Travel

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Fiction, Adventure, History, Action lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Jack Kerouac's groundbreaking novel—soon to be a major motion picture with a starstudded castIn what is sure to be one of the major cinematic events of 2012, Jack Kerouac's legendary Beat classic, On the Road, will finally hit the big screen. Directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries; Paris, Je T'Aime) and with a cast of some of Hollywood'...

First published in 1968, Desert Solitaire is one of Edward Abbey?s most critically acclaimed works and marks his first foray into the world of nonfiction writing. Written while Abbey was working as a ranger at Arches National Park outside of Moab, Utah, Desert Solitaire is a rare view of one man?s quest to experience nature in its purest form.Throu...

This unusual fictional memoir in good part autobiographical narrates without selfpity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the downandouts of two great cities. The Parisian episode is fascinating for its expose of the kitchens of posh French restaurants, where the narrator works at the bottom of the culinar...

Based on her daily diary, this is Dervla Murphy?s account of her ride, in 1963, across frozen Europe and through Persia and Afghanistan, over the Himalayas to Pakistan and into India, during one of the worst winters in memory. She has written other travel books, including In Ethiopia with a Mule....

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When Bruce Chatwin?s In Patagonia was published in 1977 it heralded the arrival of a startling new talent in British literature. Critics were surprised and spellbound by a story of an adventure which blurred the boundaries between travel writing, biography, history and memoir. All readers recognised its timeless quality ? Auberon Waugh went as far ...

?A wanderlustwhetting cabinet of curiosities on paper.? ?New York Times Praised as the ?bestest travel guide ever? (Mary Roach) and ?a joy to read and reread? (Neil Gaiman), Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of travel books: ?Odds are you won?t get past three pages without being amazed? (San Francisco Chronicle). It rocketed to the top of bestseller...

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, by Lee, Laurie...

Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuriesold history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the wayfrom eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly openminded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities of Delhi as well as the eighth citytoday's Del...

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely dif...

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.William Least HeatMoon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the mapif they get on at allonly because some cartographer has a blank space...

Captured with wit and warmth, energy and zest, one woman's attempt to circumnavigate the globe in eighty eventful train journeysWhen Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe in eighty train journeys, she was met with wideeyed disbelief. But it wasn't long before she was carefully plotting a route that would cover 45,000 miles ? a...

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A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider?s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse; opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood; and delving into the ...

Follow a girl on an elaborate flight of fancy in a wondrously illustrated, wordless picture book about selfdetermination ? and unexpected friendship.A lonely girl draws a magic door on her bedroom wall and through it escapes into a world where wonder, adventure, and danger abound. Red marker in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon, and a flying car...

Barry Lopez's National Book Awardwinning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece.Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure worldits terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. But what turns this marvelous work of natural history into a bre...

Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon probes the troubled history of the Balkans, an...

The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the ?black travel guide to America.? At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for AfricanAmericans to travel because black travelers couldn?t eat, sleep, or buy ...

When Eric Newby, fashion industry worker and inexperienced hill walker, decided after 10 years in haute couture he needed a change he took 4 days training in Wales then walked the Hindu Kush. This is his account of an entertaining time in the hills!...

In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances.Gauging the state of affairs, he talks to African...

National BestsellerWith his unique blend of intrepidity, tongueincheek humor, and wideeyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and mythinspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull's cabin, ...

Tomato Rodriguez hops on her motorcycle and embarks on the ultimate seatoshiningsea allgirl adventure a story that combines all the best parts of Alice in Wonderland and Easy Rider as Tomato crosses the country in search of the meaning of life, love, and the perfect post office. Flaming Iguanas is a hilarious novel that combines text, line d...

In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sold his home and his possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his truck, and set off in search of his longtime surfing companion, Patrick, who had vanished into the depths of Central America. In this rollicking memoir of his quest from Mexico to Costa Rica to unravel the circumstances of Patrick's disappearance, W...

I had no life experience, zero common sense and had never eaten rice. I suffered from debilitating anxiety, was battling an eating disorder and had just had my heart broken. I hoped by leaving to travel the world I would be able to heal myself.Instead, Lauren's travels were full of bad luck and neardeath experiences. Over the space of a year, she ...

No money No problem. You can start packing your bags for that trip you?ve been dreaming a lifetime about. For more than half a decade, Matt Kepnes (aka Nomadic Matt) has been showing readers of his enormously popular travel blog that traveling isn?t expensive and that it?s affordable to all. He proves that as long as you think out of the box and t...

