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AA Gill is Away by A.A. Gill
"In this collection of twenty-four accounts of trips abroad he comes across as both funny and compassionate." - Daily Express.......$16.99
Abundant Beauty Introduction by Laura Ponsonby
The adventurous travels of Marianne North - botanical artist......$19.95
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
"Absurdistan is not just a hilarious novel, but also a record of a particular peak in the history of human folly. No one is more capable of dealing with the transition from the hell of capitalism in Eastern Europe than Shteyngart, the great-great-grandson of one Nikolai Gogol and the funniest foreigners alive." - Aleksandar Hemon.......$17.95
Across The Bridge of Sighs - More Venetian Stories by Jane Turner Rylands
"In these beautifully writtten stories, we see the city through the eyes of its residents, from countess to postmen. I was captivated." - John Julius Norwich.......$21.00
Acuired Tastes by Massimo Marcone
An exploration into the truly bizarre world of food delicacies and the natural curiousity for the foods we eat......$19.95
Adrift in Caledonia: Boat-hitching For The Unenlightened by Nick Thorpe
One clear morning in May, Nick Thorpe left his Edinburgh flat, ducked off the commuter route and hitched a ride aboard a little white canal boat, heading west towards the sea. It was the first mutinous step in a delightful boat odyssey that would take him 2500 miles through Scotland's canals, lochs and coastal waters, from the industrial Clyde to the scattered islands of Viking Shetland. Part travelogue, part memoir, Adrift in Caledonia is an affectionate portrait of a sea-fringed nation - and of the drifter's quest to belong......$18.00
Adventure Divas by Holly Morris
This is a pro-woman chronicle for the twenty-first century. In a pilgrimage fueled by curiousity, ideology, and full on estrogen power, Holly Morris has paved the way for all of us to discover our own diva within and set out on our on adventure.....$21.00
Adventures of a Continental Drifter by Elliot Hester
From the author of 'Plane Insanity'. An around-the-world excursion into weirdness, danger, lust and the perils of street food.....$14.50
Adventurous Dreams, Adventurous Lives Collected and Edited by Jason Schoonover, Forward by Meave Leakey
A Who's Who of 120 contemporary explorers............$29.95
The Afghan Amulet - Travels From The Hindu Kush by Sheila Paine
Intrugued by an exquisite and mysterious amulet on an antique dress from Kohistan, "land of mountains" in Pakistan, Sheila Paine began an epic quest that took her from the peaks of the Himalaya to the shores of Greece. In this, the first part of her journey, she set off alone and undaunted for the rugged Hindu Kush, her only possessions a tiny rucksack and a litre of vodka. Over the course of several months she folowed endless clues - the patterns on a woman's dress, pendants hanging outside village houses to ward off djinns, scraps of embroidery in a bazaar - that took her to some of the most remote and inhospitable places in the world. She travelled to Makran in Pakistan, an area closed completely to foreigners, and to Iran, where she was constantly watched by government minders. She was smuggled into Afghanistan by a band of mujahedin, and then forged on into Iraq and Turkish Kurdistan from Iran, before one final piece of evidence led her to the small town of Razgard in eastern Bulgaria and news of the amulet she so tirelessly sought. For the conclusion, read The Golden Horde.........$17.95
Among the Cannibals by Paul Raffaele
Adventures on the trail of man's darkest ritual...............$27.95
Africa's World War by Gerard Prunier
Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continetal catastrophe.......$29.95
An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie
Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland - and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed and superbly entertaining record of his adventures among the Inuit is a testament both to the wonderful strangeness of the human species and to the surprising sympathies that bind us all.............$16.95
Age of Kali : Indian Travels and Encounters by William Dalrymple
Courageous, compassionate, erudite and beautifully written, laced with a thread of William
Dalrymple's characteristic black humour. Essential reading for anyone who wants to come to
terms with India.....$19.95
Along the Enchanted Way by William Blacker
A spellbinding memoir set in rural Romania.....$39.95
All the Good Pilgrims by Robert Ward
In All the Good Pilgrims, Ward returns to Spain to walk the Camino for the fifth time. He thinks he knows what he’s getting into but, as his many Camino journeys have taught him, the Camino never runs out of surprises. Each day brings new lessons, friendships, questions, memories, gifts and challenges, reminding Ward that it isn’t the pilgrim who walks the Camino – it’s the Camino that walks the pilgrim. ....$24.95
All Things Must Fight To Live by Bryan Mealer
Stories of war and deliverance in Congo...........$27.99
The Almond Picker by Simonetta Agnello Hornby
Set in Sicily in the 1960s, a violent, complicated society in the midst of tumultuous change, The Almond Picker is the story of a woman who negotiated for her freedom as no one else dared........$19.00
Almost Heaven by Martin Fletcher
Travels through the backwoods of America...........$16.00
Alone Against the Arctic by Anthony Dalton
A tale of a near-fatal voyage along the NW coast of Alaska in an attempt of a solo journey of the NW Passage.....$19.95
The Amazon: Land Without History by Euclides da Cunha
In the eight pieces that make up The Amazon: Land Without History, which was first published in Portuguese in 1909, Euclides da Cunha offers a rare look into twentieth century Amazonia and the consolidation of South American nation state. Mixing scientific jargon and poetic language, the essays provide breathtaking descriptins of the Amazonian rivers and the ever-changing nature that surrounds them.............$13.95
Amazon Extreme by Colin Angus
The hair-raising true story of the first team to raft the entire length of the Amazon..........$19.95
Among the Mountains: Travels Through Asia by Wilfred Thesiger
Each of Thesiger's mountain journeys has a unique quality, which inspired many of the finest
photographs Thesiger had ever taken. These images of startling beauty, combined with Thesiger's
vivid prose- based on his original unpublished diaries- documented brilliantly the hardships,
dangers and rewards of thirty years of mountain travel.....$19.95
Amsterdam A Traveller's Literary Companion (1st edition 2001) edited by Manfred Wolf
See the country through the ey's of some of their best writers.....$18.00
Annapurna by Maurice Herzog
The first conquest of an 8,000-meter peak.....$18.95
Ancestral Links by John Garrity
A golf obsession spanning generations........$27.50
Ancient Futures - Learning From Ladakh by Helena Norberg-Hodge
"The celebration here of traditional Ladakhi life induces exhilaration but also sadness, as if some half-remembered paradsise known in another life had now been lost. So evocative is it that I felt - I'm not sure what - homesickness?" - Peter Matthiessen.....$22.95
The Ancient Tea Horse Road by Jeff Fuchs
This book weaves together the legend and history of the route with the story of Jeff's journey in rich and eloquent detail and with stunning photography, bringing to life a path that has been an escape route, a trade highway, and an adventure destination.........$35.00
And A Bottle of Rum by Wayne Curtis
A history of the new world in ten cocktails............$18.95
And Did Those Feet by Charlie Connelly
Walking through 2,000 years of British and Irish history............$24.00
The Anglo Files by Sarah Lyall
A field guide to the British...........$20.00
Angry Wind by Jeffrey Tayler
Through Muslim Black Africa by truck, bus, boat and camel.........$28.95
The Angry Island - Hunting The English by A.A.Gill
The default setting of England is anger. The English are Naturally, congenitally, collectively and singularly livid much of the time....This book hunts down the causes and results of being the Angy Island.........$18.95
Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Life in Angola......$15.95
Another Long Day On The Piste - A Season in The French Alps by Will Randall
In the charming Alpine backwater of Mont St Bernard, Will's adventures start badly when he spends his first night in a freezing garage under a mounatin of unwashed socks. Wry, self-deprecating and deliriously funny, Another Long Day On The Piste is a rollercoaster of a travel adventure, and essential apres-ski reading......$16.00
Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
"Wilfred Thesiger is perhaps the last, and certainly one of the greatest, of the British travellers
among the Arabs...The narrative is vividly written, with a thousand little anecdotes and touches
which bring back to any who have seen these countries every scene with the colour of real life."
Sir John Glubb in the Sunday Times....$20.00
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
National Book Award Winner Barry Lopez enters into the 'Great White North' and is awed and inspired by it....$23.00
Arctic Labyrinth by Glyn Williams
The quest for the Northwest Passage...........$32.00
An Area of Darkness by V.S. Naipaul
"This is India. I don’t know any other book that comes so near to capturing the whole crazy spectrum. . . . Brilliant.” – John Wain, The Observer....$21.00
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen
As India's multicultural society confronts violent sectarianism at home and a range of destabilizing forces internationally, these illuminating essays from Nobel Prize–winning economist Sen (most of which began as articles or lectures over the past decade) offer a timely and cogent examination of the country's long history of heterodoxy and public discourse. With sparkling erudition and crisp prose, Sen reminds readers of a capacious cultural legacy that has nourished a plethora of religious communities (including Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Parsee, Sikh and Baha'i), as well as a venerable line of atheist and materialist thought, while fostering ancient advances in science and mathematics, and inclusive theories of governance. Challenging the notion of the West as sole originator of liberal values, the book—which ranges over subjects as diverse as India's ancient calendars, nuclear arms policy, relationship with China, gender and class inequality, representations in the Western imagination and the competing national visions of Tagore and Gandhi—bears forcefully on contemporary debates over multiculturalism, secularism and postcolonial identity. Sen's lucid reasoning and thoroughgoing humanism, meanwhile, ensure a lively and commanding defense of diversity and dialogue..... $18.95
Around The World In 80 Dates by Jennifer Cox
Lonely Planets' Jennifer Cox round the world dates......$24.00
Around The World in 80 Dinners - The Ultimate Culinary Adventure by Cheryl & Bill Jamison
50,000 Miles, 10 countries, 800 dishes and 1 rogue monkey...........$18.00
Around The World in 90 Minutes (+ Extra Time and Penalties) by David Winner
This heartfelt, humorous and ultimately poignant account of David Winner's travels is a book by and for true fans. He reminds us that, despite the tears, headbutts and early exits, the World Cup is for its spectators a truly global experience, managing, for just four weeks every four years, to unite us all........$16.95
Around The World in Sandals by Russell & Penny Jennings
Tales of discovery and discomfort.....$14.95
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
The author takes us on a journey through the satisfactions and disappointments of travelling. Dealing- among other things- with airports, exotic carpets, holiday romance, and hotel mini-bars, this humorous, eye-opening and thought-provoking book reveals the hidden motivations, expectations and complications of our voyages into the wild world.....$20.00
At The Edge of Ireland by David Yeadon
Seasons on the Beara Peninsula...........$21.99
At The Waters Edge by John Lister-Kaye
A personal quest for wilderness...$36.00
Australia: A Traveler's Literary Companion edited by Robert Ross
Stories selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler ........$18.00
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Babylon By Bus by Ray Lemoine & Jeff Neuman with Donovan Webster
The true story of two friends who gave up their valuable franchise selling YANKEES SUCK T-shirts at Fenway to find meaning and adventure in Iraq, where they became employed by the Occupation in jobs for which thay lacked qualification and witnesses much that amazed and dfisturbed them..........$18.50
Back in 6 Years by Tony Robinson-Smith
A journey around the planet without leaving the surface........$19.95
Bad Karma by Tamara Sheward
Confessions of a recklesss traveller in Southeast Asia...........$19.95
Balkan Ghosts by Robert D. Kaplan
This enthralling and often chilling political travelogue fully deciphers the Balkans' ancient
passions and intractable hatreds for outsiders. For as Robert D. Kaplan travels among the
vibrantly adorned churches and soul-destroying slums of the former Yugoslavia, Albania,
Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece, he allows us to see the region's history as a time warp in which
Slobodan Milosevic becomes the reincarnation of a fourteenth-century martyr; Nicolae
Ceaucescu is called "Drac," or "the Devil"; and the one-time Soviet Union turns out to be a
continuation of the Ottoman Empire....$18.00
Bamboo Goalposts by Roman Simons
One man's quest to teach the People's Republic of China to love football. Short listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the year 2008.....$14.99
The Bandit Queen of India by Phoolan Devi
An Indian woman's amazin journey from peasant to internationl legend........$20.95
Bangkok Babylon by Jerry Hopkins
The real exploits of Bangkok's lengendary expatriates are often stranger than fiction.....$19.50
Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world's most exotic cities.........$21.00
Bangkok Days by Lawrence Osborne
A sojourn in the capital of pleasure........$31.00
Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett..............$15.95
Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett
As addictive as opium, as hot as Sriracha chili sauce, and bursting with surprises, Bangkok Tattoo will leave its mark on you.....$16.95
Basrayatha The Story of a City by Muhammad Khudayyir
A literary tribute by the author Muhammad Khudayyir to the city of his birth, on the Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq.........$17.50
Battling On The Bosphorus by Angus Bell
A liquor-fueled cricket tour through Eastern Europe.................$22.00
Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw by Will Ferguson
Travels in search of Canada.......$21.00
A Bed of Red Flowers - In Search of My Afghanistan by Nelofer Pazira
A vivid and touching portrait of life under occupation, and the unforgettable story of a family, a people and a country...........$21.00
A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World by Isabel Losada
Tired of half-hearted attempts to effect change in the world, Isabel Losada decides to walk the talk and embarks on a journey that takes her from protests in the streets of London to India and back again.....$18.99
Behind The Curtain - Travels in Eastern European Football by Jonathan Wilson
In Behind The Curtain, Wilson goes in search of Hungary's "Golden Squad" of the early fifties, charts the disintegration of the footballing superpower that was the former Yugoslavia and follows a sorry tale of corruption, mismanagement and Armenian cognac. Along the way he reopens the case of Russia's greatest footballer, and talks to Jan Tomaszewski about an autumn night at Wembley in 1973.........$19.95
Behind The Wall: A Journey Through China by Colin Thubron
"An intrepid traveller, who also writes beautifully, with wit and erudition...The result is a rare
first-hand account of a country seen through the eyes of one who has experienced what he
describes and who is in a position to understand what he sees...He penetrates where most would
believe it impossible for a foreigner to go" Robin Hanbury-Tenison....$21.95
Beirut Fragments - A War Memoir by Jean Said Makdisi
A long-time citizen of Beirut describes life for the Lebanese both under seige and during moments of relative, although uncertain, peace...........$17.50
Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes
"This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house, and
always, the pleasures of food, would make a perfect gift for a loved one. But it's so delicious,
read it first yourself."- USA Today.....$23.00
Belonging by Isabel Huggan
An intimate conversation between the narrator, whose life has not turned out as she expected, and her readers, who will find their own concerns illuminated in surprising ways......$22.00
The Best American Travel Writing 2009 edited by Simon Winchester, series editor Jason Wilson..........$17.50
Best of Lonely Planet Travel Writing edited by Tony Wheeler
Including original stories by Jan Morris, Simon Winchester, Tim Cahill and Pico Iyer............$17.99
Between Forest and Sky: A Fire-Tower Journal by Sharon Stratton
Sharon Stratton's enthusiastic and beautifully described account of her experiences as a fire-tower observer in Alberta reveals a simple, satisfying lifestyle.........$18.95
Between Terror and Tourism by Michael Mewshaw
An overland journey across North Africa........$21.50
Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor
In 1933 a young man of eighteen set out to walk across Europe living on a pound a week, staying
in work-houses, monasteries and barns. `A Time Of Gifts' described the first part of this
fascinating voyage. Here, between the woods of Transylvania and the waters of the Danube,
Patrick Leigh Fermor encounters the remote peoples and cultures of Romania and Hungary and,
unerringly and hauntingly, reconstructs a world of mountains and plains, of castles and their
inhabitants, where ancient ways were still intact, though troubled by omens of the disasters that, a
few years later, were to destroy them utterly....$18.95
Beyond Belfast by Will Ferguson
A 560-mile walk across Northern Ireland on sore feet............$32.00
Beyond Bogota by Garry Leech
Diary of a drug war journalist in Colombia...............$36.95
Beyond the Horizon by Colin Angus
His third book of adventure is about circumnavigating the planet by human-power.....$21.00
Beyond the Sky and the Earth by Jamie Zeppa
Jamie Zeppa went to Bhutan on a two-year teaching contract......$28.00
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
Thoughts on Cities, with David Byrne, co-founder of Talking Heads, while riding his folding bike.......$32.50
Bicycling Beyond The Divide - Two Journeys in the West by Daryl Farmer
"In this wise and funny book about biking our American West, Daryl Farmer journeys across miles and throught memory to self-discovery, and it's our good fortune to come along - without expending nearly so many dcalories." - Gregory Martin.........$29.95
The Big Thaw by Ed Struzik
Travels in the Melting North...........$29.99
Bike Ride With A Twist - 8,321 Kilometres Across Canada by Janice Kenyon
Sixty-six old Janice Kenyon offers a comprehensive guide along with the personal story of her 8, 321 kilometre odyssey across Canada........$21.95
Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres
"...but all of this will change when Turkey enters the modern world. Epic in sweep, intoxicating in its sensual detail, Birds Without Wings is an enchantment."...............$18.25
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Written on the brink of World War II, West's classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is once again the centre of international concern. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, it probes into the troubled history of the Balkans and the uneasy relationships among its ethnic groups. The landscape and people of Yugoslavia are brilliantly observed as Rebecca West untangles the tensions that rule the country's history as well as its daily life........$31.00
Blinding Light by Paul Theroux
A revelatory novel of manners and mind expansion that tells the story of a writer literally blinded by his pursuit of the muse........$19.95
Blood & Oil by Maucher Farmanfarmaian and Roxane Farmanfarmaian
A Prince's memoir of Iran from the Shah to the Ayatollah....$23.95
Blood River by Tim Butcher
A journey to Africa's broken heart.................$23.95
Blue Clay People by William Powers
In this elegantly written memoir, a young man recounts his life-changing sojourn in a world of immeasurable poverty and instability: Charles Taylor's Liberia......$16.50
A Blue Hand by Deborah Baker
The Beats in India.............$16.50
Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
A journey into America.........$17.99
Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz
Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before..........$18.00
The Blue Plateau - An Australian Pastoral by Mark Tredinnick...........$19.95
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Blue Skies & Black Olives by John Humphries
A survivor's tale of housebuilding and peacock chasing in GReece....$16.99
The Book of Revenge - A Blues for Revenge by Dragan Todorovic
A book about growing up in war torn Serbia......$19.95
Borderland: A Journey Through The History of the Ukraine by Anna Reid
In this finely written and penetrating book, Anna Reid combines historical research and her own
experiences in Ukraine.....$17.95
Botswana Time by Will Randall
Filled with laughter, colour and simple decency.......$18.50
The Boys of Everest - Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation by Clint Willis
This book tells the gripping story of Bonington's Boys: a band of climbers who reinvented mountaneering during the first three decades after Everest's first ascent..........$22.50
Brazil A Traveler's Literary Companion edited by Alexis Levitan Forword by Gregory Rabassa.....$18.95
Brazzaville Charms by Cassie Knight
Magic and rebellion in the Republic of Congo.............$32.50
Brazilian Adventure by Peter Fleming
In the summer of 1925 Colonel P.H. Fawcett embarked on a journey into a dangerous and largely
unexplored region of Brazil in search of a Lost World. He was never seen again. Peter Fleming's
interest in his disappearance was aroused by an advertisement in the personal column of The
Times asking for two people to join an expedition to central Brazil. This is the irresistible story
of his involvement in `a venture for which Rider Haggard might have written the plot and Conrad
designed the scenery.'...$19.95
Breaking Trail - A Climbing Life by Arlene Blum
With candor and humour, Blum recounts her journey from an overprotected childhood in Chicago to the tops of some of the highest peaks on earth, and to a life lived on her own terms......$18.95
Burmese Lessons by Karen Connelly
Burmese Lessons is a love story. Unlike conventional love stories, this one takes the reader into a world as dangerous and heartbreaking as it is enchanting.
When Karen Connelly finds herself in Burma in the late 1990s, she is immersed in a world of students staging mass demonstrations in opposition to Burma’s dictators, revolutionaries fighting an armed insurgency against that same military regime, and refugees living in hellish limbo in Thailand. Connelly first comes to love a wounded, remarkably beautiful country, then a gifted man who has given his life to its struggle for political change. Burmese Lessons is illuminated by the sensual language and flashes of humour that have won her fans around the world. .....$32.00
Butterfly Mind by Patrick Brown
A gripping personal memoir about working as an international reporter, living in China, and witnessing the rise and fall of nations around the world.....$29.95
Buttertea at Sunrise by Britta Das
A year in the Bhutan Himalaya...........$24.99
Buying a Piece of Paris by Ellie Nielsen
A charming and witty memoir of love, real estate, and the most beautiful city in the world.....$17.99
By Any Means by Charley Boorman
His brand-new expedition from Wicklow to Wollongong............$15.00
By The Seat of My Pants (Lonely Planet) edited by Don George
Humorous tales of travel and misadventure........$19.95
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Cabin Fever edited by Moira Farr & Ian Pearson
The best new Canadian non-fiction............$24.95
The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind - And Almost Found Myself - On The Pacific Crest Trail by Dan White............$16.25
Cairo The City Victorious by Max Rodenbeck
A dazzling cultural excavation of one of the world's greatest cities - from its ancient beginnings,
through the heights of medieval splendor, to the present day - by a gifted writer who has spent
much of his life in Cairo......$17.95
The Caliph's House by Tahir Shah
In the tradition of 'A Year in Provence' and 'Under the Tuscan Sun', acclaimed English travel writer Tahir Shah shares a highly entertaining, sometimes harrowing account of his family's move from foggy London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where islamic tradition and African folkore converge - and nothing is as easy as it seems......$16.50
Cambodia Calling by Richard Heinzl
A memoir from the Frontlines of Humanitarian Aid............$31.95
The Candy Machine by Tom Feiling
How cocaine took over the world.........$20.00
Carnivorous Nights by Margaret Mittelbach and Micahel Crewdson
On the trail of the Tasmanian Tiger......$21.00
A Carpet To Khiva by Christopher Aslan Alexander
Seven years on the Silk Road.....$30.00
Casa Nostra - A Home in Sicily by Caroline Seller Manzo
Join Caroline Seller Manzo and her family at their villa, Santa Maria - and enter the extraordinary world and culture of western Sicily, where the pivoltal issue of the day is always the dinner menu, the exhausting perparation of the year's supply of tomato sauce is a hallowed occasion, and every gathering of friends and family is an excuse for a party celebrating life.........$16.25
A Castle in the Backyard - The Dream of a House in France by Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden
This book chronicles the adventures of an American couple who buy a property in the Dordogne region of France in 1985.....$25.95
Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham
A two-wheeled voyage through the landscape and memory of Vietnam.......$17.00
The Cellist Of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
'A galvanizing examination of the strength of the human heart." - Ottawa Citizen............$21.00
The Chains of Heaven - An Ethiopian Romance by Philip Marsden
Few inhabited regions of the world remain quite so unusual or remote as the Ethiopian highlands - a few writers respond to such places quite like Philip Marsden. Walking hundreds of miles through a landscape of cavernous gorges, tabletop mountains and semi-desert, he encounters monks and hermits, rebels and farmers, people whose spiritual passions reveal a reckless disregard for the material. In spare and glinting prose, The Chains of Heaven celebrates the ageless rewards of the open road and a people for whom the mythic and the everyday are inextricably linked..........$19.95
Chameleon Days - An American Boyhood in Ethiopia by Tim Bascom
In 1964, at the age of three, Tim Bascom is thrust into a world of eucalyptus trees and stampeding baboons when his family moves from the Midwest to Ethiopia.......$13.95
Chasing Waves by Amy Waeschle
A surfer's life of obsessive wandering..........$22.50
Che Guevara and the Mountain of Silver by Anne Mustoe
By bicycle and train through South America...............$14.50
Chewing Gum in Holy Water by Mario Valentini and Cheryl Hardacre
A childhood in the heart of Italy....$33.00
Chile: A Traveler's Literary Companion edited by Katherine Silver.....$18.00
Chile: Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler
This is Sara Wheeler's account of a six-month odyssey which included Christmas Day at 13,000 feet with a llama sandwich, a sex hotel in Santiago and a trip round Cape Horn delivering a coffin. Eloquent, astute and amusing, Chile: Travels in a Thin Country confirms Sara Wheeler's place in the front rank of today's travel writer's..........$18.00
China A Traveler's Literary Companion edited by Kirk A. Denton
Stories selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler........$19.50
Chomolungma Sings the Blues by Ed Douglas
'A wise and useful book' Literary Review.....$16.95
Chrysalis - Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd
An artist turned naturalist known mostly today for her exquisite butterfly prints, Maria Sibylla Merian was born just thirteen years after Galileo was prosecuted for claiming the earth orbited the sun. Taking us from golden-age Amsterdam to the sweltering rain forests of Surinam to the modren laboratories where Merian's insights fuel a new branch of biology, Kim Todd brings to life an amazing seventeenth-century woman whose boldness and vision would still be exceptional today..............$19.95
The Circumference of Home by Kurt Hoelting
One man's yearlong quest for a radically local life.........$31.95
City of Djinns - A Year in Dehli by William Dalrymple
Winner of the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award......$19.95
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
A story about Venice by the author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ......$18.50
City of Fear by Robin David
An extraordinary account of ordinary people in troubled times, detailed in its observation, universal in its appeal, by a writer who marks a fresh new voice on the Indian literary scene........$16.00
Cleaving by Julie Powell
A story of marriage, meat, and obsession......$29.99
Climbing The Mango Trees by Madhur Jaffrey
A memoir of a childhood in India..................$21.00
The Clouded Leopard - Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire by Wade Davis
Driven by the desire to discover new plants for healing and visions, as well as to learn about other ways of knowing the wild, Davis journeys from the rain forests of Borneo to the mountains of Tibet, from the ice floes of the Arctic to the sands of the Sahara........$22.95
The Clumsiest People in Europe or: Mrs. Mortimer's Bad-Tempered Guide to The Victorian World edited and with an introduction by Todd Pruzan
A Victorian woman's 'bad tempered guide to Europe'.....$11.00
Cochineal Red - Travels Through Ancient Peru by Hugh Thomson
After his acclaimed book on the Incas, The White Rock, Hugh Thomson unwraps thoses layers to show how civilisation emerged so early and so spectacularly in this toughest and most arid of terrains...........$18.95
Cold Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by Bill Steever
"Rather than giving the reader a dry, academic lecture on snow, glaciers, wind-chill factors and icebergs, he delivers a poetic, anecdotal narrative complete with polar expeditions, Ice Age mysteries, igloos, permafrost and hailstorms. . . . This is a wonderful collection of one man's first-rate observations and commentary about the history and importance of cold to the earth and its occupants." - Publisher's Weekly (April 27, 2009)....$17.99
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
This book about Greece, is incandescent with his feeling for a great people and their past.....$16.00
Colour - Travels Through the Paintbox by Victoria Finlay.....$16.95
Colour Bar - The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation by Susan Williams
Sir Seretse Khama, the first President of Botswana and heir apparent to the kingship of the Bangwato people, brought independence and great prosperity to his nation after colonial rule. But for six long years from 1950, Seretse had been in enforced exile in England, banned from his own country. His crime? To fall in love and marry a young, white English girl, Ruth. Delving into newly released records, Susan Williams tells Seretse and Ruth's story - a shocking account of how the British Government conspired with apartheid South Africa and Southern Rhodesia to prevent the mixed-race royal couple returning home. But it is also an inspiring, triumphant tale of hope, courage and true love as with tenacity and great dignity Seretse and Ruth and the Bangwato people overcome prejudice in their fight for justice........$20.00
Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by Christina Thompson
A New Zealand story...............$27.50
Coming Home Crazy by Bill Holm
A book about what happened to an American in China, his adventures of daily life and on the road, and what America looked like after he got home...$18.00
Coming into the Country by John McPhee
The book to read about Alaska.....$21.00
Compass Companions compiled by Jeannie Henke
A collection of Canadian travel stories.........$23.95
The Conde Nast Book of Unforgettable Journeys edited by Klara Glowczewska
Great writers on great places..........$19.00
Confessions by Kang Zhengguo
An innocent life in Communist China.......$17.50
Congo Journey by Redmond O'Hanlon
Ostensibly a quest for the Congo dinosaur (whose secret becomes clear), this story of travel
through the jungles and swamp forests of the northern Congo is Tolstoyan in its depth, scope and
range of characters, and as vivid as Nabocov in its image and detail. A portrait of a country, it is
alive with natural history: eagles and parrots, hornbills and sunbirds; forest cobras and
crocodiles; gorillas, chimpanzees, monkeys, swamp antelope, forest elephants- and one giant
Gambian rat. A search for the meaning of sorcery, the purpose of religion (and a celebration of
the comfort and mysteries of science), it is also an adventure told with great narrative force. Of
course, there is a darker side to the Congo, and that too, is recorded here....$18.99
Connemara Listening To The Wind by Tim Robinson
"One of Ireland's finest literary stylists....This is a book that does justice, in every sense of that phrase, to the frequently betrayed people whose stories it incarnates, and to their strange and beautiful corner of the world." - Joseph O'Connor, Guardian............$19.00
Cork Boat by John Pollard
The true story of the unlikeliest boat ever built........$21.00
Corked by Kathryn Borel Jr.
