Travel writing

Sicilian Odyssey

by Francine Prose

A blending of art and cultural criticism, travel writing, and personal narrative, Sicilian Odyssey is Francine Prose's imaginative consideration of the diverse cultural legacies found juxtaposed and entangled...

The Edge of Maine

by Geoffrey Wolff

Novelist and biographer Geoffrey Wolff has spent many summers in Maine—sailing its coastal waters, climbing its rocky peaks, and communing with its natives. Now, with the voice of a passionate insider, he...

Los Angeles

by A. M. Homes

The surreal City of Angels is a unique amalgam of past and present, tradition and revolution, dreamscape and reality. Whether in history books or on the silver screen, the Los Angeles landscape has long served...

The Island Martinique

by John Edgar Wideman

In this compelling travel memoir, two-time PEN/Faulkner Award winner John Edgar Wideman explores Martinique's seductive natural beauty and culture, as well as its vexed history of colonial violence and racism....

Desert Memories: Desert Memories

by Ariel Dorfman

The Norte Grande of Chile, the world's driest desert, had ''engendered contemporary Chile, everything that was good about it, everything that was dreadful,'' writes Ariel Dorfman in his brilliant exploration...

Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya

by Jamaica Kincaid

In this delightful hybrid of a book—part memoir and part travel journal—the bestselling author takes us deep into the mountains of Nepal with a trio of botanist friends in search of native Himalayan plants...

A Writer's House in Wales

by Jan Morris

Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys, Morris's home between the sea...

Crete

by Barry Unsworth

"His keen understanding of history and legend...illuminate[s] his visits." —Publishers Weekly

"A vivid picture of the island." —Associated Press

"It is hard to think of anywhere on earth where so many firsts...

My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries, and Preoccupations

by Howard Norman

Master storyteller Howard Norman draws on more than 30 years of visiting Nova Scotia for this remarkable ''book of selective memories.'' Combining stories, folklore, memoir, nature, poetry, and expository prose,...

Southwestern Homelands

by William Kittredge

For part of each of the last twenty years, much-loved essayist and fiction writer William Kittredge has ventured to the storied desert landscape of the Southwest and immersed himself in the region's wide-ranging...

The Road to Santiago

by Kathryn Harrison

Displaying her "real talent for conjuring far-flung times and places," Kathryn Harrison tells the mesmerizing story of her 200-mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. In the spring of 1999, Kathryn...

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

by Mr. Sam Keith & Mr. Richard Louis Proenneke

One Man's Wilderness, written by Sam Keith from the journals of Proenneke, chronicles Proenneke's experiences during the first sixteen months (May, 1968 to September, 1969) of his Alaskan wilderness odyssey....