Category: Travel Essays

A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER. NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2021 BY THE MILLIONSA provocative, exhilaratingly new understanding of the United States' most confounding metropolis--not just a great city, but a full-blown modern city-state America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. (It has its own dreams.) Not just the vanishing point of America's western drive. (It has its own compass.) Functionally, aesthetically, mythologically, even te...
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The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris

By: Baxter, John

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Harper Perennial : May 2011

Seller ID: 132958

ISBN-13: 9780061998546

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Splendid... Reading The Most Beautiful Walk in the World is the next best thing to a Paris vacation." -Boston Globe"Anyone who loves Paris and loves to walk will feel this book was written just for them." -USA TodayIn this enchanting national bestseller, acclaimed author and long-time expat Paris resident John Baxter draws on his experience guiding literary walking tours through the city to proved a delightful walker's guide to France's capital. Baxter sets off with unsuspecting tourists in tow on the trail of Paris's legendary artists and writers of the past. Along the way, he tells the hist...
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The City of Falling Angels

By: Berendt, John

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Penguin Books : September 2006

Seller ID: 131937

ISBN-13: 9780143036937

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The #1 New York Times bestseller Twelve years ago, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil exploded into a monumental success, residing a record-breaking four years on the New York Times bestseller list (longer than any work of fiction or nonfiction had before) and turning John Berendt into a household name. The City of Falling Angels is Berendt's first book since Midnight, and it immediately reminds one what all the fuss was about. Turning to the magic, mystery, and decadence of Venice, Berendt gradually reveals the truth behind a sensational fire that in 1996 destroyed the historic Fenice o...
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Menagerie Manor

By: Durrell, Gerald

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Penguin Books : January 2007

Seller ID: 86636

ISBN-13: 9780143038535

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Menagerie Manor is sure to delight fans of Durrell's beloved classic My Family and Other Animals (the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu on Masterpiece PBS) and other accounts of his lifelong fascination with members of the animal kingdom. With his unfailing charm, Durrell tells the story of how he finally fulfilled his childhood dream of founding his own private zoo, the Manor of Les Augres, on the English Channel island of Jersey. With the help of an enduring wife, a selfless staff, and a reluctant bank manager, the zoo grows, and readers are treated to a colorful parade of the zoo's unus...
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Menagerie Manor

By: Durrell, Gerald

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Penguin Books : January 2007

Seller ID: 99155

ISBN-13: 9780143038535

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Menagerie Manor is sure to delight fans of Durrell's beloved classic My Family and Other Animals (the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu on Masterpiece PBS) and other accounts of his lifelong fascination with members of the animal kingdom. With his unfailing charm, Durrell tells the story of how he finally fulfilled his childhood dream of founding his own private zoo, the Manor of Les Augres, on the English Channel island of Jersey. With the help of an enduring wife, a selfless staff, and a reluctant bank manager, the zoo grows, and readers are treated to a colorful parade of the zoo's unus...
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An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan

By: Elliot, Jason

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Picador : 1/1/2002

Seller ID: 12288

ISBN-13: 9780312288464

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Part historical evocation, part travelogue, and part personal quest, "An Unexpected Light "is the account of Elliot's journey through Afghanistan, a country considered off-limits to travelers for twenty years. Aware of the risks involved, but determined to explore what he could of the Afghan people and culture, Elliot leaves the relative security of Kabul. He travels by foot and on horseback, and hitches rides on trucks that eventually lead him into the snowbound mountains of the North toward Uzbekistan, the former battlefields of the Soviet army's "hidden war." Here the Afghan landscape kindl...
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Great Plains

By: Frazier, Ian

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Picador : May 2001

Seller ID: 126821

ISBN-13: 9780312278502

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

National Bestseller

With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull's cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the American West.

Kite Strings of the Southern Cross : A Woman's Travel Odyssey

By: Gough, Laurie

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Travelers' Tales : 1/1/2000

Seller ID: 81702

ISBN: 636920211303

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Annapurna

By: Herzog, Maurice

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Lyons Press : June 1997

Seller ID: 118081

ISBN-13: 9781558215498

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club had resolved to try. Their goal was a 26,493-foot Himalayan peak called Annapurna. But unlike other climbs, which draw on the experience of prior reconnaissance, the routes up Annapurna had never been analyzed before. Herzog and his team had to locate the mountain using sketchy, crude maps, pick out a single, untried route, and go for the summit.Annapurna is the unforgettable account of this dramatic and heroic climb, and of its harrowing aftermath. Although Herzog an...
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Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip

By: Hessler, Peter

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Harper Perennial : February 2011

Seller ID: 109896

ISBN-13: 9780061804106

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

One of The Economist's Best Books of the Year

From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy on the human side of the economic revolution in China.