Fear and loathing in Bordeaux: a daughter and her dad hit the bottle and hit the road..........$29.95
A Corkscrew is Most Useful by Nicholas Murray
Nicholas Murray’s diligent, informative and well-written book summarises the histories and writings of a diverse collection of travellers' DAILY TELEGRAPH.......$22.99
Cosmic Banditos by A.C.Weisbecker
"Outrageous...an absurd and highly entertaining comic romp"- Booklist......$19.95
The Costa Rica Reader edited by Steven Palmer & Ivan Molina
This new reader brings together texts and artworks that reveal the complexity of the country's past and present........$31.95
Costa Rica A Traveler's Literary Companion edited by Barbara Ras
Twenty six stories, selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler ........$19.50
Country Driving by Peter Hessler
A journey through China from farm to factory......$35.99
The Country Under My Skin - A Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda Belli
An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer and central figure in the Sandinista revolution.....$19.95
A Course Called Ireland by Tom Coyne
A long walk in search of a country, a pint, and the next tee...............$20.00
Crescent & Star - Turkey Between Two Worlds (2nd edition 2008) by Stephen Kinzer
This brilliant book, written with love and empathy, gives the world a perfect opportunity to undersdtand and reflect on Turkey's problems and prospects - Orhan Pamuk.......$18.50
Crete by Barry Unsworth
Booker Prize winning author........$13.95
Crete on the Half Shell by Byron Ayanoglu
A story about an island, good friends and food......$19.95
Crossing Antarctica by Will Steger & Jon Bowermaster.....$19.50
Crossing The Swells by Tori Holmes, Paul Gleeson, with Liam Gorman
An Atlantic journey by rowboat........$19.95
The Cruise of the Blue Dolphin by Nina Chandler Murray
A family's adventure at sea.........$21.95
Cruise Confidential by Brian David Bruns
Where the crew eats, sleeps, wars, and parties. One crazy year working on cruise ships......$19.50
Cry of The Kalahari by Mark & Delia Owens
The story of the Owenses' life with lions, brown hyenas, jackals, giraffes, and the many other creatures they came to know. It is also a gripping account of how they survived the dangers of living in one of the last and largest pristine ares on Earth.......$18.50
Cuba: A Traveler's Literary Companion edited by Ann Louise Bardach
Stories selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler........$18.00
Cuba and the Night by Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer gives us a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and
dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba. It is the story of Richard, the jaded
photojournalist falling in love with the ravishing Cubana named Lourdes. What ensues is a story of
passion and regret that is moving, arousing and atmospheric.......$16.95
Cuba In Mind edited by Maria Finn Dominguez
A century and a half of literary travelers who have been dazzled by Cuba......$21.00
The Cure For Anything Is Saltwater: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness At Sea by Mary South
Despite her total lack of experience, South set out on her maiden voyage - a fifteen-hundred mile odyssey from Florida to Maine - with her one-man, two dog crew. But what began as the fulfillment of an idle wish became a crash course in navigating the complicated byways of the self..........$17.99
Cut Stones and Crossroads by Ronald Wright
A journey in the two worlds of Peru.........$18.00
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Danube by Claudio Magris
The Danube river runs from central to southeast Europe, and Danube is a stream of consciousness flowing down the history of the great basin. The intrepid Italian traveler and cultural and literary historian, Claudio Magris, has taken the occasion of his river-length journey to make forays into the legends and lore, history and geography, politics and literature of the peoples and places along the Danube's winding path. The result is a rambling amalgam rich in nuances and allusions, some of which may be lost on those unversed in Central European culture. This is a stimulating tour which will challenge and reward the attentive and courageous intellectual traveler. It is recommended for academic and public libraries.
- James B. Street, Santa Cruz P.L., Cal. .......$18.50
Danziger's Travels by Nick Danziger
Nick Danziger's graphic account of his hair-raising adventures during an eighteen-month journey 'beyond forbidden frontiers' in Asia makes a vivid and unforgettable impact.
After walking and hitch-hiking through southern Turkey and the ayatollah's Iran, he entered Afghanistan illegally in the wake of a convoy of Chinese weapons and spent two months dodging Russian helicopter gunships with rebel guerillas..............$23.95
The Darien Gap by Martin Mitchinson
Travels in the rainforest of Panama..............$26.95
Darfur Diaries - Stories of Survival by Jen Marlowe with Aisha Bain & Adam Shapiro
In November 2004, three independent filmmakers traveled to eastern Chad and crept across the border into Darfur. Improvising as they went, they spoke with dozens of Darfurians, learning about their history, hopes, fears, and the resilience and tragedy of their everyday lives.........$17.00
The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones
In 1999 Tobias Jones emigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he discovered a very different country, besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia, where crime is scarcely ever met with punishment. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jone's account of his three-year voyage across the Italian peninsula...........$18.00
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
Overland from Cairo to Cape Town.........$26.99
Dastgah: Diary Of A Head Trip by Mark Mordue
Australian award-winning journalist Mark Mordue invites you on his world trip that ranges from a Rolling Stone concert in Istanbul to talking with mullahs and junkies in Tehrahn, from a cricket match in Calcutta to an S&M bar in New York, and to many points in between. Mordue chronicles his year-long global journey with his girlfriend, Lisa Nicol, exploring countries most Americans never see as well as issues of world citizenship in the 21st century. Written in the tradition of literary journalism, Dastgah will take you to all kinds of places, across the world....and inside yourself........$20.50
A Day in Tuscany - More Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide by Dario Castagno with Robert Rodi
A Day in Tuscany picks uo where Dario Castagno's much-loved, best-selling memoir Too Much Tuscan Sun leaves off - quite literally as the amiable tour-guide-turned-author returns from his first ever American book tour............$23.75
Dead Lucky by Lincoln Hall
Life after death on Mount Everest...............$20.00
Dead Man in Paradise by J.B. MacKinnon
On the night of June 22nd, 1965, a catholic priest from Canada was gunned down in the Dominican Republic. Forty years later, his nephew returns in search of the truth.....$22.50
Death and the Sun by Edward Lewine
Francisco Rivera Ordóñez is a fourth-generation bullfighter. His grandfather and great-grandfather, both star matadors, influenced Hemingway; his father was fatally wounded in the ring. He was an obvious choice for Lewine, a New York Times contributor and longtime bullfighting fan, to follow for a year on the annual circuit around Spain with his attendant picadors (mounted bullfighters armed with lances), banderillos (fighters on foot with barbed sticks), drivers, manager and the rest of the entourage. That particular year, 2002–2003, turned out to be a difficult one for Ordóñez: his marriage was deteriorating, his reputation was faltering and he was badly injured at a bullfight in Algeciras after a "lapse in concentration." (He recovered.) Lewine knows his subject doesn't sit well with all readers, and he labors hard to convey its appeal: "It is the only spectacle left in the world that offers such a mixture of beauty and violence, art and blood, national pride and primordial urge, the fascination of wild animals and of death." History and influences, and the details of the corrida and the ring, of breeding and of Spain's disparate cities round things out. For fans and interested parties, this is a thorough book......$15.95
A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb
In this his third book, Peter Robb paints a a multi-layered portrait of Brazil as a country of intoxicating and passionate extremes......$17.00
Deep France - A Writer's Year in the Bearn by Celia Brayfield
Novelist Celia Brayfield had never lived more than a taxi ride from Soho, until one day she decided to take a year off. With the computer and the cats in the back of the car, and the blessing of her student daughter, she drove south until the dawn came up in the Bearn, the most romantic, remote and rustic region of France.........$17.99
Descending the Dragon by Jon Bowermaster, photography by Rob Howard
A journey down the coast of Vietnam..............$25.00
The Desert and The Sown by Gertrude Bell
The Syrian adventures of the female Lawrence of Arabia............$23.95
Desert Queen by Janet Wallach
The extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell: adventurer, adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia.....$22.95
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
A season in the wilderness of southeastern Utah...........$17.50
Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
"Desirable Daughters, by the prolific writer Bharati Mukherjee, whose short story collection The Middleman won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award, is a masterful meditation on marriage and family ties. It begins on a fantastic note: on a winter night in an east Bengali village in 1879, the narrator's ancestor, 5-year-old Tara Lata, is married to a tree after her 13-year-old husband-to-be dies of a snakebite on their wedding day. The novel ends some 120 years later, when Tara, the 36-year-old narrator, returns to this same village in winter with her teenaged son. Like her ancestor, Tara Bhattacharjee is the youngest of three sisters of a Brahmin family. Although they grew up in Calcutta, Tara and the oldest sister now live in America while the middle sister lives in Bombay. Tara was married (in an arranged marriage) at age 19 to Bish Chatterjee, a genius who makes a fortune from a cutting-edge computer process. He and Tara are estranged when the novel opens, but when a stranger claiming kinship shows up at the house that Tara shares in San Francisco with her son and her boyfriend, she reconsiders her assumptions about her entire family. In the course of the novel, a sister's secret and a murder are uncovered, and a near-fatal bombing occurs. Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters is yet another of her magically written, compelling novels." - Susan Biskeborn ...$18.95
Desiring Italy
Women writers celebrate the passions of a country and culture. Notable author's include Edith
Wharton, George Eliot and Patricia Hampl........$16.95
The Devil's Picnic - Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit by Taras Grescoe
An investigation into the demonized and the vilified, The Devil's Picnic is a delicious journey into the heart of vice and desire.......$22.95
Dial M for Merde by Stephen Clark
After his disastrous American adventures, Paul West is back in France, and this time he’ll be kicking up merde all along the Cote d’Azur. Hooking up with an English girl nicknamed M that he met in Vegas, it’s a peaceful working holiday—at first. Suddenly, M becomes secretive, going off to meetings and overreacting to questions about her whereabouts. Then, a bombshell. While M is at one of her meetings, Paul is told that she is not who she seems to be. That she is involved in a plot so sinister that she and Paul’s every move has been watched since they arrived. And if Paul doesn’t agree to stick with M and find out who she’s working for, then he’s going to prison for a long, long time as an accomplice. Suddenly the Cote d’Azur doesn’t feel quite so sunny.....$21.00
A Diamond in the Rough by Jo Tatchell
'A welcome addition to the short list of books on Abu Dhabi...Engagingly written and sympathetic' (Guardian ) .....$16.99
Dinner With Persephone by Patricia Storage
"Seductive, many-layered, sweet and astringent, lucid and intoxicating. Patricia Storage unfolds
Greece, a stranger and richer culture than we even suspected. In supple prose, with elegance and
humour, with a camera eye and a stereophonic ear, she leads us through breathtaking wild vistas
of accumulated time."- Luc Sante....$18.95
Diplomatic Baggage by Brigid Keenan
The adventures of a wife of a diplomat....$14.95
Do Travel Writers Go To Hell? by Thomas Kohnstamm
A swashbuckling tales of hight adventures, questionable ethics and professional hedonism.................$15.95
The Dolce Vita Diaries by Cathy Rogers & Jason Gibb
Stories and recipes from an Italian olive grove..........$19.95
The Dolphin's Tooth by Bruce Kirkby
Canada's premier adventure traveller chronicles his journey from a routine existence to his present life of extreme adventure......$22.99
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
A coming of age story of a white girl growing up in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe from 1972 - 1990. ......$17.00
Don't Look Behind You by Peter Allison
A safari guide's encounters with ravenous lions, stampeding elephants and lovesick rhinos.......$21.50
Down The Nile - Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff by Rosemary Mahoney
A rower and self-declared loner, she was determined to take a solo trip down the river in a small boat, even though civil unrest and local traditions would conspire against her along the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of Amr, a Muslim sailor, who provided her with both a seven-foot skiff for the first leg of her journey and a window into the culturally and materially impoverished lives of rural Egyptians - especially those of women, like his lonely and endearing sister, Hoda........$16.99
Down The Rat Hole by Edith Mirante
A new memoir of the author's journeys among the brave indigenous peoples of some of Asia's most remote and violent regions. Knowledgeably obsessed with Burma's struggle for freedom, American artist/activist Mirante breaks laws and infiltrates borders, in impassioned journeys of discovery that take her through China, India, Laos, and chaotic Bangladesh....$26.95
Downhill All The Way by Hilary Macaskill & Molly Wood
Walking with donkeys on the Stevenson Trail - Travels in the Cevennes.....$32.50
Dreaming in Hindi by Katherine Russell Rich
Having miraculously survived a serious illness and now at an impasse in her career as a magazine editor, Rich spontaneously accepted a free-lance writing assignment to go to India, where she found herself thunderstruck by the place and the language. Before she knew it she was on her way to Udaipur, a city in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, in order to learn Hindi.....$18.95
Dreaming of East by Barbara Hodgson
Western women and the exotic allure of the Orient..........$24.95
Dreaming of Iceland by Sally Magnusson
When Sally invites her father, Magnus, to accompany her to the land of his birth to see how many of the stories he has told her about Iceland are actually true, neither is sure quite what they are letting themselves in for.....$18.95
Dreaming of Jupiter by Ted Simon
In 1974 Ted Simon set out on a round-the-world trip by motorbike. His extraordinary account of his four-year odyssey, Jupiter's Travels, was a huge best-seller, and is now hailed as a classic. In 2001, at the age of sixty-nine, Ted Simon decided to retrace his journey. Jupiter's Travels
had encouraged countless travellers to embark on their own adventures, so why shouldn't it inspire him too? Set over two and a hal years and passing through fourty-eight countries, Dreaming of Jupiter is at turns thrilling, philosophical, hilarious and moving........$20.00
Drink, Play, F@#k by Andrew Gottlieb
One man's search for anything, across Ireland, Vegas and Thailand.........$16.95
Drinking Arak Off An Ayatollah's Beard by Nicholas Jubber
A journey through the inside-out worlds of Iran and Afghanistan.....$18.50
Driving to Mars by William L. Fox
In the Arctic with NASA on the human journey to the red planet.....$19.95
Driving Minnie's Piano by Lesley Choyce
Memoirs of a surfing life in Nova Scotia......$19.95
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Early in the Season by Edward Hoagland with an introduction Stephen Hume
A great essayist’s portrait of British Columbia in the 1960s, following Notes from the Century Before....$24.95
Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy MacLean
The classic true adventure story of a man who, by the pen, the sword and the diplomatic pouch, influenced some of the most significant events of our era.....$19.99
Eastward to Tartary by Robert D. Kaplan
Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East and the Caucasus...$21.00
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
One woman's search for everthing across, Italy, India and Indonesia.....$18.50
Eating India by Chitrita Banerji
An odyssey into the food and culture of the land of spices.....$19.00
Eating For Britain by Simon Majumdar
Home is where the belly is. But what sort of home serves up roast beef, balti and Arbroath smokies? Britain is, without question, a strage place....$24.99
Eating Up Italy - Voyages on a Vespa by Matthew Fort
In an epic scooter trip from the south to the north of Italy, award-winning food writer Matthew Fort examines the country through its food and the people who produce it.....$19.95
The Eaves of Heaven by Andrew X. Pham
A life in three wars..........$27.95
Eccentric Explorers by Michael Buckley
In this book, the rich culture and history of Tibet are viewed through a rather special lens--through the eyes of ten eccentric explorers bent on unlocking the secrets of the reclusive Land of Snows. Some of them found answers, others came back with more questions--and they all had strange tales to tell. The author's far-reaching research for the book included following the tracks of the ten explorers, toiling over the same snowbound passes, and riding on the same backside-numbing Tibetan saddles. 400 pages, 120 illustrations, 12 maps...........$27.95
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
A rich new life of a great novelist - the first biography of Edith Wharton by a British woman writer challenges the accepted view, showing Wharton's lifelong ties to Europe and displaying her as a tough, erotically brave, startlingly modern writer and woman.........$21.95
Educating Alice by Alice Steinbach
Adventures of a curious woman......$19.95
The 8:55 To Baghdad by Andrew Eames
Travel journalist Andrew Eames was in the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo when he met an elderly lady who had known Agatha Christie. Fascinated by the exotic history of this quintessentially English crime writer, he decided to retrace the trip from London to Baghdad which she had made in 1928. Travelling from London to Baghdad by train on the eve of the Iraq war, through the troubled areas of the Balkans and the Middle East, Eames found stark contrasts to the old Orient Express route as well as some unexpected connections with the past........$21.00
The Eiger Obsession by John Harlin III.............$19.95
Eimi by E. E. Cummings
A journey through Soviet Russia - unavailable for more than fifty years, Eimi finally returns, thoroughly corrected and with a new introduction by Madison Smartt Bell and an afterword by Cummings scholar Norman Friedman..........$18.50
The Elephant, The Tiger, and The Cell Phone by Shashi Tharoor
Reflections on India, the emerging 21st-century power.........$19.99
Eleven Minutes Late by Matthew Engel
A train journey to the soul of Britain...........$26.99
An Embarrassment of Mangoes by Ann Vanderhoof
A Caribbean interlude......$21.00
The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Elect of God, Lion of Judah, His Most Puissant Majesty and Distinguished Highness the Emperor of Ethiopia, reigned from 1930 until he was overthrown by the army in 1974. While the fighting still raged, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Poland's leading foreign correspondent, traveled to Ethiopia to seek out and interview Selassie's servants and closest associates on how the Emperor had ruled and why he fell.........$15.95
The Empire of Ice by Gretel Ehrlich
Encounters in a changing landscape...........$35.00
The Empire of Tea by Alan MacFarlane & Iris MacFarlane
The remarkable history of the plant that took over the world...........$16.50
Empires of The Indus by Alice Albinia
The story of a river...........$21.00
Encounters With The Middle East edited by Nesreen Khashan & Jim Bowman
True stories of people and culture that help you understand the region..........$23.50
The End of Elsewhere - Travels Among the Tourists by Taras Grescoe
This riotous on-the-road odyssey is also a brilliant history of tourism.......$21.99
End of The Earth by Peter Matthiessen
Voyages to Antarctica......$22.50
The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan
Whether he is walking through a shanty town in the Ivory Coast or a death camp in Cambodia,
talking with refugees, border guards, or Iranian revolutionaries, Kaplan travels under the most
arduous conditions and purveys the most startling truths. Intimate and intrepid, erudite and
visceral, The Ends Of The Earth is an unflinching look at the places and peoples that will
make tomorrow's headlines - and the history of the next millennium....$24.00
Endurance: Shakelton's Incredible Adventure by Alfred Lansing
Shakleton's incredible voyage.......$20.95
Enduring Cuba by Zoe Bran
"Lucid, informed, and entertaining"- Library Journal USA........$18.95
Es Cuba - Life and Love on an Illegal Island by Lea Aschkenas
In February 2000, writer Lea Aschkenas finds her way to Cuba with plans for a short visit....a moving tale of culture and politics, history and romance, and how they all collide and coexist when two people from conflicting countries fall in love.........$21.50
Essays On India by Carlo Levi..........$17.95
Eurydice Street - A Place in Athens by Sofka Zinovieff
"If Shirley Valentine had a degree in anthropology this is the story she'd write"- Allison Pearson.....$19.95
Every Day in Tuscany by Francis Mayes
Mayes affectionate and warm memoir vividly celebrates the lush abundance and charm of daily life in the Italian countryside........$29.95
Everything But The Squeal - Eating the Whole Hog in Northern Spain by John Barlow
“The attraction of Barlow’s book is that he goes well beyond the business of eating. He gives us a fascinating journal of his Galician wanderings . . . What comes through is a deep affection not just for Galicia’s pigs . . . but also for Galicia’s people and culture.” —The Economist ......$31.00
Everything is Broken - A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma by Emma Larkin
A deeply reported account of life inside Burma in the months following the disastrous Cyclone Nargis and an analysis of the brutal totalitarian regime that clings to power in the devastated nation.....$32.50
Explorer's Notebook - Essay's on Life, History and Climate by Tim Flannery
'This is one of the most important books of this young century.....An urgent call to action that we cannot afford to ignore' David Suzuki......$21.95
Extremes Along the Silk Road: Adventures Off The World's Oldest Superhighway by Nick Middleton
Weaving together personal experience of almost ridiculous endurance - sleeping on steaming rocks in the middle of a sub-zero desert, courting altitude sickness in otherwise meditative Tibet, risking the anthrax spores of Vozrozhdeniye Island's post-Stalinist wasteland - with the bigger picture of our planet's new "lost worlds" and their people, this brilliant adventure writing from a man who has dared to go places that often history has feared to tread......$18.95
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Fabrizio's Return by Mark Frutkin
Set in Cremona, Italy, in 1682, Fabrizio's Return is a charming tale of romance and alchemy, commedia dell'arte and astronomy, rambling skeletons and cracks in time. From Fabrizio Cambiati, a priest scouring the night sky for the return of a comet, to ancient duchesses and insolent dwarfs, to a Jesuit investigating the flaws in Fabrizio's character seventy-six years later, this is an assured and intelligent novel, a miraculous tale that packs joy into its every page..........$19.95
Facing Athens by George Sarrinikolaou
In this lyrical and radiant book, George Sarrinikolaou, a native Athenian who emigrated from Greece to America, strips Athens of its stereotypes to reveal a city straining under the passions and burdens of early-twenty-first-century life........$22.50
Facing the Congo by Jeffrey Tayler
A modern-day journey into the heart of darkness. Filled with honesty and rich description, Facing The Congo is a sophisticated depiction of today's Democratic Republic of Congo, a country brought to its knees by a succession of despotic leaders. But most important, Tayler's stunning narrative is a deeply satisfying personal journey of fear and awakening, with a message that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt compelled, whether in life or in fantasy, to truly explore and experience our world.....$16.95
The Factory of Light by Michael Jacobs
Life in an Andalucian village....$18.95
Falling Palace - A Romance of Naples by Dan Hofstadter
A portrait of the sun-drenched volcanic city from an American who has lost his heart to the place and to a beguiling Neapolitan woman.....$18.95
Families of the Vine by Michael S. Sanders
Seasons among the winemakers of Southwestern France.....$17.99
Falling Off the Edge by Alex Perry
If the world is flat, as the prophets of globalization proclaim, then what happens on the underside? Alex Perry answers with this eye-opening journey through the planet's most dangerous hotspots. .....$28.50
Fantasy in Florence - Leaving Home and Loving It by Rod McQueen
When Sandy and Rod McQueen sold their house, stored their furniture, and left home to live in Florence, Italy, they were on the "now or never" plan as they sought to step outside their ordinary lives. Fantasy in Florence transports you to the historic center of the city to share their "room with a view" of the Medici Chapels and the Duomo........$29.95
Far From Home edited by Wendy Knight
Father-daughter travel adventures.....$21.50
Fast Boat to China - Lessons From Shanghai by Andrew Ross
Corporate outsourcing has bitterly divided advocates and critics of free trade; the transfer of jobs overseas to cheaper locations has had a profound effect on dislocated employees and their communities, and, increasingly, it is the high-skill, white-collar positions that are feeling the impact. In Fast Boat to China, Andrew Ross looks at the controversial issue of offshore outsourcing to China - specifically that of white-collar jobs at U.S. global manufacturing and high-tech companies...........$21.00
Fast Company by David M. Gross
A memoir of life, love, and motorcycles in Italy................$17.50
A Fez of the Heart by Jeremy Seal
Jeremy Seal set out across Turkey, in the extremes of winter, to trace the astonishing history of a
cone-shaped hat. He soon saw the fez as the key by which Turkey, beset by contradictions, might
be understood. An engaging and agile mix of history and travel, politics and reportage, A Fez
of the Heart is a deeply instructive piece of contemporary social history as well as a highly
entertaining insight into the bizarre struggle for the soul of contemporary Turkey.......$16.99
Fidel & Gabo by Angel Esteban & Stephanie Panichelli
A portrait of the legendary friendship between Fidel Castro and Gabriel Garcia Marquez...........$32.50
Fierce Heart by Stuart Holmes Coleman
The story of Makaha and the soul of Hawaiian surfing.....$17.99
Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin..............$19.95
First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria by Eve Brown-Waite
How a Peace Corps poster boy won my heart...and a Third-World adventure changed my life.......$17.99
First Pass Under Heaven by Nathan Hoturoa Gray
One man's 4,000-kilometre trek along the Great Wall of China............$22.00
First Stop in the New World by David Lida
David Lida has written what will surely stand for years as the definitive Mexico City book. Keen, clear-eyed, street-smart and culture-savvy, filled with eye-popping detail and probing insights, First Stop in the New World manages to do the seemingly impossible: deliver one of the most vexing, stimulating, dynamic and misunderstood capitals on earth into the realm of the comprehensible. It is impossible to imagine a better book about the city, a better writer to deliver it.” - Tony Cohan, author of On Mexican Time and Mexican Days..........$20.00
Fleeting Rome by Carlo Levi
In search of la Dolce Vita........$18.99
Flightless by Lonely Planet Writers
Incredible journeys without leaving the ground....$19.50
Floating Through France edited by Barbara J. Euser
Life between locks on the Canal du Midi.........$19.50
Florence A Delicate Case by David Leavitt
Another in the series of The Writer and The City.....$22.95
Follow The Elephant by Beryl Young
"A richly colourful, adventure-packed novel that keeps you turning page after page, while the sights, sounds, and flavours of India permeate the senses" - Pamela Porter, Governor General's Award Winner for The Crazy Man.....$10.95
Following The Equator by Mark Twain
On a lecturing trip around the world, Mark twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands.
