Armchair Travel

Explore the world without physically leaving home.

Updated September 16, 2025
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Is a river alive?
Macfarlane, Robert
Paper Book
Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an...

577.64 Macfarlane 2025

An extravagant life : an autobiography incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
Woods, Stuart
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series tells the story of his own life from childhood to the present, and chronicles the journey that made him the writer he is today. Over the last forty years, Stuart Woods has written more than ninety...

813 Woods Woods 2022

Airplane mode : an irreverent history of travel
Habib, Shahnaz
Paper Book
Winner of the New American Voices Award Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence This witty personal and cultural history of travel from the perspective of a Third World-raised woman of color, Airplane Mode, asks: what does it mean to be a joyous traveler...

910.9 Habib 2023

Wanderlust : an eccentric explorer, an epic journey, a lost age
Mitenbuler, Reid
Paper Book
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II. "An absolute joy...Wanderlust is a compelling...

910.92 Freuchen 2023

On the hippie trail : Istanbul to Kathmandu and the making of a travel writer
Steves, Rick
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Stow away with Rick Steves for a glimpse into the unforgettable moments, misadventures, and memories of his 1978 journey on the legendary Hippie Trail. In the 1970s, the ultimate trip for any...

910.92 Steves Steves 2025

Life on Svalbard : finding home on a remote island near the North Pole
Blomdahl, Cecilia
Paper Book
Join Cecilia Blomdahl in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the world's northernmost town. Located in the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole, Svalbard is a unique archipelago that boasts stunning wintry landscapes, endangered arctic animals, and awe-inspiring natural phenomena. Since 2016,...

914.81 Blomdahl 2024

America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled
Roberson, Blythe.
Paper Book
Selected by New York Times Book Review as one of their "Great Road Trip Books" NATIONAL BESTSELLER Best Book of the Year --NPR, Vulture, Book Riot, B&N "America the Beautiful? is so funny and special and illuminating that it makes even me, a person who cannot...

917.304 Roberson 2023

Never leave the dogs behind : a memoir
Madia, Brianna
Paper Book
In this stunning and triumphant memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller Nowhere for Very Long continues her story: a tale of a woman reckoning with the decision to live alone and unburdened in the desert Southwest, in a trailer without running water or electricity, with...

917.804 Madia Madia 2024

What really happens in Vegas : true stories of the people who make Vegas, Vegas
Patterson, James
Paper Book
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas--until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through "lively tales of those who labor and dream in Sin City" (Kirkus). "Wild and wonderful...The magic of Sin City doesn't just happen....

979.3135 Patterson 2023


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