Travel Writing
COLOSSUS OF MAROUSSI
Written by Miller, Henry
Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel literature. It has preceded the footsteps of prominent travel writers such as Pico Iyer and Rolf Potts. The book Miller would later cite as his favorite began with a young woman's seductive description of Greece.
NILE: TRAVELLING DOWNRIVER THROUGH EGYPT'S PAST AND PRESENT
Written by Wilkinson, Toby
The Nile, like all of Egypt, is both timeless and ever-changing. In these pages, renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey downriver that is both history and travelogue. We begin at the First Nile Cataract, close to the modern city of Aswan. From there, Wilkinson guides us through the illustrious nation birthed by this great river.
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA: THE TRAGEDY OF THE WHALESHIP ESSEX
Written by Philbrick, Nathaniel
From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick.
LAWLESS ROADS
Written by Greene, Graham
In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. The Lawless Roads is his spellbinding record of that journey.
WOMAN IN ARABIA: THE WRITINGS OF THE QUEEN OF THE DESERT
Written by Bell, Gertrude
A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner Herzog Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg.
BLACK LAMB AND THE GREY FALCON
Written by West, Rebecca
"Rebecca West's magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time." --The New Yorker
JOURNEY WITHOUT MAPS
Written by Greene, Graham
His mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar republic founded for released slaves. Now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, Journey Without Maps is the spellbinding record of Greene's journey.
SONGLINES
Written by Chatwin, Bruce
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart
ITALIAN JOURNEY
Written by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Goethe's account of his passage through Italy from 1786 to 1788 is a great travel chronicle as well as a candid self-portrait of a genius in the grip of spiritual crisis. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
SIENA: CITY OF SECRETS
Written by Tylus, Jane
Jane Tylus's Siena is a compelling and intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Cultural history, intellectual memoir, travelogue, and guidebook, it takes the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-traveled roads and alleys of a town both medieval and modern.
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