Twain's instinctive eye for the unusual, his wide-ranging curiosity, and his delight in embellishing the facts makes this trip around the Pacific Ocean a delight. The personalities of the ship's crew and passengers, the poetry of Australian place-names, and the success of women's suffrage in New Zealand, among other topics, are the focus of his wry humour and redoubtable powers of observation. This book is an evocative and highly unique portrait of nineteenth-century travel and customs....$19.00
For All The Tea in China by Sarah Rose
How England stole the world's favorite drink and changed history...............$32.50
For The Love of Ireland edited by Susan Cahill
A literary companion for readers and travellers.....$21.00
Foreign Devils On the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk
The search for the lost treasures of Central Asia.......$19.95
Forget Me Not by Jennifer Lowe-Anker
High in the Himalaya, a world-class adventurer dies, leaving behind a wife, three young sons, and a best friend to vope with their grief..........$22.50
A Fortune-Teller Told Me by Tiziano Terzani
Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for a whole year, Tiziano Terzani- a vastly experienced Asia correspondent- took what he called `the first step into an unknown world...It turned out to be one of the most extraordinary year that I have ever spent: I was marked for death, and instead I was reborn.' Travelling by foot, boat, bus, car and train, he visited Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Mongolia, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia.....$17.50
Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr
On twins, insomnia, and the biggest funeral in the history of the world............$16.00
Fourth Uncle in the Mountain by Quang Van Nguyen and Marjorie Pivar
The remarkable legacy of a Buddhist itinerant doctor in Vietnam.......$17.95
The Fragile Edge by Julia Whitty
Diving and other adventures in the South Pacific.........$19.95
Fragrant Rice - My Continuing Love Affair With Bali by Janet De Neefe
A tale of passion, marriage and food.........$22.95
France A Traveler's Literary Companion edited by William Rodamor & Anna Livia
Stories selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler........$19.50
The French Riviera by Ted Jones
A literary guide for travellers.........$18.50
French Revolutions by Tim Moore
Cycling the Tour de France.........$23.95
French Tales translated by Helen Constantine
This captivationg collection of twenty-two translated stories - one connected with each region - gives us a panoramic view of French society and culture, in all its variety and diversity, from Brittany to Corsica.....$19.95
French Toast by Peta Mathias
Mathias is a French food writer and this is her book about such, that is essential reading for anyone planning a trip to France. It is full of travel information, regional food , specialties and culture.....$23.00
Fried Eggs With Chopsticks by Polly Evans
One woman's hilarious adventure into a country and a culture not her own.....$16.50
From A Persian Tea House - Travels In Old Iran by Michael Carroll
A forgotten gem of travel writing, From A Persian Teahouse is a revealing and luminous portrait of a country that has since changed beyond all recognition.........$17.95
From Heaven Lake by Vikram Seth
In 1981, after two years as a graduate student at Nanjing University, Vikram Seth decided to save
money and hitchhike home to New Delhi via Tibet. Small, definitely not Occidental in
appearance, and fluent in Chinese, he wore the traditional blue trousers, jacket and visored cap
and was sometimes, at first, taken for a Chinese. He proved to be an observant, irrepressible, and
resourceful traveller who took in his stride battles with the Communist bureaucracy, climatic
extremes and the amiable but agonizing discomfort of riding long distances in bad weather over
inferior or nonexistent roads in antiquated trucks. His persuasiveness and almost perfect Chinese
enabled him to hold candid conversations with the people he met- and to reach his destination
safely....$18.95
From The Holy Mountain - A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple
This "huge" and breathtaking book, is an elegy to the slowly dying civilization of Eastern Christianity and the peoples that have kept it's flame alive. It is a rich and gripping blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with a thread of black comedy....$19.95
From The Land of Green Ghosts by Pascal Khoo Thwe
A Burmese odyssey.......$16.50
The Fruit Hunters by Adam Leith Gollner
A story of nature, adventure, commerce, and obsession...........$19.95
The Fruit Palace by Charles Nicholl
"A quite extraordinary travel book about the Colombian cocaine trade. A wild adventure that came off."- Sunday Telegraph.......$21.95
The Full Montezuma by Peter Moore
A hilarious if cautious tale of a trip around Central America with his significant other.....$21.95
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The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
One grump's search for the happiest places in the world..........$15.50
Getting Stoned With Savages by J. Maarten Troost
A trip through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu.........$17.99
Ghost Train To The Eastern Star by Paul Theroux
Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world's most acclaimed travel wtiter re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the I(ndian Subcontinent, Japan, and Siberia.........$21.00
Ghost Train Through The Andes - On My Grandfather's Trail in Chile & Bolivia by Michael Jacobs
Almost a hundred years after his railway engineer grandfather embarked on his long, lonely passage to a remote corner of South America, Michael Jacobs sets off on a journey that will follow in his footsteps.....$18.95
Ghosts of Spain - Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past by Giles Tremlett
The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco’s death squads finally broke what Spaniards call “the pact of forgetting”—the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around the country and through its history to discover why some of Europe’s most voluble people have kept silent so long. Ghosts of Spain is the fascinating result of that journey. In elegant and passionate prose, Tremlett unveils the tinderbox of disagreements that mark the country today. Delving into such emotional questions as who caused the Civil War, why Basque terrorists kill, why Catalans hate Madrid, and whether the Islamist bombers who killed 190 people in 2004 dreamed of a return to Spain’s Moorish past, Tremlett finds the ghosts of the past everywhere. At the same time, he offers trenchant observations on more quotidian aspects of Spanish life today: the reasons, for example, Spaniards dislike authority figures, but are cowed by a doctor’s white coat, and how women have embraced feminism without men noticing. Drawing on the author’s twenty years of experience living in Spain, Ghosts of Spain is a revelatory book about one of Europe’s most exciting countries.............$18.00
Giant Steps by Karl Bushby
An American travels from Punta Arenas to the edge of Alaska - walking......$19.00
A Gift from Brittany by Marjorie Price
A memoir of love and loss in the French countryside.........$16.50
Give Me the World Leila Hadley
The dream trip of a lifetime for many people is brought to life by a gifted travel writer. Two years around the world with her 6 year old son and four young strangers on a boat.......$19.95
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
Rajkumar in only a boy, helping out on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace in Mandalay, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and court into exile. Thus begins The Glass Palace, a novel that not only grasps the reach and fall of empires across the twentieth century, but also maps with unerring skill the rival geography of the human heart...$19.00
Glory in a Camels Eye by Jeffrey Taylor
Trekking through the Moroccan Desert....$15.95
The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Towards Enlightenment in The Land of The Tattered Buddha by Stephen T. Asma
A tale of misadventures in Southeast Asia, where modern Western culture clashes with Theravada, the oldest form of Buddhism. Follow young professor Asma as he stumbles his way toward enlightenment in the now tattered and often dangerous land of the Buddha............$18.99
God's Middle Finger by Richard Grant
Into the lawless heart of the Sierra Madre.........$16.95
Going To Extremes - Mud, Sweat and Frozen Tears by Nick Middleton
Oxford don, geographer, travel writer and all-round adventurer Nick Middleton embarks on a journey of discovery in a bid to locate the hottest, coldest, wettest and driest inhabited places on earth...........$17.99
The Golden Horde - From The Himalaya to The Mediterranean by Sheila Paine
The quest for a mysterious amulet that had taken Sheila Paine from the Hindu Kush to Bulgaria in The Afghan Amulet continues. Starting in the forbidden valley of Palas in Pakistan, she travels through the former territories of the soviet union - from Arctic Northern Russia, through the lands of Genghis Khan's Golden Horde and into Soviet Central Asia - Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and into the wild Tien Shan. She follows ancient trading routes, travelling in the footsteps of merchants and armies, chasing legends of goddess worship, traditions of Orthodox belief and stories of pagan superstition. Her relentless pursuit, involving years of travel, finally ends on the island of Karpathos in Greece, where in a tiny church on Easter Sunday she makes an extraordinary discovery..........$17.95
The Golden Spruce - A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Valliant
On a winter night in 1997, a British Columbia timber scout named Grant Hadwin commited an act of shocking violence in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Winner of the GG's......$21.00
Golfing On The Roof Of The World - In Pursuit of Gross National Hapiness by Rick Lipsey
Peter Mayle meets Rick Reilly in this hilarious, evocative, and unforgettable accounts of a Sports Illustrated writer's stint as a golf pro in the world's last Buddhist kingdom (Bhutan).......$31.00
Gone To New York: Adventures in The City by Ian Frazier
Frazier chronicles his relationship with New York City in this collection of essays from the New Yorker, the Atlantic and elsewhere. Kincaid's foreword celebrates her friend's identification with Ohio, but despite the formative importance of his hometown and state, Frazier clearly develops a particular, fond attachment to all the places he comes to know. His essays pile up sensory detail, personalities, stories and history, creating a patina of personal meaning. Whether it's Canal Street in a grittier time, the bus route he takes to his current home in New Jersey or the roundabout way he made it to New York in the first place, Frazier creates a sense of place and of the way people interact with it: a memorial grows up and disintegrates at the site of a fatal shooting; a repairman embodies the history of typewriters; he himself becomes obsessed with removing bags stuck in trees. Some sense of New York is probably necessary to enjoy this collection, but whether one's knowledge is great or slight, Frazier's evocation of the city over three decades is thoughtful, entertaining and occasionally moving, and his own journey from the Midwest to Manhattan, Brooklyn and eventually New Jersey will resonate for many readers........$19.00
Graham Greene - A Life in Letters edited by Richard Greene
Graham Greene's remarkable letters are the most intimate record we have of a life lived at the heart of the twentieth century.........$35.95
The Granta Book of Reportage (3rd edition 2006)
Featuring writing by James Fenton, Martha Gellhorn, Germaine Greer, Ryszard Kapuscinski, John le Carre, John Simpson and more.....$19.50
Greasy Rider by Greg Melville
Two dudes, one fry-oil-powered car, and a cross country search for a greener future......$21.95
The Great Cities in History edited by John Julius Norwich.....$57.00
The Great Game: On Secret Service In High Asia by Peter Hopkirk
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth- Victorian Britain and Tsarist
Russia- fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in
this shadowy struggle called it `The Great Game', a phrase immortalized in Kipling's Kim. This
book tells the story of the Great Game through the exploits of the young officers, both British and
Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy men or native horse traders, they
mapped secret passes, gathered intelligence, and sought the allegiance of powerful khans. Some
never returned...$19.95
The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
Fired by a fascination with trains that stemmed from childhood, Paul Theroux set out one day
with the intention of boarding every train that chugged into view from Victoria Station in London
to Tokyo Central, and to come back again via the Trans-Siberian Express....$18.95
Greece, A Love Story edited by Camille Cusumano
Women write about the Greek experience...............$20.50
Greece: A Traveler's Literary Companion edited by Artemos Leontis
Stories selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler.......$19.50
Grounded by Seth Stevenson
A down to earth journey around the world....$18.50
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Hadrian's Empire by Danny Danziger & Nicholas Purcell
'Racy and readable. The authors give us an excellent sense of what life was like when Rome was still vigorous' Daily Telegraph.......$18.95
The Hall of a Thousand Columns by Tim MacIntosh-Smith
Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah......$16.95
A Handful of Honey by Annie Hawes
Away to the palm groves of Morocco and Algeria...........$13.99
The Handsomest Man in Cuba - An Escapade by Lynette Chiang
Lynette Chiang fled a decent job, three-bedroom house, fast car, and nice bloke in Sydney and, armed with a poor sense of direction, set off to see the world on a folding bicycle. The Handsomest Man in Cuba is the tale of her three-month romp pedaling through Cuba and dealing with whatever comes her way - and just about everything does..........$18.95
The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux
"Possibly his best travel book....an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took him to 51 Pacific islands"- Time.....$21.95
Happyslapped By A Jellyfish by Karl Pilkington
A collection of baffling, hilarious, infuriating yet curiously compelling insights and anecdotes, diary entries, poems, "true" facts, cartoons, and assorted witterings concerning travel from the mind of Karl Pilkington, the unlikely star of the Ricky Gervais Show, the world's funniest and most successful podcast.........$22.00
Havana - Autobiography of a City by Alfredo Jose Estrada.........$16.95
Havana Salsa - Stories & Recipes by Viviana Carballo
With more than seventy mouthwatering recipes, this vibrant memoir by food writer Viviana Carballo shares the Havana of her childhood - warm nights, pounding surf, energetic music, and the memorable meals that both nourished and delighted her and her family throughout the years..........$16.99
Hearing Birds Fly - A Nomadic Year in Mongolia by Louisa Waugh
After two years of working in the Mongul capital, Ulaanbaatar, Louisa Waugh moved to a remote village called Tsengel, which lies in the extreme west of Mongolia. Hearing Birds Fly is her story of the year she spent there, living and working with the Tsengel people who have made a home in this stark but beautiful landscape...........$20.00
Heart of the Cariboo edited by Diana Wilson
This book celebrates the story of this harshly beautiful and remote region in BC's north............$19.95
The Heart of The World by Ian Baker
A journey into Tibet's lost paradise..........$18.50
Heart So Hungry by Randall Silvis
A woman's extraordinary journey into the Labrador wilderness.......$22.00
Here Be Yaks by Manosi Lahiri
Travels in far west Tibet...........$17.95
The Hills of Adonis by Colin Thubron
A quest in Lebanon.........$23.95
The Hills of Tuscany by Ferenc Mate
A sensuous valentine to author Ferenc Máté's adopted homeland, The Hills of Tuscany brims with lush descriptions of golden dales, scrumptious meals, rich wines, and friendly natives. After years of nomadic roaming from Central America to Canada, Máté (a writer) and his wife, Candace (a painter), visit Tuscany and impulsively decide that this is where they will settle down. A year later they return and begin the hunt for their dream house. As the likeable Mátés (they're funny and suitably grateful for the chance to live in one of the world's garden spots) troll the countryside with a series of colorful Tuscan middlemen, it's impossible not to become emotionally involved in their quest. And when they finally discover the perfect abode--La Marinaia, a tastefully renovated stone farmhouse set amid scenery that Ferenc describes as "like being in the middle of a painting"--you're thrilled right along with them. Subsequent chapters follow the Mátés' growing friendship with their neighbors, who not only help rototill the garden but also reveal where to find porcini mushrooms and truffles in the nearby woods. All in all, reading The Hills of Tuscany is the next best thing to quitting your job, climbing on a plane, and finding your own Tuscan dream house. ....$18.50
Himalaya by Michael Palin
As seen on BBC.......$19.95
Historic London by Stephen Inwood
An explorer's companion.............$24.95
Hitching Rides With Buddha by Will Ferguson
A journey across Japan...........$21.00
Holidays in Hell by P.J. O'Rourke
In which our intrepid reporter travels to the world's worst places and asks "What's funny about this?".............$15.50
Holy Cow by Sarah MacDonald
An Indian adventure....$16.95
Home and Dry in Normandy by George East
This is the charming true story of how one couple set out with a dream of moving to Normandy, and got far more thatn they ever bargained for......$16.95
Homer's Mediterranean by Wolfgang Geisthovel.........$24.50
Hot Sun Cool Shadow by Angela Murrills
Savouring the food, history and mystery of the Languedoc....$21.75
The Hour of The Goddess by Chitrita Banerji
Memories of women, food and ritual in Bengal..........$15.00
A House in Bali by Colin McPhee
Writer and composer Colin McPhee (1900-64) brings a unique perspective to life on the fabled island of Bali....$27.95
A House in Fez by Suzanna CLarke
While vacationing in Morocco, Suzanna Clarke and her husband, Sandy, are inspired to buy a dilapidated, centuries-old riad in Fez with the aim of restoring it to its original splendor, using only traditional craftsmen and handmade materials. So begins a remarkable adventure that is bewildering, at times hilarious, and ultimately immensely rewarding.
