Product Catalog

Travel Writing I-S

Series:

• In Mind
• Lonely Planet Journeys
• Reader's Companion
• Stanfords Travel Classics
• Stories
  
  

  Individual titles:

• I'll Never Be French (No Matter What I Do) - by Mark Greenside
• Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers - by Mary Morris
• Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City - Compares the London of fact with the London of fiction.
• 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 an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveller's Tale - by Amitav Ghosh
• 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 Motion: The Experience of Travel - by Tony Hiss
• In Patagonia - by Bruce Chatwin
• In Search of Captain Zero - by Allan Weisbecker
• In Search of Zarathustra - A teacher whose radical humility shocked and challenged his age, and whose teachings have had an enduring effect on Western thought.
• In Siberia - Colin Thubron penetrates a little-understood part of the world in a way that no writer ever has.
• In the Empire of Genghis Khan - Stewart retraces the pilgrimage across the old empire of Genghis Khan, from Istanbul to Mongolia.
• In Trouble Again - by Redmond O'Hanlon
• Independent People: An Epic - Winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn: A Hitchhiker's Adventures in the New Iran - by Jamie Maslin
• Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest - by David Farley
• Italian Neighbors - Tim Parks's seductive account of one Italian neighborhood and how all its quirkiness came to represent home.
• Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey - A portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua
• Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa - Muller discovers in sometimes awkward, sometimes awesomely funny interactions just how maddeningly complicated it is being Japanese.
• Journey Across Tibet: A Young Woman's Trek Across the Rooftop of the World - Sorrel Wilby hikes 1,900 miles across Tibet alone.
• Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture - by Jose Saramago
• Kamchatka: A Journal & Guide to Russia's Land of Ice and Fire A Journa - by Diana Gleadhill
• Kingdom by the Sea:: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain - by Paul Theroux
• Kingdom of 10,000 Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas - Retraces the voyage of the legendary 5th-century Buddhist monk Huishen
• Kipling Abroad: Traffics and Discoveries from Burma to Brazil - by Rudyard Kipling
• Kiwis Might Fly: A New Zealand Adventure - Evans's search for the elusive Kiwi
• Kosher Chinese - by Michael Levy
• 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.
• La Place de la Concorde Suisse - by John McPhee
• Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto - by Pico Iyer
• 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.
• A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
• Land of the High Flags: Afghanistan When the Going Was Good - A memoir of lost Afghanistan.
• The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader - The best of Durrell's incomparable travel writing, collected for the first time in a single volume.
• Le Road Trip: A Traveler's Journal of Love and France - by Vivien Swift
• Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan - With warmth and candor, bestselling author Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in the world's most heralded school systems.
• A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 - The long-awaited third volume of Richardsons definitive biography of Pablo Picasso
• A Literary Paris - by Jamie Cox Robinson
• Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal - by Conor Grennan
• 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
• Londoners Days and Nights of London Now - by Craig Taylor
• Long Way Home - by Bill Barich
• Looking for Alaska - by Peter Jenkins
• Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon - by David Grann
• Lost Continent - by Bill Bryson
• 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.
• Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Ar
• Lost On Planet China - Escorts readers on a rollicking journey through the new beating heart of the modern world
• Lunatic Express - by Carl Hoffman
• Magic and Mystery in Tibet - A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s.
• Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India - by Rory MacLean
• Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle - by Sara Wheeler
• Mama Makes Up Her Mind And Other Dangers of Southern Living - A first grade teacher's keen observations on the oddities in the small Georgia town she calls home.
• 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.
• Markawasi: Peru's Stone Forest - by Kathleen Doore
• 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
• Masque of Africa - by V. S. Naipaul
• 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
• Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France's Cote D'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella - by Erol Munuz
• 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
• Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey - by Ernesto Che Guevara
• The Mountains of California - by John Muir
• Moveable Feast
• Murderers in Mausoleums: Riding the Back Roads of Empire Between Moscow and Beijing - by Jeffrey Tayler
• My First Summer in the Sierra - by John Muir
• 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 Mercedes Is Not for Sale: From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou: ... An Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara - A rollicking tale of an innocent abroad that also vividly portrays the impact of globalization on Africa through its thriving car culture.
• 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
• The New Age of Adventure 10 Years of Great Writing - edited by John Rasmus
• News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir - by Peter Fleming
• 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
• Nine Lives: In Search of Sacred India - by William Dalrymple
• 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
• No-Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey Through the Odyssey - Huler follows the route of The Odyssey to learn what this great work offers three thousand years later.
• North to the Night
• Northern Latitudes - by Lawrence Millman
• Notes from a Small Island - by Bill Bryson
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - by Barbara Demick
• 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
• On a Hoof and a Prayer: Exploring Argentina at a Gallop - The stampeding true story of one woman's journey from timorous equestrian novice to wildly whooping cowgirl-
• 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
• 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.
• The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama - A serious consideration of the Dalai Lama's ideas and work as a politician, science, and philosopher.
• 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.
• Oxtravels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers - introduction by Michael Palin
• 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 Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light
• Passenger to Teheran - A classic work, revealing the lesser-known side of one of the twentieth century' s most luminous authors
• Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark - by Jane Fletcher Geniesse
• 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.
• Persian Pilgrimages - by Afshin Molavi
• Pilgrimage to Angkor
• Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean - by Paul Theroux
• Pint of Plain: Tradition, Fate and Change of the Irish Pub - by Bill Barich
• 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
• Poet of Baghdad: True Story of Love & Defiance - by Jo Tatchell
• Polar Dream
• Poor People - Vollmann travels the globe and meets with impoverished individuals to document firsthand the causes and effects of poverty.
• Portrait with Keys Johannesburg Unlocked
• Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
• Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China - by James Fallows
• Quiet American
• Race for Timbuktu - by Frank T. Kryza
• Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
• The Raven's Gift: A Scientist, a Shaman, and Their Remarkable Journey - by Jon Turk
• 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.
• Roads - by Larry McMurtry
• Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey - by William Least Heat-Moon
• 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 Dry: A Journey from Source to Sea Down the Colorado River - by Jonathan Waterman
• 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.
• Savages - by Joe Kane
• Scratching the Surface: Impressions of Planet Earth, from Hollywood to Shiraz - by Jeff Greenwald
• 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.
• A Secret Map of Ireland - by Rosita Boland
• Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and her Family - by Elisabeth Bumiller
• Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China - by Jen Lin-Liu
• Seven Seasons in Sienna: My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance Among Tuscany's Proudest Pe - by Robert Rodi
• 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 - by Colin Thubron
• Sicilian Odyssey - by Francine Prose
• Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe - by Tony Perrottet
• Skeletons On Zahara
• The Skeptical Romancer: Selected Travel Writings
• 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
• The Songlines - Chatwin's meetings with Australian aboriginals who remember their history by singing the mythical song of the landscape.
• Southern Exposure - An epic tale of sea kayaking adventure.
• 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.
• 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