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Travel Writing I-S

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• La Place de la Concorde Suisse - by John McPhee
• China Road a Journey into the Future
• In a Special Light - Bode explores his adopted city of El Paso, the land and people of Central Texas, and his roles as teacher, father, and writer
• In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams - A bold new journey across Morocco that becomes an adventure worthy of the mythical Arabian Nights
• In Sicily - by Norman Lewis
• It's not about the Tapas: Around Spain on Two Wheels - From the thigh-burning ascents of the Pyrenees to the relentless olive groves of Andalusia, she found more adventure than she bargained for.
• Italy: The Best Travel Writing from the New York Times - Noted "New York Times" writers and bestselling authors offer vivid accounts of this beloved country.
• Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa - Muller discovers in sometimes awkward, sometimes awesomely funny interactions just how maddeningly complicated it is being Japanese.
• Kamchatka: A Journal & Guide to Russia's Land of Ice and Fire A Journa - by Diana Gleadhill
• Kingdom of 10,000 Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas - Retraces the voyage of the legendary 5th-century Buddhist monk Huishen
• Kiwis Might Fly: A New Zealand Adventure - Evans's search for the elusive Kiwi
• La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind - A hypothetical and hilarious trip into the hearts and minds of Beppe Severgnini's fellow Italians.
• The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria - A story that will appeal to anyone who delights in travel and shares the fantasy of beginning a new life in a very different place.
• Land of the High Flags: Afghanistan When the Going Was Good - A memoir of lost Afghanistan.
• A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 - The long-awaited third volume of Richardsons definitive biography of Pablo Picasso
• The London Scene: Six Essays On London Life - This collection of essays inspired by the celebrated writer's favorite walks is available in its entirety for the first time in North America
• Lost Cosmonaut: Observations of an Anti-Tourist - A world of hidden cities, bizarre suicidal customs, lost rites, and insanely inventive serial killers in the former Soviet Union.
• Magic and Mystery in Tibet - A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s.
• Mama Makes Up Her Mind And Other Dangers of Southern Living - by Bailey White
• Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese - Bridges the genres of adventure story, travel writing, & memoir to unfurl "the green and gold and gentle shades" of this landscape.
• Mark Twain On Travel - Experience the character of the world's nations, both the grimy and the golden, through the restless words of one of literature's most beloved authors.
• The Marsh Arabs - Thesiger details the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq--long before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam Hussein
• May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India - For three years, Elisabeth Bumiller traveled to all parts of India, examining the lives of Indian women.
• McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland - by Pete McCarthy
• Memoirs of Montparnasse - A delightful hymn to a life of abandon in a never-never land of effortlessly fulfilled desire
• Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico - A celebration of the joys and revelations to be found in this inexhaustibly interesting country
• Midnight Wilderness: Journeys in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - by Debra Miller
• Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran - A fascinating journey through the cultural and artistic landscape of Iran, both past and present.
• Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend - Ross sets off for Tokyo on a journey into the heart of the Mishima legend--the very heart of Japan
• Mogreb-El-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco - Part history, part social commentary, Graham's account of his travels makes fascinating reading nearly a century later.
• Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy - Unearths the extraordinary stories of remarkable Italians and remarkable women
• My Heart Is Africa: A Flying Adventure - Griffin left the comfortable routine of his life as a successful businessman to fly solo to Africa in his single-engine Cessna 180
• My Journey to Lhasa - The story of the first Western woman to enter the forbidden Tibetan city of Lhasa and to have been received by the Dalai Lama.
• My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere - A tour of the world via its subcultures
• My Nebraska: The Good, the Bad, and the Husker - Writer Roger Welsch's unconventional perspectives will make readers of this "love letter to Nebraska" chuckle.
• N by E - A classic tale of seafaring, shipwreck, and survival, reprinted from Wesleyan University Press's 1978 facsimile of the original.
• The Naked Tourist - A travelogue into that heart of darkness known as the Western mind
• Narrow Dog to Carcassonne - by Terry Darlington
• Neither East Nor West: One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran - by Christiane Bird
• Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road - Stevens retraces the steps of Peter Fleming's 1935 journey along the Silk Road.
• Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village - A portrait of a resilient African village
• No Holiday 80 Places You Don't Want to Visit - A different aim than the usual travel book: to seek out the suffering and injustices, not to skirt them
• No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo - by Redmond O'Hanlon
• North to the Night
• Northern Latitudes - by Lawrence Millman
• Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone - by Mary Morris
• O Come Ye Back to Ireland
• Oaxaca Journal - A captivating evocation of a place, its plants, its people, and its myriad wonders.
• Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia - by Mark Jenkins
• Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi - by Jonathan Raban
• Old Patagonian Express - by Paul Theroux
• On a Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of Southern India - by Dervla Murphy
• On Celtic Tides: One Man's Journey Around Ireland by Sea Kayak - by Chris Duff
• On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul - by Jason Goodwin
• On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel - by Tony Cohan
• On the Border Portraits of the Southwest
• On the Road - Chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling through North America with his friend Neal Cassidy. An American classic.
• On the Road with Francis of Assisi: A Timeless Journey Through Umbria and Tuscany, and Beyond - Following the footsteps of St. Francis, this journey through Italy brings to life the remarkable career and travels of the most remarkable of all saints.
• On the Trail of Marco Polo: Along the Silk Road by Bicycle - by Brady Fotheringham
• On the Water: Discovering America in a Rowboat - by Nathaniel Stone
• On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet - An astonishing tale of perseverance, a wonderful insight into 19th century Tibet, and a moving tale of adventure and discovery.
• Once Were Warriors - A contemporary story about an urban family in New Zealand
• One for the Road: An Outback Adventure - Horowitz hitchhikes off into the awesome emptiness of Australia's outback.
• One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
• One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest - by Wade Davis
• One Thousand Roads to Mecca - Collects significant works by deeply observant writers from the East and West over the last ten centuries.
• The Only Kayak: A Journey into the Heart of Alaska - Asks how we might live with greater deliberation, purpose, and thankfulness for the wild places we still have.
• Out of Africa: Modern Library Edition - by Isak Dinesen
• Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod - by Henry Beston
• Outposts - Takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British Empire.
• The Oysters of Locmariaquer - 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
• Panama Hat Trail
• Paris and Elsewhere: Selected Writings
• Paris Tales: A Literary Tour of the City - This literary tour of Paris will enchant both tourists and armchair travellers alike.
• Passenger to Tehran - A classic work, revealing the lesser-known side of one of the twentieth century' s most luminous authors
• Pecked to Death by Ducks - by Tim Cahill
• Pedaling to Hawaii: A Human-Powered Odyssey - Stevie Smith hits upon the notion of a trip around the world using only human power--no motors, no sails, no balloons.
• Lonely Planet The Perfect Day: Lonely Planet Authors and Their Secrets to 100 Cities - Lonely Planet authors to reveal their prized experiences in 100 cities around the world
• Persian Pilgrimages - by Afshin Molavi
• Pilgrimage to Angkor
• Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean - by Paul Theroux
• The Places in Between - In January 2002, Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers.
• Playing the Moldovans at Tennis - by Tony Hawks
• Polar Dream
• Poor People - Vollmann travels the globe and meets with impoverished individuals to document firsthand the causes and effects of poverty.
• Race for Timbuktu - by Frank T. Kryza
• Red Dust: A Path Through China - by Ma Jian
• Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China - by Paul Theroux
• Ring of Seasons: Iceland--Its Culture and History - Iceland in all of its extraordinary glory.
• River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea - by Colin Fletcher
• The River at the Center of the World: A Journey up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time - Travel writing at its best: lively, informative, and thoroughly enchanting.
• River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma - The story of modern Burma, in part through a telling of his own family's history
• River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny - Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles down the Lena River from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle
• River Queen: A Memoir - A middle-aged woman' s odyssey down the Mississippi River
• The Road to Oxiana - In 1933, Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut to Oxiana, between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union.
• The Road to Santiago - A mesmerizing story of her 200-mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
• Roads to Sata 2000 Mile Walk Japan - by Alan Booth
• Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece - Uncovers the conflict of the Greeks' inheritance: a link with the ancient world, and the Byzantine legacy of Ottoman domination.
• Round Ireland with a Fridge - by Tony Hawks
• Rowing to Latitude: Journey's Along the Arctic's Edge - by Jill Fredston
• Running North: A Yukon Adventure - by Ann Mariah Cook
• A Russian Journal - Steinbeck and Capa's account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.
• Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal - What begins as a search for restoration in nature becomes as well a discovery of the restorative power of trust, faith and human connection.