A House in Fez chronicles their meticulous restoration, but it is also a journey into Moroccan customs and lore and a window into the lives of its people as friendships blossom. When the riad is finally returned to its former glory, Suzanna finds she has not just restored an old house, but also her soul.......$19.99
How to Be A Canadian by Will Ferguson & Ian Ferguson
The Ferguson brothers do Canada........$19.95
The Human, The Orchid and The Octopus by Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein
Exploring and conserving our natural world....$17.50
The Hungry Cyclist by Tom Kevill-Davies
Pedalling the Americas looking for the perfect meal.....$17.95
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I, Rigoberta Menchu, an Indian Woman in Guatemala Edited by Elisabeth
Burgos-Debray
This book recounts the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchu, a young Guatemalan peasant
woman. Her story reflects the experience common to many Indian communities in Latin America
today. Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and
mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechist
work as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment....$22.00
I Didn't Do It For You by Michela Wrong
How the world used and abused the small African nation of Eritrea.........$19.95
I Golfed Across Mongolia by Andre Tolme
The true story of an epic and outlandish golf adventure - by the New York Times' "Golfer of the Year" and one of Outside Magazine's "25 Coolest People."........$18.50
I Have Fun Everywhere I Go by Mike Edison
Savage tales of pot, porn, punk rock, pro-wrestling, talking apes, evil bosses, dirt blues, American heroes, and the notorious magazines in the world........$18.95
I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China by Zhu Wen
An immediate sensation in China, I Love Dollars is a hilarious send-up of China's love affair with capitalism by one of its most gifted new writers......$14.00
The Ice Maiden by Johan Reinhard
Inca mummies, mountain gods, and sacred sites in the Andes............$21.00
The Ice Museum by Joanna Kavenna
To Shetland, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Estonia, Greenland and Svalbard in search of the lost land of Thule...........$18.50
The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers edited by Mary Morris with Larry O'Connor
'A volume in which rich and unexpected seams of precious minerals await discovery.'- The Guardian......$32.00
I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears by Jag Bhalla
Idioms from around the world.....$15.50
Imagined London by Anna Quindlen
A tour of the world's greatest fictional city.....$15.00
Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Imperium begins with Ryszard Kapuscinski's account of the Soviet occupation of his town in easern Poland in 1939. Out of the passivity and paranoia, ethnic hatred and relgious fanatacism that have riven two generations of Eastern Europeans, Kapuscinski has composed a symphony for a collapsing empire - a work that translates history into the hopes and sufferings of the human beings condemned to live it..........$21.00
In Arabian Nights by Tahir Shah
A canvas of Morrocan dreams........$15.00
In Bad Taste by Professor Massimo Marcone
A quest for the World's most exotic foods......$19.95
In Europe - Travels Through the Twentieth Century by Geert Mak
Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. The result is mesmerising: Mak's rare double talent as a sharp-eyed journalist and a hugely imaginative historian makes "In Europe" a dazzling account of that journey, full of diaries, newspaper reports and memoirs, and the voices of prominent figures and unknown players; from the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Adrinana Warno in Poland, with her holiday job at the gates of the camp at Birkenau. But Mak is above all an observer. He describes what he sees at places that have become Europe's well-springs of memory, where history is written into the landscape. At Ypres, he hears the blast of munitions from the Great War that are still detonated there twice a day. In Warsaw, he finds the point where the tram rails that led to the Jewish ghetto come to a dead end in a city park. And in an abandoned creche near Chernobyl, where tiny pairs of shoes still stand in neat rows, he is transported back to the moment time stood still in the dying days of the Soviet Union. Mak combines the larger story of twentieth-century Europe with details that suddenly give it a face, a taste and a smell. His unique approach makes the reader an eyewitness to his own half-forgotten past, full of unknown peculiarities, sudden insights and touching encounters. In Europe is a masterpiece; it reads like the epic novel of Europe's most extraordinary century.....$23.00
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
It's Australia's turn! ......$22.00
In Morocco by Edith Wharton
In 1917, amid the turmoil of World War I, Edith Wharton travelled to Morocco. A classic of
travel writing, In Morocco is her account of this journey through the country's cities and
through its deserts....$20.95
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
The first of Bruce Chatwin's books, In Patagonia is a quest to the "uttermost part of the
earth." It is about wandering and exile. The narrator travels to a remote country in search of a
strange beast and, as he goes along, describes his encounters with other people whose stories
delay him on the road..........$16.50
In Siberia by Colin Thubron
This is Thubrons 15,000 kilometre journey through Siberia.....$23.95
In Spite of the Gods - The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce
"In Spite of the Gods is without question the best book yet written on the New India: witty, clear and accessible yet minutely researched and confidently authoritative. Edward Luce has proved himself an affectionate and unusually perceptive observer of the Indian scene." - William Dalrymple...........$22.00
In The Footsteps of Mr Kurtz by Michela Wrong
A sparkling account of the rise and fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, the charismatic dictator who plundered his country's wealth and indulged a passion for pink champagne, gold jewelery and chartered Concordes.....$17.50
In The Land Of The Red Goat by Bob Henderson
From an Ontario private school to the headwaters of the Stikine, Henderson recounts his conversion from privilege to pack saddles in BC's rugged Spatsizi country..........$21.00
In the Naga's Wake by Mick O'Shea
The first man to navigate the Mekong, from Tibet to the South China Sea.....$21.95
In The Shadow of the Taj by Royina Grewal
A portrait of Agra...........$16.00
In The Sierra Madre by Jeff Biggers
Based on his one-year sojourn in a remote village among the Raramuri/Tarahumara in Mexico's renowned Copper Canyon, award-winning journalist Jeff Biggers offers a rare look into one of the most resilient indigenous cultures in the Americas, the exploits of Mexican mountaineers, and recounts the fascinating parade of argonauts and accidental travelers that has journeyed into the Sierra Madre over centuries..........$29.95
In Trouble Again by Redmond O'Hanlon
O'Hanlon's trip to the Amazon really makes you want to go exploring! ....$18.99
In Xanadu: A Quest by William Dalrymple
"William Dalrymple's In Xanadu carries us breakneck from a pre-dawn glimmer in the
Holy Sepulchre right across to Asia to a bleak wind in Kubla Khan's palace...it is learned and
comic, and a most gifted first book touched by the spirits of Kinglake, Robert Byron and
E.Waugh."- Patrick Leigh Fermor, `Book Of The Year', Spectator....$19.95
Incidents of Travel In Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan Volume I by John L.Stephens
In addition to being a great book on archaeological discovery, Stephens's work is also a great travel book......$18.95
Incidents of Travel In Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan Volume II by John L.Stephens
The conclusion of John Steves great adventure and discovery, Stephens's work is also a great travel book......$18.95
Incognito Street - How Travel Made Me A Writer by Barbara Sjoholm
An evocative look at an adventurous, curious young expatriate and the forces that would shape her eventual career as a writer, translator, and publisher.......$20.50
Incontinent on the Continent by Jane Chritmas
This book will strike a chord with anyone who has tried to make friends with their mother whilst on an overseas trip......$21.00
India In Slow Motion by Mark Tully
Tully undertakes a journey that has no true beginning or end, seeking to unravel the mysteries lying at the heart of the country of his birth........$22.50
India With Sanjeev Bhaskar by Sanjeev Bhaskar
In Sanjeev we have the perfect witty and thoughtful travelling companion with a unique take on a remarkable country - chaotic, astonishing and jaw-droppingly beautiful. This is India like you've never seen it before...........$19.95
India's Unending Journey by Mark Tully
In this remarkable and timely work, Tully reveals the profound changes happening in India today, and brings the country alive in a way only he can do..........$23.95
Indian Takeaway by Hardeep Singh Kohli
As a boy, Hardeep Singh knew where he was from: Glasgow. But everyone else always assumed he was Indian. Thirty years later, Hardeep sets out on a journey to discover where he is really from..........$17.00
An Innocent in Newfoundland by David McFadden
Even more curious rambles and singular encounters....$24.99
Inside Central Asia by Dilip Hiro
A political and cultural history of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran.......$43.50
Into A Paris Quartier by Diane Johnson
Reine Margot's Chapel and other haunts of St.-Germain.........$14.50
Into The Abyss - Explorers On The Edge of Survival by Benedict Allen
In 2003, Benedict Allen took a team of hardened "ice-dogs" into the remotest corner of Siberia. Unknown to him, the Russian Arctic was about to face its worst winter in living memory...........$18.00
Into The Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon
Armed with equipment and advice from 22 SAS, Hereford and accompanied by Sea Dyak
trackers, Redmond O'Hanlon, the naturalist, and James Fenton, the poet, set out on a long river
voyage into the far interior of a tropical jungle hoping to reach the Tiban massif....$18.99
Into Thick Air by Jim Malusa
Biking to the bellybutton of six continents................$22.00
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon
Krakauer
This is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed
journalist and author of the bestseller into The Wild. On assignment for Outside magazine to
report on the growing commercialization of the mountain, Krakauer, an accomplished climber,
went to the Himalaya as a client of Rob Hall, the most respected high-altitude guide in the world.
A rangy, thirty-five-year-old New Zealander, Hall had made the summit of Everest four times
between 1990 and 1995 and led thirty-nine climbers to the top. Ascending the mountain in close
proximity to Hall's team was a guided expedition led by Scott Fischer, a forty-year-old American
with legendary strength and drive who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen in
1994. But neither Hall nor Fischer survived the rouge storm that struck in May 1996............$18.95
Into Tibet by Thomas Laird
The CIA's first atomic spy and his secret expedition to Lhasa.......$19.50
The Invention of Paris by Eric Hazan
A history in footsteps..........$37.50
Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi
From prison to Peace Prize: one woman's struggle at the crossroads of history..........$21.00
Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn by Jamie Maslin
A hitchhiker's adventures...........$33.95
Ireland - In a Glass of It's Own by Peter Biddlecomb
This is Peter Biddlecomb's eleventh collection: a hilarious account of the world's most travelled travel-writer's adventures around the Emerald Isle - and not just the coastal areas beloved of normal (i.e. lesser) writers, but the bits in between too. Particularly those bits with pubs on them.....$21.00
Ireland: A Traveler's Literary Companion edited by James Mc Elroy
Stories selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler ........$19.50
Irish Blood, English Heart, Ulster Fry by Annie Caulfield
Return journeys to Ireland - Annie Caulfield spent an idyllic early childhood in Northern Ireland before she was uprooted to England. There she grew up watching The Troubles from afar and found herself unable to recognize the first place she'd called home.......$16.00
The Irish Way by Robert Emmett Ginna
A walk through Ireland's past and present.....$20.50
An Irreverent Curiosity by David Farley
In search of the church's strangest relic in Italy's oddest town....$20.00
Island of Bali by Miguel Covarrubias
First published in 1937, this book is still regarded by many as the most authoritative text on Bali and its fascinating people. Included is a wealth of information on the daily life, art, customs and religion of this magical "Island of the Gods"......$27.95
An Island Parish - A Summer on Scilly by Nigel Farrell
These are just some of the inhabitants of the Isles of Scilly - 28 miles to the west of Land's End - who writer and broadcaster Nigel Farrell encounters when he spends a summer discovering what life is really like for the two thousand islanders who belong to England's most remore parish..........$18.95
Israel: A Traveler's Literary Companion edited by Michael Gluzman & Naomi Seidman
Stories selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler ........$14.00
Istanbul - Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
A portrait of one of the World's great cities. Got great reviews........$19.95
Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
One of the richest and most absorbing travel books ever written - a journey that traverses the Italian peninsula and immerses us in a culture that, in its inexhaustible depth and ripeness, provides the reader with a definition of the good life....$20.50
Italian Summer by Roland Merullo
Golf, food and family at Lake Como.....$32.99
Italy, A Love Story edited by Camille Cusumano
Women write about the Italian experience......$21.50
Italy A Traveller's Literary Companion (1st edition 2007) edited and translated by Lawrence Venuti
See the country through the ey's of some of their best writers.....$19.50
Italy Out of Hand by Barbara Hodgson
A beautiful little book on Italy that is not a guide so much as a tour of the country's historical oddities......$26.95
It Still Moves by Amanda Petrusich
Lost songs, lost highways and the search for the next American music.....$18.95
It's All Greek To Me by John Mole
In a charming saga of sun, sea, sand - and cement - John Mole tells of the back-breaking but joyous labours of fixing up his own Arcadia and introduces a warm, generous and garrulous cast of characters who helped (and occasionally hindered) his progress.........$17.95
It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street by Emma Williams
Sympathetic yet unsparingly honest, this deeply affecting memoir is a unique contribution to our understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.....$19.95
It's Not About The Tapas by Polly Evans
Exploring the country that gave the world flamenco, chocolate, sherry, Franco, and Picasso, Polly takes us from the towering Pyrenees to the vineyards of Jerez de la Frontera, spinning tales of conquistadors and kings, vibrant history and mouth-watering cuisine..........$18.95
It's Our Turn To Eat by Michela Wrong
The story of a Kenyan whistle blower...........$24.95
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Jaipur Nama - Tales From The Pink City by Giles Tillotson
Jaipur Nama is the story of one of India's most fascinating cities, as seen through the eyes of both its residents and its visitors, who witnessed and recorded different moments in Jaipur's history between the 18th and the 20th centuries.........$20.00
Japan A Traveler's Literary Companion edited by Jeffrey Angles and J. Thomas Rimer
Stories selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler ........$19.50
Japanland by Karin Muller
A year in search of Wa.........$17.95
Jewels - A Secret History by Victoria Finlay
When we put on jewels, what are we really wearing? Victoria Finlay travels across the world to tell the true stories of these miraculous oddities of nature. Her search takes her to the opal fields of Australia with their underground towns, to Scotland to find the last of the pearl fishers; through a ruby market in Burma under the eyes of the military junta, and to the Native American reserve that holds the world's biggest supply of a forgotten gem. Throughout she asks: in an era when we can manufacture synthetics, why do jewels still hold their appeal?........$18.95 (formerly Buried Treasure)
Join the Revolution, Comrade by Charles Foran
In Join the Revolution, Comrade, Charles Foran visits places in Vietnam that have been “colonised” by western war films, talks to Shanghai residents about their city, and commiserates with the people of Bali about the effects of terrorist bombs on their island. He maps the geography of Canadian literature, and defends the novel against those who would tame it. From Thailand to Toronto and everywhere in between, Foran’s collection of essays is “an impressive quest through culture, politics, and language … [that] … enlists us in the war of thought against cliché.” (Ronald Wright, author of A Short History of Progress) .......$19.95
Journey to the Edge of the World Billy Connolly
To have Billy Connolly as a personal tour guide through some of the world's most dramatic landscapes - from the Atlantic to the Pacific via the fabled Northwest Passage - is to enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime experience.......$39.95
Journey to Portugal by Jose Saramago
In pursuit of Portugal's history and culture. Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.....$22.95
Jupiter's Travels by Ted Simon
Four year's around the world on a Triumph......$10.99
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K2 The Savage Mountain by Charles S. Houston, M.D. , and Robert H. Bates
The classic true story of disaster and survival on the world's second-highest mountain...............$18.95
Karma Cola by Gita Mehta
Marketing the Mystic East...........$16.95
Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet - In Search of a Legendary Armada by James P. Delgado
A gripping account of the seafaring adventures of the Mongol Empire under Khubilai Khan. ....$29.95
The Kid Who Climbed Everest by Bear Grylls
The incredible story of a 23-year-old's summit of Mt. Everest...........$20.95
The Kindness of Strangers (Lonely Planet) edited by Don George
Tales of fate and fortune on the road, including original stories by Jan Morris, Tim Cahill, Simon Winchester and Dave Eggers.............$16.99
The Kingdom by the Sea by Paul Theroux
After eleven years living as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise
round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer
of the Falklands War and the royal baby, and the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into
talking about themselves. The result is vivid and absolutely riveting reading..............$19.95
Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things by Gary Geddes
An impossible journey from Kabul to Chiapis.......$21.95
Kinky Gazpacho by Lori L. Tharps
Life, love and Spain...........$16.99
Kiss and Tango - Looking For Love in Buenos Aires by Marina Palmer
Inspiring, outrageous, and bursting with passion, this is the ideal book for anyone secretly dreaming of taking their own gamble of a lifetime......$16.50
Kiss or Kill by Mark Twight
Confessions of a serial Climber......$22.50
Kiss The Sunset Pig - A Canadian's American Road Trip (With Exotic Detours) by Laurie Gough
In this lyrical, poetic, and charmingly funny book, Laurie Gough drives from Ontario to California reflecting on a life spent travelling in search of new experiences and familiar sensations........$22.00
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
An epic exploration of the ties that bind sons to fathers and boyhood friends to one another - and of the forces that tear them apart..........$21.00
Kiwi Tracks by Andrew Stevenson
Many of us dream of escaping from everyday life, tossing a few possessions in a backpack and travelling light in far-off lands. Andrew Stevenson did more than dream: he packed his rucksack and went......$14.95
Knocking On The Moonlit Door by Margaret Thompson
Reflections on journeys to Europe and other destinations.........$24.95
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Across the pacific by raft.........$15.95
Korea - A Walk Through the Land of Miracles by Simon Winchester
Fascinating for its vivid presentation of historical and geographical detail, Korea is that rare book that actually defines a nation and its people.....$17.99
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La Bella Figura - A Field Guide to the Italian Mind by Beppe Severgnini
Join the bestselling author of Ciao, America! on a lively tour of modern Italy that takes you behind the seductive face it puts on for visitors - La Bella Figura - and highlights its maddening, paradoxical true self......$16.00
La Bella Lingua by Dianne Hales
"My love affair with Italian, the world's most enchanting language."...........$18.95
La Belle France A Short History by Alistair Horne
A sweeping, grand narrative written with all the verve, erudition, and vividness that are the hallmarks of the distinguished British historian Sir Alaistair Horne. It recounts the hugely absorbing story of the country that has contributed to the world so much talent, style, and political innovation...........$24.95
The Lady in The Palazzo - At Home in Umbria by Marlena de Blasi
With the breathless anticipation that seduced her readers to fall in love with Venice and then Tuscany, Marlena de Blasi now takes us on a new journey as she moves with her husband, Fernando, to Orvieto, a large and ancient city in Italy's Umbria. Rich with history and a vivid sense of place, her memoir is by turns romantic and sensual, joyous and celebratory, as she searches for the right balance in this city on the hill, as well as the right home - which turns out to be the former ballroom of a dilapidated sixteenth-century palazzo...........$18.95
The Lady and The Panda by Vicki Constantine Croke
The true adventures of the first American explorer to bring back China's most exotic animal..........$21.00
Lady Hester- Queen of The East by Lorna Gibb
The enthralling biography of a great British traveller- the tall, headstrong and hugely charismatic Lady Hester Stanhope. who defied social convention to become a powerful figure in the Middle East.........$21.00
Land of Ghosts by David G. Campbell
The braided lives of people and the forest in Far Western Amazonia......$28.95
The Land That Thyme Forgot by William Black
"A fascinating tour round Britain's food roots...I loved it and so will you."- Clarissa Dickson Wright........$21.95
The Last Days of Old Beijing by Michael Meyer
Life in the vanishing backstreets of a city transformed.....$20.00
The Last Expedition by Daniel Liebowitz, M. D. & Charles Pearson
Stanley's mad journey through the Congo...........$21.00
The Last Explorer - Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Great Age of Polar Exploration by Simon Nasht
In the tradition of The Ice Master and Endurance, here is the incredible story of the first truly modern explorer, whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty make this book itself an extraordinary discovery........$34.00
The Last Friend by Tahar Ben Jelloun
A spellbinding coming-of-age story, and a dazzling portrait of Morocco in an era of repression and disillusionment, that vividly captures the complexities and contradictions of a lifelong friendship.............$16.00
The Last Heathen by Charles Montgomery
National Book Award Winner.....$24.95
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
What would it be like to become Idi Amin's personal physician? Giles Foden's best-selling thriller is the story of a young Scottish doctor drawn into the heart of the Ugandan dictator's surreal and brutal regime. Privy to Amin's thoughts and ambitions, he is both fascinated and appalled. As Uganda plunges into civil chaos he realises action is imperative - but which way should he jump?...............$16.00
The Last of His Kind by David Roberts
The life and adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's boldest mountaineer............$33.95
The Last Supper by Rachel Cusk
A summer in Italy..........$29.95
A Late Dinner by Paul Richardson
Discovering the food of Spain............$32.95
Learning to Breathe by Andy Cave
Joint winner of the Boardman Tasker Award, here is the story of Andy Cave, a miner who became a mountaineer. .....$21.95
Learning to Breathe by Alison Wright
Wright offers this searing and uplifting account of her spiritual journey that begins with her surviving a terrible accident to her triumphant ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro......$18.00
Letters From St. Petersburg by Victoria Hammond
Beautifully written, strange and evocative, Letters From St Petersburg is a compelling journey that reveals the strength and wonder of the places and people behind Russia's crumbling facades.......$22.95
Leaving India by Minal Hajratwala
"My family's journey from five villages to five continents.".................$34.95
Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun
From one of the world's great writers, a novel that mirrors the journeys of millions who leave home for a better life.........$18.50
A Life Full of Holes by Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi translated by Paul Bowles
A collaboration between an illiterate North African Servant and street vendor, and legendary American novelist Paul Bowles who recorded and translated this story about ashepherd and petty traffickerstruggling to maintain hope as he struggles with daily life.....$18.99
A Life in the Bush by Roy MacGregor
In 1929, at the age of twenty-two, Duncan MacGregor, the son of a lumberman, great-grandson of a voyageur, and an avid reader and baseball fan, headed off into the largest tract of preserved bush in the world: Ontario's Algonguin Park. When he got there, he was home for the rest of his life.....$16.00
The Life of My Choice by Wilfred Thesiger
Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, a legendary figure, renowned
for his travels through some of the most inaccessible places on earth. As a child in Abyssinia he
watched the victorious armies of Ras Tafari returning from hand-to-hand battle, their prisoners in
chains; at the age of twenty-three he made his first expedition into the land of The Danakil, a
murderous race among whom a man's status in the tribe depended on the number of men he had
killed and castrated. In this, his autobiography, he highlights the people who most profoundly
influenced him and the events which enabled him to lead the life of his choice....$23.95
Life on the Ice - No One Goes to Antarctica Alone by Roff Smith
No one goes to Antactica alone, and Life on The Ice is not just a stunning panorama of this frozen wilderness but an extraordinary group portrait of the people who live there and of an Antarctic cameraderie that transcends nationality and politics...........$23.00
A Life on Wheels by Martin Lobigs
Biking alone from Newfoundland to Latin America.....$19.95
Light At The Edge of the World by Wade Davis
A journey through the realm of vanishing cultures...............$16.95
Little Daughter by Zoya Phan
A memoir of survival in Burma and the West...........$32.00
Little Money Street by Fernanda Eberstadt
In search of gypsies and their music in the South of France..........$18.00
Live What You Love - Notes From An Unusual Life by Bob & Melinda Blanchard
Married for more than 30 years, Bob and Melinda Blanchard divide their timw between Vermont and the island of Anguilla. They've spent a lifetime following dreams, pursuing passions, and living what they love..........$19.95
Living in a Foreign Language by Michael Tucker
The actor Michael Tucker and his wife, the actress Jill Eikenberry, having sent their last child off to college, were vacationing in Italy when they happened upon a small cottage nestled in the Umbrian countryside. The three-hundred-fifty-year-old rustico sat perched on a hill in the verdant Spoleto valley amid an olive grove and fruit trees of every kind. For the Tuckers, it was literally love at first sight, and the couple purchased the house without testing the water pressure or checking for signs of termites. Shedding the vestiges of their American life, Michael and Jill endeavored to learn the language, understand the nuances of Italian culture, and build a home in this new chapter of their lives. Both a celebration of a good marriage and a careful study of the nature of home, Living in a Foreign Language is a gorgeous, organic travelogue written with an epicurean’s delight in detail and a gourmand’s appreciation for all things fine. .....$31.00
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
A story set in modern Myanmar (Burma) which celebrates the human spirit in the midst of injustice and violence...$21.00
Llama For Lunch by Lydia Laube
Lydia Laube, one of the world's dauntless, intredid travellers, is off to South America in search of the sun....$17.95
Log From The Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
In 1940, John Steinbeck set out on an expedition with his friend Ed Rickettes, the biologist on whom he based the character of Doc in Cannery Row. Taking a sardine boat, Western Flyer, out of Monterey, California, they embarked on a 4,000-mile trip into the Sea of Cortez that combined the scientific collection and observation of marine life with high adventure, philosophy, ethics and art.....$19.99
London A History by A. N. Wilson
Exuberent, opinionated, surprising, and often funny, A. N. Wilson's London is the perfect match of author and subject. In one irresistible volume, Wilson gives us the essence of the people, the architecture, the intrigue, the art and literature and history that make London one of the most fascinating cities in the world.............$16.50
London The Wicked City by Fergus Linnane
A thousand years of vice in the Capital...................$15.95
Long Cloud Ride by Josie Dew
A 6,000 mile cycle journey around New Zealand........$20.00
A Long Trek Home by Erin McKittrick
From Puget Sound to the Bering Sea - 4,000 miles by boot, raft, and ski............$22.95
The Long Walk - The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz
In 1941, the author and a small group of fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labour camp. Their
march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British
India is a remarkable statement about man's desire to be free.........$21.75
Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman
John O'Groats to Cape Town by motorbike.........$16.00
Long Way Round (Chasing Shadows Across the World) by Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman
Around the world by motorbike......$18.00
Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts by Jules Marchal
Colonial exploitation in the Congo.............$33.00
The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson
The history,science, philosophy, and literature of pedestrianism.....$27.50
Lost City of The Incas by Hiram Bingham
The discovery of Machu Picchu.......$16.95
The Lost Continent: Travels In Small Town America by Bill Bryson
And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did
lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost
14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village
where the films of his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs which
he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Dead Squaw, Coma, Doldrum. At best his search led
him to Anywhere, USA; a look alike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets
populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He found a continent that
was doubly lost; lost to itself because blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television;
lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country....$21.00
Lost Cosmonaut by Daniel Kalder
Travels to the the Republics that time forgot - a book for anti tourists.....$16.00
The Lost Cyclist by David V. Herlihy
The epic tale of an American adventurer and his mysterious experience.......$32.50
Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron
This book is masterpiece of travel-writing and will take its place on the shelves between Eastern Approaches and The Road to Oxiana. In plain English, it is a classic - Ribert Carver in the New Statesman.......$21.95
Lost in Mongolia by Colin Angus
This book is about rafting the Yenisey River. Most of the book was originally printed in diary form in the Vancouver Sun amongst others I'm sure......$19.95
Lost in the Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg
A harrowing true story of survival in the jungles of the amazon.......$18.95
Lost in Tibet by Richard Starks and Miriam Murcutt
The untold story of five American airmen, a doomed plane and the will to survive.....$20.95
Lost Japan by Alex Kerr
Originally published in Japanese, this is an account of a westerner's view of Japan over a 30 year
period................$17.99
Lost Lands, Forgotten Stories by Alexandra Pratt
A woman's journey to the heart of Labrador..........$21.95
The Lost Men by Kelly Tyler-Lewis
The harrowing saga of Shackelton's Ross Sea party.......$18.50
Lost Oasis by Robert Twigger
Adventures in and out of the Egyptian desert...............$18.95
Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost
One man's attempt to understand the world's most mystifying nation......$17.50
The Lost Upland by W.S.Merwin
Stories of Southwestern France...........$21.50
The Lost World of the Kalahari by Laurens van der Post
Laurens van der Post journeyed into the heart of Africa in search of some pure trace of the unique
and almost vanished First People of his native land, the Bushmen of Africa. Hounded by the
races, both black and white, that invaded Southern Africa, the Bushmen had been driven deep
into the water less Kalahari Desert....$21.95
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans Thomas Brothers
A compelling new biography and portrait of a long-gone time and place. Thomas Brother's Louis Armstrong's New Orleans recounts in rish detail the early years of one of the twentieth century's greatest musicians, and brings turn-of-the-century New Orleans and the roots of jazz vividly to life.........$21.00
Luminous Encounters On the Island of Tinos by Ron Walkey
