Henry Holt & Company, November 1992. First Edition. Paper Back. The author of the popular Out There column in Outside magazine offers a collection of his best work: an engrossing mixture of adventure, hilarity, and spirit in which he reveals his life of sun, boats, work, and sport. The author..... More
Broadway Books, April 2010. Trade Paperback. A celebration of the language and culture of Italy, La Bella Lingua is the story of how a language shaped a nation, told against the backdrop of one woman's personal quest to speak fluent Italian. For anyone who has been to Italy, the fantasy..... More
Michelin Travel Pubns, May 2000. Paper Back. In a colourful and compact format, the guides that make up the Michelin In Your Pocket series provide the traveller with maps and practical information on walks, tours and excursions to a range of holiday destinations throughout the world. Pocket size with fold..... More
Broadway, June 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. For reasons even he didn't understand, Bill Bryson decided in 1996 to walk the 2,100-mile Appalachian trail. Winding from Georgia to Maine, this uninterrupted 'hiker's highway' sweeps through the heart of some of America's most beautiful and treacherous terrain. Accompanied by his infamous crony..... More
John Murray Pubs Ltd, January 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Pub Group West, October 2005. Trade Paperback. This beloved account about an intrepid young Englishman on the first leg of his walk from London to Constantinople is simply one of the best works of travel literature ever written. At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the..... More
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
Little Brown & Co, November 1999. Trade Paperback. Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little..... 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 and Cloud Cuckoo Land, a "dazzling" (Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran) memoir about art and adventures in Rome. Anthony Doerr has received many..... More
Workman Publishing Company, October 2019. Hardcover. Discover wonder. "A wanderlust-whetting cabinet of curiosities on paper."-- New York Times Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of a travel book that shot to the top of bestseller lists when it was first published and changed the way..... More
Farrar Straus Giroux, January 2006. Paper Back. It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi--a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters--was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy's Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935. While..... 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
RANDOM HOUSE, 1937. Hardcover. Two volume set. {7 & 3/4' x 10'} Grey cloth covered boards with blue facsimile signature on front panel, and stamped blue rectangles within which gold title, author and publisher are framed. Damp stained boards and mildly damp stained top edge. Textblock top edge is tinted..... More
The Great Western Railway /Ballantyne press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first {7 & 1/4' x 10'} Quarto. Black cloth covered spine with gold lettering & black paper covered boards with title stamped in gold. Worn board edges with bumped/bent corners. Damp stains across bottom of front board and up the..... More
The Great Wester Railway / The Ballantyne Press, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first. Black cloth covered spine with gold lettering. Red Brick paper colored boards with title stamped in gold. Damp stained area acorss top of front and rear board and darker/heavier damp staining in two places at edge of..... More
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Green cloth covered boards with weathered green lettering on spine & green decorations and stamped gold emblem on front board. Moderately edgeworn boards. Dust stained & heavily foxed top & bottom textblock edge and fore-edge. The author of the Life of George Borrow..... More
Passenger, August 2020. Trade Paperback. A new series from Europa Editions, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Once Upon A Time: The Greek Taverna by Petros Markaris?Land of Migration by Matteo Nucci?The Lost Generation by Christos Ikonomou?plus: Yorgos..... More
Lozzi Publisher, 1954. Soft Cover. 11th edition. 12mo. With foxing & darkening. Includes large folded laid in illustrated map of Rome in ochre, green and black ink. [281 pages]. More
Harpercollins, January 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Shares a day-long spiritual journey through the natural world of the Missouri Ozarks, where the author and his wife have lived for twenty years. First/first. {4 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/4'} In dustjacket with mild edgewear and tears. Flap is not clipped. Artichoke..... More
Abacus (UK), April 1999. Paper Back. After seven years as Washington correspondent of THE TIMES, Martin Fletcher set off to explore the great American 'boondocks' - the raw and untamed land that exists far from the famous cities and national parks. His extraordinary journey takes him to places no tourist..... More
Harper Perennial, January 2002. Trade Paperback. In the tradition of Iron & Silk comes a powerful memoir about a young American teacher in the Peace Corps living in the small Chinese city of Fuling as it navigates increasing waves of cultural and social upheaval. Maps. In the tradition of 'Iron..... More
J.B. Lippincott Company, January 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in chipped & torn jacket. Flap is not clipped. Blue cloth covered spine with gold lettering on spine. Blue paper covered boards. Ochre end pages. [239 pages]. More
Lyons Press, March 2005. First Edition. Paper Back. Felice Benuzzi recounts one of the most bizarre and daring prisoner-of-war and escape adventures of the past century. In 1943, Felice Benuzzi and two Italian compatriots escaped from a British POW camp in equatorial East Africa with only one goal in mind..... More
HarperCollins Publishers, January 1976. Paper Back. Octavo with mild wear. Previous owner's name & a date inked on half title page.{[180 pages]. More
Stephen Greene Press, May 1977. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. Cover design by Karl Stuecklen. Foxing to textblock edge. Complete number string. First paperback edition. [248 pages]. More
