University of Georgia Press, April 2007. Trade Paperback. On the impulse behind Cartographies, Marjorie Agosín writes, "I have always wanted to understand the meaning of displacement and the quest or longing for home." In these lyrical meditations in prose and poetry, Agosín evokes the many places on four continents she..... 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

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

Picador USA, February 2016. Trade Paperback. The Christian Science Monitor's #1 Best Book of the Year A witty, informative, and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they may not be as happy or as perfect as we assume, "The Almost Nearly Perfect People offers up the ideal mixture..... 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

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

Wildsam Field Guides, November 2014. Trade Paperback. Wildsam Field Guides: New Orleans reveals this one-of-a-kind city through local stories, travel intel and modern lore, seeking out the real and rooted things, what's truly authentic and sharing the soul of a place, for travelers and locals alike. Revel in the eccentric..... More

Wildsam Field Guides, December 2015. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Charleston reveals this charming and historic city in South Carolina through local stories, travel intel and modern lore, seeking out the real and rooted things, what's truly authentic and sharing the soul of a place, for travelers and locals alike..... More

Wildsam Field Guides, May 2017. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Los Angeles reveals the City of Angels through local stories, travel intel and modern lore, seeking out the real and rooted things, what's truly authentic and sharing the soul of a place, for travelers and locals alike. Take a trip..... 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, 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

Broadway Books, July 2015. Trade Paperback. SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 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 from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of..... More