• Salamina - Vivid depictions of a now-vanished Greenland and its people.
• Samba - by Alma Guillermoprieto
• Savages - by Joe Kane
• Searching for El Dorado - A first-hand account of group of men following the gold rush to the rainforest of Guyana.
• Searching for Steinbeck's Sea of Cortez: A Makeshift Expedition Along Baja's Desert Coast - by Andromeda Romano-Lax
• Season of Adventure - edited by Jean Gould
• A Season with Verona - Traveling with the fans and the players from the tip to the toe of Italy, Tim Parks offers a highly personal account of his relationship with a country, its people, and its national sport.
• Seasons in Basilicata: A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village - Yeadon portrays a year-in-the-life of a remote southern Italian hill town rich with local characters and strange pagan-laced customs.
• Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and her Family - by Elisabeth Bumiller
• Selkirk's Island - by Diana Souhami
• Semi True - Former suit-wearing office worker Ringsak shares wry stories and encounters from his experience hauling truckloads of stage equipment from town to town for public radio's "A Prairie Home Companion."
• A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings - by Laurence Sterne
• Serve the People Stir Fried Journey Chin - by Jen Lin-Liu
• The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan - Lamb discovered the people no one else had written about: the abandoned victims of almost a quarter century of war.
• The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific - Troost decided the idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the Earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better.
• Shadow of the Silk Road - To be traveling the Silk Road is to be traveling the history of the world
• Shadow of the Silk Road - by Colin Thubron
• Shooting the Boh - by Tracy Johnston
• Sicilian Odyssey - by Francine Prose
• Sliced Iguana: Travels in Mexico - Behind the facade of sombreros and tequila, tourist traps and holiday resorts, there lies a very different Mexico
• Slipping into Paradise: Why I Live in New Zealand - Slipping into Paradise is ideal for anyone planning a visit to this exquisite land
• Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer - A hilarious behind-the-brochures tour of picture-perfect locales, dangerous destinations, and overrated hellholes
• Snow Country - by Yasunari Kawabata
• Solace of Open Spaces - by Gretel Ehrlich
• Solo: On Her Own Adventure - edited by Susan F. Rogers
• Solomon Time: An Unlikely Quest in South Pacific - by Will Randall
• The Songlines - Chatwin's meetings with Australian aboriginals who remember their history by singing the mythical song of the landscape.
• Soul of Nowhere: Traversing Grace in a Rugged Land - by Craig Childs
• South from the Limpopo: Travels Through South Africa - by Dervla Murphy
• Southern by the Grace of God - by Lewis Grizzard
• Southern Exposure - An epic tale of sea kayaking adventure.
• Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut - by Freya Stark
• Spanish Lessons - by Derek Lambert
• Spanish Recognitions: The Road from the Past - A book of discovery, in which the landscape of Spain, its history, and its people flow together, each explaining the other.
• Spectacular Alaska
• Stolen Figs & Other Adventures in Calabria - by Mark Rotella
• The Stones of Florence - Whether writing about Savonarola, the intense Florentine traffic jams, the architectural wonder of Brunelleschi's Duomo, or the alluring Boboli gardens, Mary McCarthy invariably pleases the senses.
• Stories I Stole - by Wendell Steavenson
• Stranger On a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America With Interruptions - by Jenny Diski
• Straying from the Flock: Travels in New Zealand - Both a moving memoir and personal travel guide to this amazing country.
• Summer in Gascony - by Martin Calder
• Sweet Liberty: Travels in Irish America - by Joseph O'Connor
• That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story - Here is an epic dramathat takes readers from Sicily's remote mountains to chaotic post-war Palermo
• A Thousand Bells at Noon: A Roman Reveals the Secrets and Pleasures of His Native City - Romagnoli shares with readers his visceral and emotional experiences in Rome
• To Timbuktu: Journey Down the Niger - by Mark Jenkins
• Tracks - by Robyn Davidson
• Travels in the East - Donald Richie's newest collection of travel essays explores all the corners of Asia and slightly beyond
• Travels in Wicklow, West Kerry, & Connemara - by J.M. Synge
• Under the Holy Lake: A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan - by Ken Haigh
• Waugh in Abyssinia: From Our Own Correspondent - by Evelyn Waugh
• Young Irelanders - A stunning and elegiac collection of interrelated stories