...A journal of focused observations from living in a Greek island for more than ten years as an engaged foreigner with the eye of an architect. This writing is a homage to the astonishing beauty of the place, a world shaped by necessity in the hands of history..............$20.00
Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Bard
A love story, with recipes..........$28.99
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Mad, Bad & Dangerous To Know by Ranulph Fiennes
The autobiography.............$14.95
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek by Laura Tyson Li
The first biography of one of history's most intriguing and controversial politcal figures......$22.00
The Mammoth Book of Polar Journeys edited by Jon E. Lewis
42 Eyewitness accounts of adventure and tragedy in the Arctic and Antarctica - Shackleton, Scott, Amundsen, Mawson, Nansen, Fiennes, and many more........$18.50
Man Walks Into a Pub - A Sociable History of Beer by Pete Brown
Pete Brown takes us on a well-lubricated pub-crawl through the amazing story of beer, from the first sacred sip of ancient Egyptian bouza to the last pint of lager on a friday night........$14.99
The Man Who Invented History - Travels With Herodotus by Justin Marozzi.......$18.95
The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester
The fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom......$19.99
A Man's Life by Mark Jenkins
This is Jenkins story of travels across dangerous terrain. He walks across Northern Afghansitan, retracing the ancient route taken by Marco Polo. He walks along the Burma road, climbs a new route in Uganda's mountains of the Moon. Bicycles across Lithuania and canoes through Surinam with the Maroons, decendents of escaped slaves.......$28.95
Mani - Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Classified as one of the great travel books of all time......$18.95
Map Addict by Mike Parker
A tale of obsession, fudge and the Ordnance Survey...........$24.95
The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester
William Smith and the birth of modern geology.....$18.99
Marco Polo Didn't Go There by Rolf Potts
Stories and relevations from one decade as a postmodern travel writer...........$19.50
Marcus of Umbria by Justine Van der Leun
What an Italian dog taught an American girl about love.....$28.99
Marrying Anita by Anita Jain
A quest for love in the new India.................$20.00
The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger
At the junction of the Tigris and the Euphrates, Wilfred Thesiger discovered a water-garden of
Egypt. In this marvelous book he describes how, over several years, he gradually made friends
with some of the marsh people- tribal Arabs who inhabit a different kind of desert, living
completely water-dominated lives: fishing with spears, eating rice bread and water-buffalo milk,
building islands and intricate silt houses from the gigantic reeds, and learning to paddle canoes
before they can walk....$18.00
The Masked Rider by Neil Peart
Cycling in West Africa......$22.95
Maximum City by Suketu Mehta
Bombay lost and found....$21.00
May You be the Mother of a Hundred Sons - A Journey among the Women of India by Elizabeth Bumiller
The story of a journey among the women of India, from the wealthy sophisticates in New Delhi,
intellectuals in Calcutta to villagers in the dusty northern plains. These women reveal the
paradoxes of their lives, and illuminate the issues that threaten to overwhelm the
nation.......$19.95
McCarthy's Bar by Pete McCarthy
Winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award ......$18.95
A Meal Observed by Andrew Todhunter
"Delectable.....It is a tribute to Todhunter's prowess as a writer that the meal is as unforgettable to us as it is to them" New York Daily News.....$18.00
Medici Money by Tim Parks
Banking, metaphysics, and art in fifteenth-century Florence...........$17.50
Mediterranean Summer by David Shalleck with Erol Munuz
A season on France's Cote d' Azur and Italy's Costa Bella............$29.95
Mediterranean Winter by Robert D. Kaplan
The pleasures of history and landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and Greece.....$21.00
Memories of Montparnasse by John Glassco
" Memoirs of Montparnasse is one of the most joyous books on youth - the thrill and the gall and the adventure of it. It is also one of the best books on being in literary Paris in the 1920s." - Michael Ondaatje...............$19.95
Men of Salt by Michael Benanav
Crossing the Sahara on the caravan of white gold.....$16.95
Merde Actually by Stephen Clarke
The sequel to the international bestseller A Year in the Merde.........$24.00
Merde Happens by Stephen Clarke
What happens when an Englishman, an American and a Frenchwoman drive across the USA in a Mini?...............$21.00
Mexican Days by Tony Cohan
From the author of ' On Mexican Time' - more journey into the heart of Mexico.....$19.95
Mexico, A Love Story edited by Camille Cusumano
Women write about the Mexican experience............$20.50
Mexico A Traveler's Literary Companion (1st edition 2006) edited by C. M. Mayo
"This delicious volume has lovingly gathered a banquet of pieces that reveal Mexico in all its infinite variety, its splendid geography, its luminous peoples. What a treat." - Margaret Sayers Peden, leading literary translator and editor, Mexican Writers on Writing............$19.50
Mexico in Mind - An Anthology edited by Maria Finn
Two centuries of writers drawn to Mexico - from D. H. Larence, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, and Tennessee Williams to Salman Rushdie, Anita DEsai, and Sandra Cisneros......$17.50
Mi Moto Fidel - Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba by Christopher P. Baker
Baker's kiss-and-tell account of his romps across Fidel's island offers a bittersweet glimpse of life inside the last Marxist utopia Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A revolutionary Life.....$21.50
Michael Palin New Europe BBC (2007) by Michael Palin, photographs by Basil Pao
Voyaging through the new Eastern Europe..........$18.95
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Ebullient, operatic, comic, and seroius, this novel is a wild, astonishing evocation of the maturity of a vast and complicated land and its people - a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy, Indian-style..........$18.00
Miles From Nowhere by Babara Savage
A round-the-world bicycle adventure.....$21.95
The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy by Joe McGinniss
"Soccer acts as a lens through which the author sees the real Italy, the medium-sized industrial towns where people live and work, away from the tourist's gaze. McGinniss went looking for a soccer team and found lives filled with humour and tragedy" The Wall Street Journal.....$23.95
Miraculous Air by C. M. Mayo
"A luminous exploration of Baja California,from its southern tip at Cabo San Lucasto its 'lost city' of Tijuana... [Mayo] takesthe fiction writer's impulse and blends it with the instincts of a journalist to create a work of nonfiction that elides into modern myth"Los Angeles Times Book Review.....$19.50
Mirage by Nina Burleigh
"Burleigh spotlights the Indiana Jones-esque scientists who joined Napoleon’s Egyptian invasion during the late 18th century." -- People ....$17.99
Mirror to Damascus by Colin Thubron
In explaining how modern Damascus is rooted in immemorial layers of culture and tradition, Colin Thubron explores the historical, artistic, social and religious inheritance of the Damascenes, expertly interspersing the narrative with innumerable anecdotes about travellers of bygone days.............$23.95
Mirrors of the Unseen - Journeys in Iran by Jason Elliot
A fascinating journey through the history, land, and hidden culture of Iran past and present, by one of the world's most perceptive travelers...........$18.50
Misadventures in the Middle East by Henry Hemming
"A once-in-a-lifetime journey, full of youthful ebullience and idealism but self-aware too, and brave." - Colin Thubron..........$21.95
Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner & Rob Sitch
See if you can find it on any map!!......$16.95
Monsoon Diary by Shoba Narayan
An entirely enchanting look at growing up in South India...........$16.50
The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston, with Mario Spezi
Douglas Preston fulfilled a lifelong dream when he moved to a villa in Florence. Upon meeting celebrated journalist Mario Spezi, Preston was stunned to learn that the olive grove next to his home had been the scene of a horrific double murder commited by of of the most infamous figures in Italian history. A serial killer who ritually murdered fourteen young lovers, he has never been caught. He is known as the Monster of Florence............$16.99
The Moon By Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales by Diane Ackerman
"The book contains many gems of description......Ackerman is a fine, zealous journalist, knowelgeable in many areas of natural histroy" The New York Times Book Review .....$16.95
Morocco That Was by Walter Harris
"The combination of perceptive and reliable observer' and romantic eccentric, makes Morocco That Was a classic of its genre" - The Times Literary Supplement.........$19.95
The Motorcycle Diaries - Notes On a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara
These are the diaries written by Che Guevara during his riotous motorcycle odyssey around
South America at the age of twenty three..........$18.00
Motoring With Mohammed by Eric Hansen
In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat
smugglers offered him a safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals
deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky boat bound for a country
that he had never planned to visit. As he tells of the turbulent seas that stranded him on the island
and of his efforts to retrieve his buried journals when he returned to Yemen ten years later,
Hansen enthralls us with a portrait- uncannily sympathetic and wildly offbeat- of this forgotten
corner of the Middle East....$16.95
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
This is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein....$17.50
A Moveable Thirst by Rick Kushman and Hank Beal
Tales and tastes from a season in Napa Wine Country with reviews of 141 Napa tasting rooms.......$20.99
Mozambique Mysteries by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
A book about turning fifty and wanting to do something meaningful.......$32.00
Mud, Sweat, and Gears by Joe "Metal Cowboy" Kurmaskie
A rowdy family bike adventure across Canada on seven wheels.......$29.50
The Mughal Throne by Abraham Eraly
The saga of India's great emperors.....$24.95
The Mughal World - India's Tainted Paradise by Abraham Eraly
" A richly readable account of one of the most crucial and misrepresented periods of Indian history." - William Dalrymple, Sunday Times.........$24.95
Murderer's in Mausoleums Riding the Back Roads of Empire Between Moscow and Beijing by Jeffrey Taylor
Tayler (Siberian Dawn) takes readers on an extraordinary adventure across the largest landmass on earth, from Russia through the Caucasus into South Ossetia and Georgia, on to Central Asia and Kazakhstan, and across Xinjiang and Mongolia. Equal parts history, politics, economic theory and anthropology, he brings into sharp focus the ordinary lives behind the news headlines. Of particular interest are two recurring discoveries he makes—replacing totalitarian dictators with democratically elected (often U.S.-backed) leaders opens the door to enormous corruption, and that where there is electricity, there is always a disco. Tayler marshals hundreds of years of history, from the conquests of Genghis Khan through the dislocation caused by WWI and WWII to the Chinese Communist revolution and the glossy, urban China of today. While the author's approach to exploration is haphazard at times, his impressive ability to build instant rapport and cull local knowledge in a remarkably short span of time gives his journey steady momentum. Tayler conveys his encounters in prose that is as richly textured as the stories he gathers in some of the remotest places imaginable......$32.95
My Dam Life by Sean Condon
Three years in Holland.....$17.95
My Heart is Africa - A Flying Adventure by Scott Griffin
The engaging, personal story of Griffin's two-year aviation adventure throughout Africa...........$22.95
My Invented Country by Isabel Allende
A nostalgic journey through Chile.....$17.99
My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel
"French woman Alexandra David-Neel was exceptional. Not only were independent women
travellers like her unusual, but Europeans versed in Sanskrit and Buddhist philosophy, who also
spoke Tibetan and could communicate with those they met were extremely rare.....This new
edition with its tale of adventure and vivid portrayal of Tibet will surely delight a whole new
generation of readers." from the forward by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.....$18.99
My Kenya Days by Wilfred Thesiger
My Kenya Days offers fresh insights into Thesiger's motivations and enigmatic
personality. Lavishly illustrated by his extraordinary photographs, it contains superb evocations
of Kenya's vanishing tribal heritage, of the dramatic landscapes of Thesiger's Kenya journey's,
and intimately portrays his Samburu companions and surroundings at Maralal, where he has
made his home....$17.50
My Life as an Explorer by Sven Anders Hedin...........$25.00
My Life With Che by Hilda Gadea
The making of a revolutionary...............$23.95
My Mercedes is Not for Sale by Jeroen Van Bergeijk
From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou.... an auto-misdaventure across the Sahara.....$14.95
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Naked in Dangerous Places by Cash Peters
The chronicles of a hungry, scared, lost, homesick, but otherwise perfectly happy traveler....$16.50
The Naked Tourist by Lawrence Osborne
In search of adventure and beauty in the age of the airport mall............$17.50
Narrow Dog to Carcassonne by Terry Darlington
When they retired Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrowboat across the Channel and down to the Mediterranean, together with their whippet Jim. They took advice from experts, who said they would die, together with their whippet Jim. On the Phyllis May you dive through six-foot waves in the Channel, are swept down the terrible Rhone, and fight for your life in a storm among the flamingos of the Camargue. You meet the French nobody meets - poets, captains, historians, drunks, bargees, men with guns, scholars, madmen - they all want to know the people on the painted boat and their narrow dog..........$21.95
Narrow Dog To Indian River by Terry Darlington
By English narrowboat through an America nobody knows................$21.95
Near Death in the Arctic edited by Cecil Kuhne
True stories of disaster and survival.....$18.95
Near Death in the Desert edited by Cecil Kuhne
True stories of disaster and survival..........$19.00
Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson
In this great read Bill Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he
shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the
northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia......$22.00
New News Out of Africa by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Uncovering Africa's Renaissance.............$15.95
The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck
National Book Award Winner.....$17.99
Nine Lives by William Dalrymple
In search of the Sacred in modern India...........$26.00
99 Drams of Whiskey by Kate Hopkins
The accidental hedonist's quest for the perfect shot and the history of the drink.....$18.99
90 Day Geisha by Chelsea Haywood
An introspective and freewheeling journey into the glamorous world and temptations of Japanese nightlife, by formwe model Chelsea Haywood.....$31.00
No Full Stops in India by Mark Tully
"The Ten essays, written with clarity, warmth of feeling and critical balance and understanding,
provide as lively a view as one can hope for on the panorama of India." K.
Natwar-Singh....$18.99
No Hurry to Get Home by Emily Hahn
First published in 1937, this is the memoir of the New Yorker writer whose unconventional life and adventures spanned the twentieth century....$19.95
No Place for a Lady by Barbara Hodgson
Tales of adventurous women travellers. ............$29.95
No Reservations - Around the World on an Empty Stomach by Anthony Bourdain
A very interesting take on the world of food by the author of 'Kichen Confidential'. Nice work if you can get it.......$38.50
No Shitting in the Toilet - The Travel Guide For When You've Really Lost It by Peter Moore
Encapsulating the author's own travel philosophy: that things never quite turn out as expected, NSITT is the guide to the sort of world where you're more likely to find a cockroach on your pillow than a complimentary mint - a world where everything that can go wrong does, and yet you still end up loving every minute of it!........$21.95
No Such Thing as a Free Ride: North American Edition compiled and editted by Simon Sykes & Tom Sykes
A collection of hitchhiking tales.........$19.95
No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late by Ayun Halliday....$19.95
No Vulgar Hotel - The Desire and Pursuit of Venice by Judith Martin
Every year, fifteen million people deliberately put themselves in danger of contracting Venetophilia. You may be among them. This is the definitive manual for managing an incurable passion for a certain tiny, decaying, water-logged village..............$17.50
The Nomad
The diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt......$14.95 (previously "The Passionate Nomad")
Nomad's Hotel - Travels in Time and Space by Cees Nooteboom
This collection of his most enjoyable travel pieces ranges far and wide, from exotic locales such as Isfahan and the Gambia to more familiar spots like Australia and Venice. With his trademark humour and tenderness, Nooteboom shows us the strangeness in places we thought we knew and the familiarity of places most of us will never visit......$18.95
North of South - An African Journey by Shiva Naipaul
"A very sad, very funny account of a journey in East Africa......$20.00
North to the Night by Alvah Simon
A spiritual odyssy in the Arctic.........$20.95
Not Built in a Day by George H. Sullivan
Exploring the architecture of Rome........$25.95
Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Author of the savagely funny Lost Continent and Neither Here Nor There.
Bryson moved to England 17 years ago and settled in North Yorkshire. He now turns an
affectionate but ironic eye on his adopted country. Britain will never seem the same
again!...$21.00
Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Travelling Alone by Mary Morris
Travelling from the highland desert of northern Mexico to the steaming jungles of Honduras,
from the seashore of the Caribbean to the exquisite highlands of Guatemala, Mary Morris
confronts the realities of place, of poverty, of machismo, and of her own self. As she experiences
the rawness and precariousness of life in another culture, Morris begins to hear echoes of her
own life and her own sense of deprivation. And she begins, too, to overcome the struggles of the
past that have held her back. By crossing new boundaries, she learns to set new frontiers for
herself as a woman....$15.50
Novel Destinations by Shannon Schmidt & Joni Rendon
Literary landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemmingway's Key West.....$28.00
Nul Points by Tim Moore
The world's funniest travel writer turns his pen to the Eurovision Song Contest The Observer......$21.95
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Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks
Ferns are what lured Oliver Sacks to Oaxaca, but those who know him will expect his journal to be filled with much more- and they won't be disappointed. The neurologist and famously observant author wears his learning lightly, but though his tone is breezy and personal, his lively intelligence knits the colourful strands of biology, history, and culture into a fascinating tapestry of Mexico and a group of fern-seekers united in a common passion......$15.00
Off The Beaten Track - Three Centuries of Women Travellers by Dea Birkett, Foreword by Jan Morris
These extraordinary women travellers illuminate Britain's relationship with other cultures amd challenge assumptions about women's achievments over the centuries.....$50.00
Off the Map by Mark Jenkins
Bicycling across Siberia.....$17.95
Off the Road by Jack Hitt
Finally back in print, this book is about a walk down the Pilgrim's route into Spain. Originally published in 1994, It's still a great read for anyone contemplating doing 'the Camino'. .....$15.00
The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux
By train through the Americas..........$18.95
The Olive Farm by Carol Drinkwater
A memoir of life, love and olive oil in the South of France......$16.95
The Olive Harvest by Carol Drinkwater
The moving successor to her earlier bestselling memoirs, The Olive Farm and The Olive Season....$16.95
The Olive Route - A Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean by Carol Drinkwater
The Olive Route recounts a thrilling, heroic and sensual journey by the best-selling author of the much-loved Olive series..........$17.95
The Olive Season by Carol Drinkwater
Amour, a new life, and olives, too!..........$16.95
The Olive Tree by Carol Drinkwater
This new book charts Carol Drinkwater's colourful and often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries..........$24.95
On Mexican Time - A New Life in San Miguel by Tony Cohan
What Peter Mayle has done for Provence and Lawrence Durrell for Cyprus, Tony Cohan has now done for San Miguel de Allende - Pete Hamill.....$20.95
On Secret Service East of Constantinople by Peter Hopkirk
The plot to bring down the British Empire.......$19.95
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
"An excellent and compassionate picture of that segment of the generation which was left to
fend for itself after World War II."- Kirkus Reviews........$16.50
On The Road With Francis of Assisi - A Timeless Journey Through Tuscany, Umbria & Beyond by Linda Bird Francke
This book offers a unique and lively travelogue of parallel journeys: that of Francis of Assisi on his way to sainthood in the thirteenth century, and that of author Linda Bird Francke, who followed his path through the beauty of central and coastal Italy - even on to Egypt......$21.00
101 Places Not To See Before You Die by Catherine Price
Because bad places make good stories..........$15.99
One Man's Wilderness by Sam Keith from the journals & photographs of Richard Proenneke
An Alaskan odyssey......$20.95
One More Day Everywhere by Glen Heggstad
Crossing 50 borders on the road to global understanding.....$21.95
One River by Wade Davis
In 1974-5, Wade Davis and Tim Plowman travelled the length of South America, living among a
dozen Indian tribes, collecting medicinal plants and searching for the origins of coca, the sacred
leaf of the Andes and the notorious source of cocaine. It was a journey inspired and made
possible by their Harvard mentor, Richard Evans Shultes, the most important scientific explorer
in South America in this century, whose exploits rival those of Darwin and the great naturalist
explorers of the Victorian age. The story of two generations of scientific explorers, `One River' is
an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history. Of enormous scope, it
chronicles everything from a major scientific scandal concerning rubber that may yet come to
haunt the industrialized world, to the origins of the psychedelic era......$18.99
One Room in a Castle by Karen Connelly
An adventurous, intimate portrait of the rural Mediterranean, its culture and its inhabitants. Karen
Connelly allows the reader private glimpses of her world, and the world at large with a new
collection of letters and stories based on her travels in Spain, France and Greece....$16.00
Ooh La La! A French Romp by Ann Rickard
Take two voluptuous dames d'un cetrain age, one fond of a romp in the lavender fields, the other an anxious first-time tour operator. Add eight expectant tour guests, throw them together in the french countryside with
lashings of good food and wine, and you have Ooh La La!.....$24.95
Opium Season by Joel Hafvenstein
A year on the Afghan frontier.........$19.95
Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler
A journey between China's past and present...........$17.50
The Orange Trees of Baghdad - In Search of My Lost Family A Memoir by Leilah Nadir
Born to an Iraqi-Christian father and a British mother, and raised in Britain and Canada, Leilah Nadir has never set foot on Iraqi soil. Distanced from her Iraqi roots through immigration and now cut off by war, the closest link she has to the nation is through her father, who left Baghdad in the 1960s when he was sixteen to pursue his studies in England. His Iraq is of mythical origins; his beginnings are in a garden at the family home that now lays vacant. Through her fathers memories, Leilah recounts her familys lost story, from Iraq at the turn of the twentieth century during the British occupation, to the Iraq-Iran War and the Gulf War. Through her cousins still living in Baghdad, she experiences the thunderous explosions of the present-day conflict, and Leilahs friend, award-winning photographer Farah Nosh, brings home news of Leilahs family after her visits to Iraq, as well as stunning photos of civilians and their often tragic stories. The Orange Trees of Baghdad is at once harrowing, touching and painfully human.............$19.95
Orchid Fever - A Horticultural tale of Love, Lust and Lunacy by Eric Hansen
Read Stranger in the Forest first.....$17.95
Ordinary Magic: Intervals in a Life by Meeka Walsh
These are Walshs' journals while she travelled in Israel, Rome and Russia and when she was home again. In addition to recounting her adventures whilst travelling, they also share her private journey through a bitter divorce and a renewed sense of herself and life's possibilities.....$9.95
The Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Two powerful images recently symbolised the way in which social deprivation feeds fear and intolerance: desperate would-be immigrants from the African continent hurled themselves at barbed wire surrounding the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on the north coast of Morocco, while racial tensions set off riots in Sydney in Australia.....$16.00
The Other Side of The Sky - A Memoir by Farah Ahmedi with Tamim Ansary
Farah Ahmedi's "poignant tale of survival" chronicles her journey from war to peace. Equal parts tragedy and hope, determination and daring, Ahmedi's memoir delivers a remarkably vivid portrait of her girlhood in Kabul, where the sound of gunfire and the sight of falling bombs shaped her life and stole her family..........$16.00
Out of Steppe by Daniel Metcalfe
The lost peoples of Central Asia...........$35.00
Over The Edge of The World by Laurence Bergreen
Magellan's terrifying circumnavigation of the globe.............$21.50
The Oysters of Locmariaquer by Eleanor Clark
A vivid account of the cultivation of Belon oysters and an excursion into the myths, legends, and rich, vibrant history of Brittany and its extraordinary people..........$17.99
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The Palace of the Snow Queen by Barbara Sjoholm
Winter travels in Lapland............$20.50
Palladian Days by Sally Gable & Carl I. Gable
Finding a new life in a Venetian country house........$21.00
Panama Fever by Matthew Parker
The epic story of the building of the Panama Canal...........$20.00
Paradise With Serpents by Robert Carver
Travels in the Lost World of Paraguay...........$19.95
Paris Cafe - The Select Crowd by Noel Riley, drawings by Rick Tulka
This first book about the renowned Cafe Select in Paris, illustrated with the faces of its patrons, gives a unique glimpse into the daily rhythm and social and intellectual life of a literary cafe.......$23.50
A Paris Moment by Gordon Cope
"A Paris Moment captures the flavour of Paris in a rich broth of characters and events, piquing the appetite for Cope's tasty tales. His book bubbles like a fine champagne and satisfies like a perfect creme brulee. And it's calorie free!" - John Gilchrist......$12.95
Paris Times Eight by Deirdre Kelly
"A resonant and intriguing voyage of self-discovery" Atom Egoyan......$22.95
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
"Adam Gopnik's avid intelligence and nimble pen found subjects to love in Paris and in growth of his small American family there. A conscientious scrupulously savvy American husband and father meets contemporary France, and fireworks result, lighting up not just the Eiffel Tower."- John Updike...$17.00
The Path Between The Seas by David McCullough
The story of the Panama Canal....$27.00
Passage Through India by Gary Snyder
The expanded and illustated edition on Snyder's beat voyage in 1962 with the poet Jaonne Kyger, and Alan Ginsberg among others.....$26.95
Passage to Torres Strait by Miles Hordern
Four centuries in the wake of great navigators, mutineers, castaways and beachcombers.........$18.95
Passion on the Vine by Sergio Esposito
A memoir of food, wine, and family in the heart of Italy........$27.95
Patagonia a Cultural History by Chris Moss ......$18.95
The Peacock Throne - An Epic Tale of Modern India by Sujit Saraf
This is a novel of breathtaking scope and ambition, teeming with the energy and drama of a society in which every human being jostles for more space, money and power - except Gopal, who is content to dream only of an endless line of customers for his cups of tea. Irreverent, farcical, shocking, and as enlightening as it is entertaining, The Peacock Throne looks deep into the heart of human nature and into the soul of India............$14.95
Pedaling to Hawaii - A Human-Powered Odyssey by Stevie Smith
In 1994, two English adventurers in their late 20s embarked on Expedition 360, an underfunded attempt, initially sans sponsorship, to circumnavigate the world using only human power. Instead of relying on sails, balloons and motors, Smith and his traveling companion, Jason Lewis, used bicycles, skates, kayaks and their 26-foot pedal boat, "a ruthlessly Spartan composite of varnished plywood, plastic, and steel as cosy as a cheap coffin." Crossing the English Channel that summer, they biked through France, Spain and Portugal, then set forth on a "seemingly endless expanse: 4,250 nautical miles of ocean to pedal across at walking speed." Pedaling through the Atlantic in two-hour day shifts and four-hour night shifts, the duo arrived in Miami 111 days later, and then cycled and skated across America, eventually pedaling the Pacific. Smith is an accomplished writer, contrasting evocative descriptions of dolphins, seascapes and beckoning vistas with stories of days of fatigue, boredom and his own wild fantasies. He interweaves environmental observations and his inner spiritual quest with powerful passages on the more harrowing moments. Neither man had previously spent a night at sea, and mentions of their oversights and inexperience add to the suspense in this entertaining yarn...........$21.00
Penguins Stopped Play by Harry Thompson
Eleven village cricketers take on the world.........$16.95
People of the Storm God - Travels in Macedonia by Will Myer
With a sense of historic complexity in mind, Will Myer travelled to the troubled Balkans in autumn 1994 and the following spring. His aim was to discover the political and human reality of a region beset by conflict and controversy, fought over for centuries by rival powers. In particular, he sought to explore the true nature of Macedonian identity, or rather of a multiple identity.....$23.95
A Perfect Circle - A 10,000-Kilometre Journey Around France by Susie Kelly
Keen to discover some of France's lesser-known attractions, Susie Kelly, her husband Terry and their two dogs embarked on a 10,000-kilometre journey, where they encountered exploding gherkins, killer waves, chilli-flavoured chocolates and sinister submarines..........$21.95
A Perfect Pledge by Rabindranath Maharaj
Trinidad in 1961 is a country inching toward independence, but village life is hard, and Narpat, a sugarcane farmer, is sickened by the corruption he sees all around him....A Perfect Pledge depicts one village's struggle to find its identity in a rapidly changing world, and celebrates both the heartbreak of failed dreams and the resilience of the human spirit.......$21.00
Phaic Tan by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner & Rob Sitch
The hilarious follow-up to the international bestseller Molvania.........$17.95
A Piano in the Pyrenees by Tony Hawks
The ups and downs of an Englishman in the French mountains...........$21.95
Pies and Prejudice by Stuart Maconie
In search of the North (of England)..........$21.95
A Pig in Provence by Georgeanne Brennan
Good food and simple pleasures in the South of France...........$15.95
The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
Here Paulo details his journey across Spain along the legendary road of San Tiago, which pilgrims have travelled since the Middle Ages....$14.95
Pilgrimage to India by Pramila Jayapal
A woman revisits her homeland......$19.50
Pilgrimage to the End of the World by Conrad Rudolph
The road to Santiago de Compostela............$20.00
The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean by Paul Theroux
"As satisfying as a glass of cool wine on a dusty Calabrian afternoon...With his effortless writing
style, observant eye, and take-no-prisoners approach, Theroux is in top form chronicling this
eighteen-month circuit of the Mediterranean."- Kirkus Review....$20.00
A Pint of Plain by Bill Barich
Tradition, change, and the fate of the Irish Pub........$18.50
Pint-Sized Ireland - In Search of the Perfect Guinness by Evan McHugh
One man's tour of Ireland on tap; a rollicking travelogue in the tradition of Round Ireland with a Fridge and McCarthy's Bar.......$15.50
A Place in my Country - In Search of a Rural Dream by Ian Walthew
After a decade abroad as an emotional refugee from tragedies that he thought he had escaped, a high-flying publishing executive is reluctantly transferred back to London from Paris. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Ian flees his job and urban lifestyle to live in the cotswolds.........$18.95
A Place Within by M.G. Vassanji
Rediscovering India.........$21.00
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked accross Afghanistan - surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers..........$18.00
Plane Insanity by Elliott Hester
A flight attendant's tales of sex, rage and queasiness at 30,000 feet............$18.99
Planetwalker - 17 Years of Silence. 22 Years of Walking by John Francis, Ph.D.
