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Fodor's The Complete Guide to Alaska Cruises
Fodor's · Fodor's; Fol Pap/Ma edition
Format: Paperback
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Fodors correspondents highlight the best of Alaska cruising, including detailed ship reviews, planning tips, and information on more than 20 of the most popular ports. Our cruise experts vet every recommendation to ensure you make the most of your time, whether its your first cruise or your... |
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We'll Always Have Paris: A Mother/Daughter Memoir
Jennifer Coburn · Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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How her daughter and her passport taught Jennifer to live like there's no tomorrow Jennifer Coburn has always been terrified of dying young. So she decides to save up and drop everything to travel with her daughter, Katie, on a whirlwind European adventure before it's too late.... |
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Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir
Frances Mayes · Crown; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region's powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes... |
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Uganda Be Kidding Me
Chelsea Handler · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Wherever Chelsea Handler travels, one thing is certain: she always ends up in the land of the ridiculous. Now, in this uproarious collection, she sneaks her sharp wit through airport security and delivers her most absurd and hilarious stories ever. On safari in Africa, it's anyone's... |
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White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic
Stephen R. Bown · Da Capo
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Among the explorers made famous for revealing hitherto impenetrable cultures - T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger in the Middle East, Richard Burton in Africa - Knud Rasmussen stands out not only for his physical bravery but also for the beauty of his writing. Part Danish, part Inuit,... |
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The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
Philip Caputo · Henry Holt and Co.; 2nd Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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In The Longest Road, one of Americas most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as it is large.Standing on a wind-scoured island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled... |
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And the Monkey Learned Nothing: Dispatches from a Life in Transit
Tom Lutz · University of Iowa Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Tom Lutz is on a mission to visit every country on earth. And the Monkey Learned Nothing contains reports from fifty of them, most describing personal encounters in rarely visited spots, anecdotes from way off the beaten path. Traveling without an itinerary and without a goal, Lutz explores... |
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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
Matthew Goodman · Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLEROn November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day - and heading in the opposite... |
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South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature
Margaret Eby · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A literary travelogue into the heart of classic Southern literature.What is it about the South that has inspired so much of America's greatest literature? And why, when we think of Flannery O'Connor or William Faulkner or Harper Lee, do we think of them not just as writers, but as Southern... |
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Hope Runs: An American Tourist, a Kenyan Boy, a Journey of Redemption
Claire Diaz-Ortiz · Revell,
Pages: 204
Format: Print book
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Sammy Ikua Gachagua had lost his father to illness, his mother to abandonment, and his home to poverty. By age ten, he was living in a shack with seven other children and very little food. He entered an orphanage seeing it as a miracle with three meals a day, a bed to sleep in, and clothes... |
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Common Ground: Encounters with Nature at the Edges of Life
Rob Cowen · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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All too often, we think of nature as something distinct from ourselves, something to go and see, a place that's separate from the ordinary modern world in which we live and work. But if we take the time to look, we soon find that's not how nature works. Even in our parceled-out,... |
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Cotton Tenants: Three Families
James Agee · Melville House
Format: Paperback
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A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographerIn 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great... |
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