Essays & Travelogues

The phrase "an animal a thousand miles miles long," attributed to Aristotle, refers to a sprawling body that cannot be seen in its entirety from a single angle, a thing too vast and complicated to be knowable as a whole. For Leath Tonino, the...

At eighteen, Vermont-native Leath Tonino ventured west to attend college in Colorado. Upon hearing his destination, many of Tonino's friends and family predicted that he'd never come back; he'd make the "land of endless space and sky, its ranges and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513207650Author Jack LondonFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

After journalist Jessica DuLong was laid off from her dot-com job, her life took an unexpected turn. A volunteer day aboard an antique fireboat, the John J. Harvey, led to a job in the engine room, where she found a taste of home she hadn't realized she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062802767Author Anthony BourdainFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

The British Isles including Ireland are a unique tapestry of islands off NW Europe. Though there are thousands of islands making up this archipelago, a modest 223 are permanently inhabited, mostly in the Gaelic, Irish and Welsh or Celtic west. Though...

Dina Bennett's on the road again-and she can't stop! Having completed the 7,800-mile Peking to Paris Classic Car Challenge while braving carsickness and patching rocky marital relations, she's once more in over her head, enduring 100,000 miles of road...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780141180199Author John SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 198g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541549Author Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 127g

This travelogue and itinerary guide uses one couple's campervan tour through 42 European countries to help readers make the most out of a European adventure. Europe to go! Authors Steffi Rickenbacher and Lui Eigenmann take you on an unforgettable tour...

The points of view and perspectives in The Best Travel Writing 2009 are global, and the themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity, misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. Reading these stories is...

"If you look at a map, you will see that the island chain known as the Caribbean, or, to confuse you, the West Indies, lies between Florida and South America and resembles a string of gems or possibly drool." And so begins author Gary Buslik's tale of...

A good story improves with the telling, and nothing improves a travel story more than something going wrong. Once the anguish fades, the frustration, embarrassment, danger, and inconvenience provide great material for a tale that can be told again and...

This title is the second in our series of annual collections of the best travel writing. Many of these stories are original while some have appeared in other Travelers' Tales titles or elsewhere. But the common thread connecting them is fresh, lively...

Adventures in Wine takes you to the wine country like no other wine book: behind the scenes, into the vineyards and cellars, with some of the world's finest wine writers. Here the emphasis is not on the wine - though it's always present - but on the...

"Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America." Brad Newsham was only 22 when he scribbled this note in his journal with "only an immature sense of the staying power of ideas." Years later, this casual...

Travelers' Tales Love & Romance is a collection of literary essays -- all true stories -- of love, lust, and romance encountered while traveling. They range from a tender story of how travel kept the spark in a 50-year marriage, to one woman's story...

In the Footsteps of a Roman Legion  - Walking the Via Egnatia (2021) On a blistering September morning in 2016, intrepid friends in their sixties – Kim and Pat – set off on foot from Durrës, Albania towards Istanbul, Turkey. Tracing the route of a Roman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771601764Author Stephen LegaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain BooksWeight(grams) 368g

The land of opportunity, a golden Eden, the last frontier. What is this place that has given rise to countless metaphors but can still quicken the imagination? For Bill Barich, the question became a quest when he realized that home was no longer New...

"A perceptive, old-school travel writer whose prose brings celebrated and obscure destinations to life." The New York Times"The Joys of Travel is itself a joy." Paul Theroux, New York Times bestselling author of Deep SouthIn The Joys of Travel: And...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620877821Author Bengt DanielssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

Stand back! The tales in this raunchy round-the-world romp might get you dirty. We've all had unspeakable experiences while traveling that we're ashamed to admit, but these often become our best stories in the retelling. The writers in this collection...

Our modern day, multimedia, information-obsessed culture has fundamentally altered much of what we do day-to-day. The way we shop and pay bills. The way we communicate. The way we research, study, and learn.In the realm of travel we have more tools than...

The Best Travel Writing 2011 is the eighth volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing -- from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and...

Dogs, like humans, have memories, instincts, fears, and loyalties. But, as far as we know, dogs do not get swept up in nostalgia, speculation, or self-analysis. Although they have hopes, they are not driven by regrets. In Crossing the Plains with Bruno,...

“In my madness I bought the ticket. I took the ride. I needed to live. I needed to suffer. I had to go.” —Rob BinkleyRob Binkley is a young Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has it all at twenty-seven: a thriving business, beautiful girlfriend, and great...

The latest edition of the annual collection of real-life womens' travel stories includes tales of travel to Senegal, Spain, Calcutta. France, Greece, and many other locales. Original.Book InformationISBN 9781932361186Author Mary MorrisFormat...

People travel for countless reasons, but no matter the route, duration, or destination, our journeys often share a common result: they transform us. The traveller is a pilgrim, wittingly or unwittingly, and never comes home the same. Travel can be the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140187410Author John SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 196mm...

Small towns punctuate the landscape of Oregon and Washington. They burrow in crinkles of hills, sit alongside mighty rivers, survive in desert canyons and sagebrush plains, dot the fertile Willamette Valley, and perch at the edge of the Pacific Ocean. ...

A family comedy reminiscent of The Osbournes, Jacobson's odyssey is also a wider journey. It is a story about parenting that stretches across generations, an expedition into the minds of five family members as they make their way through a succession of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938103209Author Peter LaSalleFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dzanc BooksPublisher Dzanc BooksWeight(grams) 341g

This best-selling, award-winning series presents the finest accounts of women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples -- and themselves. The common threads connecting the stories are a woman's perspective and lively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781722596Author Richard CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 360g

Longlisted for the 2016 RBC Taylor Prize Zoroaster's Children brings together the best of Marius Kociejowski's travel writing. A companion volume to last year's critically acclaimed The Pebble Chance, these essays, conceived somewhere between "a...

France is steeped in refined traditions, with its rich history, exquisite art, robust culture, and varied cuisine. Writer Erin Byrne was changed by traveling around this country with the ghosts of artists and historical figures who shared with her their...

Pilgrimage comes in many forms: traditional and unconventional, religious and secular, intended and accidental. Yet it always entails mindfulness - a soulful presence that summons meaning to the surface. This book showcases a diverse array of...

San Francisco is spoken of in the same breath as Paris, Venice, and Rome, and has earned the slogan "America's Favorite City" for its openness, dramatic beauty, cultural amenities, the diversity of its neighborhoods and population, and its icons the...

In this lively collection from an array of accomplished writers, readers meet an old woman who imparts an invaluable midnight message on a Greek island; brothers who heal old family wounds in Ireland; and travelers who awaken to the mystery of their...