The tale of a man moved by unusual impulses to undertake a journey that demanded incredible stores of resolve, faith, and self-sacrifice. During the 22 years that Francis walked, he scaled mountain ranges, crossed barren deserts, and saw America from the Pacific to the Atlantic....Over the course of 22 years, John Francis became a scholar, a teacher, and a leader in a way that should infuse all of us with the inspiration to make our own contribution in the quest for a healthier planet and a more selfless society........$20.00
Playing Cards in Cairo by Hugh Miles
Mint tea, tarneeb and tales of the city...........$26.00
Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates by Ustun Bilgen-Reinart
A woman's trek through Turkey..............$24.99
Prague: A Traveler's Literary Companion Prague edited by Paul Wilson
Stories selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler ........$19.50
Previous Convictions by A. A. Gill
This collection of travel pieces and essays - assignments from here and there - are opinionated, angry, and painfully funny. They are not even-handed - A. A. Gill does not do dispassionate......................$18.95
A Prickly Affair by Hugh Warwick
My life with hedgehogs..............$29.00
The Prince of the Marshes by Rory Stewart
The Prince of the Marshes tells the story of Stewart's year in Iraq. As a participant, he takes us inside the occupation and beyond the Green Zone, introducing us to a colourful cast of Iraqus and revealing the complexity and fragility of a society we struggle to understand. By turns funny and harrowing, moving and incisive, it amounts to a unique portrait of heroism and the tragedy that intervention inevitably courts in the modern age.......$18.00
Prisoner of Tehran - A Memoir by Marina Nemat
Nemat tells of her harrowing experience as a young Iranian girl at the start of the Islamic revolution. In January 1982, the 16-year-old student activist was arrested, jailed in Tehran's infamous Evin prison, tortured and sentenced to death. Ali, one of her interrogators, intervened moments before her execution, having used family connections with Ayatollah Khomeini himself to reduce her sentence to life in prison. The price: she would convert to Islam (she was Christian) and marry him, or he would see to it that her family and her boyfriend, Andre, were jailed or even killed. She remained a political prisoner for two years. Nemat's engaging memoir is rich with complex characters—loved ones lost on both sides of this bloody conflict. Ali, the man who rapes and subjugates her, also saves her life several times - he is assassinated by his own subordinates. His family embraces Nemat with more affection and acceptance than her own, even fighting for her release after his death. Nemat returns home to feel a stranger: "They were terrified of the pain and horror of my past," she writes. She buries her memories for years, eventually escaping to Canada to begin a new life with Andre. Nemat offers her arresting, heartbreaking story of forgiveness, hope and enduring love - a voice for the untold scores silenced by Iran's revolution...............$18.00
Provence A-Z by Peter Mayle
Kind of a gazetteer to all things Provence.....$16.95
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Quest For Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game by Peter Hopkirk
This book is for all those who love Kim- that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling
immortalized the Great Game. Long fascinated by this strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment
into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk promised himself that one day he would retrace
Kim's footsteps across Kipling's India and see how much of it remained...$19.95
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The Race For Timbuktu by Frank T. Kryza
In search of Africa's city of gold........$18.99
Race to Dakar by Charley Boorman
In Race to Dakar, Charley recounts his extraordinary adventures, and offers an insight into the history of the race. He also follows the stories of other riders in the rally - an eccentric, dedicated band of professionals and rookies who all dream of one thing: reaching the finishing line........$20.00
Racing With Death: Douglas Mawson - Antarctic Explorer by Beau Riffenburgh
This new book tells the breathtaking story of Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expeditions, in which he more than once narrowly escaped with his life...........$24.00
Rainbow's End by Lauren St. John
Rainbow’s End farm was a heavenly garden soaked in blood, or a fool’s paradise, depending on how you looked at it.’ This searingly honest memoir describes growing up on an African farm during the ‘Rhodesian Bush War’ and the twilight years of white colonialism in the 1970s. It also explores the shock yet euphoria of Zimbabwean independence in the 1980s as St John navigates her way through the immense personal and political changes. The abundance and beauty of Africa and its people as well as childhood innocence are superbly contrasted with the insidiousness of racism, war and nationalist propaganda to create an unforgettable read – eloquent, affecting and utterly spellbinding. ....$18.00
A Rambling Fantasy - In The Footsteps of Jane Austen (Cadogan) by Caroline Sanderson
A captivating companion for all those who love Jane Austen's novels. Lifelong Jane Austen devotee Caroline Sanderson embarks on a journey across Austen's England. She visits and
brings to life the places and houses well known to Jane Austen - Steventon, Bath, Lyme Regis, Godmersham in Kent, Chawton, London, Box Hill in Surrey, and Winchester - quintessentially English locations that provided the settings for Austen's writing as well as the backdrop to her life.........$18.95
Raw Spirit by Iain Banks
In search of the perfect dram.....$24.95
Rebus's Scotland - A Personal Journey by Ian Rankin
In this new book Ian Rankin offers exclusive insights into the world Rebus inhabits, but also the place he came from - the rural Scotland of Rankin's childhood. In writing his own autobiography, he unlocks the secrets of what makes John Rebus tick. Stunningly illustrated with photographs that reflect the places Rebus inhabits. Rebus's Scotland gives a unique portrait of both Ian Rankin and his most famous creation, John Rebus........$16.95
Red Sun - Travels in Naxalite Country by Sudeep Chakravarti
In this brilliant and disturbing examination of the "Other India", Sudeep Chakravarti combines political history, extensive interviews and individual case histories as he travels to the heart of Maoist zones in the country. What emerges is a sobering picture of a deeply divided society, and the dangers that lie ahead for India........$24.00
Red, White, and Brew by Brian Yaeger
An American beer odyssey..........$16.95
Red, White, and Drunk All Over by Natalie MacLean
A wine-soaked journey from grape to glass..............$22.00
Rediscovering The Prairies - Journeys by Dog, Horse, and Canoe by Norman Henderson
Norman Henderson's beautifully written, captivating account of his journeys of exploration will foster a deeper understanding of the natural and human history of the Canadian Prairies. This fine book is for anyone who loves the Prairies.......$19.95
The Reluctant Tuscan - How I Discovered My Inner Italian by Phil Doran
This is not another tale of a person who dreams of leaving it all behind for a life in Italy, but Doran's gradual seduction by the inexhaustible beauty and tactile pleasures of Tuscany as he discovers the importance of getting in touch with his inner Italian......$21.00
Remarkable Creatures>by Sean B. Carroll
"These scientific adventurers inspire the author—and will do the same for experts and novices alike—with their fearless dedication to getting at the truth, as far as it can be known. A stirring introduction to the wonder of evolutionary biology." --Kirkus Review, 12/15/08. .....$34.95
Remembrance of Things Paris edited by Ruth Reichl
Sixty years of writing from Gourmet.......$19.95
Return to Antarctica by Adrian Raeside
The amazing adventure of Sir Charles Wright on Robert Scott's journey to the South Pole............$34.95
Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose by Richard Bangs
Dispatches from the front lines of Earth.....$19.50
Rick Steves' Postcards From Europe (2009)
Travel tales from America's favorite guidebook writer..............$27.95
The Ridiculous Race by Steve Hely & Vali Chandrasekaran
26,000 miles. 2 guys. 1 globe. no airplanes...............$17.00
Riding in the Shadows of Saints - A Woman's Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail by Jana Richman
Raised a Mormon, Richman had heard stories of her seven great-great-grandmothers walking from Nauvoo, Ill., to the promised land of Salt Lake City in the mid-19th century. Long after leaving the religion and going through a middle-age pensive period, Richman, whose writing has appeared in the Progressive, decided to make the same journey, albeit alone and on a motorcycle. The result is a mixture of roadtrip musings, quirky adventure tales and spiritual reflections, with a healthy dose of unresolved family issues. It's an unusual blend, and those who aren't curious about traveling by motorcycle may find themselves skimming through the parts about driving in the rain or why more women should ride Harleys. But Richman's other adventures—both physical and spiritual—prove universally compelling. Especially notable are her thoughts on religion, which have a refreshing air of detachment. As Richman's trip progresses, she goes deeper into self-reflection, finally admitting that an "hour's ride offers more introspection than a year's worth of expensive therapy." She gradually unravels her emotions about her mother, a devout Mormon disappointed in Richman's lack of faith, reaching a resolution by the time Salt Lake City emerges on the horizon.........$18.95
Riding The Iron Rooster: By Train Through China by Paul Theroux
The world seems to grow smaller everyday. Travelers cross oceans and continents in the blink of
an eye. But the world is not so small that there is no room left for adventure and discovery. In
Riding The Iron Rooster, Paul Theroux invites you to join him on the journey of a lifetime- a
journey in the grand romantic tradition....$9.99
Riding With Rilke by Ted Bishop
Reflections on motorcycles and books.........$22.00
Right to the Edge by Charlie Boorman
His latest adventure - Sydney to Tokyo by any means!..........$26.00
Rilke's Venice by Birgit Haustedt.........$24.50
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria - Birthplace of The Modern World by Justin Pollard & Howard Reid
This compulsively readable narrative brings one of history's most fascinating and prolific civilizations to life, creating a treasure trove of our intellectual and cultural origins - a lively, accesible saga that explores the birth, death, and legacy of a miraculous city...........$19.00
The Risks of Sunbathing Topless and other funny stories from the road edited by Kate Chynoweth
From Mount Kilimanjaro to Maui, from Seoul to St. Petersburg, these wry, amusing, and insightful tales capture the comedic essence of bad travel - and the uniquely female experience on the road......$21.50
The River at the Center of the World by Simon Winchester
Long off-limits to foreigners, the far reaches of the Yangtze are still off-limits to most tourists
and travellers simply by dint of the difficulty of traversing the terrain. But for Simon Winchester,
travelling the length of this mighty river was a lifelong dream and together with a Chinese
companion, he set out to do just that. The result is this unforgettable portrait of China. Endlessly
curious, urbane, witty, and knowledgeable, Winchester introduces us to a world that we might
otherwise have missed....$18.99
The River of Doubt - Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey by Candice Millard
In a gripping account, Millard focuses on an episode in Teddy Roosevelt's search for adventure that nearly came to a disastrous end. A year after Roosevelt lost a third-party bid for the White House in 1912, he decided to chase away his blues by accepting an invitation for a South American trip that quickly evolved into an ill-prepared journey down an unexplored tributary of the Amazon known as the River of Doubt. The small group, including T.R.'s son Kermit, was hampered by the failure to pack enough supplies and the absence of canoes sturdy enough for the river's rapids. An injury Roosevelt sustained became infected with flesh-eating bacteria and left the ex-president so weak that, at his lowest moment, he told Kermit to leave him to die in the rainforest. Millard, a former staff writer for National Geographic, nails the suspense element of this story perfectly, but equally important to her success is the marvelous amount of detail she provides on the wildlife that Roosevelt and his fellow explorers encountered on their journey, as well as the cannibalistic indigenous tribe that stalked them much of the way........$18.95
River of No Reprieve by Jeffrey Tayler
Descending Siberia's waterway of exile, death, and destiny...........$19.95
River Town - Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
"An eloquent anecdotal book about the surging cultural crosscurrents presently battering China, is at once profoundly insightful, sharply critical, deeply admiring, thoroughly unsentimental, precisely written, and often very, very funny."- Tim Cahill.....$18.99
Road Through Kurdistan by A.M. Hamilton
Travels in Northern Iraq............$27.95
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
At once poetic, scholarly and acidly humorous, Robert Byron's account of his pilgrimage through
Persia and Afghanistan in the 1930's in search of the origins of Islamic architecture, is a
masterpiece of the genre. Bringing to life the characters and landscape with vivid authenticity,
The Road To Oxianais a passionate ode to the pursuit of adventure and an evocative
portrait of a heroic, visionary traveller....$20.00
The Road to Santiago by Kathryn Harrison
Kathryn Harrison's very personal pilgrimage- from her own past to the present to the future that her daughter Sarah personifies.....$31.50
The Roadless Yaak edited by Rick Bass
Reflections and observations about one of our last great places..........$15.95
Roads To Quoz - An American Mosey by William Least Heat-Moon
A lyrical, funny, and magisterially told chronicle of American passage, of maps of the heart and mind, of too many rightward turns in a nation almost desperate for meaning beyond consumerism and self-absorption...........$19.99
Roads to Santiago by Cees Nooteboom
A modern-day pilgrimage through Spain......$19.95
The Roads to Sata by Alan Booth
A 2000-mile walk through Japan.......$20.00
Romancing The Vine by Alan Tardi
Life, love & transformation in the vineyards of Barolo..........$28.95
The Root of Wild Madder by Brian Murphy
Chasing the history, mystery, and lore of the Persian carpet.........$21.00
The Rope in the Water - A Pilgrimage to India by Syliva Fraser
The story of Sylvia Fraser's three-month pilgrimage to India in search of "something larger than myself, something deeper, something more.".....$24.95
The Rose Cafe - Love & War in Corsica by John Hanson Mitchell
In the isolated backcountry of Corsica in the 1960s, a young American writer brings to life a vibrant cast of characters in this coming-of-age memoir set during the pivotal days of Europe in transformation...........$19.50
Rowed Trip by Colin Angus & Julie Angus
From Scotland to Syria by oar............$29.95
Round Ireland in Low Gear by Eric Newby
When Eric and Wanda Newby set out to find Ireland they set out on two wheels apiece. Their
chosen mode of transport was described by The Bicycle Buyer's Bibleas- in one
case- a Crossfell and- in the other- a wild cat. To the Irish, they were simply boikes. A
whole catalogue of expensive extras later, one of the all-time greats of travel writing was
equipped to journey round Ireland in low gear- with Wanda to keep him out of
trouble........$14.99
Round Ireland With a Fridge by Tony Hawks
Join the fearless duo (Tony and his fridge) as they battle on relentlessly toward Dublin and a breathtaking finale that is at the same time moving, uplifting, and a fitting conclusion to the whole ridiculous affair.....$16.95
Rowboat in A Hurricane by Julie Angus
Her amazing journey across a changing atlantic ocean...........$22.00
Rude Awakenings - Two Englishman On Foot in Buddhism's Holy Land by Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
Two Englishman on foot in Buddhism's Holy Land........$22.95
Running Away to Sea by George Fetherling
Round the world on a tramp freighter.......$24.99
Running With The Bulls by Gary Gray
Fiestas, corridas, toreros, and an American's adventure in Pamplona.......$19.95
Russian Journal by Andrea Lee
"A subtly crafted reflection on both the bleak and golden shadings of Russian life...It tones belong more to the realm of poetry than journalism." - The New York Times Book Review........$21.00
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The Sack of Rome - Media + Money + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi by Alexander Stille
The Sack of Rome is a monumental work of investigative reporting and a marvelous object lesson to anyone depressed about the state of American politics that it can get a whole lot worse.......$20.00
Saddled At Sea by Josie Dew
A 15,000 mile journey to New Zealand by freighter............$20.00
Salaam Brick Lane - A Year in the New East End by Tarquin Hall
Hilarious, gritty and deeply touching, this is a journey of discovery by an outsider in his own city.............$16.95
Sailing Alone by Johua Slocum
One of the great non fiction books of all time......$21.00
The Saint of Kathmandu and Other Tales of the Sacred in Distant Lands by Sarah LeVine........$23.95
San Sombrero - A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner & Rob Sitch
The hilarious follow-up to the bestsellers Molvania and Phaic Tan..........$17.95
Sands of Death - An Epic Tale of Massacre and Survival in The Sahara by Michael Asher
Desert explorer Michael Asher investigates the most disastrous exploration mission in the history of the Sahara, an epic of murder, treachery, poisoning, cannibalism and death........$18.95
The San Piper by Uys Lafra
Encounter with an otherworldly Bushman.....$19.95
The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa
"In this ambitious and compelling debut, Rupa Bajwa reaches for- and captures- the very soul of India."- Manil Suri.....$19.50
The Saucier's Apprentice by Bob Spitz
One long strange trip through the great cooking schools of Europe............$20.00
Saving Rome by Megan K. Williams
In this debut collection, Williams serves up the Eternal City as you've never seen it before, turning an insider's eye on love, mystery and unholy chaos of Rome.........$18.95
The Scent Trail by Celia Lyttelton
How one woman's quest for the perfect perfume took her around the world...........$18.00
Scribbling The Cat - Travel With an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller
An engrossing and haunting tale of love, godliness, hate, war, and survival, Scribbling The Cat is the story of Alexandra Fuller's unusual friendship with "K"- a strangely charismatic white African and Rhodesian War veteran........$21.00
Sea Room by Adam Nicoloson
An island life in the Hebrides..............$18.99
Sean & David's Long Drive by Sean Condon
A very funny ' on the road' book about Australia.....$19.50
Seasons in Basilicata by David Yeadon
A year in a southern Italian hill town....$18.99
Season On Harris by David Yeadon
A year in Scotland's Outer Hebrides..........$18.99
The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel: A Biography of the Explorer of Tibet and its Forbidden Practices by Barbara Foster and Michael Foster
This is the definitive biography of the woman Lawrence Durrell called "the most astonishing of
our time."......$28.99
Secret Tibet by Fosco Maraini
" A detailed, intelligent and lyrical portrait of pre-Chinese Tibet."- Sara Wheeler......$25.95
The Secrets of Rome - Love & Death in The Eternal City by Corrado Augias
Alexander Stille, author, journalist, and Sao Paulo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University finds The Secrets of Rome "an intelligent, literate tour of Rome in which the author moves gracefully between past and present, between neighborhoods, monuments, literary texts, and movies to offer a rich, layered, and highly readable narrative of the world's most beautiful city."............$34.95
Secrets of The Savanna by Mark & Delia Owens
Twenty-three years in the African wilderness unraveling the mysteries of elephants and people...........$19.95
Senor Nice by Howard Marks
Straight life from Wales to South America....$21.95
A Sense of the World by Jason Roberts
How a blind man became history's greatest traveler.....$18.99
Serve The People by Jen Lin-Liu
A stir-fried journey through China.............$18.95
Setting The East Ablaze by Peter Hopkirk
Lenin's dream of an Empire in Asia.........$19.95
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
In 1943 Harrer made a successful escape from an internment camp in India, through the rugged
Himalayan passes to the Forbidden city of Lhasa, where he became tutor and confidant to the
fourteen-year-old Dalai Lama........$19.95
Seven Years in Tuscany by Amanda Ferragamo
The story of a very rich woman's renovation of a medieval villa and town. .....$26.95
The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J.Maarten Troost
The laugh-out-loud true story of a harrowing and hilarious two-year odyssey in the distant South Pacific island nation of Kiribati- possibly the Worst Place on Earth......$19.95
The Shadow of Kilimanjaro - On Foot Across East Africa by Rick Ridgeway
"A gripping account of how it feels to be charged by an incensed elephant and kept awake at night by the roaring of stalking lions" the Boston Globe.....$19.00
Shadow of The Bear - Travels in Vanishing Wilderness by Brian Payton
In a series of remarkable journeys, Brian Payton travels the world in search of the eight remaining bear species. Along the way, he encounters poachers in the jungles of Cambodia, the cruelty of China's bear bile trade, and Canada's insatiable polar bear paparazzi. From the spectacled bears of a cursed Peruvian mountain to the man-eating sloth bears of India, Payton vividly captures the power and beauty of these majestic creatures while exploring their unique place within very different cultures.........$18.00
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
"A highly detailed, heartfelt but unsentimental introduction to Africa's afflictions and a quiet love song to its profound appeal"- The Wall Street Journal......$21.00
Shadows and Wind by Robert Templer
A view of modern Vietnam.....$21.00
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
The record of a journey from China to Turkey - 7000 miles overland in 8 months. Thubron's most ambitious journey in 40 years..........$18.99
Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski
In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved to transform his country into a "second America in a generation," only to be toppled virtually overnight.........$15.95
Shake Hands With The Devil by Gen. Romeo Dallaire
The failure of humanity in Rwanda......$24.95
Shameful Flight by Stanley Wolpert
The last years of the British Empire in India......$21.95
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
At the start of this massive, thrillingly undomesticated potboiler, a young Australian man bearing a false New Zealand passport that gives his name as "Lindsay" flies to Bombay some time in the early '80s. On his first day there, Lindsay meets the two people who will largely influence his fate in the city. One is a young tour guide, Prabaker, whose gifts include a large smile and an unstoppably joyful heart. Through Prabaker, Lindsay learns Marathi (a language not often spoken by gora, or foreigners), gets to know village India and settles, for a time, in a vast shantytown, operating an illicit free clinic. The second person he meets is Karla, a beautiful Swiss-American woman with sea-green eyes and a circle of expatriate friends. Lin's love for Karla - and her mysterious inability to love in return - gives the book its central tension. "Linbaba's" life in the slum abruptly ends when he is arrested without charge and thrown into the hell of Arthur Road Prison. Upon his release, he moves from the slum and begins laundering money and forging passports for one of the heads of the Bombay mafia, guru/sage Abdel Khader Khan. Eventually, he follows Khader as an improbable guerrilla in the war against the Russians in Afghanistan. There he learns about Karla's connection to Khader and discovers who set him up for arrest. Roberts, who wrote the first drafts of the novel in prison, has poured everything he knows into this book and it shows. It has a heartfelt, cinemascope feel. If there are occasional passages that would make the very angels of purple prose weep, there are also images, plots, characters, philosophical dialogues and mysteries that more than compensate for the novel's flaws. A sensational read.................$16.95
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia Dunlop
A sweet-sour memoir of eating in China...........$21.00
The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn
Love, laughter, and tears at the world's most famous cooking school.......$16.50
Shenzhen - A Travelogue From China by Guy Delisle
An entertaining compact with Guy Delisle's observations of life in a cold urban city in southern China that is sealed off by electric fences and armed guards from the rest of the country. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeeing outsourced production for a French animation company.......$24.95
Shipwrecked by Evan L. Balkan
Deadly adventures and disasters at sea.....$15.50
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
When Eric Newby, improbably earning his living in the London haute couture trade, sent his fateful cable- CAN YOU TRAVEL TO NURISTAN IN JUNE?- it was the first step in a classic journey, from Mayfair to the wild mountains of the Hindu Kush, north-east of Kabul. As a more recent generation of travellers has discovered, Afghanistan can be an inhospitable place; as this truly diverting and wonderfully evocative book shows, it is also one of the most spectacularly beautiful wilderness on earth....$18.95
Sicily Three Thousand Years of Human History by Sandra Benjamin
Tourists, armchair travellers, and historians alike will take delight in this popular history that can be read straight through, dipped into over time, or used as a handy reference guide to each period in Sicily's fascinating story.........$24.95
The Sign Of The Cross by Colm Toibin
Travels in Catholic Europe..............$14.99
Silk Dreams, Troubled Road by Jonny Bealby
In Islamabad, Jonny loses the woman of his dreams. Then he meets Sarah and together they search for the Heavenly Horses that will carry them along the Old Silk Road. This is a breathtaking travelogue and an intriguing illustration of human relationships under duress. ......$21.95
The Silk Road by Sven Hedin
Ten thousand miles through Central Asia...........$20.95
Silverland - A Winter Journey Beyond The Urals by Dervla Murphy
Wanderlust persists when other lusts fade and Silverland describes a septuagenarian's unusual midwinter journey from Moscow to the Russian Far East.........$18.95
The Sky is Falling on Our Heads by Rob Penn
A journey to the bottom of the Celtic fringe.....$16.95
Slave by Mende Nazer
Mende Nazer's happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the mujahidin rode into her village in the Nuba mountains of Sudan. She was abducted and sold to an Arab woman in Khartoum. For seven long years, she was kept as a domestic slave, an 'abid', without any pay or a single day off.....$16.00
