N/A, January 2012. Trade Paperback. Wildsam Field Guides: Nashville leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the Tennessee city, working closely with a team of trusted locals. Contributors include author Tony Earley, Senator Bill Frist, fashion designers Matt and Carrie Eddmenson, musican Rosanne Cash, chef Tandy Wilson, writer J...... More
Privately Printed, January 1959. Cloth. Clean, solid, nearly new two volume set in good slip case. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Transworld Paperbacks, June 2007. Mass Market PaperBack. More
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
Broadway, June 1999. Trade Paperback. A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body. Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches..... 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, 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
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
Pantheon Books / Random House, January 2000. Trade Paperback. More
Atlantic Monthly Pr, July 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. In very good dust jacket. Signed by Dickey on title page. More
Holt Paperbacks, September 1997. Trade Paperback. A Boston Herald reporter's journey into Burma/Myanmar to interview the mysterious drug lord, Khun Sa. More
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
Harper Perennial, July 2008. Trade Paperback. To travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, and camel, Colin Thubron covered..... More
Jerelyn Press, January 2009. Trade Paperback. More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2013. 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 to describe..... More
Vintage, January 2003. Trade Paperback. Along the Mekong, from northern Tibet to Lijiang, from Luang Prabang to Phnom Penh to Can Lo, I moved from one world to another, among cultural islands often ignorant of each other's presence. Yet each island, as if built on shifting sands and eroded and..... More
St Martins Pr, April 1990. Trade Paperback. More
