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Travel Books
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By Elizabeth Gilbert, 2007
ISBN 0143038419
This heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life.
- Into the Wild
By Jon Krakauer, 2007
ISBN 0307387178
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his...
- On the Road
By Jack Kerouac, 1999
ISBN 0140283293
On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of...
- 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List
By Patricia Schultz, 2003
ISBN 0761104844
Introducing the Eighth Wonder of travel books. A joyous, passionate gift book for travelers-both the real and the armchair variety-1,000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE delivers exactly the promise of its an around-the-world, continent-by-continent listing of places guaranteed to give you shivers, the...
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
By Jon Krakauer, 1999
ISBN 0385494785
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more--including...
- A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
By Anthony Bourdain, 2002
ISBN 0060012781
The only thing "gonzo gastronome" and internationally bestselling author Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling. Inspired by the question, "What would be the perfect meal?," Tony sets out on a quest for his culinary holy grail, and in the process turns the notion of "perfection"...
- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
By Bill Bryson, 2006
ISBN 0307279464
The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America–majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaing guide...
- Notes from a Small Island
By Bill Bryson, 2009
ISBN 0771017286
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson made the decision to move back to the States for a while, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance to shop until 10 p.m. seven nights a week, and, most of all, because he had read that 3.7 million Americans...
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
By Bill Bryson, 2000
ISBN 076790382X
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me").
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
By Greg Mortenson, 2007
ISBN 0143038257
The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who...
- In a Sunburned Country
By Bill Bryson, 2001
ISBN 0767903862
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 different place: ...
- Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
By Bill Bryson, 1999
ISBN 0380713802
Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies -- in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. Twenty years later he decided to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth. The result is Neither Here Nor There, an affectionate and...
- Round Ireland with a Fridge
By Tony Hawks, 2001
ISBN 0312274920
Have you ever made a drunken ben? Worse, still, have you eveer tried to win one? In attempting to hitchhike round Ireland wich a fridge, Tony Hawks did both, and his foolhardiness led him to one of the best experiences of his life. Joined by his trusty traveling companion-cum-domestic appliance...
- A Year in Provence
By Peter Mayle, 1991
ISBN 0679731148
A funny--and often hilarious--month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations of moving into an old French farmhouse in Provence and adapting to a very different way of life.
- Travels with Charley: In Search of America
By John Steinbeck, 1962
ISBN 0141186100
With his dog Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and experience America in the 1960s. As he talked with all kinds of people, he sadly noted the passing of region speech, fell in love with Montana, and was appalled by racism in New Orleans.
- The Art of Travel
By Alain De Botton, 2004
ISBN 0375725342
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing...
- Assassination Vacation
By Sarah Vowell, 2006
ISBN 074326004X
Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other -- a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have...
- Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
By J. Maarten Troost, 2006
ISBN 0767921992
With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and original travel writers around. Getting Stoned with Savages again reveals his wry wit and infectious joy of discovery in a side-splittingly funny account of life in the farthest reaches of the world.
- The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
By Eric Weiner, 2009
ISBN 044669889X
Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology...
- Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure
By Sarah Macdonald, 2004
ISBN 0767915747
In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India -- and for love -- she screamed, "Never!" and gave the country, and him, the...
- A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller
By Frances Mayes, 2007
ISBN 0767910060
The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself—and her readers—in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes—a...
- Blue Highways: A Journey into America
By William Least Heat-Moon, 1999
ISBN 0316353299
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 towns that get on the map-if they get on at...
- The Places In Between
By Rory Stewart, 2006
ISBN 0156031566
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving...
- Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
By Paul Theroux, 2008
ISBN 0618418873
Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world’s most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia.
- Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
By Rita Golden Gelman, 2002
ISBN 0609809547
“I move throughout the world without a plan, guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities.” —From the PrefaceTales of a Female Nomad is the story of Rita Golden Gelman, an ordinary woman who is living an extraordinary existence.
- Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
By Paul Theroux, 2006
ISBN 0618658971
Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. He hops aboard as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border.