Sliced Iguana by Isabella Tree
Travels in Mexico..............$18.95
Slipping into Paradise by Jeffrey Moussalieff Masson
Why I live in New Zealand.....$19.95
Slowly Down the Ganges by Eric Newby
This is the story of the 1200-mile journey made by Eric Newby and his wife down the holy river
of India, from Hardwar where it enters the great plain down to where the waters of the Hooghly
finally flow into the Bay of Bengal. Travelling in a variety of boats, and sometimes by rail, bus
and bullock cart, staying on sandbanks, in villages and towns, they encountered an engaging
assortment of characters and the dusty enchantment of India. Always the continuity lay with
Ganga Ma- Mother Ganges- herself: pure and sacred to millions; shifting, tranquil and
evocatively described with Newby's brilliant talent....$16.99
Smile When You're Lying - Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer by Chuck Thompson
From Bangkok to Bogota, a hilarious behind-the-brochures tour of picture-perfect locales, dangerous destinations, and overrated hellholes from a guy who knows the truth about travel...........$17.00
The Smiles of Rome edited by Susan Cahill
A literary companion for readers and travelers.....$21.00
Smouldering Incense, Hammered Brass - A Syrian Interlude by Heather Burles
Burles went to Syria in 1995. She rented a house and lived like a local and developed relationships with other women and so writes of life in Syria from an insider's point of view.......$14.95
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
In 1973 Peter Matthiessen and the field biologist George Schaller went to Nepal to study the
Himalayan blue sheep and, possibly, to glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. They
undertook their trek as winter snows were sweeping into the high passes, and five weeks were
required to reach their destination. For Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, there was a
spiritual quest as well, for he hoped find the revered Lama of Shey at the ancient Buddhist shrine
on the Crystal Mountain. Any trip is an experience that tests the life of the traveller. But this one
especially was a real passage, unfolding and revealing the narrator and his world....$18.50
So....We Sold Our House and Ran Away to the South Pacific by Gordon Cope
Taking a giant leap of faith, Gordon Cope, a successful journalist, and his wife Linda, a computer technician, quit their jobs, sell their home, and escape to the South Pacific.......$12.95
So Close To Heaven by Barbara Cossette
While travelling through Bhutan and its neighbouring countries, Barbara Cossette succeeds in
portraying both a colourful and insightful picture of the Buddhist people and their struggle to
maintain and honour their religious beliefs in the face of possible extinction....$21.00
The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinsi
Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 amd 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteristic cogency and emotional immediacy, he recounts the stories behind his official press dispatches - searing firsthand accounts of the frightening, grotesque, and comically absurd aspects of life during war: The Soccer War is a singular work of journalism.......$21.00
Solitude - Seeking Wisdom in Extremes by Robert Kull
A year alone in the Patagonia wilderness...............$21.50
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
"A mysterious & exhilarating work..No one will put it down unmoved"-NY Times...$17.50
Sons of The Conquerors - The Rise of The Turkic World by Hugh Pope
A compelling narrative of a people that have come to the forefront of global politics as they reach for a more secular model of Islamic government and reach out to their European neighbours, Sons of The Conquerors is a readable account of a profoundly neglected subject that brings readers into closer contact with a culture that continues to shape history.........$25.00
The Soul of the Rhino by Hemanta Mishra
A Nepali adventure with kings and elephant drivers, billionaires and bureaucrats, shamans and scietists, and the Indian rhino.....$21.50
Sources of The River - Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America by Jack Nisbet
In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet recreates the life and times of David Thompson - fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and map maker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America and was the first to chart the entire length of the Columbia River. His field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of the region, and Nisbet uses them to guide his own discovery of the Northwest Territory some two centuries later..........$22.00
South Africa A Traveller's Literary Companion (1st edition 2009) edited by Isabel Balseiro & Tobias Hecht
See the country through the eye's of some of their best writers.....$19.95
Spanish Recognitions by Mary Lee Settle
From the author of Turkish Reflections, a book of discovery in which the landscape of Spain, its history and its people flow together, each explaining the other....$21.00
Spanish Steps by Tim Moore
One man and his ass on the pilgrim way to Santiago....$21.95
The Spiders of Allah by James Hider
Travels as an unbeliever on the fronline of Holy War.........$18.95
Springtime For Germany or How I Learned To Love Ledherhosen by Ben Donald
Unable to resist the advances of the world's first travel therapist, Ben Donald goes where few holidaymakers and so-called travellers have wanted to go - at least not since 1945. Prescribed a course of visits to the land of Wurst and Liebfraumilch, he lays bare and disproves (most) stereotypes about our German friends and falls back in love with travel.........$24.00
Spirited Waters by Jennifer Hahn
Soloing south through the Inside Passage...........$23.95
Spooky Canada retold by S E. Schlosser, illustrated by Paul G. Hoffman
Tales of hauntings, strange happenings, and other local lore.......$14.95
St. Andrews Sojourn by George Peper
Two years at home on the Old Course............$17.50
Stalking The Wild Dik-Dik by Marie Javins
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Stanley By Tim Jeal
The impossible life of Africa's greatest explorer......$34.00
A Stingray Bit My Nipple by Erik Torkells and the readers of 'Budget Travel'
True stories from real readers.....$14.50
Stories I Stole by Wendall Steavenson
Wendal Steavenson spent two years in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Stories I Stole captures the exuberance of a fledgling nation of local despots, mountain tribes, blood feuds, and an unlimited flow of red wine. Shortlited for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award............$17.95
The Story of India (BBC Books) by Michael Wood
In this lavishly illustrated companion to his BBC TV series, Michael Wood weaves a spellbinding narrative out of the 10,000-year history of India........$23.95
Strange and Dangerous Dreams - The Adventure Between Adventure and Madness by Geoff Powter
Every culture, in every era, has its adventure myths - the golden hero willing to walk through fire elevates us all beyond our fears and limits. But more often than commonly recognized, there are darker reasons for dangerous pursuits. Psychologist Geoff Powter looks into the lives of eleven adventurers he calls The Burdened, The Bent, and The Lost, presenting previously unpublished information provided by witnesses, friends, and family.........$25.95
Strange Telescopes by Daniel Kalder
An epic quest across Russia in search of lost cities, demon hunters and the traffic cop messiah...........$16.00
Stranger in the Forest by Eric Hansen
On foot across Borneo...$21.00
Straying From The Flock by Alexander Elder
Travels in New Zealand..........$15.99
Stones Into Schools by Greg Mortenson
Promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan............$33.50
The Stones of Aran by Tim Robinson
The Aran Islands, in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland, are a unique geological and cultural landscape, and for centuries their stark beauty and their inhabitants' traditional way of life have attracted pilgrims from abroad..............$22.00
Sufferings in Africa by Captain James Riley
The astonishing account of a New England sea captain enslaved by North African Arabs.....$24.95
Sun After Dark by Pico Iyer
Flights into the foreign.....$17.95
A Supremely Bad Idea by Luke Dempsey
Three mad birders and their quest to see it all.........$27.95
Surrender or Starve by Robert D. Kaplan
Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea....$21.00
Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters - An Outrageous Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom by Philip Eade
"I do not like facts, and dates appal me". Consequently, Sylvia, Lady Brooke's account of her life as the last Ranee of Sarawak is an entertaining and lively memoir of the rule of her husband Rajah Vyner Brooke, who ceded the territory to the British Crown in 1946. There is however, a real sense of being present at a time when history was being made and by capturing the fun and sadness of the last days of the Brookes' rule, Lady Brooke conveys something of the magic of Sarawak and its people..........$18.95
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30 Days in Sydney by Peter Carey
A wildly distorted view..........$14.50
Taj Mahal - Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire by Diana & Michael Preston
The dazzling story of the Taj Mahal and the Moghul Empire whose spirit it epitomizes..........$21.00
Tales From Nowhere (Lonely Planet) edited by Don George
Unexpected stories from unexpected places - full of passion, surprise, wonder, curiosity and revelation, the 30 real-life tales in this extraordinary collection compose a kaleidoscopic portrait of the many Nowheres we visit in out lives, and the many roads we take to get there.......$18.95
Tales From The Expat Harem edited by Anastasia M. Ashman and Jennifer Eaton Gokmen
Foreign women in modern Turkey..........$21.50
Tequila Oil by Hugh Thompson
An account of Hugh Thomson's first wild adventure in Mexico at the age of 18 illustrates why it ignited his love for Latin America, and is then followed by his subsequent exploration 30 years later of the country, its people, and its history. Revealing a much more dangerous side of Mexico than that seen by package vacationers, this book takes the reader from the badlands of Chihuahua to the forests of the Yucatan. It ends deep in the Mexican jungle, face to face with one the most enigmatic and least understood cultures on the planet—the Maya—with a sense of humility at how little we still know about the pre-Columbian past. Similar to The Motorcycle Diaries, by throwing himself on the kindness, hospitality, and mercy of the Mexicans he met (or crashed into), Hugh was given an unusual and peculiarly vulnerable insight into Mexico. He returns many years later with a deeper understanding and the ability to explore the deep roots of pre-Columbian culture within Mexican life and to appreciate how much archaeologists have revealed about the Maya and the Aztecs in just the last few years.....$16.99
Tastes Like Cuba by Eduardo Machado
An exile's hunger for home......$16.50
Tasting Tuscany - Exploring and Eating Off The Beaten Track by Beth Elon
In Tasting Tuscany, the author shares with readers her intimate knowledge of a Tuscany that has not been widely discovered. The book also features ten itineraries that the reader can use to explore off the beaten track. These include favourite restaurants, and over one hundred recipes, which will enable the reader to experience a culture that values natural and traditional food and allow the reader to recreate the delicious dishes back at home...........$21.95
Terra Antarctica by William L. Fox
"A fascinating look at the 'windiest, coldest, highest, and diest continent on earth' and man's creative responses to it, this seems the perfect read after seeing March of the Penguins" - Publishers Weekly.......$25.95
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica by Sara Wheeler
"It is the last great journey left to man," Ernest Shackleton said in 1914, before setting off for
Antarctica on a voyage from which he would return only two years later, having lost his ship and
three members of his expedition. Eighty years later, Sara Wheeler embarked on that same
journey; this is much more that a record of that experience. Accounts of epic expeditions
alternate with Sara Wheeler's own adventures in Antarctica, where a motley crew of scientists,
drifters and dreamers search for bacterial traces that might hold the key to life on Mars, harass
penguins and seek to measure this still largely impenetrable land...$17.00
That Summer in Paris by Morley Callaghan
It was the fabulous summer of 1929 when the literary capital of North America had moved to the Left Bank of Paris. Hemingway was reading proofs to A Farewell to Arms, and a few blocks away Fitzgerald was struggling over Tender Is The Night. And Morley Callaghan, his first book published to acclaim in New York, arrived in Paris to share the felicities of the literary life, not just with his two friends, but with James Joyce, Ford Maddox Ford, and Robert McAlmon. Amidst these tangled relations, friendships were lost, too. A tragic and sad and unforgettable story told in Callaghan's lucid compassionate prose..........$19.95
Theatre of Fish by John Gimlette
Travels through Newfoundland and Labrador.........$21.95
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue by Paul Bowles
Scenes from the non-christian world....$17.99
There Is No Me Without You - One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children by Melissa Fay Greene
In this powerfully and highly acclaimed book, award-winning journalist Melissa Fay Greene tells the story of Haregewoin Teferra, a middle-class Ethiopian woman who found herself at the heart of a global health crisis. After the loss of her husband and daughter, Teferra reluctantly agreed to take in two of Addis Ababa's thousands of AIDS orphans, and soon children of all ages began to appear at the door of her tin-walled compound..............$17.50
The Thief at the End of the World by Joe Jackson
Rubber, power and the Seeds of Empire.............$17.50
Tierra Del Fuego by Francisco Coloane
Nine spellbinding short stories of adventure and discovery in Southern Chile................$16.50
That Summer in Sicily by Marlena De Blasi
This book reads like a suspense novel complete with a surprise ending, and though Tosca's story is compelling, it's in de Blasi's telling of it that the true magic lies". Publishers Weekly.....$16.50
Tickling the English by Dara O'Brian
Nostalgia, identity, eccentricity, gin drinking and occasional violence... these are just some of the themes that stand-up comedian Dara O Briain explores in Tickling the English. O Briain moved to England many years ago, but when he takes his show on tour around the country ? from deserted seaside towns and remote off-shore islands, to sprawling industrial cities and sleepy suburbs ? it?s clear to him that his adopted home is still a bit of an enigma. Why do the English pretend to be unhappy all the time?Why can?t they accept they rank about 5th, in everything?And what?s with all the fudge?But this Irishman loves a challenge; he's certainly got the gregarious personality and the sure-fire wit to bring down the barriers of that famous English reserve, and have a good old rummage inside. Swapping anecdotes with his audiences and spending time wandering in their hometowns, this nosy neighbour holds England up to the light while exploring some of the attitudes he brought over here with him too.As Dara goes door-to-door in search of England in this part tour diary, part travelogue, the result is an affectionate, hilarious and often eye-opening journey through the Sceptred Isle.....$16.00
Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas by Greg Child
Climbing a Himalayan peak was the stuff of Greg Childs's wildest dreams. Then in the late
1970's came a surprise berth on an expedition that was to define his career as a high-altitude
mountaineer and transform him personally. A chronicle of his apprenticeship, Thin Air
established Child as one of the great mountaineering writers of our time........$22.50
Thin White Line by Andy Cave
The sequel to Learning to Breathe .....$23.95
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart is a 1958 English-language novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is a staple book in schools throughout Africa and widely read and studied in English-speaking countries around the world. It is seen as the archetypal modern African novel in English, and one of the first African novels written in English to receive global critical acclaim. The novel concerns the life of Okonkwo, a leader and local wrestling champion throughout the nine villages of the Igbo ethnic group of Umuofia in Nigeria, his three wives, his children (mainly concerning his oldest son Nwoye and his favorite daughter Ezinma), and the influences of British colonialism and Christian missionaries on his traditional Igbo (archaically spelled "Ibo") community during an unspecified time in the late 1800s or early 1900s......$12.95
Thomas Jefferson Travels edited by Anthony Brandt
Selected writings 1784 - 1789......$19.95
A Thousand Days in Tuscany by Marlena De Blasi
Author of best-selling A Thousand Days in Venice continues her romance with Italy in a memoir of rural Tuscan life dazzles the senses.....$21.00
A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de Blasi
An unexpected romance.....$16.50
A Thousand Hills by Stephen Kinzer
Rwanda's rebirth and the man who dreamed it.....$28.99
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
One man's mission to promote peace...one school at a time. The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his remarkable humanitarian campaign in the Taliban's backyard..........$16.50
Three Letters From The Andes by Patrick Leigh Fermor
When the celebrated travellers Patrick Leigh Fermor accompanied five friends on a remarkable journey into the high Andes of Peru, his adventure took him from Cuzco to Urubamba, on to Puno and Juli on Lake Titicaca, down to Arequipa and finally back to Lima......$16.95
Three Sheets to the Wind by Pete Brown
One man's quest for the meaning of beer..........$14.99
Through Siberia by Accident by Dervla Murphy
Dervla Murphy found herself stymied by multiple minor injuries while still thousands of miles from her original destination, Ussuriland in the Russian Far East. She therefore spent the next three months amidst the vastness of Eastern Siberia, travelling by train and paddle-steamer.....$18.95
Thumbs Up Australia - Hitchhiking The Outback by Tom Parry
Hitching lifts with the desert's dodgiest drivers and taking breaks in the roughest roadhouses, this is Tom Parry's witty, warts-and-all tale of hitchhiking 8,000 miles across - and around - the Australian outback with his thumb, his backpack and his French girlfreind, Katia........$20.50
Tibet, Tibet by Patrick French
A personal history of a lost land. By the author of Younghusband....$21.00
Tigers in Red Weather by Ruth Padel
When Ruth Padel saw an advert for a cheap break to India, she decided to mark the end of a long relationship by visiting what she had always wanted to see: tropical jungle and a wildlife sanctuary. Her impromptu visit turned out to be the start of a remarkable two-year journey through eleven countries in search of that most elusive and beautiful animal: the tiger.......$19.00
Time Among The Maya by Ronald Wright
Embracing history, politics, anthropology & literature, Wright's book is both a fascinating travel
memoir & a study of a civilizations past & present....$22.00
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
The classic memoir of an enchanted journey across pre-war Europe.......$18.95
Time Was Soft There - A Paris Sojourn At Shakespeare & Co. by Jeremy Mercer
Wandering through Paris's Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited him up for tea. Within weeks, he was living above the store, working for the proprietor, George Whitman, patron saint of the city's down-and-out writers, and immersing himself in the love affairs and low-down watering holes of the shop's makeshift staff...........$15.50
To Dakar and Back by Lawrence Hacking with Wil De Clercq
21 Days across North Africa by motorcycle............$17.95
To Timbuktu by Mark Jenkins
A journey down the Niger............$17.95
To Timbuktu For A Haircut by Rick Antonson
A journey through West Africa..........$26.99
Together on the Top of the World - The Remarkable Story of The First Couple to Climb The Fabled Seven Summits by Phil and Susna Ershler
"In 1996, twelve climbers died on Everest in one of the worst disasters in the mountain’s history… We were at the same altitude, in the same location; they had been in when they died. We had the same experience levels they had, the same concerns for safety, the same professional and personal ambitions. We had the same amount of time and the same amount of oxygen. But we also had one thing they didn’t have. They had clear weather going up, and only abstract worries that a storm might develop. We already had the storm.".........$31.99
Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore by Ray Loriga
Set in the very near future, ...is a story of a traveling salesman floating from arid Arizona parking lots to steamy Bangkok bars to peddle the hottest new commodity for a group known only as the Company. What he has is a drug that erases memory. A story for our times, Loriga tackles nothing less than the question of what it means to be human when everything, including human identity, can be bought............$15.95
Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands by Tony Wheeler
A toursit on the Axis of Evil........$19.95
Touch the Dragon by Karen Conelly
Awarded the 1993 Governor-General's Award for non-fiction. The story of one Canadian girl's year long stay in the villages of Thailand.....$18.95
Tourist Season by Enid Shomer
In Tourist Season, award winning author Enid Shomer offers ten brilliant, unforgettable stories of resilient women aged seventeen to seventy, each at a pivotal point in her life.....$17.95
Tracks by Robyn Davidson
When Robyn Davidson first set out to make her journey across the deserts of Australia, alone but
for her dog and four camels, she was called a lunatic, a would-be-suicide, and a shameless
publicity seeker. But this high-spirited, engrossing book reveals that she is something more: a
genuine traveller driven by a love of Australia's landscape, an empathy for its indigenous people,
and a willingness to cast away the trappings of her former identity. Enduring 130-degree heat and
fording swollen rivers, fending off poisonous snakes and lecherous Australian men, chasing her
camels when they get skittish and nursing them when they are injured, Davidson emerges as a
heroine who combines extraordinary courage with exquisite sensitivity....$17.95
Trading in Memories - Travels Through A Scavenger's Favourite Places by Barbara Hodgson
Visiting markets, bookstores, cemetaries, and courtyards, Barbara Hodgson looks to the world's cast-offs and curiosities to revela rich and intimate insights into people, places, and times past..................$29.95
Trail to the Interior by R.M. Patterson
A personal adventure in the Cassiar District of BC. The "trail" is the historic track from Wrangell, Alaska, along the Stikine and Dease rivers and across the height of the land into the valleys of the Liard and the Mackenzie.......$19.95
Travel as a Political Act by Rick Steves
Rick's effort to get Americans, in particular, to travel smarter and come home with a broader perspective on how America fits in.....$19.50
Travelers' Tales: 30 Days in Italy edited by Sean O'Reilly, James O'Reilly & Larry Habegger
True stories of escape to the good life........$19.50
Travelers' Tales: 30 Days in The South Pacific edited by Sean O'Reilly, James O'Reilly & Larry Habegger
True escapes of escape to paradise........$19.95
Travelers' Tales: 100 Places Every Woman Should Go by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
True stories that will not only inspire, but compel you to hit the road - in a group, with a friend, or solo................$22.00
Travelers' Tales: 100 Places In Italy Every Woman Sould Go by Susan Van Allen.............$23.95
Travelers' Tales: Australia edited by Larry Habegger........$25.50
Travelers' Tales: The Best Travel Writing 2008 edited by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger & Sean O'Reilly, introduction by Tony Wheeler
True Stories from around the world.....$22.00
Travelers' Tales: The Best Travel Writing 2009 edited by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger & Sean O'Reilly
True stories from around the world, with an introduction by Tony Perrottet.....$23.50
Travelers' Tales: The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009 edited by Lucy McCauley....$23.50
Travelers' Tales: The Best Women's Travel Writing 2010 edited by Stephanie Elizondo Greist...$22.50
Travelers' Tales: Central America edited by Larry Habegger & Natanya Pearlman
Paul Theroux, Tim Cahill & Rigoberta Menchu to name but a few..........$24.50
Travelers' Tales: China edited by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger & Sean O'Reilly......$25.50
Travelers' Tales: Cuba edited by Tom Miller
True stories by Cristina Garcia, Pico Iyer, Dave Eggers, Ruth Behar, Eduardo Galeano, Bob Shacochis, Andrei Codrescu and many more.....$25.50
Travelers' Tales: Family Travel edited by Laura Manske......$23.50
Travelers' Tales: The Gift of Travel edited by Larry Habegger, James O'Reilly & Sean O'Reilly
In this anthology, the editors have selected some favorite stories form the books in this
award-winning series, stories about simple but profound gifts travelers have received from
people, places, and experiences around the world- from an unforgettable language teacher in
Bangkok to the tambourine men of Recife, from a tomato festival in Spain to a mutton feast in
Tibet, from a Barcelona train station to a Baja desert....$19.50
Travelers' Tales: Her Fork in the Road edited by Lisa Bach
Women celebrate food and travel. Includes pieces by M.F.K. Fisher, Ruth Reichl, Isabel Allende, Laurie Colwin, Frances Mayes, and many more.....$22.95
Travelers' Tales: India edited by James O'Reilly & Larry Habegger..........$25.95
Travelers' Tales: Italy (2nd edition 2001) Edited by Anne Calcagno
This exciting new edition includes the likes of Tim Parks, Jonathan Keates, Frances Mayes, and Duncan Fallowell........$25.50
Travelers' Tales: Mexico edited by James O'Reilly & Larry Habegger
Just a few of the notable authors you'll find in this book: Carlos Fuentes, Pete Hamill, Mary Morris, Alice Adams & Ted Conover......$24.50
Travelers' Tales: More Sand in My Bra edited by Julia Weiler & Jennifer L. Leo
Funny women write from the road, again.....$19.50
Travelers' Tales: Not So Funny When It Happened edited by Tim Cahill
Many of the best stories come from misadventures - the pratfalls, faux pas, and vast embarrassments that accompany life on the road. These tales share those moments when the best of plans go haywire, but are leavened by the saving grace of a sense of humor......$19.50
Travelers' Tales: Prague & The Czech Republic edited by David Farley & Jessie Sholl
True stories of other travelers..........$23.50
Travelers' Tales: Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures edited by Jennifer L. Leo
Funny women write from the road.....$23.00
Travelers' Tales: A Sense of Place (2004) edited by James O'Reilly, Larry Habeggar & Sean O'Reilly ..........$25.50
