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Travel Writing and Memoirs

Our top travelogues include a 6000 mile run, an epic Pacific voyage, seeking out the world's best food, moving to a different county, and searching for the elusive snow leopard.

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  • A Walk in the Woods

    Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

    Bryson, Bill
    Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of…
    PaperbackNew York : Broadway Books, c1998. — 917.404 BRYSON
  • Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail (well, most of it) resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the…
    BookNew York : Broadway Books, c2000. — 919.404 BRYSON
  • Leave Only Footprints

    My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

    Knighton, Conor,
    When Conor Knighton set off to explore America's "best idea," he worried the whole thing could end up being his worst idea. A broken engagement and a broken heart had left him longing for a change of scenery, but the plan he'd cooked up in…
    BookNew York : Crown, [2020] — 917.304932 KNIGHTON
  • Here is the month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations that Peter Mayle and his wife -- and their two large dogs -- experience their first year in the remote country of the Luberon restoring a two-centuries-old stone farmhouse…
    BookNew York : Knopf, c1989. — 944.9 MAYLE
  • Buying a villa in the spectacular Italian countryside is a wonderful fantasy -- even if 17 rooms and a garden in need of immediate loving care are included in the asking price. Frances Mayes -- gourmet cook, widely published travel writer,…
    PaperbackNew York : Broadway Books, 1997, c1996. — 945.5 MAYES
  • In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Zen…
    PaperbackNew York : Penguin books, 2008, c1978. — 915.496 MATTHIESSEN
  • Transporting us from Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to Key West, Vowell has crafted a narrative that is much more than a historical travelogue - it is the disturbing and mesmerising story of how American death has been manipulated by…
    PaperbackNew York : Simon & Schuster, c2005. — 973.099 VOWELL
  • In 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…
    PaperbackNew York : Penguin Books, 1986, c1962. — 917.3 STEINBECK
  • Spirit Run

    a 6,000-mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land

    Álvarez, Noé,
    The son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala in this stunning memoir that moves to the rhythm of feet, labor, and the many…
    BookNew York : Catapult, [2020] — 796.42092 ALVAREZ
  • A funny, generous, wonderfully written account of an family making a life and home in remote but enchanting southern Spain. At seventeen, Chris Stewart, the first drummer for the rock group Genesis, left the band and launched a career that…
    BookNew York : Pantheon Books, 1999. — 948.8 STEWART
  • Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way…
    PaperbackBoston : Houghton Mifflin, 1991. — Y 917.3 HEAT-MOON
  • Blue Latitudes

    Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

    Horwitz, Tony, 1958-2019
    In an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the modern world. By turns harrowing and…
    PaperbackNew York : H. Holt, c2002. — 910.92 HORWITZ
  • A Cook's Tour

    in Search of the Perfect Meal

    Bourdain, Anthony
    The only thing Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling, and A Cook's Tour is the shotgun marriage of his two greatest passions. Inspired by the question, 'What would be the perfect meal?', Anthony sets out on a quest for his…
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury, c2001. — 641.013 BOURDAIN
  • From Here to Eternity

    Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

    Doughty, Caitlin,
    Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive global journey that introduces compelling, powerful rituals almost…
    BookNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2017] — 393.1 DOUGHTY