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The Best American Travel Writing 2012

by Jason Wilson & William T. Vollmann

A collection of the best travel writing pieces published in American periodicals during 2011.


From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

by William Dalrymple

In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of...


Hotel Tales: A Little Adventure and Some Unexpected Tales

by Hanley Chew

The book took off one fine day quite unexpectedly. I was in a mentoring session with a young lady, discussing aspirations. Mine was to create this book. Hers was to take some time off a corporate career, see...


An Artist and a Writer Travel Highway 1 North

by Janice Stevens & Pat Hunter

A unique literary and artistic guidebook to one of the world’s most amazing drives—California State Highway 1, a narrow strip of roadway etched between cliffs and the ocean that leads travelers through the...


A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen

by Freya Stark

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Circle Line: Around London in a Small Boat

by Steffan Meyric Hughes

Join Steffan as he sets sail around London, glides through historical monuments, and unearths long-forgotten secrets from beneath the waterway

Magic, to a sailor, is harnessing the wind—getting something...


A Bull on the Beach: Enjoying the Good Life in Mallorca

by Anna Nicholas

Nicholas draws readers back into the delight of learning the ins and outs of running an organic, self-sufficient farm in her fifth book.

Having settled in a Mallorcan mountain idyll, Anna Nicholas, her husband...


In Xanadu

by William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple’s award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco Polo’s 700-year-old route from Jerusalem to Xanadu, the summer...


Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China

by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. He hops aboard...


Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean

by Julia Whitty

A travelogue of the world's oceans as a continuous system, from the Burroughs Award-winning author of The Fragile Edge, that combines science, characters, wonders, and history.


An Imam in Paris: Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831)

by Daniel L. Newman

In the 1820s, Rifa‘a Rafi‘ al-Tahtawi, a young Muslim cleric, was a leading member of the first Egyptian educational mission to Paris, where he remained for five years, documenting his observations of European...


On the Back Roads: Discovering Small Towns of America

by Bill Graves

Do you like small towns, places off the beaten path, trips down memory lane? Ever wonder if old-fashioned values are still alive in America? Then kick back, unwind, and hop onboard with travel writer Bill Graves...


To Hull and Back: On Holiday in Unsung Britain

by Tom Chesshyre

A first-hand look into Britain's unlikely travel destinations In a mad adventure that took him from Hull to Hell, Tom Chesshyre visited secret spots of Britain in search of the least likely holiday destinations....


Moods of Future Joys: Around the World by Bike - Part 1

by Alastair Humphreys

This enthralling account details Alastair Humphrey’s epic journey across Africa, through Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya. His experience is at times brutal, and though he faces loneliness, despair, and harsh conditions,...


Between Weathers

by Ron MacMillan

The Shetland Islands sit where the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea meet, closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Over the centuries they have been a vital staging post for Vikings, Hanseatic traders...


Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings

by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, FRESH AIR FIEND touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary adventure...


How to Make Money From Travel Writing

by Sarah Woods

In this book, award-winning travel writer Sarah Woods answers the question she is asked several hundred times each year: 'how do I become a freelance travel writer?' She offers practical advice on turning the...


Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat

by Chris Stewart

If you're wondering what Chris Stewart did before he and Ana moved to El Valero, their Spanish farm, here's one of the answers. He took to the sea, landing a job as skipper for the summer, sailing a Cornish...


The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys: 35 eye-witness accounts of adventure in the Antarctic

by Jon E. Lewis

The very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in the twenty-first...


Valvona & Crolla: A Year at an Italian Table

by Mary Contini & Philip Contini

Valvona & Crolla has been described as 'the Sistine chapel of continental delis'. Founded in 1934 by the Continis' ancestors, the Italian shop and restaurant is legendary in food circles for its excellent food...