Italian Lessons
RFA Inc, January 2008. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Signed and dedicated by the author on the title page. More
Travel Literature
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
Allemagne du sud et Autriche; Manuel du Voyageur par K. Baedeker
Karl Baedeker, January 1902. Hardcover. 'avec 45 cartes et 36 plans de villes'. Limp boards. More
THE RIFLE AND THE HOUND IN CEYLON
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
Left for Dead (Movie Tie-in Edition): My Journey Home from Everest
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
Touring Literary Mississippi
University Press of Mississippi, September 2002. Trade Paperback. By taking the literary traveler on seven preplanned tours--through the Delta, along Highway 61, to the heart of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha country, to sites near Interstate 55 and the Natchez Trace, to the piney woods of East and South Mississippi, and along the..... More
Wild Wales : the People, Language and Scenery
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
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
Wildsam Field Guides: Austin (American City Guide Series)
Wildsam Field Guides, March 2018. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Austin reveals the Texas 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. The soul of Austin (and..... More
Wildsam Field Guides: New Orleans (American City Guide Series)
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: San Francisco
Wildsam Field Guides, November 2013. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: San Francisco reveals this legendary 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. See what's special about..... More
Wildsam Field Guides: Charleston (American City Guide Series)
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: Brooklyn
Wildsam Field Guides, May 2015. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Brooklyn reveals this eclectic city in New York 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. Visit the..... More
Bill Bryson's African Diary
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
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 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
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
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
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail)
Broadway, June 1999. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The classic chronicle of a "terribly misguided and terribly funny" (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body "The best way of escaping into nature."--The New York..... More
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail)
Broadway, June 1999. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The classic chronicle of a "terribly misguided and terribly funny" (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body "The best way of escaping into nature."--The New York..... More
A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg
Vintage, February 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Daytripper 4: 50 Trips in Cottage Country
Boston Mills Press, April 1996. Trade Paperback. Bruce Peninsula, Collingwood, Barrie, Muskoka, Haliburton, Kawarthas, Algonquin, and lots more. More
The Fever Coast Log: At Sea in Central America
Touchstone Books, January 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Mexico: A Study of Two Americas
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
