Travel

Near Death in the Mountains: True Stories of Disaster and Survival

by Cecil Kuhne

“He wrapped the rope around his body, got ready to rappel and leaned back. Standing about five feet from him, I heard a sharp scraping, Suddenly Ed was flying. I could see him fall, wordless, fifty feet free,...

Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Africa

by Tony Fitzjohn

Tony Fitzjohn, part missionary, part madman, has been called “one of the world’s most endangered creatures.” An internationally renowned field expert on African wildlife, he is best known for the eighteen...

Manana Forever?

by Jorge G. Castaneda

Why are Mexicans so successful in individual sports, but deficient in team play? Why do Mexicans dislike living in skyscrapers? Why do Mexicans love to see themselves as victims, but also love victims? And why,...

The Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe

by Tony Perrottet

The Grand Tour: the cultural rite of passage from London to Paris, Berlin, Venice, Florence, Rome, and down to the boot of Italy, which linked the Continent’s most spectacular artistic treasures

Sex and travel...

Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: Madness and Murder in the Arctic Barren Lands

by Mckay Jenkins

In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever attempted: reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them....

An Italian Affair

by Laura Fraser

When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to leave some of her sadness behind. There, on the island of Ischia, she meets M., an aesthetics...

Spanish Lessons: Beginning a New Life in Spain

by Derek Lambert

In the shrewd, comical spirit of Peter Mayle and Bill Bryson, Derek Lambert discovers the charms and idiosyncrasies of Spain as he experiences the rewards and frustrations of beginning a new life there. [set...

Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco

by Calvin Trillin

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.

Calvin Trillin has never been a champion of the “continental cuisine” palaces he used to refer to as La Maison...

Walking in Mallorca

by Paddy Dillon & June Parker

The 80 varied walking routes in this guidebook are around the island of Mallorca, mainly in the rugged Serra de Tramuntana. Enables walkers to explore the islandís diverse terrain ñ from rugged mountains to...

Via Ferratas of the Italian Dolomites: Vol 1

by Graham Fletcher & John Smith

Guidebook to via ferrata routes in Northern, Central and Eastern Italian Dolomites, Europe. Via ferrata climbing ñ using routes with fixed cables, ladders and bridges ñ is a great way for walkers and scramblers...

Belonging

by Isabel Huggan

The long-awaited new book from the acclaimed short story writer, author of The Elizabeth Stories and You Never Know.

Belonging is pure pleasure to read -- entertaining, beautifully written, laced with gentle...

Mountain Walking in Southern Catalunya

by Philip Freakley & Vivien Freakley

First English-language guide to mountain and coastal walking near Tortosa, Southern Catalunya, Spain, in the Parc Natural dels Ports, on the CardÛ and Montsia massifs and along the coast. All easily accessible...

The Pennine Way

by Paddy Dillon

The Pennine Way National Trail takes walkers from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm, on the Scottish border. The first long-distance path for walkers in Britain, in 1965, it traverses the 'backbone of England',...

Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip

by Jim Rogers

Drive . . . and grow rich!

The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous...

How to Be a Carioca

by Priscilla Goslin

An international bestseller since 1992, this is a humorous look at what makes up one of the world's most colorful characters: the Carioca--those charming inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, written by a U.S. native...

Food Trucks: Dispatches and Recipes from the Best Kitchens on Wheels

by Heather Shouse

With food-truck fever sweeping the nation, intrepid journalist Heather Shouse launched a coast-to-coast exploration of street food. In Food Trucks, she gives readers a page-by-page compass for finding the best...

Ghost Towns of Route 66

by Jim Hinckley & Kerrick James

Ghost towns lie all along the Mother Road. The quintessential boom-and-bust highway of the American West, Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boomtowns built around oil mines, railroad stops, cattle ranches,...

Cycling, Wine, and Men

by Nancy Brook

Cycling, Wine, & Men explores the author's parallel journeys:  one on a bicycle cycling across France;  the other as a divorced woman cycling through men.  Written in a self-confession style that echoes Elizabeth...

South African Art Now

by Sue Williamson

Described by international curator Okwui Enwezor as "one of the most dynamic and vigorous spaces of artistic practice," contemporary South African art is an exciting, emerging scene that is attracting the attention...

Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground

by Jonathan Kay

From left-wing 9/11 conspiracy theorists to right-wing Obama-hating "birthers"—a sobering, eyewitness look at how America's marketplace of ideas is fracturing into a multitude of tiny, radicalized boutiques—each...