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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Henry Miller · 292 pages
Stories and essays dealing with the author's impressions of the United States.
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.
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World
Geoff Dyer · 256 pages
"From "one of our most original writers" (Kathryn Schulz) comes an expansive and exacting book--firmly grounded, but elegant, witty, and always inquisitive--about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer's perennial search for tranquility, for "something better," continues in this series of fascinating and seemingly unrelated pilgrimages--wi
The Art of Travel
Alain de Botton · 256 pages
A journey through the satisfactions and disappointments of travelling. Dealing with such topics as airports, exotic carpets and mini-bars it reveals the hidden motivations, expectations and complications of our voyages into the wide world.
Here Is New York
E.B. White · 56 pages
What is most amazing about E.B. White's "Here Is New York," This book written in 1948 says: "A single flight planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end t his island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions." The city is both the perfect target and the perfect demonstration of nonviolence. White says, "This i
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit · 210 pages
Rebecca Solnit investigates the nature of loss, losing and being lost. She starts with the revelation that what is totally unknown to you is usually what you most need to discover and explores how finding that unknown quantity frequently requires getting lost to begin with.
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.
South and West: From a Notebook
Joan Didion · 126 pages
Two excerpts from never-before-seen notebooks offer insights into the author's literary mind and process and includes notes on her Sacramento upbringing, her life in the Gulf states, her views on prominent locals and her experiences during a formative "Rolling Stone" assignment.
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
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.
The Best American Travel Writing 2012
William T. Vollmann · 320 pages
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Jon Krakauer · 191 pages
Krakauer takes the reader to wonderful, awful peaks like Denali, the Eiger, Devil's Thumb, K-2 and Everest.
Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea
Claudio Magris · 416 pages
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
David Foster Wallace · 353 pages
A collection of stories from David Foster Wallace is occasion to celebrate. These stories -- which have been prominently serialized in Harper's, Esquire, the Paris Review, and elsewhere -- explore intensely immediate states of mind, with the attention to voice and the extraordinary creative daring that have won Wallace his reputation as one of the most talented fiction writer of his generation.Amo
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Victoria Finlay · 448 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
Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down
Rosecrans Baldwin · 304 pages
When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home
Erma Bombeck · 275 pages