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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThere's No Toilet Paper . . . on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
Doug Lansky · 190 pages
A collection of stories in which various well-known writers share their humorous and sometimes bizarre travel experiences.
Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey
Anastasia M. Ashman, Jennifer Eaton Gokmen · 293 pages
An anthology of personal writings in which twenty-nine women who have lived in Turkey over the last forty years chronicle their experiences and share their impressions of the country.
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 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
Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir
Elizabeth Gilbert · 240 pages
Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad
Christina Henry De Tessan · 288 pages
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.
The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters
William Dalrymple · 385 pages
In Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India itself, William Dalrymple searches for evidence of Kali Yug, the Hindu "age of darkness." Venturing to places rarely visited by foreigners, he travels deep into guerilla territory with the Tamil Tigers. Visits Benazir Bhutto and meets the drug lords of the North West Frontier. He inveils a region where the strengths and problems of both modernity and tradition rema
Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
Pico Iyer · 214 pages
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
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
30 Days In Sydney: The Writer And The City
Peter Carey · 248 pages
"After living in New York for ten years novelist Peter Carey returned home to Sydney with the idea of capturing its ebullient character via the four elements. 'I would never seek to define Manhattan by asking my New York friends for stories of Earth and Air and Fire and Water,' he writes, 'but that is exactly what was in my mind as I walked through immigration at Kingsford Smith International Airp
Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer: 0
Rolf Potts · 344 pages
Marco Polo Didn't Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called "Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age." For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications as National Geographic Traveler, Salon.com, and The New York Times Magazine. This book documen
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.
My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth
Wendy E. Simmons · 311 pages
"Through poignant, laugh-out-loud essays and 92 never-before-published color photographs of North Korea, [the author] chronicles one of the strangest vacations ever. Along the way, she bares all while undergoing an inner journey as convoluted as the country itself."-- Most people want out of North Korea. Simmons wanted in-- and she forgot to check her sense of humor at the border. But "tourism" i
The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit
Elias Canetti · 103 pages
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
Jessa Crispin · 240 pages
"When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding, a way of being in the world that demands neither constant struggle nor complete surrender, "--Amazon.com.