A lively chronicle of the South's most renowned city from the founding of colonial Charles Town through the present dayA Short History of Charleston-a lively chronicle of the South's most renowned and charming city-has been hailed by critics, historians, and especially Charlestonians as authoritative, witty, and entertaining.
Camping für Anfänger: Mit dem Wohnwagen durch Deutschland bietet einen umfassenden Leitfaden für alle, die sich in die Welt des Campings mit einem Wohnwagen einführen lassen möchten.
Gathered from lecture notes, obituaries, and magazines spanning the decades since the 1970s, comes a brand new compilation of the uncollected writing of this influential author
Zarte Frauen mit Kegelhüten und Mönche in safranfarbenen Roben; am Straßenrand weiße Rinder und duftende Garküchen; bizarre Felsformationen und die berühmtesten Tempel der Welt: Südostasien bezaubert.
The bestselling book from two prizewinning, critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco-a rich, illustrated, idiosyncratic portrait of this great city.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Ondaatje PrizeShortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the YearA masterful and entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and dashed dreams in a mythical city from a major new literary voice.
The Joys of Travel: And Stories that Illuminate Them is a collection of Thomas Swicks personal essays on what he has identified as the seven joys of travel: anticipation, movement, break from routine, novelty, discovery, emotional connection and heightened appreciation of home.
From the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness in the northwest to the Yellowstone River Valley in the south, Best Tent Camping: Montana is a guidebook for car campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites.
Zane Grey visits what he considers to be "e;probably the most beautiful and wonderful natural phenomenon in the world,"e; and "e;also Monument Valley, and the mysterious and labyrinthine Canyon Segi with its great prehistoric cliff-dwellings.
A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.
Cousineaus wanderlust has driven him to visit nearly 100 countries as a backpacker, documentary filmmaker, travel writer, photographer, and art and literary tour leader.
A young adventurer with a history of seeking impossible challenges, Kira Salak became the first person in the world to kayak alone the six hundred miles on the Niger River to Timbuktu-"e;the golden city of the Middle Ages"e; and fabled "e;doorway to the end of the world.
"e;In essays that bespeak a thoroughly cosmopolitan sensibility, Githa Hariharan not only takes us on illuminating tours through cities rich in history, but gives a voice to urban people from all over the world-Kashmir, Palestine, Delhi-trying to live with basic human dignity under circumstances of dire repression or crushing poverty.
While best remembered for her revolutionary work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), renowned feminist, author, and thinker Mary Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her lifetime was a remarkable travel narrative, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
In 1832, three years before Alexis de Tocqueville published Democracy in America, the English novelist Frances Trollope released Domestic Manners of the Americans, an eye-opening record of her travels in the young republic.
A trailblazer among American women at the turn of the century, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "e;motor-car"e; to explore the cities and countryside of France.
A vivid, varied account of a globally-minded woman's intriguing adventures and evolving worldview, Santha Rama Rau's "e;informal"e; autobiography covers a life defined by almost perpetual motion-from her birth in India to an upbringing in England and South Africa, from her education at Wellesley College in the United States to far-flung travel to China, Japan, Indonesia, Russia, Afghanistan, Kenya, Spain, and beyond.
Four Corners is Kira Salak's riveting account of her epic, solo jungle trek across the remote Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea-often called the last frontier of adventure travel.
In the summer of 1979, Diane Meyer Lowman, a nineteen-year-old Middlebury College student, embarked on a ten-week working trip aboard a German container ship with a mostly male crew.
Originally published over one hundred years ago, Roughing It tells the (almost) true story of Mark Twains rollicking adventures across the United States.
In 1832, Washington Irving, Americas first literary superstar, returned to the United States after seventeen years abroad and swiftly set out to explore Pawnee countrythe wild uncharted territory deep in the young nations interior.
Just two years after rowing solo across the North Atlantic at the age of twenty-five, Maud Fontenoy was ready for a new challengecrossing the Pacific Ocean.
Two comedy writers race each other around the world-no planes allowed-in this hilarious true travelogue that "e;reads like a 300-page Simpsons episode"e; (Wired).
Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriends hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognize same-sex marriage.
