Travel Writing
YEAR IN PARIS: SEASON BY SEASON IN THE CITY OF LIGHT
Written by Baxter, John
A NEW YORK TIMES "SUMMER READING" PICK!From the incomparable John Baxter, award-winning author of the bestselling The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris through the seasons, highlighting the unique tastes, sights, and changing personality of the city in spring, summer, fall, and winter.
LITERARY LANDSCAPES: CHARTING THE WORLDS OF CLASSIC LITERATURE
Written by Sutherland, John
Literary Landscapes delves deep into the geography, location, and terrain of our best-loved literary works and looks at how setting and environmental influences storytelling, character, and our emotional response as readers. Fully illustrated with hundreds of full-color images throughout. Some stories couldn't happen just anywhere.
GANGES: THE MANY PASTS OF AN INDIAN RIVER
Written by Sen, Sudipta
A remarkable portrait of the Ganges, India's most sacred and important river and a potent symbol across South Asia. "Indisputably the single best text on the Ganges and its history."--Wall Street Journal Originating in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges is India's most important and sacred river.
ROOMS WITH A VIEW: THE SECRET LIFE OF GREAT HOTELS
Written by Mourby, Adrian
Salvador Dalí once asked room service at Hôtel Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were duly brought to his room he got out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira, and the details of India's independence were worked out in the ballroom of the Imperial Hotel, Delhi.
EREBUS: ONE SHIP, TWO EPIC VOYAGES, AND THE GREATEST NAVAL MYSTERY OF ALL TIME
Written by Palin, Michael
"Beyond terrific. I didn't want it to end." --Bill BrysonDriven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter Michael Palin explores the world of HMS Erebus, last seen on an ill-fated voyage to chart the Northwest Passage.
BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING 2018
Written by Wilson, Jason
Everyone travels for different reasons, but whatever those reasons are, one thing is certain: they come back with stories.
L'APPART: THE DELIGHTS AND DISASTERS OF MAKING MY PARIS HOME
Written by Lebovitz, David
Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-Pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what it means to revamp one's life.
WANDERLUST: A HISTORY OF WALKING
Written by Solnit, Rebecca
A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking.
BLUE: A ST. BARTS MEMOIR
Written by Coggins, David
He gained instant fans around the world with tales of his family's many years visiting Paris in winter. Now David Coggins brings to curious, travel-loving readers the same degree of enviable stories and charming illustrations, this time from St. Barts--a perfect compliment to the first book in the series. Blue: A St.
ISLAND PEOPLE: THE CARIBBEAN AND THE WORLD
Written by Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua
A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region's common heritage to its fierce grip on the world's imagination. From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa Ma
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