Peter Hessler, whom the Wall Street Journal calls one of the Western world's most thoughtful writers on modern China, deftly illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation that, having once built walls against foreigners, is now building roads and factory towns that look to the outside world.

Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China

By: Hessler, Peter

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Harper Perennial : May 2007

Seller ID: 130651

ISBN-13: 9780060826598

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West, Hessler captures the soul of a country that is undergoing a momentous change before our eyes.

Eight Great American Rail Journeys: A Travel Guide (Broadcast Tie-Ins)

By: Ivory, Karen

Price: $5.48

Publisher: Globe Pequot : 9/1/2000

Seller ID: 43211

ISBN-13: 9780762707485

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This full-color pocket companion travel guide provides everything you need to know to make your own Great American Rail Journey. Each chapter profiles one trip from the bestselling Great American Rail Journeys and includes rate information, food, transportation, accommodations, and more. Color maps and photos.
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Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Through Africa

By: Jones, Ann

Price: $6.48

Publisher: Vintage : 7/1/2002

Seller ID: 7094

ISBN-13: 9780375705335

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The adventure began when a young British photographer, Kevin Muggleton, suggested driving from one end of Africa to the other-"You know, the old 'Cape to Cairo' sort of thing." For the renowned feminist writer Ann Jones, it soon became an expedition with a mission: to find the legendary Lovedu, a tribe ruled by a great rainmaking queen and dedicated to the "feminine" ideals of compromise, cooperation, tolerance, and peace. Setting out from Tangier in a battered old blue-and-yellow Land Rover, Jones and Muggleton face daunting physical challenges, from shifting sand in the Sahara to deep mud wa...
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Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan

By: Lopate, Phillip

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Publisher: Anchor : 5/1/2005

Seller ID: 75923

ISBN-13: 9780385497145

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

East Side, West Side, from the Little Red Lighthouse to Battery Park City, the wonders of Manhattan's waterfront are both celebrated and secret-hidden in plain sight. In his brilliant exploration of this defining yet neglected shoreline, personal essayist Philip Lopate also recovers a part of the city's soul. A native New Yorker, Lopate has embraced Manhattan by walking every inch of its perimeter, telling stories on the way of pirates (Captain Kidd) and power brokers (Robert Moses), the lowly shipworm and Typhoid Mary, public housing in Harlem and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. He evoke...
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The Historic Cumberland Plateau: An Explorer's Guide (Outdoor Tennessee Series)

By: Manning, Russ

Price: $8.48

Publisher: Univ of Tennessee Pr : 12/1/1992

Seller ID: 2772

ISBN-13: 9780870497667

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller

By: Mayes, Frances

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Broadway Books : March 2007

Seller ID: 128557

ISBN-13: 9780767910064

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF UNDER MAGNOLIA A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes--a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. With her beloved Tuscany as a home base, Mayes travels to Spain, Portugal, France, the British Isles, and to the Mediterranean world of Turkey, Greece, the South of Italy, and North Africa. Weaving together personal perceptions and informed commentary on art, architecture, history, landscape, and social and culinary tradit...
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Full Circle: A Pacific Journey with Michael Palin

By: PALIN, MICHAEL

Price: $5.98

Publisher: BBC BOOKS : 12/1/1998

Seller ID: 62359

ISBN-13: 9780563551072

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Food Lovers' Guide to® New Orleans: The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings (Food Lovers' Series)

By: Retz, Becky, Gaffney, James

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Globe Pequot : 12/1/2011

Seller ID: 38514

ISBN-13: 9780762773541

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The ultimate guide to New Orleans' food scene provides the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Written for residents and visitors alike to find producers and purveyors of tasty local specialties, as well
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River Road Rambler Returns: More Curiosities along Louisiana's Historic Byway

By: Sternberg, Mary Ann

Price: $11.98

Publisher: LSU Press : September 2018

Seller ID: 112830

ISBN-13: 9780807169285

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In River Road Rambler Returns: More Curiosities along Louisiana's Historic Byway, Mary Ann Sternberg follows up her successful River Road Rambler with new delightful histories from Louisiana's most famous route. Her latest explorations include a trip on a towboat as it pushes a fleet of barges down the river; the true story behind the Sunshine Bridge, fondly called the Bridge to Nowhere; a tour of one of the last working sugar mills along the River Road; stories about how two iconic plantation houses were saved; and much more. Well researched and engagingly written, River Road Rambler Returns...
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Category: Travel Essays