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  • Mother, Nature

    A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of To Shake the Sleeping Self . . .“Exquisitely written and completely compelling . . . As Jedidiah Jenkins traces a 5,000-mile route with his wildly entertaining mother, Barb, he begins to untangle the live wires of a parent-child bond and to wrestle with a love that hurts.”—Suleika Jaouad, author of Between Two KingdomsLAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALISTWhen his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Season

    The Secret Life of Palm Beach and America's Richest Society

    Palm Beach is known around the world as the most wealthy, glamorous, opulent, decadent, self-indulgent, sinful spot on earth. With their beautiful 3.75 square-island constantly in the media glare, Palm Beachers protect their impossibly rich society from outside scrutiny with vigilant police, ubiquitous personal security staffs, and screens of tall hedges encircling every mansion.To this bizarre ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 老派少女購物路線

    by 洪愛珠 ...
    Series Book 366 - Taiwan Style
    ★ 「台北文學獎」散文首獎得主洪愛珠首部著作。★ 備受矚目、眾人垂涎敲碗的飲食書寫新聲音。★ 舒國治、馬世芳、蔡珠兒、古碧玲、詹宏志、韓良憶、簡媜重量級推薦。∣ 她的老派,是養成,是本性,也是鄉愁 ∣她自小看著有頭家娘風範的外婆與母親,進出廚房,起灶架鍋,張羅數十家人員工日常吃食,宴請東南亞與中東等地賓客,哄嚷熱烈,直到滷肉飯、蒸冬瓜肉餅、芋棗甚至一碗煲粥,俱成為她日後的念想。她曾與外婆、母親,三代女子,穿行在大稻埕與永樂市場,買鮑參翅肚、麵龜椪餅、胡椒肉桂蠶豆,見識老鋪的講究,練就一套對古早物什的擇選標準。她熟稔蘆洲湧蓮寺周邊,在旺鋪裡食切仔麵黑白切與米苔目,飲青草涼茶,更向在地攤商習得剁雞的技巧,與若干習俗規矩。如此種種,養出她一雙識貨的眼睛,一根敏銳的舌頭,一個老派的靈魂;更化作筆下時而雍容深情、時而輕俏意趣的篇章段落。</... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Hawai'i One Summer

    Essays on the island and its history and traditions from the National Book Award–winning author of The Woman Warrior.In these eleven thought-provoking pieces, acclaimed writer and feminist Maxine Hong Kingston tells stories of Hawai’i filled with both personal experience and wider perspective.From a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and numerous other honors, the essays in this collection ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All Over the Place

    Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft

    Some people are meant to travel the globe, to unwrap its secrets and share them with the world. And some people have no sense of direction, are terrified of pigeons, and get motion sickness from tying their shoes. These people are meant to stay home and eat nachos.Geraldine DeRuiter is the latter. But she won't let that stop her.Hilarious, irreverent, and heartfelt, All Over the Place chronicles ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • India - The Shimmering Dream

    This extraordinary account of a remarkable journey made in 1933, through Iraq, Iran and Baluchistan (now part of Pakistan) to India is packed full of wonder, adventure, determination and love of travel and motorcycles. But what really sets this book apart are the wonderful descriptions of the people and cultures, now nearly forgotten, yet still hugely relevant in today’s age: all brought ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

    An Inquiry Into Values

    THE CLASSIC BOOK THAT HAS INSPIRED MILLIONSA penetrating examination of how we live and how to live betterFew books transform a generation and then establish themselves as touchstones for the generations that follow. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one such book. This modern epic of a man’s search for meaning became an instant bestseller on publication in 1974, acclaimed as one of the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Travels with Charley in Search of America

    An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in a deluxe centennial editionIn September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • Blue Highways

    A Journey into America

    Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mysteries of the Gobi

    Searching for Wild Camels and Lost Cities in the Heart of Asia

    by John Hare ...
    John Hare is a star author and one of the most well-known explorers of his generation. The Gobi is a perennially fascinating part of the world - a desert that people love to read about. China, the environment/natural world, exploration and discovery: broad and topical appeal.The Gobi is the largest, coldest and driest desert in Asia. Its shifting sands conceal ancient cities, 3,000-year-old ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Amazon Extreme

    Three Men, A Raft and the World's Most Dangerous River

    The true story of three enthusiastic (but inexperienced) adventurers who attempt to become the first team to raft the entire length of the Amazon River–all 4,007 miles--and (barely) live to tell about it.To a trio of twenty-something adrenaline junkies, it sounded like an irresistible challenge: tackle the Amazon with nothing more than a rubber raft between them and fate. But when Colin Angus, Ben ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Border