Travelers' Tales: Thailand edited by James O'Reilly & Larry Habeggar.....$25.50
Travelers' Tales: The Road Within edited by Sean O'Reilly, James O'Reilly & Tim O'Reilly
True stories of transformation and the soul.....$25.50
Travelers' Tales: The Thong Also Rises edited by Jennifer L. Leo
Further misadventures from funny women on the road.....$18.95
Travelers' Tales: There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Travelled edited by Doug Lansky
This collection of stories captures the wackiest and most bizarre experiences of great writers whose travels have not gone according to plan..........$19.95
Traveler's Tales: What Color is Your Jockstrap edited by Jennifer L. Leo
Misadventures from funny men and women on the road.......$19.50
Traveler's Tales: Whose Panties Are These? edited by Jennifer L. Leo
More misadventures from funny women on the road.......$19.95
Travelers' Tales: A Woman's Passion For Travel edited by Marybeth Bond & Pamela Michael
More true stories from A Woman's World.....$24.50
Travelers' Tales A Woman's World Again edited by Marybeth Bond
Explore the World in the company of women....$23.50
Travelers' Tales of Old Cuba edited by John Jenkins
From Treasure Island to Mafia Den.....$19.50
Travelling Passions - The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson by Gisli Palsson
Vilhjalmur Stefansson is widely known for his groundbreaking Canadian Arctic explorations of the early 1900s. In Travelling Passions, we have a much more complete picture of the man who figured so largely in the imagination of the early twentieth century................$39.95
Travelling With Che Guevara by Alberto Granado
The making of a revolutionary....$23.95
Travels in Tuscany by Charles Spencer with illustrations by Andrea Rauch......$23.00
The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
Marco Polo (1254-1324) spent the best part of twenty years globe-trotting from the Polar Sea to Java, from Zanzibar to japan, and probably travelled more extensively than anyone before him................$28.00
The Travels of Ibn Battutah Edited by Tim Mackintosh - Smith
A pilgrimage to Mecca in 1325........$17.99
Travels With a Tangerine - A Journey in the Footsteps of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Captivated by this inquisitive, indefatigable man, award-winning travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith set out on his own eventful journey, retracing the first stage of the Moroccan's eccentric trip from Tangier to Constantinople....$14.99
Travels With Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
"Kapucinski saw more, and more clearly, . . . than nearly any writer one can think to name. Few have written more beautifully of unspeakable things. Few have had his courage, almost none his talent. His books changed the way many of us think about nonfiction . . . A nameless energy gathers as one reads deeper into Travels With Herodotus, and one begins to realize that, in many ways, Kapucinski’s previous books, however brilliant, were somewhat impersonal. Here, finally, we experience the early tremors Kapucinski underwent for the privilege to write them. Not all of it is painful; much of it, in fact, is delightful . . . When the last page of this book is turned, note how much smaller and colder the world now seems with Kapucinski gone." – Tom Bissell, New York Times Book Review............$18.95
Traversa by Fran Sandham
A solo walk across Africa, from the Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean.........$30.00
Treading Grapes by Rosemary George
Walking through the vineyards of Tuscany...........$21.95
Tree of Rivers by John Hemming
The story of the Amazon..........$50.00
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race For Lhasa by Peter Hopkirk
Tibet, hidden away behind the protecting Himalayas in the heart of Central Asia, has long been
the stuff of traveller's dreams. Here, Peter Hopkirk tells for the first time of the forcible opening
up of this medieval land during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries- of the extraordinary race
which took place among travellers from nine different countries to reach Lhasa. Tibet's sacred
capital....$19.95
The Tribes Triumphant by Charles Glass
Return journey to the Middle East..........$19.95
Tro-Tros and Potholes by Laura Enridge
West Africa solo.......$11.99
The Trouble With Africa - Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working by Robert Calderisi
It isn't the legacy of the slave trade or colonialism, or the supposed inequities of globalization and world trade, that are to blame for Africa's travails, argues this stimulating contrarian essay. The author insists that Africa's problems are largely of its own making, the product of dictatorial, kleptocratic governments; rampant corruption; economic policies that hobble agriculture, discourage private investment and strangle new businesses with red tape; and a cultural fatalism that inures Africans to misery. Calderisi draws on his experience as a World Bank official in Africa, peppering his analysis with personal anecdotes about Africa's callous, venal officialdom and misguided economic policies. He offers a muted defense of World Bank policies, but also decries Western "political correctness" in indulging Africa's dysfunctions and calls for a new tough-love approach to foreign aid. Assistance to most countries, he contends, should be cut in half and conditioned on thorough democratic reforms and strict oversight by Western donors; responsible governments—he lists Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique and Mali—should get a large increase in aid with few strings attached. Calderisi's focus on Africa's internal faults.............$17.95
The True History of Tea by Victor H. Mair & Erling Hoh...........$30.00
Tuk Tuk To The Road by Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent and Jo Huxster
The ultimate road trip with a purpose, to raise money for a British charity. Over 12,000 miles from Bangkok to Brighton.....$18.99
Turkestan Reunion by Eleanor Holgate Lattimore
Turkestan Reunion is a series of "long letters home," portraying in intimate terms her
"seventeen days by sledge across the snow-covered Steppes of Great Horde in the dead of
winter," her dramatic reunion with her husband in Urumchi, and their subsequent expedition
through the mountain passes and pastures of Chinese Turkestan and over the Himalayas into
India. These spirited and amusing letters guide us through the adventures of an extraordinary
woman from an era that seem both close and impossibly far away....$20.95
The Turkish Embassy Letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lady Wortley Montagu (1689-1792), was described by a contemporary, as one of the most
extraordinary shining characters in the world. Her newly edited letters tell of her travels through
Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. She is one of the
most fascinating of early travel writers and commentators....$21.00
Turkish Reflections by Mary Lee Settle
Mary Lee Settle offers us an intimate portrait of a Turkey rarely seen- a land where the cutting of
a tree is a crime, where goats are sacrificed to launch state-of-the-art ships, and where whole
towns emerge at dusk to stroll in the streets. She finds ancient monasteries converted into discos,
underground cities carved out of rock, and sleek jet-set yachts alongside camels piled high with
copper pots. She follows in the footsteps of emperors and nomads, sultans and shepherds;
explores the trails blazed by Alexander the Great, Tamerlane, Genghis Khan, and Ataturk.
Turkish Reflections' is a cross-country odyssey into history, legend, mystery, and myth....$16.00
Turtle Feet by Nikolai Grozni
The making and unmaking of a Buddhist monk........$20.00
Turning Japanese - Memoirs of A Sansei by David Mura
"David Mura returns to the land of his ancestors in search of a 'lost center' within his soul and describes all this with a poet's sensibility and an unfailing eye for irony."- The Washington Post........$18.95
Tuscany in Mind edited with an introduction by Alice Leccese Powers
An anthology of some real heavy weights; Byron, The Brownings, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, just to name a few......$21.00
Tuva or Bust - Richard Feynman's Last Journey by Ralph Leighton
In the 1930s, a young stamp collector named Richard Feybman coveted the unusually exotic stamps from a land called Tannu Tuva, ringed by mountains deep in Siberia, just beyond Outer Mongolia. Forty years later, the maverick Nobel Prize- winning physist challenged his sidekick, fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton: "Whatever happened to Tannu Tuva?" Thus began a poignant and funny decade-long adventure......$13.95
Twenty Chickens For A Saddle by Robyn Scott
The story of an African childhood in Botswana..............$18.00
Two In A Boat by Gwyneth Lewis
The true story of a marital rite of passage........$17.99
Two Towns In Provence by M.F.K. Fisher
Two Towns in Provence brings together M.F.K. Fisher's classic and unforgettable portraits of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille....$22.95
Two Wheels in The Dust by Anne Mustoe
Bicycling from Kathmandu to Kandy............$23.50
Two Years in St. Andrews by George Peper
From the former editor in chief of Golf Magazine, comes this part golf story part life in Scotland story........$17.50
U
Unbowed A Memoir by Wangari Maathai
The first African woman - and the first environmentalist - to win the Nobel Peace Prize...........$18.95
Under A Cloud by Binoo K.John
Life in Cherrapunji, the wettest place on earth.......$18.00
Under The Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy.....$19.95
Under The Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
Frances Mayes opens the door on a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an
abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. She finds faded frescoes beneath the
whitewash in the dining room, a vineyard under wildly overgrown brambles- and even a
wayward scorpion under her pillow. And from her traditional kitchen and simple garden she
creates dozens of delicious seasonal recipes, all included in this volume....$22.95
Under The Weather by Tom Fort
Tom Fort's book is a journey around the country on the trail of the eccnetrics, visionaries and fanatics - past and present - who have sought and found inspiration in that perennial conversational stand-by: the British weather.........$21.95
The Underdog - Seeking the Meaning of Life in The World's Most Outlandish Competitions by Joshua Davis
Joshua Davis is a 129-pound data entry clerk whose wife, Tara, has only three simple requests: direct sunlight, a dining room, and a bathtub. Since of none of these exist in their tiny San Francisco apartment, Josh sets off on a journey to become the provider his wife wants him to be. The problem is that he does it in a way that most people would never consider: He enters the most grueling, unusual contests in the world.........$18.95
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman
Armed only with the collected works of Nietzsche, an astrological love guide, and an arsenal of bravado, the two friends plunged into the dusty streets of Shanghai. Unsurprisingly, they quickly found themselves in over their heads. As they ventured off the map deep into Chinese territory, they were stripped of everything familiar and forced to confront their limitations amid culture shock and government surveillance. What began as a journey full of humor, eroticism, and enlightenment grew increasingly sinister-becoming a real-life international thriller that transformed them forever. .....$16.99
An Unexpected Light - Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot
`Everything a travel book should be - truly memorable.'- Eric Newby. Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award Winner......$13.99
The Unheard by Josh Swiller
A memoir of deafness and Africa..............$15.50
Unlikely Destinations - The Lonely Planet Story by Tony & Maureen Wheeler
How two backpackers trekked across Asia - and revolutionized the world of independent travel.............$21.50
Unpolished Gem - My mother, my grandmother, and me by Alice Pung
I was doomed, early on, to be a word-spreader, Pung writes, and her special burden was to tell these stories that the women of my family made me promise never to tell a soul. The stories are not of scandalous secrets or shocking revelations, but of the struggles faced by three generations of Asian women as they settle in a culturally Western country. Pung, a lawyer, recounts the journey her family made over the decades—from China, her grandparents' birthplace, to Cambodia, where her parents are born, through Vietnam and Thailand to Australia where, one month after their arrival, Pung is born...............$16.50
The Unsavvy Traveler edited by Rosemary Caperton, Anne Mathews & Lucie Ocenas
Women's comic tales of catastrophe........$21.50
Utopian Dreams - In Search of a Good Life by Tobias Jones
The promise of happiness has created an epidemic of depression. It's us who are being consumed, not the objects. Postmodernism is the hidden fuel of the consumer culture. It allows everything to be erased, replicated, replaced. From trhe author of the bestselling The Dasrk Heart of Italy comes a different kind of travel book, a diary of one year spent living in communes and amongst unusual dreamers.............$18.00
Uttermost Part of The Earth - A History of Tierra del Fuego and the Fuegians by E. Lucas Bridges
The enthralling classic work on Tierra del Fuego that inspired Bruce Chatwin to write In Patagonia is available again with the original photographs, endpapers, and gate-fold maps..........$50.00
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Vanished! Explorers Forever Lost by Evan Balkan
True and harrowing accounts of adventurers who never came home...............$12.95
Venice by Jan Morris
"No visitor should visit the place without it...Venice stands alone as the essential introduction, and as a work of literature in its own right." - Observer......$22.99
Venice is a Fish by Tiziano Scarpa
One of Italy's brightest literary lights reinvents travel writing with a seductive, intoxicating celebration of the magical saltwater city.....19.00
Venice For Lovers by Loius Begley and Anka Mulstein
Venice for Lovers is a collection of essays and travel impressions about Venice.....$17.50
Venturing in Italy - Travels in Puglia, Land Between Two Seas (Travelers' Tales) Edited by Barbara J Euser & Connie Burke......$19.50
Venturing in Southern Greece - The Vatika Odysseys (Travelers' Tales) edited by Barbara J. Euser & Connie Burke
Discover Greece as seen through writers eyes......$18.50
Venturing In Ireland - Quest For The Modern Celtic Soul (Travelers' Tales) edited by Barbara J. Euser & Connie Burke........$15.50
Video Night in Kathmanduby Pico Iyer
Mohawk haircuts in Bali. Yuppies in Hong Kong. In Bombay, not one but five Rambo rip-offs,
complete with music and dancing. And in the new People's Republic of China, a restaurant that
serves dishes called "Yes, Sir, Cheese My Baby," "A Legitimate Beef," and "Ike and Tina
Turner." These are some of the images- comical, poignant, and unsettling- that Pico Iyer brings
back from the Far East in this brilliant book of travel reportage. A writer for `Time', Iyer
approaches his subject with a camera-sharp eye, a style that suggests a cross between Paul
Theroux and hunter Thompson, and a willingness to go beyond the obvious conclusions about
the hybrid cultures of East and West....$21.00
Vienna: A Traveler's Literary Companion edited by Donald G. Daviau
Stories selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler ........$19.50
Vietnam A Traveler's Literary Companion (1st edition 1996) edited by John Balaban & Nguyen Qui Duc
Just as they traverse wide landscapes, these 17 stories by the best Vietnamese writers also harken through time to the roots of Vietnamese culture........$19.50
The Village of Waiting by George Packer
A Peace Corps volunteers' experiences of life in a West African Villlage in the 1980's....$20.00
The Vinegar of Spilamberto by Doris Muscatine
"Through the stories of her own adventures in Italy, Doris Muscatine perfectly illustrates the idiosyncrasies of Italian Culture. She weaves together food, warmth and tradition much like the neighborhood trattoria she writes about." Alice Waters.......$19.50
A Vineyard in The Dordogne by Jeremy Josephs
How an English family made their dream of wine and sunshine come true..........$15.95
A Vineyard in Tuscany by Ferenc Mate
A wine lover's dream...........$15.50
Virgin Trails - A Secular Pilgrimage by Robert Ward.......$29.95
Voyage of The Beagle by Charles Darwin
A fascinating record of Charles Darwin's five years as a naturalist aboard a naval survey brig between 1831 and 1836. In those years the Beagle circled the globe, travelling along the coast of South America and crossing the Pacific with a brief, yet significant stop in the Galapagos Islands.....$16.95
Voyageur by Robert Twigger
Across the Rocky Mountains in a birchbark canoe........$16.95
Vroom With A View... by Peter Moore
In search of Italy's Dolce Vita on a '61 Vespa........$14.95
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A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
The Appalachian Trail cover fourteen states and over 2,000 miles. The longest continuous
footpath in the world, it stretches up the east coast of the Unites States from Georgia to Maine.
God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to
undertake this grueling hike. Bryson combines the comic tradition of Twain, Thurber and
Perelman with a peculiarly British sense of irony to produce a view of the world that is uniquely,
hilariously, his own...$11.99
Walking The Camino by Tony Kevin
A modern pilgrimage to Santiago..........$21.95
Walking the Gobi by Helen Thayer
A 1600-mile trek across the Gobi Desert with her husband and no film crew or support team. ....$22.50
Wanderlust A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
From the inside cover.... The first general history of walking, Solnit's book finds a profound relationship between walking and thinking, walking and culture, and argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in an ever more auto-dependent and accelerated world.....$23.00
Wanderlust - A Social History of Travel by Laura Byrne Paquet........$19.95
War Reporting For Cowards by Chris Ayres
Between Iraq and a hard place.........$16.95
The Water Gods by Anna Paskal
The inside story of a World Bank project in Nepal....$18.95
The Way Is Made By Walking by Arthur Paul Boers
A pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago...........$19.95
The Way of a Boy by Ernest Hillen
A memoir of Java..........$18.00
The Way of Herodotus by Justin Marozzi
Travels with the man who invented history.......$21.50
The Way of the Kings by Andre Malraux
Famed European novelist Andre Malraux tells the story of young Frenchman Claude and experienced Dutch explorer Perken and their expedition into the perilous Cambodian jungles. Seeking adventure, fame and fortune, the duo faces death at every turn from the seething forest and tribespeople....$17.95
Way Out There edited by James Little
The best of Explore..........$24.95
Ways of Escape - A Memoir by Graham Greene
The relationship between the places he travelled to and his writings is explored in this book......$19.95
We've Always Had Paris....And Provence by Patricia & Walter Wells
A scrapbook of their life in France...........$19.99
West With The Night by Beryl Markham
"......I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody wonderful book."- Ernest Hemingway on Beryl's book about growing up in Kenya.....$18.95
What The Psychic Told The Pilgrim by Jane Christmas
A midlife misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago de Compostela............$21.95
Whatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison
True tales of a Botswana Safari Guide.....$21.75
When A Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
When Peter Godwin, a journalist in New York, flies home to Zimbabwe to check on his frail parents, he documents their descent as well as that of his country under Robert Mugabe's corrupt regime. In the midst of the economic and social turmoil, Godwin learns that his dad - struggling with diabetes and heart problems - was really Kazimierz Jerzy Goldfarb, a Warsaw Jew whose family died in Treblinka. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, a moving, often raw portrait of modern Africa, juxtaposed against a very personal story, deserves a place on the shelf beside Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart and Alexandra Fuller's Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight......$16.99
Where The Mountain Casts its Shadow by Maria Coffey
The dark side of extreme adventure.......$16.95
When Wanderers Cease To Roam - A Traveler's Journal of Staying Put by Vivian Swift
A charming, illustrated celebration of puttering, doodling, daydreaming, and settling down after years on the road...........$22.00
When We Get To Surf City by Bob Greene
A journey through America in pursuit of rock and roll, friendship and dreams...........$20.50
Where the Wild Things Were by William Stolzenburg
Life, death and ecological wreckage in a land of vanishing predators.....$27.95
The White Masai by Corinne Hofmann
This book combines adventure and the pursuit of passion in a page-turning story of two star - crossed lovers from vastly different backgrounds.....$16.50
White Mughals by William Dalrymple
Love and betrayal in eighteenth-century India......$19.95
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
"This fast-moving novel, set in India, is being sold as a corrective to the glib, dreamy exoticism Western readers often get...If these are the hands that built India, thier grandkids are going to kick America's ass..." - New York Magazine...........$16.00
Wild East by Jill Lawless
Travels in the new Mongolia..............$19.95
Wild Girls - The Love Life of Natalie Barney & Romaine Brooks by Diana Souhami
Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks were pivotal figuresin the bohemian world of Paris at the turn of the century. Both were American expatriates, unconventional, energetic, flamboyant and rich. Their group of friends and lesbian lovers included Liane de Pougy the exquisite courtesan, the poet Renee Vivien, Dolly Wilde- niece of Oscar- who died of a drug overdose; Gertrude Stein, Colette and Edith Sitwell......$19.95
Wild With Child edited by Jennifer Bove
Adventures of families in the great outdoors..............$20.50
Wildebeest in a Rainstorm by John Bowermaster
Profiles of our most intriguing adventurers, conservationists, shagbags and wanderers............$22.00
The Windows of Brimnes by Bill Holm
An American in Iceland.........$28.50
The Wisdom of Donkeys - Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World by Andy Merrifield
The author, weary of city life, goes in search of tranquility along the tracks and bridle paths of the Auvergne.......$22.95
Without Reservations - The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach
In the tradition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift From the Sea, in Without Reservations we take time off with Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach as she explores the world and rediscovers what it means to be a woman.......$18.95
A Woman in the Polar Night by Christine Ritter
"An unpretentious but arresting book about life south of nowhere" Time Magazine......$19.95
Women Travelers - A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850 - 1950
Archival photographs and extracts from diaries, journals, letters, and other writings thrillingly bring to life the unquenchable spirit of adventure of these courageous women........$56.00
Words Without Borders with an introduction by Andre Dubus III
28 works of literature never before published in English. The world throught the eyes of writers......$16.95
The World: Travels 1950 - 2000 by Jan Morris
This book provides us with a complete overview of her work........$21.00
Words are Stones - Impressions of Sicily by Carlo Levi, with foreword by Anita Desai
In this travel lit classic, late Italian writer Carlo Levi offers a rare and insightful glimpse into an island whose people, though marred by poverty and backwardness, retained a generosity and graciousness of spirit - even in the face of hardship, political upheaval and murder. Over the course of five years, Levi made three journeys to Sicily and chronicled his travels in three essays capturing the essence of Sicilian life: traditions, culture and breathtaking landscape......$17.95
World's To Explore edited by Mark Jenkins Forword by Simon Winchester
Classic tales of travel and adventure from National Geographic....$19.95
The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
"The Worst Journey in the World is to travel writing what War and Peace is to the novel...a masterpiece."- New York Review of Books....$21.00
Wrong About Japan by Peter Casey
A father's journey with his son.....$17.00
The Wrong Way Home by Peter Moore
London to Sydney the hard way..........$21.95
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A Year in Green Tea and Tuk-Tuks: My Unlikely Adventure Creating an Organic Farm in Sri Lanka by Rory Spowers
Rory Spowers, BBC journalist and passionate environmentalist, wants to live his dream - a more ecologically sustainable lifestyle, So, abandoning his life in London and moving with his wife and two toddler sons to a 60-acre old tea estate in Sri Lanka, Rory sets out to transform it into an organic farm...........$17.95
A Year in Japan by Kate T. Williamson
Reading this book provides a colourful journey to the beauty, poetry, and quirkiness of modern Japan. It is a book not just to look at but to experience.........$25.95
A Year in Marrakesh by Peter Mayne
"Few writers have evoked the spirit of place as brilliantly as Peter Mayne, who was to Morocco what Norman Douglas was to Capri and Lawrence Durrell to Greece" - Tatler..........$29.95
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
A witty & warm hearted account of living in France.......$15.00
A Year in The Merde by Stephen Clarke
An urban antidote to A Year in Provence, Stephen Clarke's book is a laugh-out-loud account of a yeasr in the life of an expat in Paris- for Francophiles and Francophobes alike.......$21.00
A Year in The World by Frances Mayes
Frances Mayes leaves the Tuscan countryside and visits other special places in Europe and North Africa......$19.95
The Year of The Goat by Margaret Hathaway
40,000 Miles across America in the quest for the perfect cheese...................$18.95
Yemen the Unknown Arabia by Tim MacIntosh-Smith
Winner of the the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for 1999. Here are some of the reviews. A book a publisher couldn't commision, a book no author could set out to write. a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.....MacIntosh-Smith writes with wit, insight, and learning....His loving account will stand a a timely classic Sunday Times (London) Rattlingly funny, learned, and readable The Independent...$23.50
You Can't Get There From Here by Gayle Forman
Tales from the other side of world travel.......$19.95
Younghusband by Patrick French
The last great imperial adventurer.......$23.95
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Zaatar Days, Henna Nights by Maliha Masood
Adventures, dreams, and destinations across the Middle East............$20.50
The Zanzibar Chest by Aidan Hartley
A story of life, love, and death in foreign lands......$19.95
A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell
The true story of the man who started the Jersey Zoo....$20.00
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