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
Mariner Books, April 2005. Trade Paperback. In Spoken Here, Mark Abley takes us on a world tour from the Arctic Circle to Oklahoma to Australia in a fervent quest to document some of the world's most endangered languages. His mission is urgent: Of the six thousand languages spoken in the..... More
Tribeca Trib Inc., January 1999. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto in dustjacket with mild edgewear. Dark blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Bright clean copy without internal markings. Tight binding. 128 pages. 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
Karl Baedeker, January 1902. Hardcover. 'avec 45 cartes et 36 plans de villes'. Limp boards. More
Aleph Book Company, February 2020. Hardcover. notable shelf wear on dust jacket front along top and spine (top and bottom); light shelf wear along front dust jacket; light corner bumping and top, bottom, front, back and spine; light rubbing on board cover corner and spine. 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
Beacon Pr, June 1987. Trade Paperback. More
AK Press, August 1999. Trade Paperback. The favorite book of William Burroughs. A journey into the hobo underworld, freight hopping around the still Wild West, becoming a highwayman and member of the yegg (criminal) brotherhood, getting hooked on opium, doing stints in jail or escaping, often with the assistance 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
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
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
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
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
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
Broadway, July 2000. Hardcover. 2nd printing. 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
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, 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
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
Souvenir Press, April 2006. Trade Paperback. This rich and fascinating celebration of Venice presents a series of unconventional impressions of the heart of Venice and its dazzling spectrum of people. With a wealth of eyewitness accounts and comments by its famous visitors, including Joseph Brodsky, Benjamin Disraeli, Thomas Mann, Marcel..... More
Random House, February 1996. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
Vintage, April 1996. Trade Paperback. The author of A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg and Pecked to Death by Ducks gives new meaning to the words "going to extremes" in this exhilarating--and frequently hilarious--collection of adventure travel writing. "Cahill . . . (writes) with the precision ofJohn McPhee and Joan..... More
Random House (NY), January 1993. Hardcover. An all-new collection of hilarious gonzo travelogues from the author of Jaguars Ripped My Flesh. Whether he's exploring the world's deepest cave, fighting oil-well fires in Kuwait, or encountering the world's most ghastly outhouse--the hideous throne of terror--in Guatemala, Cahill delivers thrills so vivid..... More
Vintage, February 1989. Trade Paperback. More
