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by Wilfred ThesigerEXPLORATION 2007 PAPER 400 PAGES FAVORITEThe last of the great British traveler­explorers, Thesiger (1910­2003) journeyed among thenomadic camel­breeding peoples of Southern Arabia in the late 1940s, falling in love withthe desert and ways of life of the Bedouin. This eloquent book is his tribute to them. (ARB15,$17.00)

Arabian Sands

by Martha GellhornTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2001 PAPER 304 PAGESThe other, of course, being Ernest Hemingway, Gelhorn's husband at the time. A marvelous,incisive writer who covered every important conflict from from the Spanish Civil War toVietnam and Nicaragua, Martha Gelhorn writes of her time in East Africa with Heminway, avisit with Chiang Kai­Shek, Soviet Moscow and other unforgettable journeys in thiscollection, first published in 1979. (TVL25, $15.95)

Travels with Myself and Another, A Memoir

by Henri MichauxCULTURAL PORTRAIT 1986 PAPER 185 PAGESA poet, painter and personality, Michaux (Ecuador) captures the sublime and ridiculous inthis satisfying collection of vignettes inspired by his travels in India, China and Japan in the1930s. (SEA06, $17.95)

A Barbarian in Asia

by Rosemary MahoneyTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2008 PAPER 273 PAGESMahoney weaves the tale of her quest to row the Nile with deft portraits of the people shemeets in this marvelously engaging chronicle. (EGY207, $14.99)

Down the Nile, Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff

by Mark SalzmanTRAVEL NARRATIVE 1990 PAPER 211 PAGESSalzman gets himself to Changsha in the mid­1980s on the pretext of teaching English toChinese doctors. His real mission, however, is to become a kung fu master. In thiswonderfully readable travelogue he conveys a sense of contemporary life. (CHN52, $15.95)

Iron and Silk

by Isabelle EberhardtBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2003 PAPER 208 PAGESThe daring adventures of the late 19th­century Swiss journalist who adopted Islam andtraveled the Sahara disguised as an Arab man. (NAF59, $15.00)

The Nomad, The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

by John McPheeTRAVEL NARRATIVE 1978 PAPER 157 PAGESClassic essays on the nature, history and personalities of New Jersey's Pine Barrens by thePulitzer Prize­winner. McPhee digs deep into tales of the wildfires and the Jersey Devil, the

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rise and fall of iron towns and efforts to protect this rich, unusual environment fromdevelopment. (USE418, $15.00)

by D.H. LawrenceTRAVEL NARRATIVE 1999 PAPER 211 PAGESA marvelous account of a trip to Sardinia, evoking both the charms and travails of the then­remote island and the personality of the author. It's a pleasingly exaggerated, accessibleportrait of life on the island, circa 1921. (ITL349, $17.00)

Sea and Sardinia

by Paul Bowles | Edmund WhiteTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2006 PAPER 192 PAGESBowles' classic collection of essays about place, originally published in the 1950s, includinghis travels to Morocco, Istanbul, South America and Sri Lanka. (MRC60, $13.99)

Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenesfrom the Non-Christian World

by James McConkeyBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2000 PAPERA transporting tale combining exquisite language and insightful commentary on Chekhovand his remarkable journey in 1890 from Moscow to Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East.(RUS269, $14.95)

To a Distant Island

by Norman LewisTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2004 PAPER 320 PAGESThis enormously pleasurable omnibus from the 1940s to the 1980s includes 20 samples oftravels, adventures and encounters to Belize, Liberia, Guatemala, the Amazon, Sardinia andCuba by the ever insightful Norman Lewis. (TVL24, $32.95)

A View of the World, Selected Journalism

by Apsley Cherry­GarrardEXPLORATION 2006 PAPER 573 PAGES FAVORITECherry­Garrard's epic midwinter jaunt to an emperor penguin rookery is just a warm­up forthe main event: Scott's doomed last expedition. (ANT23, $18.00)

The Worst Journey in the World

by Alfred LansingHISTORY 2015 PAPER 416 PAGESLansing's gripping day­by­day story of Shackleton's legendary perseverance is essentialreading for any Antarctic traveler. This 100th anniversary edition is outfitted with maps, anexpanded selection of Frank Hurley's photographs and an introduction by NathanielPhilbrick. (ANT396, $16.99)

Endurance, Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Fridtjof NansenEXPLORATION 2008 PAPER 678 PAGESThe great Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen's classic account of the voyage of theFram, originally published in 1897, interspersed with dozens of original photographs.(ARC60, $17.95)

Farthest North

by Bruce ChatwinTRAVEL NARRATIVE 1989 PAPER 204 PAGES FAVORITEA masterpiece of travel, history and adventure, this award­winning book captures the spirit ofthe land, history, wildlife and people of Patagonia. There's no travel writer as engaging,insightful and just plain wonderful as Bruce Chatwin. (PAT01, $16.00)

In Patagonia

by Redmond O'HanlonEXPLORATION 1990 PAPER 272 PAGES FAVORITEAs funny as he is insightful, O'Hanlon starts his comic masterpiece of a journey between theOrinoco and the Amazon with a litany of the insects, protozoa, snakes and predators that cando you harm. (AMZ04, $16.00)

In Trouble Again

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by Ian FrazierTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2001 PAPER 292 PAGESA marvelously digressive, wide­ranging account of 25,000 miles worth of travels criss­crossing throughout the Great Plains, combining first­rate reportage and history. (USW172,$17.00)

Great Plains

by George CatlinJOURNAL 2004 PAPER 560 PAGESA painter and naturally acute observer, Catlin traveled in the Native American lands of theGreat Plains from 1831 to 1837. These published journals provide a rare window into acivilization on the verge of annihilation. (USW532, $17.00)

North American Indians

by Truman CapoteANTHOLOGY 2007 HARD COVER 528 PAGESThe most complete single­volume collection of Truman Capote's essays, from celebrityprofiles to his acclaimed literary nonfiction. This anthology includes a reprint of The MusesAre Heard, Capote's 1956 satirical portrait of an American theater troupe performing Porgyand Bess in Soviet Russia. (USA175, $28.95)

Portraits and Observations, The Essays of Truman Capote

by Peter S. BeagleTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2007 PAPER 238 PAGESAlthough better­known for his fantasy writing (The Last Unicorn), Beagle penned a winningtravelogue about his journey across a changing America on a motor scooter in 1963. Aclassic, newly reprinted. (USA174, $14.95)

I See By My Outfit

by Alexis de TocquevilleCULTURAL PORTRAIT 2007 PAPER 777 PAGESAn abdridged edition ofToqueville's classic and prescient study of America's evolvingdemocracy. (USA173, $15.99)

Democracy in America

by James HornTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2007 HARD COVER 1344 PAGESJohn Smith's collected writings on the New World, supplemented with contemporaryaccounts and illustrations, offers a fascinating look at the beginnings of the United Statesthrough the eyes of the legendary adventurer. (USA176, $45.00)

Captain John Smith, Writings With Other Narratives ofRoanoke, Jamestown, and the First English Settlement ofVirginia

by Robert SullivanTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2007 PAPER 416 PAGESSullivan's marvelously digressive chronicle of a cross­country car trip, the history of theInterstate system, fast­food, variety of to­go coffee cup lids, the marvels of the roadsideattraction and many, many other subjects. (USA135, $14.95)

Cross Country

by Gary Moulton | Meriwether Lewis | William ClarkBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2002 PAPER 3404 PAGESThe seven core volumes of Moulton's authoritative Lewis and Clark journals, in a paperedition. With maps, illustrations and invaluable footnotes. (USW463, $174.00)

The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark

by Mark TwainTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2007 PAPER 388 PAGESTwain returns to the days of his youth spent on the Mississippi in this classic. Full of historicalinformation, anecdotes, character sketches and fond memories, it's at once a romantichistory of a mighty river and an autobiographical account of Twain's early steamboat days.(USS05, $9.95)

Life on the Mississippi

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by Nicholas DawidoffMUSIC 1998 PAPER 384 PAGESA heartfelt account of a journey through the South in search of traditional country music. Theauthor interviews luminaries from the genre's heyday, including George Jones, Earl Scruggsand Bill Monroe. (MUS33, $18.95)

In the Country of Country, A Journey to the Roots ofAmerican Music

by Meriwether Lewis | William Clark | Gary MoultonBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2004 PAPER 544 PAGESThe definitive one­volume selection of the most significant, noteworthy and historic entriesfrom the journals of Lewis and Clark, with helpful scholarly notes and annotations.(USW428, $19.95)

The Lewis and Clark Journals

by William Least Heat MoonTRAVEL NARRATIVE 1999 PAPER 429 PAGESOn the road with Ghost Dancing (his van), William Least Heat­Moon criss­crosses thecountry on its backroads, discovering some pretty wonderful personalities en route in thisportrait of a multi­faceted eccentric America. (USA31, $16.00)

Blue Highways, A Journey into America

by Hunter S. ThompsonTRAVEL NARRATIVE 1998 PAPER 204 PAGESThe classic of 1970s gonzo journalism and a dizzying chronicle of a duo's drug­inducedmisadventures and scrapes with the people of Las Vegas. (USW254, $14.95)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, A Savage Journey to theHeart of the American Dream

by George OrwellLITERATURE 1972 PAPER 213 PAGESOrwell's first published work, this novel ­­ based, in part, on true experiences ­­ is a tale of theunderclass in 1930's Paris and London. (GBR99, $14.00)

Down and Out in Paris and London

by M. F. K. FisherTRAVEL NARRATIVE 1983 PAPER 272 PAGESThis marvelous collection of autobiographical essays by the celebrated, much­adored Fishercovers her life, family, food and adventures from Whittier, California to the south of France.(FRN705, $16.00)

As They Were

by Jose SaramagoTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2002 PAPER 464 PAGESJose Saramago's richly detailed account of his journey across Portugal in 1979. Hecombines his vivid impressions of the Portuguese landscape and people with a dose ofhistory, fiction and meditation. (PGL23, $17.00)

Journey to Portugal, In Pursuit of Portugal's History andCulture

by Mark TwainTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2003 PAPER 523 PAGESMark Twain's witty and classic account of his 1867 grand tour of Europe. With his disarmingwit, Clemens makes the very best traveling companion. The section on his visit to "the landwhich was the mother of civilization" is a celebrated highlight. (MDE08, $14.95)

The Innocents Abroad

by Patrick Leigh FermorTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2005 PAPER 384 PAGES BEST SELLERFermor effortlessly interweaves anecdote, history and culture in this exuberant account of awalk from Holland, up the Rhine and down the Danube, through Germany, Prague andAustria in 1933. Written not in the moment, but 40 years later, the accumulation of time andexperience gives the book particular poignancy. (CEU30, $16.95)

A Time of Gifts

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by M. F. K. FisherBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 1983 PAPER 208 PAGES FAVORITECelebrated food writer M.F.K. Fisher contrasts village life in Aix­en­Provence with bustlingMarseilles, evoking these two favorite places with anecdote and loving description. (FRN27,$18.95)

Two Towns in Provence

by W. G. SebaldLITERATURE 1999 PAPER 296 PAGESWhen the late W.G. Sebald embarked on a solitary tour of Suffolk, England, his encounterswith windswept coastlines and lonely eccentrics were woven into beautiful and fragmentedruminations on history, memory, loss and exile. (GBR738, $16.95)

The Rings of Saturn

by Tobias SmollettTRAVEL NARRATIVE 1997 PAPER 144 PAGESAn irascible, appreciative account of travels ­­ and the foibles of continentals ­­ by the 18th­century British novelist. A pleasure. (EUR124, $24.95)

Travels Through France and Italy

by Robert Louis StevensonTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2005 PAPER 269 PAGESStevenson's sprightly, humorous account of ten days with a stubborn donkey namedModestine in the French Cevennes. (FRN538, $16.95)

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

by HerodotusHISTORY 1994 PAPER 656 PAGESIn what may be the first travel book, Herodotus records the heroic struggle between Europeand Asia that culminated in the invasion of Greece by Xerxes. (MED15, $13.00)

The Histories

by Sacheverell SitwellART & ARCHITECTURE 2006 PAPER 352 PAGESA facsimile edition of Sitwell's 1924 survey of 17th and 18th­century painting, architectureand music in Italy and Spain. (EUR281, $29.99)

Southern Baroque Art

by Paul TherouxTRAVEL NARRATIVE 1996 PAPER 509 PAGESTheroux seems to have had an exceptionally good time on his tour of the Mediterranean,circling the celebrated sea on foot, horseback, train and boat from Gibraltar to North Africa.(MED20, $17.00)

Pillars of Hercules

by Rebecca West | Christopher HitchensHISTORY 2007 PAPER 1181 PAGES CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLEFirst published in 1941, this monumental work explores the complex history of Yugoslavia,its heroes, politics and culture. It's a big, challenging book ­­ some call it the best ever writtenon the Balkans. (BLK04, $28.00)

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia

by Redmond O'HanlonTRAVEL NARRATIVE 1998 PAPER 462 PAGESA trek deep into the Congo with Redmond O'Hanlon, the eccentric, courageous, alwaysentertaining modern adventurer. (CAF01, $16.95)

No Mercy, A Journey to the Heart of the Congo

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by Mungo ParkEXPLORATION 2010 PAPER 272 PAGESPark chronicles the culture, society and nature of West Africa before the colonial period inthis classic account of a 24­year­old Scotsman exploring, often alone, in uncharted Africa.First published in 1799. (WAF40, $12.95)

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa

by Paul TherouxTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2004 PAPER 472 PAGESSetting the tone for his odyssey from Cairo to the Cape, Theroux writes in the opening: "Allnews out of Africa is bad. It made me want to go there, though not for the horror, the hotspots, the massacre­and­earthquake stories you read in the newspaper; I wanted thepleasure of being in Africa again...I aimed to reinsert myself in the bundu, as we used to callthe bush, and to wander the antique hinterland." (AFR131, $15.95)

Dark Star Safari

by Beryl MarkhamBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2013 PAPER 294 PAGES FAVORITEBeryl Markham evokes the landscapes, people and wildlife of East Africa in engrossingdetail in this classic memoir of amazing adventures as a bush pilot in 1930s Kenya. Afavorite. (EAF10, $16.00)

West with the Night

by Sven LindqvistHISTORY 1997 PAPER 192 PAGESTaking his title from Joseph Conrad's famously troubling line in Heart of Darkness, Lindqvistinterweaves his account of a Saharan journey with a broad history of European colonialatrocities. (AFR206, $16.95)

Exterminate All the Brutes

by Ryszard KapuscinskiHISTORY 1989 PAPER 180 PAGESIn 1975, Kapuscinski traveled throughout Ethiopia and listened to stories about the SupremeEmperor Haile Selassie told by the servants and associates that surrounded him whileEthiopia collapsed around him. Kapuscinski transformed the interviews into a powerfulnarrative of the high living and unimaginable abuse within the ancient regime (ETP10,$14.95)

The Emperor, Downfall of an Autocrat

by Winston S. Churchill | Mary Soames | James W. MullerHISTORY 2013 PAPER 381 PAGESThe classic account of the history of the Sudan and its reconquest by Lord Kitchener and anAnglo­Egyptian Army in the 1890s. Churchill served as a lieutenant during the war.(AFR147, $14.95)

The River War, An Historical of The Reconquest of theSudan

by John MandevilleTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2006 PAPER 233 PAGESThe (probably) invented account of medieval travels to Egypt and the Holy Land ­­ originallypublished in 1356 and hugely influential. (MDE123, $9.95)

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, The Fantastic 14th-Century Account of a Journey to the East

by Ryszard KapuscinskiHISTORY 1992 PAPER 152 PAGESAn impressionistic account of the last Shah of Iran by the peerless Polish travel writer, thisbrilliant book captures the irony, force and power of the revolution that toppled the Shah.(IRN11, $15.00)

Shah of Shahs

by Peter TherouxBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 1991 PAPER 281 PAGESAs a journalist in Saudi Arabia, Peter Theroux (Paul's brother) learned the language andimmersed himself in the realities of day­to­day life. This book is a memoir of his experiences,both a revealing collection of anecdotes and a humorous portrait of a place. (ARB08,

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by Robert ByronTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2007 PAPER 292 PAGESThis brilliant portrait of Persia and Afghanistan mixes the eccentric Byron's droll adventuresin the 1930s with asides on history and culture. (IRN01, $15.95)

The Road to Oxiana

by Alexander William KinglakeTRAVEL NARRATIVE 1992 PAPER 242 PAGESOriginally published in 1844, this sly account of journeys throughout the Middle East andAsia Minor, including Constantinople, Smyrna, Cairo, Damascus and Petra, takes the formand tone of a letter to a good friend: conversational, ironic, hugely funny and personal.(MDE24, $21.00)

Eothen

by Rory StewartTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2006 PAPER 336 PAGESRory Stewart illuminates the absurdity, plight and peril of war­ravaged Afghanistan in histhrilling, poignant account of a walk across the country from Herat to Kabul in the dead ofwinter. (MDE100, $14.95)

The Places in Between

by Charles DoughtyTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2009 PAPER 320 PAGESDoughty's first­hand observations of Arab life and culture in the 1870s, including his accountof two years wandering among the Bedouin nomads and of his attempt to reach Mecca.(ARB76, $17.95)

Travels in Arabia Deserta, Selected Passages

by Peter FlemingTRAVEL NARRATIVE 1999 PAPER 384 PAGESFleming's rousing account of a 3,500­mile jaunt from Peking to Sinkiang and on to India, aclassic of imperial British wit and style. (CAS46, $18.95)

News from Tartary

by Tom BissellTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2004 PAPER 388 PAGESSelf­confessed adventure junkie, Bissell skillfully interweaves anecdote, history and grimreports on ecological disasters in this smart, funny and informative account of travels throughUzbekistan and Central Asia in 2001. (CAS103, $18.00)

Chasing the Sea

by Paul TherouxTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2006 PAPER 384 PAGESTheroux's account of his journeys across Asia by train display the writer's inimitable talent forportraiture, ego and the dismissive aside. He takes every two­bit train he can find fromLondon across Europe, Turkey and the Middle East, India, Japan and China, returning homevia the Trans­Siberian Express. (ASA40, $15.95)

The Great Railway Bazaar

by Slavomir RawiczBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2006 PAPER 245 PAGESThis remarkable tale follows the odyssey of cavalry officer Rawicz and six fellow prisonersfrom their capture in Moscow under Stalin to a prison camp in Yakutsk and escape acrossSiberia and the Gobi to Tibet and over the Himalayas to India. Originally published in 1956.(SIB13, $16.95)

The Long Walk, The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

by Basho Matsuo | Donald KeeneLITERATURE 1997 PAPER 188 PAGES CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLEKeene gives a precise and poetic translation, alongside the original Japanese characters, inthis edition of the great poet Basho Matsuo's (1644­1694) famous journey to Oku. Withillustrations by Masayuki Miyata (1926­1997). (JPN211, $25.00)

The Narrow Road to Oku

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by Nobuyuki Yuasa | Basho MatsuoLITERATURE 1967 PAPER 178 PAGESThese marvelous prose­and­poetry sketches by the famous poet wanderer Basho (1644­94)invoke the mysteries of the cosmos manifest in the Japanese landscape. With some of themost perfect 17­syllable haiku ever composed. (JPN91, $15.00)

Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

by Peter CareyTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2006 PAPER 158 PAGESThe Booker Prize­winning novelist's amusing encounters with manga artists and other iconsof Japanese popular culture in the company of his anime­obsessed 12­year­old son.(JPN293, $15.95)

Wrong About Japan

by Paul TherouxTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2006 PAPER 528 PAGESA wry account of utterly exhausting, exasperating travels, mostly by rail, throughout China foran entire year. Theroux gets himself to every corner of the huge country and includesmemorable passages on his experiences in Mongolia, Xinjiang, Manchuria and Tibet(where his journey ended). (CHN133, $15.95)

Riding the Iron Rooster

by Suketu MehtaTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2005 PAPER 528 PAGESThe tale of the author who, after a 21­year sojourn in New York, returns to his nativeBombay, "the biggest, fastest, richest city in India." (IDA252, $17.00)

Maximum City, Bombay Lost and Found

by Eric NewbyTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2011 PAPER 384 PAGESIn 1963, the author and his wife set out an 1,200­mile voyage down the Ganges River. Thetitle could apply as easily to the ruminative attitude Newby takes towards his journey as tothe many mishaps which bedevil the quest. (IDA179, $18.95)

Slowly Down the Ganges

by Ilija TrojanowTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2011 PAPER 160 PAGESIn this colorful travelogue, Trojanow follows the Ganges from its source in the Himalayas tothe cities that it feeds, using the holy river as a means to ponder Hinduism, culture, ecologyand the tension between ancient and modern India. (IDA294, $11.95)

Along the Ganges

by J.R. AckerleyTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2000 PAPER 300 PAGESAckerley traipses across India as the English tutor to a handsome and extravagantlyhomosexual maharajah in this comic, beautifully written novel masquerading as atravelogue. (IDA115, $17.95)

Hindoo Holiday

by V.S. NaipaulTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2002 PAPER 267 PAGESA reflective, personal account of Naipaul's travels in India in 1962 ­­ a portrait of a time andplace and searing, honest chronicle of the country during transition. (IDA13, $15.95)

An Area of Darkness

by Bruce ChatwinCULTURAL PORTRAIT 2012 PAPER 320 PAGES FAVORITERory Stewart provides the introduction to this 25th anniversary edition of Bruce Chatwin'scelebrated travelogue. Chatwin transforms a journey through the Outback into anexhilarating, semi­fictional meditation on our place in the world. (AUS01, $17.00)

The Songlines

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by Bill BrysonTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2001 PAPER 335 PAGES FAVORITEThe intrepid, ever­resourceful Bill Bryson revels in Australia's eccentric characters,dangerous flora and fauna and other oddities in this wildly funny, effortlessly informativetravelogue. (AUS83, $15.99)

In a Sunburned Country

by Eric HansenTRAVEL NARRATIVE 2005 PAPER 228 PAGESA hilarious account of Hansen's offbeat experiences and encounters around the world overthe past 25 years. Hansen is a favorite travel writer with a welcome interest in natural history,oddball characters and tales. (TVL38, $15.95)

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