Essays & Travelogues

Author and explorer James Michael Dorsey has spent two decades visiting the world's most remote tribal cultures. In BABOONS FOR LUNCH and Other Sordid Adventures, he tells his remarkable travel stories in rollicking accounts that keep readers off balance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880689Author Brooke AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 394g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513280066Author Nellie BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771606462Author Bill ArnottFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939435781Author Ron LizziFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint River Stream MediaPublisher River Stream MediaWeight(grams) 714g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881900210Author Graham EarnshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 341Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 436g

In Farewell Transmission, Will McGrath guides us on a rambling quest into the enlightenment of other lives. Funny and heartbreaking, intimate and galvanizing, these essays venture from Yemen to Lesotho to the Bronx and beyond. We find Caravaggio at an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583228418Author Nelson AlgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 535g

First published in 1969 Brazil: Land Without Limits offers its readers the full flavour of this enchanting land that is Brazil. Malcolm Slesser travelled through Brazil during a year as a lecturer at the University of Rio de Janeiro and brings his...

'Vivid yet dream-like, wise and intimate, A Rope of Vines reveals in spare, poetic language a world of fishermen and nuns, and villagers driven wild in a white-hot wilderness. Chamberlain is unsentimental yet passionate about the harsh, raw beauty of the...

It's 2017. Three friends in their twenties decide to take a year off, shunning the career ladder to drive from Italy to China, following the ancient Silk Roads. On Being from Nowhere relates their 23,000-km-long journey, which lasts over a hundred days,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803274836Author David Kennedy, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint ArchaeopressPublisher ArchaeopressWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906385538Author Bonnie CullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 167Imprint Brimstone PressPublisher Brimstone Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786127341Author Conor MacNamaraFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 156g

In Airplane Reading, Christopher Schaberg and Mark Yakich bring together a range of essays about air travel. Discerning and full of wonder, this prismatic collection features perspectives from a variety of writers, airline workers, and everyday travelers...

In a world of globetrotting explorers and record-breaking journeys - of which he has been part himself - Johno Ellison decided to return to his roots and walk the entire length of the River Wharfe, the Yorkshire waterway beside which he grew up. In his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865477575Author Michael SorkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395901397Author Howard Frank MosherFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 100g

At the time of her death in 1962, Kathleen M. Murphy was recognized as ""the most widely and most knowledgeably travelled Irish woman of her time . . . in so far as she let herself be known to the public at all."" An abiding interest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789693523713Author Salman RashidFormat HardbackPage Count 203Imprint Sang-e-Meel PublicationsPublisher Sang-e-Meel PublicationsWeight(grams) 220g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837940752Author Tika SpijkermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Nature and travel writer Bill Belleville has inspired and informed countless readers through his books and magazine articles. River of Lakes, praised as ""erudite"" (Publishers Weekly), and ""elegiac"" (Florida...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544705173Author Paul TherouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451530493Author Mark TwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736387023Author Jonathan J WunrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Life Is Twisted PressPublisher Life Is Twisted PressWeight(grams)...

Travels of Sir John MaundevilleBook InformationISBN 9781845880750Author E. C. ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 310g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935347798Author Constance HelmericksFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Epicenter Press (WA)Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450776Author Henry JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 868Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 730gDimensions(mm)...

An eighteen-year-old woman named Franca Viola made history in 1966 as one of the first "#metoo" heroines of modern times, when she refused to go along with a centuries-old forcible marriage custom in Sicily. Having endured kidnap and rape, she...

Bill Porter follows the Yellow River, the world's sixth longest river, from its mouth to its source high in the Tibetan Plateau, a journey of more than three thousand miles through nine Chinese provinces. The trip takes the master translator into what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062067630Author Paul BowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571313744Author Tim RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Milkweed EditionsPublisher Milkweed Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061231773Author Colin ThubronFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380713806Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 220g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061673733Author Robert M PirsigFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725340Author Alain De BottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611802030Author Jen C.K. JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860619Author Andrew ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789937949385Author Bishu PrasadFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint BOOKS HIMALAYAPublisher BOOKS HIMALAYA

Charles Darwin joined HMS Beagle when he was just 22 at the request of Captain FitzRoy, who wanted to have a naturalist on board. The ship set sail from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 and returned nearly five years later on 2 October 1836. The...