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Discover the best of recently released travel writing.
Updated September 5, 2024
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A season for that
Hoffman, Steve
Paper Book
In this poignant, delicious memoir, American tax preparer and food writer Steve Hoffman tells the story of how he and his family move to the French countryside, where the locals upend everything he knows about food, wine, and learning how to belong. Steve Hoffman is a perfectly...
I'M MOSTLY HERE TO ENJOY MYSELF
MACNICOL, GLYNNIS
Paper Book
"A delight, the literary equivalent of a long catch-up with a brilliant friend." --New York Times "One of the most talked-about books of the year." --Gayle King When you're a woman of a certain age, you are only promised that everything will get...
A walk in the park : the true story of a spectacular misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Fedarko, Kevin
Paper Book
Two friends, zero preparation, one dream. From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile, a rollicking and poignant account of an epic 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America's most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth. ...
LONELY PLANET JAPAN
LONELY PLANET
Paper Book
Lonely Planet's local travel experts revealallyou need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Japan. Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from visiting Yoshino for Japan's most famous cherry-blossom-viewing festival to sipping sake at a 300-year-old brewery in...
CYPRIA: A JOURNEY TO THEHEART OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
CHRISTOFI, ALEX
Paper Book
"A brilliant exploration of Cyprus's long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed." -- Guardian "Poetic...Compelling" -- New Statesman One of National Geographic's Summer Reads 2024 Think of a place where you can stand at...
FODOR'S PUERTO RICO
FODOR'S
Paper Book
Whether you want to stroll the atmospheric streets of Old San Juan, lounge on the island's beautiful beaches, or escape to Vieques or Culebra, the local Fodor's travel experts in Puerto Rico are here to help! Fodor's Puerto Rico guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations,...
STRANGER IN THE DESERT
SALAMA, JORDAN
Paper Book
One Thanksgiving afternoon at his grandparents' house, Jordan Salama discovers a large binder stuffed with yellowing papers and old photographs - a five-hundred-year wandering history of his Arab-Jewish family, from Moorish Spain to Ottoman Syria to Argentina and beyond. One story in particular...
Into Siberia : George Kennan's epic journey through the brutal, frozen heart of Russia
Wallance, Gregory
Paper Book
"In Wallance's bracing narrative, Kennan emerges as a cheerful, deeply decent companion, an uncompromising observer whose greatest strength was his ability to change his mind. He's a welcome change from the callous imperialists who people most Victorian travelogues, and his humanity allows...
Mother, nature : a 5,000-mile journey to discover if a mother and son can survive their differences
Jenkins, Jedidiah
Paper Book
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...
SLOW ROAD NORTH
SCHAAP, ROSIE
Paper Book
From the acclaimed author of the "wonderfully funny and openhearted" (NPR) Drinking with Men comes a poignant, wrenching, and ultimately hopeful book--equal parts memoir and social history--that follows the author, after a series of tragic losses, to Northern Ireland, where she finds a path...
FOOTNOTES FROM THE MOST FASCINATING MUSEUMS
ECKSTEIN, BOB
Paper Book
A beautiful, smart, entertaining new art book from New Yorker cartoonist and author Bob Eckstein that is a love letter to museums and museum-goers, filled with lush and whimsical illustrations paired with stories and anecdotes from curators, museum workers, museum visitors, and more....

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