Product Catalog

Humor

Individual titles:

• Absurdistan - The uproarious and poignant story of one very fat man and one very small country
• Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger - The first mainstream book about Tasmania, perfect for armchair explorers and nature lovers.
• The Clumsiest People in Europe - Revives the comically misinformed and startling prejudices of this unique Victorian eccentric.
• Hold the Enlightenment: More Travel, Less Bliss - America's funniest adventure writer faces down challenges that are animal, topographical--and human.
• In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson crisscrosses the "under-discovered" Down Under in search of all things interesting.
• In the Merde for Love - The latest episode in Stephen Clarke's almost-true account of his adventures as an expat in France
• Jaguars Ripped My Flesh - by Tim Cahill
• Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth - A gut-busting send-up in which no nation escapes unscathed.
• Schlepping Through the Alps - A hilarious account of a journey with Austria's last wandering shepherd.
• Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East? - The adventures of caustic cartoonist Ted Rall in the wild and woolly central Asian countries, a powder keg sitting on tomorrow's oil.
• Too Much Tuscan Sun: Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide - Written with affection and humor, this book is a Tuscan tour guide's account of some of his more remarkable customers, from the obsessive and the oblivious to the downright lunatic.
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America On the Appalachian Trail - by Bill Bryson
• The War Between the State: Northern California Vs. Southern California - A hilarious compendium of cultural dish from the front lines
• A Year in the Merde - For a whole new generation of readers who can never quite decide whether they love--or love to hate--the French.