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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
John Waters · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
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A cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdoJohn Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving... |
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Wild by Nature: From Siberia to Australia, Three Years Alone in the Wilderness on Foot
Sarah Marquis · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 259
Format: Print book
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One woman 10,000 miles on foot 6 countries 8 pairs of hiking boots 3,000 cups of tea 1,000 days and nights "The only way to survive three years of walking was to embrace the moment of now." -- from Wild by Nature Not since Cheryl Strayed gifted us with her adventure on the Pacific... |
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Crossing the River: A Life in Brazil
Amy Ragsdale · Seal Press, 2015.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Overwhelmed with her fast-paced, competitive lifestyle, Amy Ragsdale moved with her husband, writer Peter Stark, and their two teenage children from the US to a small town in northeastern Brazil, where she hoped they would learn the value of a slower life. In this culturally rich and economically... |
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The Rose Hotel: A Memoir of Secrets, Loss, and Love From Iran to America
Rahimeh Andalibian · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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A country in chaos, a clash of civilizations, and a family torn asunder. In this searing memoir, Rahimeh Andalibian struggles to make sense of two brutal crimes a rape, solved by her father, and a murder, of which her beloved oldest brother stands accused. She takes us first into her familys... |
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Hemingway's Paris: A Writer's City in Words and Images
Robert Wheeler · Yucca Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Walk through the Streets of Paris with Ernest Hemingway.In gorgeous black and white images, Hemingway's Paris depicts a story of remarkable passion - for a city, a woman, and a time. No other city in any of his travels was as significant, professionally or emotionally, as was Paris.... |
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No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering
Clara Bensen · Running Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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One Dress, Three Weeks, Eight Countries - Zero BaggageNewly recovered from a quarter-life meltdown, Clara Bensen decided to test her comeback by signing up for an online dating account. She never expected to meet Jeff, a wildly energetic university professor with a reputation for bucking... |
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Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg
James McPherson · Zenith Press
Format: Hardcover
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Enjoy this fully illustrated edition of Hallowed Ground by James M McPherson one of todays greatest Civil War historiansJames M McPherson the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world walks readers through the Gettysburg... |
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Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings
Nellie Bly · Penguin Books,
Pages: 331
Format: Print book
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The first edited volume of work by the legendary undercover journalistBorn Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was one of the first and best female journalists in America and quickly became a national phenomenon in the late 1800s, with a board game based on her adventures and merchandise... |
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Think South: How We Got Six Men and Forty Dogs Across Antarctica
Cathy de Moll · Minnesota Historical Society Press
Format: Print book
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What does it take to move forty dogs, three sleds, twenty tons of food and gear, and six men from all over the world across nearly four thousand of the coldest miles on earth? Cathy de Moll, the executive director of the 1990 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition, introduces the wild... |
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Best of One Tank Trips: Great Getaway Ideas In and Around Ohio
Neil Zurcher · Gray & Co
Pages: 252
Format: Print book
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Discover the best and most unusual getaway ideas in and around Ohio! Longtime TV travel reporter Neil Zurcher has driven more than a million miles in Ohio and nearby states to find great local travel destinations for his "One Tank Trips" reports. This book collects his all-time... |
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Once Upon a Yugoslavia: When the American Way Met Tito's Third Way
Surya Green · New Europe Books, 2015.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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It is 1968. Across America, citizens march for social reform and an end to the Vietnam War. Amid all this, Surya Green--a New York-born, self-absorbed, modern young woman--is a student at Stanford University, blithely pursuing a graduate degree in communication. Her view of life's purpose... |
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Barn Find Road Trip: 3 Guys, 14 Days and 1000 Lost Collector Cars Discovered
Tom Cotter · Motorbooks International
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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Great collector cars are still out there--just waiting to be found!Sadly, there is very little reality in reality TV. That wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that these shows are the only TV shows for the barn-find collector car aficionado.Barn Find Road Trip is the antidote to all the manufactured... |
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Athens
James H McGregor · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 242
Format: Print book
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Revered as the birthplace of Western thought and democracy, Athens is much more than an open-air museum filled with crumbling monuments to ancient glory. Athens takes readers on a journey from the classical city-state to today's contemporary capital, revealing a world-famous metropolis... |
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A Long Way Home: A Memoir
Saroo Brierley · G.P. Putnam's Sons; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and homebut an identity long-since left behind.At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last... |
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