    A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northwest Passage

    by Erika Fatland ...
    The acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe.Imperial, communist or autocratic, Russia has been—and remains—a towering and intimidating neighbor. Whether it is North Korea in the Far East through the former Soviet republics in Asia and the Caucasus, or countries on the Caspian ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • First Russia, Then Tibet

    by Robert Byron ...
    First published in 1933, this text is a fascinating account of Robert Byron's travels in the Russia, India and Tibet of the time. The narrative of travels and descriptions of environment are first-rate and beautifully written. One of the great early examples of the travel-writing genre! ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Going Somewhere

    A Bicycle Journey Across America

    by Brian Benson ...
    Brian has a million vague life plans but zero sense of direction. So when he meets Rachel, a self-possessed woman who daydreams of bicycling across the States, he decides to follow her wherever she'll take him. Brian and Rachel soon embark on a ride from northern Wisconsin to Somewhere West, infatuated with the promise of adventure and each other. But as the pair progress from the Northwoods into ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

    "Unique among survival books…stunning…enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading." —Denver PostLaurence Gonzales’s bestselling Deep Survival has helped save lives from the deepest wildernesses, just as it has improved readers’ everyday lives. Its mix of adventure narrative, survival science, and practical advice has inspired everyone from business leaders to military ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Songlines

    by Bruce Chatwin ...
    International Bestseller: The famed travel writer and author of In Patagonia traverses Australia, exploring Aboriginal culture and song—and humanity’s origins.Long ago, the creators wandered Australia and sang the landscape into being, naming every rock, tree, and watering hole in the great desert. Those songs were passed down to the Aboriginals, and for centuries they have served not only as a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On a Hoof and a Prayer

    by Polly Evans ...
    The stampeding true story of one woman’s journey from timorous equestrian novice to wildly whooping cowgirl—a madcap ride through Argentina that will fascinate horse lovers, travelers, and armchair adventurers alike.As a girl, Polly Evans dreamed about learning to ride—and in her mid-thirties the obsession returned. Determined to finally bite the bullet and saddle up, she set off for Argentina, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Standard Deviations

    Growing Up and Coming Down in the New Asia

    “I was twenty-three and I had set off for Asia to become a writer, intrigued by lurid tales of booms, busts, drugs, sex, violence, magic. There was a wicked sorcery in Asia, in the economic profligacy of the early nineties, in the way financiers and businessmen took a rapidly wiring and developing continent and looted billions, like a titanic parlor trick converting all that wealth into abandoned ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Hedgehog's Dilemma

    A Tale of Obsession, Nostalgia, and the World's Most Charming Mammal

    by Hugh Warwick ...
    In this wonderfully entertaining, adorable book, Hugh Warwick, an environmental writer and photographer, examines the relationship between the hedgehog and man, and how the hedgehog became so beloved. Traveling the globe in search of his quarry, Warwick eventually discovers a new breed called Hugh's Hedgehog. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Birding Under the Influence

    Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery

    "One hell of a ride."—Nick Offerman, actor, woodworker, New York Times bestselling author"Candid and often moving reflections . . . make for absorbing reading. . . . [This is] a memoir of a journey that was more than just a chase after numbers."—Booklist (starred)At a personal and professional crossroads, a man resets his life and finds sobriety, love, and 618 bird species, cycling his way to a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Under the Holy Lake

    A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan

    by Ken Haigh ...
    Series series Wayfarer
    Inaccessible for most of its history, the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has long fascinated the West. Today, wealthy travelers are admitted in small groups, but in 1987, when Ken Haigh arrived as a volunteer to teach in a small high school, foreign travelers were as hard to find in the kingdom as telephones or toilet paper. Under the Holy Lake describes a two-year sojourn in the valley of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Walk in the Woods

    Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

    by Bill Bryson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York TimesBack in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native cou... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Trip of One's Own

    Hope, Heartbreak, and Why Traveling Solo Could Change Your Life

    by Kate Wills ...
    Are you ready to embark on a life-altering adventure that will redefine your perspectives and open your heart to boundless possibilities?In this compelling memoir, travel writer Kate Wills fearlessly delves into her personal experiences, weaving a captivating narrative of hope, healing, and self-discovery. With courage as her compass, she embarks on solo expeditions across the globe, unearthing ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Blind Descent

    The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth

    “Heart-stopping and relentlessly gripping. Tabor takes us on an odyssey into unfathomable worlds beneath us, and into the hearts of rare explorers who will do anything to get there first.”—Robert Kurson, author of ShadowDiversIn 2004, two great scientist-explorers attempted to find the bottom of the world. American Bill Stone took on the vast, deadly Cheve Cave in southern Mexico. Ukrainian ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD