Essays & Travelogues Books


A Traveller's LifeA Traveller's Life
Best Price: $14.95
A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday...
Cocaine TrainCocaine Train
Best Price: $30.63
One of the most violent countries on earth, where the cause of death is regularly...
The Illustrated Virago Book of Women TravellersThe Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers
In this newly illustrated edition, 300 years of wanderlust are captured as women travel the...
Tigers in Red Weather HbTigers in Red Weather Hb
Best Price: $60.40
After a terrible year, the end of a five-year affair and the death of her father, Ruth Padel...
River Dog: A Journey Along the BrahmaputraRiver Dog: A Journey Along the Brahmaputra
The Brahmaputra is one of the world's great rivers. Beginning as a tiny glacial stream in...


River DogRiver Dog
Best Price: $39.29
I found 'River Dog' to be a touching moving and at times quite funny travelouge. It...
Walking Through ScotlandWalking Through Scotland
Best Price: $7.97
A summertime journey is told in this book, a walk through Scotland, from the English border to...
Mukiwa: A White Boy in AfricaMukiwa: A White Boy in AfricaMy Quest for the YetiMy Quest for the Yeti
Best Price: $7.75
For over 20 years Reinhold Messner has been obsessed with the secret of the Yeti, the Himilayan...
Far-FarersFar-Farers
Best Price: $19.90
I enjoyed Victoria Clark's book, "The Far-Farers." The title is from the name...


Three of Us : New Life in New YorkThree of Us : New Life in New YorkAround the World in 80 YearsAround the World in 80 Years
Born in London in 1919, Eric Newby was educated at St Paul's School. He began his travelling...
The Hill of KronosThe Hill of Kronos
Best Price: $19.95
In 1963 Peter Levi visited the country whose language and culture he had been studying while...
Journey to KhivaJourney to KhivaIn the Empire of Genghis KhanIn the Empire of Genghis Khan
Best Price: $10.00
As a child, award-winning travel writer Stanley Stewart dreamed of crossing Mongolia on...

Under the Dragon: Travels in a Betrayed LandUnder the Dragon: Travels in a Betrayed Land
Best Price: $133.10
This evocative book has haunted me since I first read it last year. Rory MacLean weaves the...
In XanaduIn Xanadu
Best Price: $8.56
William Dalrymple travelled 12,000 miles overland from Jerusalem to Xanadu in order to retrace...
The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt: Women Travellers and Their WorldThe Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt: Women Travellers and Their World
Best Price: $15.78
What drew Annie Taylor and Alexandra David-Neal to Tibet, when it was still cut off from the...
Frontiers of Heaven AsiaFrontiers of Heaven Asia
For the Chinese, the Great Wall defined a psychological frontier. Within it lay the Celestial...
Sitting Up With the DeadSitting Up With the Dead
The story of the South is not finished. The southeastern states of America, the old Confederacy,...

No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Historic Journey Across AntarcticaNo Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Historic Journey Across Antarctica
Best Price: $1.93
My bookclub chose this book this month and we were very excited by the subject matter. What a...
Babylon by Bus: Or, the true story of two friends who gave up their valuable franchise selling YANKEES SUCK T-shirts at Fenway to find meaning and adventure in Iraq,Babylon by Bus: Or, the true story of two friends who gave up their valuable franchise selling YANKEES SUCK T-shirts at Fenway to find meaning and adventure in Iraq,
Best Price: $1.15
In the beginning of the audio book the adrenaline junkie authors decide to go to Iraq. In...
Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and ResearchSea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
Best Price: $15.34
This book is a narrative account of a 1930's marine life collecting voyage from Cabo San...
The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest RiverThe Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River
Best Price: $2.47
"A supremely entertaining work, and also an important one." -David Grann, author of ...
Roads to Santiago: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of SpainRoads to Santiago: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Spain
Best Price: $15.00
Spain becomes grist for the cracked mill wheel of Cees Nooteboom's mind. The book isn't ...

