(Paperback, New edition)

Park's two journeys to Africa, in 1795 and 1805, provided Europeans with their first reliable descriptions of that continent's interior. A vivid recollection and the most readable of all the classics of African exploration.

(Paperback, New edition)

A witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues and narrow escapes of Gellhorn, one of America's most important war correspondents and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.

(Paperback)

In the tradition of such international travelers as Paul Theroux, Pico Iyer, and Ryszard Kapuscinski, and with insight reminiscent of John Berger and Joan Didion, Lingis shares both the private revelations and the universal connections he acquires on his exotic journeys.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

The Turkish Coast from Izmir to Antalya is an area of natural drama, rich in the ruins of antiquity. This book offers accounts ranging from the archaeological discovery, or the route march of Alexander's army, to the pleasures of the hammam and Turkish cooking.

(Paperback, 2nd ed.)

The observations of a 16th-century Habsburg ambassador to Constantinople.

(Paperback)

Two middle-aged ladies, one Penelope Chetworth, the other her 12-year old mare La Marquesa, explored the high sierra north of Granada in 1961. This title brings together the best in their Spanish hosts, informed by personal fascination for horses, religion and Spain.

(Paperback)

This classic travel book details Isabella Bird's 1878 trip, where she set out alone to explore the interior of Japan--a rarity not only because of Bird's gender but because the country was virtually unknown to Westerners. The Japan she describes is not the sentimental world of Madame Butterfly but a vibrant land of real people with a complex culture and hard scrabble lives. Illustrations.

(Paperback)

A vivid journey to the shore of the Sahara, where intense personal stories intersect with climate change and global politics.

(Paperback)

In mid-life Jane Carswell leaves her seemingly tranquil New Zealand life, her family and friends, to teach English in Chongqing, China. Her journey into the unknown epitomises the ache so many of us feel in our own lives for new challenges and personal understandings.

(Paperback)

This collection of short stories set in the crown jewel of Europe--featuring works by Nobel Prize winners Elias Canetti and Elfriede Jelenek--is an excellent introduction to the exceptionally rich contemporary Austrian literature that illuminates a century of shifting forms and styles.

(Paperback)

"Writers reveal all in this outrageous book. A toilet squeals in India, a Dutch vibrator causes a power outage in Chicago, a Thanksgiving blow job puts a spin on the holiday in Ireland, plus police, stink-eyed bureaucrats, emergency evacuations, healers who hurt you--this is an around-the-world romp of hilarious travel disasters"--

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

This is the personal journal of a young American woman, living for six months amongst the Dodoth cattle-herdsmen in Northern Uganda.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

This second title in a series of women's travel humor reveals more sidesplitting stories of female misadventure around the world. Showcasing every known type of travel blunder, botch, stumble, and bumble, these rollicking stories come from all reaches of the globe.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

This beautiful literary collection explores the spectacular natural features of Yosemite through the eyes of some of the mostextraordinarily talented writers. In 1851, Lafayette Bunnell chronicled his travels with the Mariposa Battalion, the first non-natives to visit Yosemite Valley.

(Hardback)

This beautiful literary collection explores the spectacular natural features of Yosemite through the eyes of some of the mostextraordinarily talented writers. In 1851, Lafayette Bunnell chronicled his travels with the Mariposa Battalion, the first non-natives to visit Yosemite Valley.

(Hardback)

"Originally published in France as Longue marche: A pied de la Mediterranee jusqu'en Chine par la route de la Soie. III.--Le vent des steppes by Editions Phebus, Paris"--title page verso.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

The journey of a young, suburban Texas woman's path to self-discovery at the end of the twentieth century

(Paperback)

Bill Porter, a.k.a Red Pine, connects modern China to its past in a riveting journey down the Yellow River.

(Hardback)