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Doug Lansky · 190 pages
A collection of stories in which various well-known writers share their humorous and sometimes bizarre travel experiences.
The Best American Travel Writing 2013
Elizabeth Gilbert · 233 pages
Gifted authors don't just tell us about unique or out-of-the-way places; they take us to them, show us what they look like, show us who their people are, and make us feel like we've experienced them.
The Best American Travel Writing 2006
Tim Cahill · 339 pages
The Best American Travel Writing 2012
William T. Vollmann · 320 pages
The Best American Travel Writing 2000
Alden Jones · 320 pages
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The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
Paul Theroux · 304 pages
A collection of writings from Paul Theroux's fifty years of travel. Included are writings from other travelers such as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway and many others.
Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light
Penelope Rowlands · 279 pages
Paris is “the world capital of memory and desire,” concludes one of the writers in this intimate and insightful collection of memoirs of the city. Living in Paris changed these writers forever. In thirty-two personal essays—more than half of which are here published for the first time—the writers describe how they were seduced by Paris and then began to see things differently. They came to writ
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America
Matt Weiland, Sean Wilsey · 572 pages
The editors of The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup collects original writings on all fifty states by leading novelists, journalists, and essayists, in a volume that includes such examples as Anthony Bourdain on New Jersey, Dave Eggers on Illinois, and Louise Erdrich on North Dakota.
The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
Pico Iyer · 320 pages
"Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of floatingness.". "Using his own multicultural upbringing (Indian, American, British) as a point of departure, Iyer sets out on a quest, both physical and ps
The John McPhee Reader
John McPhee · 385 pages
In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, "A Sense of Where You Are"; a decade later, he had published eleven others. This reader is comprised of selections from those first twelve books.
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
David Sedaris · 288 pages
From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his listeners on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler's experiences. Whet
Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea
Claudio Magris · 416 pages
An Armenian Sketchbook
Vasily Grossman · 135 pages
"Few writers had to confront as many of the last century's mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman, notable for his tenderness, warmth, and sense of fun. After the Soviet government confiscated - or, as Grossman always put
Paris to the Moon
Adam Gopnik · 342 pages
Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafes, breathtaking facades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans. In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of the City of Light.
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Victoria Finlay · 448 pages
Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad
Christina Henry De Tessan · 288 pages
Bicycle Diaries
David Byrne · 303 pages
Since the early 1980s, renowned musician and visual artist David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them with him when traveling around the world. Byrne's choice was initially made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the
When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home
Erma Bombeck · 275 pages
Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down
Rosecrans Baldwin · 304 pages
Roads To Mussoorie
Ruskin Bond · 125 pages
Anecdotes of the English author about his travels to Mussoorie, India.
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 141 pages