Wildsam Field Guides, May 2015. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Brooklyn leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the largest borough in New York City, working closely with an eclectic team of trusted locals. Contributors include writers, fashion designers, comedians, shop owners, chefs, club owners, literary agents and barbers..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, December 2015. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Charleston leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the South Carolina city, working closely with a team of trusted locals. Contributors include author Pat Conroy, chef Sean Brock, mayor Joe Riley, novelist Josephine Humphreys, artist Becca Barnet, anthropologist Ade..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, May 2017. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Los Angeles leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the California city, working closely with a team of trusted locals. Contributors include writer Jedediah Jenkins, chef Nancy Silverton, punk musician Alice Bag, surf legend Dick Metz, casting executive Jennifer..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, November 2014. Trade Paperback. Wildsam Field Guides: New Orleans leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the one-of-a-kind Louisiana city, working closely with an eclectic team of trusted locals. Contributors include journalists, chefs, jazz musicians, shop owners, historic preservationists, fishermen, politicians and artisans, among others. Topics..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, November 2013. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: San Francisco leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the California city, working closely with a team of trusted locals. Contributors include writer Chris Colin, baker Chad Robertson, artist Zio Zeigler, novelist Julie Orringer, winemaker Andrew Mariani, and poet..... More
Privately Printed, January 1959. Cloth. Clean, solid, nearly new two volume set in good slip case. More
Seal Press, October 2003. Trade Paperback. Ayun Halliday may not make for the most sensible travel companion, but she is certainly one of the zaniest, with a knack for inserting herself (and her unwitting cohorts) into bizarre situations around the globe. Curator of kitsch and unabashed aficionada of pop culture..... More
Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1990. Reprint. Flexible Boards. Much worn. 12mo. -- (Four & 1/4' x Six' )Maroon cloth flexible boards. Dust stained boards with spine darkened, edges darkened. Textblock edges likewise darkened, especially top edge. Binding is tender and in sections loose. Ribbon marker quite frayed. Several pages at..... More
J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1869. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd U.S. edition in brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Edgeworn, especially at top & bottom of spine. All four fore-edge board corners bumped. Blindstamp of global emblem & border front and back boards. Textblock edges darkened. Brown end pages. Bookplates from..... More
Carpet Bombing Culture, June 2018. Hardcover. Wherein lies the beauty of the dark image? What is the attraction of the dark tourist attraction and, moreover, the disposition and practice of the dark tourist away from and upon return home? Dark Tourism 'The Beauty in Death' is a collection of photographs..... More
Bantam, September 2015. Paper Back. With a new preface by the author - As featured in the upcoming motion picture Everest, starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, and Jake Gyllenhaal "I can tell you that some force within me rejected death..... 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
J.M. Dent, April 1913. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. 5th printing. Army green cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Mildly faded at margins with top & bottom of spine worn & slightly darkened. One of the most striking end page illustrations are these (Style #1) Everyman's Library designs. They are..... More
Vintage, May 2004. Trade Paperback. Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the..... More
The Ecco Press, January 1984. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 2nd printing. Mild edgewear. Darkened edges of cover. Includes photography by Bowles. More
Harper & Row, January 1975. Paper Back. Scarce paperback edition of this classic tale of the road. Unfortunately there is silverfish bites along the fore-edge and bottom corner of the first five inside pages, though this damage does not effect the text. Otherwise a decent reading copy (or starter copy);..... More
Penguin USA, July 1990. Trade Paperback. In this text, Bruce Chatwin writes of his father, of his friend Howard Hodgkin, and of his talks with Andre Malraux and Nadezhda Mandelstram. He also follows unholy grails on his travels, such as the rumour of a "wolf-boy" in India, or the idea..... More
Broadway Books, December 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. From the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body comes a travel diary documenting a visit to Kenya. All royalties and profits go to CARE International. In the early fall of 2002, famed travel writer Bill Bryson journeyed to..... More
Bantam Dell Pub Group, July 2000. Trade Paperback. A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he..... More
Bantam Dell Pub Group, July 2000. Trade Paperback. A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he..... More
Harper Perennial, May 1997. Trade Paperback. Featuring an all-new cover, New York Times bestseller Bill Bryson's irrevent and hilarious journey through the beloved island nation he called home for two decades. From Downing Street to Loch Ness, this is a delightful look at the United Kingdom. Before New York Times..... More
Vintage, February 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Touchstone Books, January 1993. Trade Paperback. More
MacMillan, August 1931. Reprint. Cloth. Early (2nd) printing. Printed in August, only weeks after first edition, likewise printed in August. Grey cloth covered boards with blue & red lettering & illustrated decor on spine and front board. Overall darkening. Mild wear to edges of boards. Lovely end page illustrated map..... More
Penguin USA, June 1988. Trade Paperback. Bruce Chatwin-author of In Patagonia-ventures into the desolate land of Outback Australia to learn the meaning of the Aborginals' ancient "Dreaming-tracks." Along these timeless paths, amongst the fortune hunters and redneck Australians, racist policemen and mysterious Aboriginal holy men, he discovers a wondrous vision..... More
