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Wild America: A Personal Celebration of the National Parks
David Muench · Rucksack Readers USA
Pages: 100
Format: Print book
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Published on John Muir Day (April 21st) and timed to coincide with the centennial of the us national park service.Wild America brings together David Muench, the eminent wilderness photographer, with Roly Smith, the respected outdoor writer. This book celebrates their personal selection... |
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Driving Hungry: A Memoir
Layne Mosler · Pantheon Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A delicious memoir that takes us from Buenos Aires to New York to Berlin as the author, driven by wanderlust and an unrelenting appetite, finds purpose, passion, and unexpected flavor. After putting her dream of opening her own restaurant on hold, Layne Mosler moves to Buenos Aires to write... |
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Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain
Charlotte Higgins · Overlook Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the captivating and haunting exploration of the remnants of an empire What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Sometimes on foot,... |
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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
Richard Holmes · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)****Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013****The New Republic Best Books of 2013**In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring... |
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Meet Me in Venice: A Chinese Immigrant's Journey from the Far East to the Faraway West
Suzanne Ma · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter she had never forgotten. But when Ye Pei arrives in Italy, she learns her mother works on a farm... |
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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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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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The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
Terry Tempest Williams · Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar
Pages: 416
Format: eBook
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America's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir WhenWomen Were... |
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Travels with Henry James
Henry James · Nation Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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"To travel with James in these pages is to take an unhurried vacation with a thoroughly seasoned, supremely cultivated, acutely intelligent companion. Our guide is a curious, engaged observer not only of landscapes and streets and cathedrals but also of paintings and plays and the characteristics... |
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How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter
Matt Kepnes · Perigee Trade; 1.6.2013 edition
Format: Paperback
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For over half a decade, Matt Kepnes (aka Nomadic Matt) has used his massively popular travel blog to teach readers how to travel the world on the cheap. Arguing that traditional travel media lies, Matt cuts through the myth that travel is expensive. How to Travel the World... |
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