's name written in ink first inside pa[303 pages plus one page list of Atheneum titles availble]. More
The Book of South Wales, The Bristol Channel, Monmouthshire, and the Wye. A Companion and Guide to the watering places, shores, scenery, antiques, towns, railways, mineral districts, lakes and streams, of the Southern Division of the Principality with a Pictore of Bristol.
Hamilton, Adams, and Co., January 1848. Cloth. Second Edition, Enlarged. Green cloth boards with heavy wear & leaning spine. Rubbing, discoloration. Bruised corners. Frayed/worn spine, top & bottom. Darkened spine. Previous owner's name inked front free end page. Binding tender but intact. More
A Traveller's History of France
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
The Lost Heart of Asia
Harper Perennial, September 1995. Trade Paperback. A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia--the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane, site of the legendary Silk Route and scene of Stalin's cruelest deportations--is a remote and fascinating region. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union..... More
The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific as told by selections of his own journals 1768-1779
HERITAGE PRESS, 1960. Hardcover. This handbook provides all those teaching in higher and further education with a reference on how to develop and use a toolkit which is capable of exploring and assessing all the relevant aspects of their students' learning. It discusses how readers can assess their own teaching..... More
Chasing the Dragon: Into the Heart of the Golden Triangle
Henry Holt & Company, October 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket VG w/ no significant flaws to disclose; Jacket housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation; An excellent copy. More
36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
Plume Books, October 1994. Trade Paperback. Davidson moved to Japan in 1980 to teach English at the nation's leading all-women's university, and began a deep and abiding fascination with the country and its people. This spirited and evocative work is at once a highly original travel memoir and the compelling..... More
Expats: Travels in Arabia, from Tripoli to Teheran
Atlantic Monthly Press, February 1994. Trade Paperback. Award-winning Newsweek reporter Christopher Dickey offers an interesting look at the Arab world as seen through the eyes of some the western expatriates--lost colonels and aging explorers, oilmen, sea captains, even retired spies--lingering in the Middle East. More
Travels in Arabia Deserta (A 50)
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1955. Magazine. Worn at edges & corners. Darkened spine. Stained cover, with red ring front. Dust stained textblock edges, especially top. (349 pages plus three page list of available Anchor titles.). More
Old Calabria
Harcourt, Brace, January 1956. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket. Front flap is clipped. Steel blue cloth covered boards with gold decoration & teal blue lettering along spine. Illustrated Map of Calabria and Southern Italy on end pages front & rear. Unfortunate moderate mildew odor. Jacket is darkened along spine and..... More
SIREN LAND AND FOUNTAINS IN THE SAND
Macmillan, 1957. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. US edition. Dustjacket is missing. Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering (starting to wear) along spine. Sun tanned spine. Heavily tanned to front and rear pastedowns. First combined edition. [345 pages]. More
Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British, but the English, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find their transatlantic neighbors just as strange. Only an alien race would admiringly refer to a colleague as "aggressive," use superlatives..... More
Journey Is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon
Chronicle Books, August 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Dan Eldon lived more in 22 years than most people do in 80y. He traveled through four continents, led expeditions across Africa, wrote a book, worked as a graphic designer in New York, made a film, and became a respected photojournalist -- all..... More
Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1950–2013
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
Mani
Harper, 1958. Hardcover. Orange cloth binding with slight soiling. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Black & white photographs and line drawings throughout. Jacket is clipped and has moderate toning and edgewear. Front and rear hinges a little tender; else, a solid, charming book. More
Time of Gifts : On Foot To Constantinople: From The Hook Of Holland To The Middle Of Danube
Pub Group West, October 2005. Trade Paperback. This beloved account about an intrepid young Englishman on the first leg of his walk from London to Constantinople is simply one of the best works of travel literature ever written. At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the..... More
Walks in Hemingway's Paris: A Guide to Paris for the Literary Traveler
St. Martin's Griffin, March 1992. Trade Paperback. Walks in Hemingway's Paris is the perfect travel companion to the most romantic and fascinating of cities for those who want to experience Paris beyond the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. Covering all the area of Paris that Hemingway and his fellow expatriates..... More
Travels in Siberia
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2010. Hardcover. A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of "Great Plains " In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown..... More
Norton Book of Travel
W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1987. First Edition. Cloth. Bound in heavy blue cloth with grey blocking and gold lettering along the spine. Some foxing/staining on the edges of the print block. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
Traveller's Literary Companion to Italy
In Print Publishing, January 1998. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