Explore every centimeter of Paris, from the top of the Eiffel Tower to the ancient catacombs below the city: with Rick Steves on your side, Paris can be yours! Inside Rick Steves Paris 2019 you'll find:Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring ParisRick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with ra...

A 2016 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People (National Council for the Social StudiesChildren's Book Council )Set your spirit of adventure free with this lavishly illustrated trip around the world. Whether you're visiting the penguins of Antarctica, joining the Carnival in Brazil, or a canoe safari down the Zambezi River, this book br...

Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the Adult,s who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, Perestroika?Glorious. A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork?Details of specific catastrophes may have changed since this Reaganera AIDS epic won the Pulitzer and the Tony, but the re...

A lovely smalltrim edition of the awardwinning Atlas of Remote IslandsThe Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky?s beautiful and deeply personal account of the islands that have held a place in her heart throughout her lifelong love of cartography, has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere. Using historic events and scientific repor...

A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun . . . unless, of course, you?re the Heffleys. The journey starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns. Gas station bathrooms, crazed seagulls, a fender bender, and a runaway pig?not exactly Greg Heffley?s idea of a good time. But even the worst road trip can turn into an adven...

Featuring 120 new destinations, this bestselling inspirational travel guide reveals 500 celebrated and lesserknown destinations around the globe, from ocean cruises in Antarctica to horse treks in the Andes. Completely revised and updated for its 10th anniversary. Compiled from the favorite trips of National Geographic's legendary travel writers,...

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Europe. With Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door, you'll learn how to:Plan your itinerary and maximize your timePack light and rightFind goodvalue hotels and restaurantsTravel smoothly by train, bus, car, and planeAvoid crowds and tourist scamsHurdle ...

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"Arabian Sands" is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deser...

This is the story of Alaska and the Alaskans. Written with a vividness and clarity which shifts scenes frequently, and yet manages to tie the work into a rewarding whole, McPhee segues from the wilderness to life in urban Alaska to the remote bush country....

New York Times Bestseller List ?Leonard and Gobi?s story represents the power of people working together and the profound depth of feeling possible between a man and his dog.?Publishers Weekly A man, a dog, and the lengths to which love will go to sacrifice for its companion. Finding Gobi is the miraculous tale of Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultrama...

Simon rode a motorcycle around the world in the seventies, when such a thing was unheard of. In four years he covered 78,000 miles through 45 countries, living with peasants and presidents, in prisons and palaces, through wars and revolutions. What distinguishes this book is that Simon was already an accomplished writer. In 25 years this book has c...

?Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap? GeographicalAdventure ? something that?s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity.So what?s a microadventure It?s close to home, cheap, simple, short and 100% guaranteed to refresh ...

Lonely Planet Japan is your passport to the most relevant, uptodate advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore a bamboo grove in Arashiyama, marvel at Shinto and Buddhist Architecture, in Kyoto, or relax in the hot springs of Noboribetsu Onsen; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Japan an...

Love can make a person do crazy things. . .A city girl with a morbid fear of deep water, Torre DeRoche is not someone you would ordinarily find adrift in the middle of the stormy Pacific aboard a leaky sailboat ? total crew of two ? struggling to keep an old boat, a new relationship and her floundering sanity afloat.But when she meets Ivan, a hands...

Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and spent the next seven years in Tibet, observing its social practices, religion, politics, and people....

National Bestseller In this witty and warmhearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a longcherished dream and actually move into a 200yearold stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secr...

Fascinated by the land of endless horizons, sunshine, and the open road, Richard Grant spent fifteen years wandering throughout the United States, never spending more than three weeks in one place and getting to know Americas nomads truckers, tramps, rodeo cowboys, tiedyed concert followers, flea market traders, retirees who live year round in ...

Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey?a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam?made by a young VietnameseAmerican man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his forsaken fatherland. Andrew X. Pham was born in Vietnam and raised in California. His father had been a POW of the Vietcong; his family came to Americ...

Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a nightclub manager. This, however, is his boldest journey yet. Accompanied by Lary Shaffer an American friend and animal behaviorist, a man of imperfect health and brave...

"I haven't read anything that has moved me this much since Wonder." Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places A spaceobsessed boy and his dog, Carl Sagan, take a journey toward family, love, hope, and awe in this funny and moving novel for fans of Counting by 7s, Walk Two Moons, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime. 11yea...