Essays & Travelogues

On a rainy, miserable morning in Paris, a twenty-something bureaucrat decides there must be more to life than dull office work. Stevie Smith tries to figure out what he could do of great significance and hit upon the notion of a trip around the world...

By captivating millions during his six-year, fifty-country tenure as the New York Times's "Frugal Traveler," Seth Kugel has become one of our most internationally beloved travel writers. While his famously unassuming journeys around the globe have forged...

Central Asia has long stood at the crossroads of history. It was the staging ground for the armies of the Mongol Empire, for the nineteenth-century struggle between the Russian and British empires, and for the NATO campaign in Afghanistan. Today,...

One recent summer, Richard Starks and Miriam Murcutt traveled through Spain - from Barcelona in the north to Malaga on the southern Mediterranean coast - staying exclusively in ancient monasteries. As they quickly discovered, these are intriguing places...

When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don't usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world. Editors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061804106Author Peter HesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 331g

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to most as Mark Twain, was a quintessential American writer who spent much of his life traveling the world. He encountered colorful characters, cultures, and a variety of adventures along the way, and Mark Twain on Travel...

For more than ten years, Elizabeth Peavey has been traveling around the state of Maine, and writing about her wide-ranging experiences and discoveries in Down East magazine. This book collects her very best columns and essays. In a light and entertaining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646220151Author Shahnaz HabibFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 148mm * 24mm

The extraordinary Rosita Forbes explored the Libyan desert, sailed across the Red Sea, and trekked more than a thousand miles into remote Abyssinia. She wrote some thirty books about these and other journeys, as well as biographies, histories, novels,...

In June of 1922, Marguerite Harrison, and American journalist and spy embarked from North America on what was to be an epic journey to Japan, Korea, China, Mongolia and Siberia. It was in Siberia that she was arrested by the Bolsheviks, sent 4,000...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936347936Author Mehrbanoo Nasser DeyhimFormat HardbackPage Count 379Imprint IBEX Publishers,U.S.Publisher IBEX Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams) 826g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929701868Author Howard McCordFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint McPhersonPublisher McPhersonWeight(grams) 171g

In 1991, Lori Cidylo shocked her Ukrainian Polish-born parents when she told them she was leaving her reporter's job on an upstate New York newspaper to live and work in the rapidly dissolving Soviet Union. For six years she lived on a shoe-string budget...

Virginia Thorndike, Maine's own version of Studs Terkel, traveled to all the Maine coast islands that still maintain a year-round population and persuaded the islanders to talk openly about their lives. The result is a compulsively readable, unvarnished,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878398065Author Mike LinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint North Star Press of St. CloudPublisher North Star Press of St. CloudWeight(grams) 436g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780864867087Author Peter SteynFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint David Philip PublishersPublisher New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856359699Author Fernao Mendes PintoFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Carcanet Press LtdPublisher Carcanet Press LtdWeight(grams) 724g

In Monsoon Postcards, journalist David H. Mould, notebook in hand, traverses the Indian Ocean-from Madagascar through India and Bangladesh to Indonesia. It's an unpredictable journey on battered buses, bush taxis, auto-rickshaws, and crowded ferries...

Our Wealth Is Loving Each Other explores the fluid and context-bound nature of cultural and personal identity among indigenous Fijians. While national identity in Fiji is often defined in opposition to the West through reference to a romanticized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780044409618Author Katherine GovierFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Rivers Oram Press/Pandora ListPublisher Rivers Oram PressWeight(grams) 278g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849821841Author Nick HartshornFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint M P Publishing LimitedPublisher M P Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 754g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789698784652Author Maniza NaqviFormat PaperbackPage Count 169Imprint Sama Editorial and Publishing ServicesPublisher Sama Editorial and Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788899385385Author DegiorgisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HumboldtPublisher Humboldt

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788899385095Author Donatella BernardiFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint HumboldtPublisher Humboldt

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120605312Author G. F. AtkinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 93Imprint Asian Educational ServicesPublisher Asian Educational Services

Frederik Paulsen's first great adventure involved taking the reins, at age thirty, of the Ferring pharmaceutical firm founded by his father. After he had transformed the company into a multinational corporation, Paulsen began to recall his childhood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934759639Author Steve ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Robert D. Reed PublishersPublisher Robert D. Reed PublishersWeight(grams) 226g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927575734Author Vici JohnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916015203Author Steve DysterFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint North Staffordshire PressPublisher North Staffordshire PressDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904781653Author Roger HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint bluechrome PublishingPublisher bluechrome Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873976333Author Juan Pedro AparicioFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint ChristieBooksPublisher ChristieBooks

This wonderful collection of travel writing captures the very best of Getaway's articles over the past 21 years of travel, exploration and adventure. It's a celebration of the diversity of the continent and of the journalists that write about it: from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601385697Author Jack WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Atlantic Publishing CoPublisher Atlantic Publishing CoWeight(grams) 980g

Unforgettable collection of the best of John Long's writing on adventure travel and climbing.About the AuthorJohn Long is an acclaimed American rock climber and author of more than forty titles, including The Trad Climber's Bible (FalconGuides). He lives...

Almost from time immemorial a border warfare has been carried on between the Koordish tribes on the confines of Turkey and Persia. The governments of Turkey and Persia requested the assistance of England and Russia to draw up a treaty of peace, and to...

The trip was an adventure: the vessel's freeboard was only 2 1/2 feet so she was usually awash and always rolling; the engine noise was deafening; and the boat caught fire and nearly blew up. After completing the rugged North Sea leg, Day writes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939510771Author Lolly StoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Mystic Seaport MuseumPublisher Mystic Seaport MuseumWeight(grams) 172g

Honorable Mention, 2016 Foreword Indies Award in Travel An anthology of entertaining accounts of travel through Yellowstone, this book takes readers back to 1871, before it was a tourist destination, through the time when autos were allowed into the park...