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  • An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughter. Sue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair and with her acclaimed…
    eBook, 2009[S.I.] : Penguin Publishing Group, 2009.
  • From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in…
    eBook, 2009[S.I.] : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009.
  • After New York City emptied out in March 2020, Glynnis MacNicol, aged forty-six, unmarried with no children, spent sixteen months alone in her tiny Manhattan apartment. The isolation was punishing. A year without touch. Women are warned of…
    eBook, 2024[S.I.] : Penguin Publishing Group, 2024.
  • Sunday Morning correspondent Conor Knighton, a behind-the-scenery look at his year traveling to each of America's National Parks, discovering the most beautiful places and most interesting people our country has to offer When Conor Knighton set off…
    eBook, 2020[S.I.] : Crown, 2020.
  • From the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land , a "dazzling" (Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran ) memoir about art and adventures in Rome. Anthony…
    eBook, 2007[S.I.] : Scribner, 2007.
  • An account by “the finest travel writer of the last century” of his journey through 1930s Spain in search of an ancestral tomb ( The New Yorker ). In the 1930s, Norman Lewis and his brother-in-law, Eugene Corvaja, journeyed to Spain to visit the…
    eBook, 2013[S.I.] : Open Road Media, 2013.
  • Braver Than You Think

    Around the World on the Trip of My (mother's) Lifetime

    Downs, Maggie,
    "Braver Than You Think is the life-affirming story of how Downs, newly married and established in her career as a journalist, quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mother's. Over the course of one year…
    Book, 2020Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2020. — 910.41 Downs.M
  • Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. Disarmed of falsehood, he…
    eBook, 2017[S.I.] : Penguin Publishing Group, 2017.
  • A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of travelling solo In our increasingly frantic daily lives, many people are genuinely fearful of the prospect of solitude, but time alone can be both rich and restorative, especially when travelling.…
    eBook, 2018[S.I.] : Penguin Publishing Group, 2018.
  • A soul-stirring memoir from Colombian immigrant and travel journalist Nikki Vargas, whisking us through the countries that brought her new love, self-discovery, and the inspiration to launch the first international feminist travel magazine, Unearth…
    eBook, 2023[S.I.] : Hanover Square Press, 2023.
  • The acclaimed author of Dark Star Safari journeys across western Africa in this "thoroughly engrossing [and] at times tragic" travelogue ( Washington Post ). Paul Theroux's best-selling Dark Star Safari chronicled his epic overland voyage from Cairo…
    eBook, 2013[S.I.] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
  • In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He converted a steamship into a luxury "floating university," populated by some of America's best and brightest scientists and writers,…
    eBook, 2018[S.I.] : Penguin Publishing Group, 2018.
  • Blue Latitudes

    Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

    Horwitz, Tony,
    James Cook's three epic journeys in the eighteenth century were the last great voyages of discovery. When he embarked for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. By the time he died in 1779, during a bloody clash in Hawaii, the map…
    eBook, 2003[United States] : Henry Holt and Co., 2003. — eBook hoopla
  • In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India--and for love--she screamed,…
    eBook, 2004[S.I.] : Crown/Archetype, 2004.
  • Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely…
    eBook, 2007[S.I.] : Little, Brown and Company, 2007.
  • From travel writer Jedidiah Jenkins comes a long-awaited memoir of adventure, struggle, and lessons learned while bicycling the 14,000 miles from Oregon to Patagonia. On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn't…
    eBook, 2018[S.I.] : The Crown Publishing Group, 2018.
  • A bittersweet yet heartwarming travel memoir about a woman who heals her broken heart and rediscovers herself while living on a tiny island in Greece. Eat Pray Love meets My Big Fat Greek Wedding with a sprinkling of Mamma Mia in this unforgettable…
    eBook, 2014[S.I.] : Sourcebooks, 2014.
  • Following in the footsteps of famed explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer Levison Wood brings us along on his most complex expedition yet: a circumnavigation of the Arabian Peninsula. Starting in September 2017…
    eBook, 2019[S.I.] : Grove Atlantic, 2019.