Travel writing

Set against a landscape of rail yards and skate parks, Kai Carlson-Wee's debut collection captures a spiritual journey of wanderlust, depression, brotherhood, and survival.

The chronicle of a family's first year alone in Alaskan wilderness, Arctic Son is a poetic journey of discovery into what we value in life.

After a decade of dreaming, Allison Coffelt arrived in Haiti, readyshe thoughtto learn how much she didnt know about the Caribbean nation.

Michael Pearson writes about his travels to places of literary import: Frost's Vermont, Faulkner's Mississippi, Flannery O'Connor's Georgia, Hemingway's Key West, Steinbeck's California, and Twain's Missouri.

In The City at Three PM, award-winning fiction writer Peter LaSalle offers 11 startlingly original personal essays dealing with his longtime quest for world travel of the literary sort.

Now completely revised and updated, with full-color photographs and family-friendly recipes throughout.

In a tale remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the southeast coast of Alaska in an inflatable kayak.

Following the critical success of his debut collection, All Over, and of his debut novel, Pacazo, Roy Kesey now brings us a new gathering of short stories, Any Deadly Thing.

In the '80s, when author/photographer Kurt Hollander lived in New York and published The Portable Lower East, life there was particularly rough, and cops often drove yellow cabs as a method to surprise and roust its residents.

Boston's Best Dive Bars features opinionated reviews of 100 of the grungiest and grittiest drinking establishments in Beantown.

Philadelphia's Best Dive Bars reviews the grittiest drinking establishments in the city of brotherly love.

Sick of gentrification, $15 cosmopolitans, and clean bathrooms?

When Jamie Summerlin felt the calling to do something more meaningful with his life, the former U.

Los Angeles might be the capital of conspicuous consumption, but the other clich about La La Landthat its a cultural wastelandcouldnt be further from the truth.

Determined to find more to life than sitting behind a desk pushing paper, Matt Hamilton leaves Ottawa, Canada, with only a pack on his back, a one-way ticket to Glasgow, Scotland, and a goalto find not only himself, but also a country more conducive to his mentality and lifestyle.

Much more than a travel narrative 360 Degrees Longitude: One Familys Journey Around the World is a glimpse at what it means to be a global citizena progressively changing view of the world as seen through the eyes of an American family of four.

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 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.

Wild with Child is a unique collection of true stories by parents who boldly head out into the wilderness with kids in tow (or in the lead, as the case may be).

Since publishing the original edition of A Womans World in 1995, Travelers Tales has been the recognized leader in womens travel literature.

The Best Travel Writing 2010 is the seventh 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.

Too many travel guides are dry lists of attractions or portentous histories of a place.

Great writers inspire readers to head out in search of foreign sunsets, but in this instance, they inspired travel writer Michael Shapiro to head out for the great writers themselves.

Winner of the Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book, this newly designed collection paints a unique portrait of a complex and captivating land.

India is among the most difficultand most rewardingof places to travel.

Women have been writing about their travels for generations, putting a uniquely feminine slant on life on the road and the people and places they encounter along the way.

Marco Polo Didnt Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.

Since 1993, readers have looked to Travelers' Tales for award-winning stories about the world, adventure, spirituality, and the transformative experiences that accompany life on the road.

Here is an entertaining collection of John Muirs most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing.

Outdoor adventure has inspired some of the most exciting literary nonfiction of recent years, and explore has published exemplary models of the genre: Ian Brown on backcountry bonding in the Rockies, Adam Killick on surviving a hurricane at sea, and J.

To smooth over five decades of constant clashing, determined daughter Jane Christmas decides to take her arthritic, incontinent, and domineering mother, Valeria, to Italy.

To celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of mid-life, Jane Christmas joins 14 women to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela.

The remarkable true story of one mans daring solo flight around the world in a tiny amphibious plane.

Not a Place on Any Map, winner of the 2016 Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award, explores the switch-backing emotional terrain of traumas and triumphs, as well as the disparate landscapes where they unfold.

Kerry's marriage is disintegrating and Sebastian is disconnected from his father.

Since the suicide of Maris, his beloved wife of forty-two years, Noel Braun struggled to find himself.

Riding a motorbike in howling high winds and freezing temperatures to reach Nordkapp, the northern most point of Europe could have been disastrous.

As you travel Africa, you will find the way of ubuntu - the universal bond that connects all of humanity as one.

In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking ones way to godliness.

They say that tourist ships to Antarctica, even more than ordinary human conveyances, are loaded down with aching hearts.

In this witty and entertaining illustrated memoir, Alister Kershaw describes the pleasures of his prolonged residence in France - a country of villages - from 1948, when even Paris was a series of villages.

Award winning author Reg Egan's third book, 'Of Rivers, Baguettes and Billabongs', is an insightful look at the history and lives affected by two rivers in two different continents: the Darling in Australia and the Dordogne in France.

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Truly hilarious books are rare.

When and how did we humans lose our connection with nature - and how do we find it again?

When and how did we humans lose our connection with nature - and how do we find it again?

In the spring of 1973, aged 19, Mark Goodwin volunteered to teach English and Maths at a school in South Sudan.

In Heavy Time psychogeographer Sonia Overall takes to the old pilgrim roads, navigating a route from Canterbury to Walsingham via London and her home town of Ely.

Arguably the most famous road in Wales, the A470 is 186 miles from shore to shore through the backbone of Wales, linking north to south.