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Noted traveller and environmentalist Hap Wilson shares accounts of his lifelong involvement with wilderness living within the Canadian Shield.

Female writers share 32 transformative stories of traveling in diverse locations — some exotic, and some more familiar.

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality.

Rachel Friedman has always been the consummate good girl who does well in school and plays it safe, so the college grad surprises no one more than herself when, on a whim (and in an effort to escap

A remarkable firsthand view of a lost culture in all its simplicity and violence by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927–2014), author of the National Book Award–winning The Snow Leopard and the

In this unconventional and accessible history, Italian best-seller Alberto Angela literally follows the money to map the reach and power of the Roman Empire.

Somalia is one of the world's most desolate, sun-scorched lands, inhabited by fierce and independent-minded tribesmen.

A New York Times Bestseller - The author of Nowhere for Very Long continues her story with this deeply honest, moving account of a woman walking the line between independence and isolation when she

A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation.

How to Clean a Fish describes an extended family stay in Portugal, full of food, adventure, and the search for home.

Since childhood, Tony Fabijančić has travelled frequently to Yugoslavia and Croatia, the homeland of his father.

All the World's a Mall details a whirlwind world tour in five stops: Edmonton, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, and Casablanca, chosen because they are home to some of the biggest malls on the pl

A writer's travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River-exploring the long conflict over water supply. Access to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute.

* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and TIME * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize * "A haunting book of rare courage

One of BookPage's Best Audiobooks of 2023. "Loftus is a charming narrator...goofy, engaging, and always game to do a silly voice." - The New York Times.