The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (Oxford Books of Prose)The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (Oxford Books of Prose)
Best Price: $15.95
Travel--long associated with marvels and adventure, excitement and mystery--has always proved an...
Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the WarsAbroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars
Best Price: $21.31
Paul Fussell is universally famous for his extensive studies on the cultural impact of the...
The Innocents Abroad (1869) (Oxford Mark Twain)The Innocents Abroad (1869) (Oxford Mark Twain)
Best Price: $39.83
"The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress" is Twain's second book,...
Travels in Kashmir and the Panjab (Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints)Travels in Kashmir and the Panjab (Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints)
Best Price: $53.63
Title: Travels in Kashmir and the Panjab : Publisher: British Library, Historical Print...
The China Voyage: Across the Pacific by Bamboo RaftThe China Voyage: Across the Pacific by Bamboo Raft
Best Price: $16.95
The award-winning author of The Brendan Voyage makes a bold Pacific journey to test a...

The Malay ArchipelagoThe Malay Archipelago
Best Price: $13.89
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read...
A Winter Circuit of Our Arctic Coast; A Narrative of a Journey With Dog-Sleds Around the Entire Arctic Coast of AlaskaA Winter Circuit of Our Arctic Coast; A Narrative of a Journey With Dog-Sleds Around the Entire Arctic Coast of Alaska
Best Price: $27.55
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a...
Uruk Countryside: Natural Setting of Urban SocietiesUruk Countryside: Natural Setting of Urban Societies
Best Price: $152.62
xii + 241 pp. with 83 figs. (1 map loose as issued), 4to.
Cartographies of Travel and Navigation (The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography)Cartographies of Travel and Navigation (The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography)
Best Price: $47.57
Finding one?s way with a map is a relatively recent phenomenon. In premodern times, maps were...
The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from LisbonThe Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon
Best Price: $40.78
A dispatch from a foreign land, when crafted by an attentive and skilled writer, can be magical,...

Islam and Travel in the Middle AgesIslam and Travel in the Middle Ages
Best Price: $43.69
In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla , or world tour, as surveyors,...
The Smell of the ContinentThe Smell of the Continent
Best Price: $0.01
Cheap flights to cheap rooms in Spain, global English, guidebooks, tour guides, packaged...
In Search of the Craic: One Man's Pub Crawl Through Irish MusicIn Search of the Craic: One Man's Pub Crawl Through Irish Music
Best Price: $80.77
Like most pub "sessions" in Ireland, this book doesn't offer a flawless...
In Search of the Craic: One Man's Pub Crawl through Irish MusicIn Search of the Craic: One Man's Pub Crawl through Irish Music
Best Price: $7.45
Chatting with Bono, Sinead O?Connor, and Christy Moore; visiting the spa town where farmers come...
The Burial BrothersThe Burial Brothers

A Traveller's LifeA Traveller's Life
Best Price: $14.95
A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday...
Cocaine TrainCocaine Train
Best Price: $30.63
One of the most violent countries on earth, where the cause of death is regularly...
The Illustrated Virago Book of Women TravellersThe Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers
In this newly illustrated edition, 300 years of wanderlust are captured as women travel the...
Tigers in Red Weather HbTigers in Red Weather Hb
Best Price: $60.40
After a terrible year, the end of a five-year affair and the death of her father, Ruth Padel...
River Dog: A Journey Along the BrahmaputraRiver Dog: A Journey Along the Brahmaputra
The Brahmaputra is one of the world's great rivers. Beginning as a tiny glacial stream in...

River DogRiver Dog
Best Price: $39.29
I found 'River Dog' to be a touching moving and at times quite funny travelouge. It...
Walking Through ScotlandWalking Through Scotland
Best Price: $7.97
A summertime journey is told in this book, a walk through Scotland, from the English border to...
Mukiwa: A White Boy in AfricaMukiwa: A White Boy in AfricaMy Quest for the YetiMy Quest for the Yeti
Best Price: $7.75
For over 20 years Reinhold Messner has been obsessed with the secret of the Yeti, the Himilayan...
Far-FarersFar-Farers
Best Price: $19.90
I enjoyed Victoria Clark's book, "The Far-Farers." The title is from the name...

Bhutan: Land of the Thunder DragonBhutan: Land of the Thunder Dragon
A photographic portrait of a small kingdom in the Himalayas which has been closed to the West...
DANCING WITH THE DEAD: A JOURNEY TO ZANZIBAR AND MADAGASCAR (SIGNED).DANCING WITH THE DEAD: A JOURNEY TO ZANZIBAR AND MADAGASCAR (SIGNED).Travel in the Middle AgesTravel in the Middle Ages
Best Price: $44.95
Guatemalan JourneyGuatemalan Journey
Guatemala draws some half million tourists each year, whose brief visits to the ruins of ancient...
Jews in the Roman WorldJews in the Roman World

Murder or Mutiny: An Adventure StoryMurder or Mutiny: An Adventure Story
Best Price: $16.20
As family legend has it, "Salty" Sam Stephenson, Pamela Stephenson's great, great...
China RevealedChina Revealed
Best Price: $1.57
China, a country of 1.3 billion people in the grip of an industrial revolution absorbing a large...
Rose En MarcheRose En Marche
Jamie Ivey has written one of the most enveloping books about life in the south of France and...
The UpgradeThe Upgrade
Best Price: $13.88
Reading the River: A Voyage Down the YukonReading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon
Best Price: $5.99
This book is the story of a motorized canoe trip down most of the Yukon River in the late...

Queen Victoria's ScotlandQueen Victoria's Scotland
An illustrated account of Queen Victoria's love affair with Scotland, drawing on her own...
Cassell Atlas of the Medieval World, AD 600-1492 (Atlas)Cassell Atlas of the Medieval World, AD 600-1492 (Atlas)The Way of Herodotus: Travels with the Man Who Invented HistoryThe Way of Herodotus: Travels with the Man Who Invented History
Best Price: $0.86
Intrepid travel historian Justin Marozzi retraces the footsteps of Herodotus through the...
Near Death in the Desert (Vintage Departures Original)Near Death in the Desert (Vintage Departures Original)
Best Price: $6.73
?The night was heavy with foreboding. The rain, which had been spitting down on us during the...
Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the WorldFemale Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World
Best Price: $2.45
Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this? ) ...

South with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for DiscoverySouth with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery
Best Price: $12.32
Roald Amundsen, ?the last of the Vikings,? left his mark on the Heroic Era as one of the most...
The Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of EuropeThe Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe
Best Price: $6.48
This is the perfect book book for anyone considering coming to Europe this year (or even for an...
Dining with al-Qaeda: Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle EastDining with al-Qaeda: Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East
Best Price: $1.24
Hugh Pope's new book is a different kettle of fish from the stellar but straightforward ...
Travels With My Briefcase: Around the World - On ExpensesTravels With My Briefcase: Around the World - On Expenses
Best Price: $4.00
Peter Biddlecombe has carved out a niche writing silly, amusing travel essays about his business...
Floyd on OzFloyd on Oz
Best Price: $75.93
Floyd on Australia, New Zealand and the South Sea Islands has a TV tie-in to Floyd's...

Against the Stranger: Lives in Occupied TerritoryAgainst the Stranger: Lives in Occupied TerritoryCalling from Khasgar: A Journey Through TibetCalling from Khasgar: A Journey Through Tibet
An amusing and sometimes harrowing account of a journey through Tibet to Kashgar in China.
American Heartbeat PbAmerican Heartbeat Pb
A book about the writer travelling across America by the titles of famous songs - i.e. 24 Hours...
Bonjour Blanc: Journey Through HaitiBonjour Blanc: Journey Through Haiti
Best Price: $215.90
The Tree Where Man Was Born (Classic, Nature, Penguin)The Tree Where Man Was Born (Classic, Nature, Penguin)
Best Price: $2.69
I wasn't certain what to expect when I got this book. I was a bit concerned that since it...

A Wavering GraceA Wavering Grace
Having read Gavin Young's previous books, I found this memoir to be uneven and in need of...
Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark (Classic, Nature, Penguin)Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark (Classic, Nature, Penguin)
Best Price: $4.50
Reading Blue Meridian on the beach in Nantucket, not far from the site of the filming of Jaws, I...
More Great Railway Journeys (BBC)More Great Railway Journeys (BBC)
Celebrities set out on expeditions in this book, travelling on trains old and new - from the...
India in Slow MotionIndia in Slow Motion
Best Price: $12.06
Mark Tully is incomparable. No one has a greater understanding of the passions, the...
Encore ProvenceEncore Provence

Teatime IslandsTeatime Islands
Best Price: $24.03
"I have been fascinated by islands and travel since I was a young boy. I went on my first...
Ice MuseumIce MuseumGreat Railway BazaarGreat Railway Bazaar
Best Price: $7.90
A Russian Journal (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)A Russian Journal (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Best Price: $8.52
I read this book after returning home from a two week trip in Southwestern Russia. Steinbeck...
D. H. Lawrence and Italy: Sketches from Etruscan Places, Sea and Sardinia, Twilight in Italy (Penguin Classics)D. H. Lawrence and Italy: Sketches from Etruscan Places, Sea and Sardinia, Twilight in Italy (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $12.16
I haven't started reading it but the book is very ligth and soft. well printed

Blue is the Colour of Heaven: A Journey Through AfghanistanBlue is the Colour of Heaven: A Journey Through Afghanistan
Best Price: $124.45
This is the story of an adventure that began in the mind of an eight-year-old boy obsessed with...
India in Slow MotionIndia in Slow Motion
Best Price: $7.40
Mark Tully has focused on one of the key issues of independent India, "lack of good...
City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on LahoreCity of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore
Best Price: $7.95
This book is a collection of short stories, excerpts from novels and non-fiction compiled with...
Is Shane Macgowan Still Alive?Is Shane Macgowan Still Alive?
Best Price: $61.00
I'm a big fan of both Tim Bradford and Ireland, so when me and my wife went on our honeymoon...
Chasing ChurchillChasing Churchill
Best Price: $19.59
An anecdotal history of Winston Churchill's foreign journeys -- for journalistic, political...

Realm of the IncasRealm of the IncasMoscow BabylonMoscow BabylonTravels With a CircusTravels With a Circus
Best Price: $4.99
An account of Katie Hickman's extraordinary year spent amidst the faded glamour of a Mexican...
Ten Thousand Miles Without a CloudTen Thousand Miles Without a Cloud
Best Price: $8.91
Shuyun was born to zealous communist parents in the 1960s; but a great influence in her...
2009 Collins Big Road Atlas Britain: A3 Edition2009 Collins Big Road Atlas Britain: A3 Edition
Best Price: $41.98
very happy with product, helped me out in the UK alot as so much easier to read... and view...

On the Shores of the MediterraneanOn the Shores of the Mediterranean
Best Price: $11.69
With his trademark charm and sharp wit, Newby leaves no stone unturned in his quest for...
1st Class: An Introduction to Travel and Tourism1st Class: An Introduction to Travel and Tourism
Best Price: $14.00
With a strong emphasis on creative thinking, problem-solving and interpersonal skills, this...
Ocean Enough and Time: Discovering the Waters Around AntarcticaOcean Enough and Time: Discovering the Waters Around Antarctica
Best Price: $2.79
Investigating the great circumpolar sea that surrounds Antarctica, an in-depth study analyzes...
  
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