General
There are 5534 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
 Used: $10.95 Trade Paper List Price $15.95 
add to wish list |
|
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
by Paul Theroux  
Publisher Comments In his first new travel book in eight years, the endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. He endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances...
|
||||||
Used: $7.50 Trade Paper List Price $13.95
add to wish list |
|
Eiger Dreams : Ventures Among Men and Mountains (90 Edition)
by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments A brilliant collection in which Krakauer writes about battling peaks like K2, Denali, Everest, and the Eiger -- always with a keen eye, an open heart, and a hunger for the ultimate experience....
|
||||||
Sale: $7.98 Trade Paper List Price $13.95
add to wish list |
|
Two Wheels in the Dust: From Kathmandu to Kandy
by Anne Mustoe Publisher Comments This is the finest travel writing: Anne Mustoe's phenomenal journey is full of rich experiences and enlightening incidents. Beginning in Kathmandu in Nepal and ending in the tranquil town of Kandy in Sri Lanka, her journey follows in the path of The...
|
||||||
Sale: $6.98 Trade Paper List Price $15.00
add to wish list |
|
The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Olive Oil in the South of France
by Carol Drinkwater Publisher Comments When Carol Drinkwater and her fiancé, Michel, are given the opportunity to purchase ten acres of an abandoned olive farm in the South of France, they find the region's splendor impossible to resist. Using their entire savings as a down payment, the...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $15.00
add to wish list |
|
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan
by Jamie Zeppa
Publisher Comments In 1989, Jamie Zeppa, a naïve, well-educated twenty-three-year-old from Sault Ste. Marie, commits to a two-year teaching contract in Bhutan against the wishes of both her fiancé, Robert, and her controlling grandfather. Following orientation here and...
|
||||||
Used: $10.95 Trade Paper List Price $15.95
add to wish list |
|
The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland
by Barbara Sjoholm
Publisher Comments Barbara Sjoholm's moving travel narrative takes readers on a personal journey through the icy landscape of Lapland. A frequent traveler to Northern Europe, Barbara Sjoholm set off one winter to explore a region that had long intrigued her. Sjoholm...
|
||||||
Sale: $6.98 Trade Paper List Price $13.95
add to wish list |
|
Travels
by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments ...
|
||||||
Used: $16.95 Hardcover List Price $24.95
add to wish list |
|
Mountain Madness
by Robert Birkby
Publisher Comments "You're either cruisin' or you're bummin', so you might as well cruise." — Scott Fischer Mountain climber Scott Fischer's mantra would lead him to scale the highest and most treacherous peaks on earth. Best known as one of the guides who...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $13.95
add to wish list |
|
Soul of Nowhere
by Craig Childs Publisher Comments Nobody writes about nature and the American landscape the way Craig Childs does. Answering the call of the fiercest of terrains, he opens up to us sites that we would otherwise never visit and, through his uncanny powers of description, makes us feel...
|
||||||
Used: $7.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.95
add to wish list |
|
Red Sky in Mourning: The True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
by Tami Oldha Ashcraft Publisher Comments Now available in paperback, a true-life adventure story with everything: page-turning suspense, remarkable acts of courage, wrenching despair, and a triumphant, life-affirming ending Red Sky in Mourning is the story of Tami Oldham Ashcraft's 41-day...
|
||||||
Used: $8.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.95
add to wish list |
|
A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure
by Marlena De Blasi Publisher Comments They had met and married on perilously short acquaintance, she an American chef and food writer, he a Venetian banker. Now they were taking another audacious leap, unstitching their ties with exquisite Venice to live in a roughly renovated stable in...
|
||||||
Used: $7.95 Trade Paper List Price $13.00
add to wish list |
|
The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
by Tahir Shah Publisher Comments In the tradition of A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun, acclaimed English travel writer Tahir Shah shares a highly entertaining account of making an exotic dream come true. By turns hilarious and harrowing, here is the story of his family’...
|
||||||
Used: $8.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
add to wish list |
|
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
by Linda Lawrence Hunt Publisher Comments In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to win the wager and save her...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
add to wish list |
|
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
by Paul Theroux Synopsis Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux takes readers on a train journey from New England to Patagonia in southernmost Argentina....
|
||||||
New: $15.00 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
by Bruce Chatwin Publisher Comments In Patagonia is Bruce Chatwin's exquisite account of his journey through the uttermost part of the earth, that stretch of land at the southern tip of South America, where bandits were once made welcome and Charles Darwin formed part of his survival of...
|
||||||
Used: $7.95 Trade Paper List Price $15.95
add to wish list |
|
The Road to Oxiana
by Robert Byron Publisher Comments In 1933 the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana -the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between...
|
||||||
New: $14.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
You Know You've Been in Japan Too Long...
by Bill Mutranowski Synopsis - Text in English and Japanese- Color illustrations humorously reveal the uniqueness of the Japanese culture as seen through Gaijin eyes.- For the American expatriate in...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.95
add to wish list |
|
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler (P.S.)
by Jason Roberts Publisher Comments He was known simply as the Blind Traveler. A solitary, sightless adventurer, James Holman (1786-1857) fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon, helped chart the Australian outback—...
|
||||||
Sale: $9.98 Hardcover List Price $19.95
add to wish list |
|
Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide
by Karen Elizab Gordon Synopsis From the author of The Transitive Vampire, comes an invitation to a strangely illuminated City of Light, Paris out of Hand. This seductively beautiful replica of a 19th-century travel book--replete with illustrations of sights you will never see and maps...
|
||||||
Used: $3.49 Hardcover List Price $18.95
add to wish list |
|
Looking for a Ship
by John Mcphee Publisher Comments This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their...
|
||||||
