Citix60: Berlin: New Edition
Victionary, April 2018. Paper Back. More
Travel Literature
New Orleans
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), August 2010. Turtleback Binding. Whether you're listening to jazz on Bourbon Street or exploring Uptown by streetcar, "Eyewitness Travel Guide: New Orleans" will lead you straight to the best attractions the city has to offer. The guide provides insider tips every visitor needs, with comprehensive listings... More
The New York Times: 36 Hours Europe, 2nd Edition
Taschen, December 2016. Soft Cover. Grand tour: Weekend wonders across EuropeThis revised and updated edition of The New York Times 36 Hours Europe offers 130 expert itineraries to reveal the continent's brightest gems and best-kept secrets. From Renaissance splendor in Florence to Flamenco in Seville, from luxurious Lake Como to... More
The Other Half of the Earth: Volumes I and II
Privately Printed, January 1959. Cloth. Clean, solid, nearly new two volume set in good slip case. More
Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Carroll & Graf Publishers, January 1986. Trade Paperback. The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, "defined heroism." Alfred Lansing's scrupulously researched and brilliantly narrated book -- with over 200,000 copies sold -- has long... More
Magic Prague (Revised)
Not Avail, January 2019. Paper Back. Attempting to go beyond the tourist cliche of Prague as the golden city, this book seeks to bring out all the mystery, ambiguity, gloom, lethargy and hidden fascination of the city on the Vltava. Rippellino slips into the style of melodrama and ghost stories... More
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
Scribner, June 2008. Trade Paperback. From the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, a "dazzling" (Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran) memoir about art and adventures in Rome. Anthony Doerr has received many awards--from the New York... More
Staff Pick
Wind, Sand and Stars
Harcourt, December 2002. Paper Back. Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Academie Francaise, "Wind, Sand and Stars" is unsurprassed in capturing the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure - through the treacherous passes of the Pyrenees, above the Sahara, along the snowy ramparts... More
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
New York Review Books, January 2015. Trade Paperback. Patrick Leigh Fermor s enviably colorful life took off when in 1934, at the age of eighteen, he decided to walk across Europe. In just over a year he had trekked through nine countries and taught himself three languages, and his enthusiasm... More
No Touch Monkey!: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late (Adventura Books Series)
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
Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World
OR Books, September 2019. Paper Back. At 21, Belén left the U.S. and didn't look back. Alone, far off the beaten path in places like Syria and Tajikistan, she confronts violence, lechery, and places where it's hard to find a good glass of wine, and reflects on what it means..... More
West with the Night
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
West with the Night
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
Im a Stranger Here Myself : Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
Bantam Dell Pub Group, July 2000. Trade Paperback. A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3... More
Life and Times
Transworld Paperbacks, June 2007. Mass Market PaperBack. More
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
Black Swan, January 1999. Trade Paperback. An account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town. Instead he finds a continent that is doubly lost: lost to itself because it is blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; and lost to him because... More
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
Harper Perennial, September 1990. Trade Paperback. An inspiring and hilarious account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town. "The kind of book Steinbeck might have written if he'd traveled with David Letterman."-- "New York" magazine. More
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
Harper Perennial, March 1993. Trade Paperback. Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies - in search of enlightenment, beer and women. Twenty years later, the acclaimed author of NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND and THE MOTHER TONGUE decided to retrace the journey he... More
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
Harper Perennial, March 1993. Trade Paperback. Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies - in search of enlightenment, beer and women. Twenty years later, the acclaimed author of NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND and THE MOTHER TONGUE decided to retrace the journey he... More
Notes from a Small Island
Harper Perennial, May 1997. Trade Paperback. After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best-sellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and... More
Notes from a Small Island
Harper Perennial, May 1997. Trade Paperback. After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best-sellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and... More
Sister of the road: The autobiography of Box-Car Bertha, as told to Dr. Ben L. Reitman (Harper colophon books)
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
What Am I Doing Here
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
Driving Over Lemons
Pantheon Books / Random House, January 2000. Trade Paperback. More
