Travel

Discover the best of recently released travel writing.
Updated March 30, 2025
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Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
Neil Shubin
Paper Book
The bestselling author of Your Inner Fish takes readers on an epic adventure to the North and South Poles to reveal the secrets locked in the ice about life, the cosmos, and our planet's future. "Urgent [and] prescient...The book captures Shubin's reverence for both the beauty...
How to win at travel
Kelly, Brian, (Travel expert)
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Turn your wanderlust into reality with expert strategies from Brian Kelly, the founder of The Points Guy--the leading voice in travel and loyalty programs--with this ultimate resource for everything from leveraging airline and...
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the 2024 National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature * Winner of the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Air...
Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
Eliot Stein
Paper Book
A vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world's oldest and rarest cultural traditions. Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. In...
Life on Svalbard: Finding Home on a Remote Island Near the North Pole
Cecilia Blomdahl
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,...
Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors
Amber Share
Paper Book
From the scorching deserts of the Sahara to the glittering panes of The Louvre, humans have spent generations exploring and experiencing the furthest reaches of our planet, though some have enjoyed its natural and manmade wonders more than others. In Subpar Planet, Amber Share guides us from...
Here Not There: 100 Unexpected Travel Destinations
Andrew Nelson
Paper Book
Design a truly unique vacation with 100 intriguing alternatives to more predictable, expensive, and overcrowded destinations. Let's face it. These days, many of the world's most beloved places have become expensive and overcrowded, making their celebrated allure that much harder...
The unofficial guide to Walt Disney World 2025
Gandillon, Becky
Paper Book
Save time and money with in-depth reviews, ratings, and details from the trusted source for a successful Walt Disney World vacation. How do some guests get on the big, new attraction in less than 20 minutes while others wait for longer than 2 hours--on the same day? Why do...
Japan
Richmond, Simon
Paper Book
#1 Bestselling guidebook to Japan "Classic.  Comprehensive.  Crucial." - Library Journal Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Japan. Discover popular and...
A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France
Steve Hoffman
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...
Lonely Planet Ireland (Travel Guide)
Isabel Albiston
Paper Book
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Ireland. Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from tapping your toes to trad music in Dublin's world-famous Temple Bar to hiking the trails that...
National parks of the USA [2024]
Payne, Stefanie
Paper Book
Get closer to the National Parks of the USA with DK Eyewitness A night spent stargazing in Joshua Tree. Standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon. Wildlife spotting from an airboat in the Everglades. With 63 national parks to explore, the USA offers enough bucket-list experiences...
The world walk : 7 years. 28,000 miles. 6 continents. : a grand meditation, one step at a time
Turcich, Tom
Paper Book
For fans of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild and Suleika Jaouad's Between Two Kingdoms, the invigorating true story of a man and his dog who circled the globe on foot. "Gripping . . . A delightful companion for adventurers and dog lovers alike, The...
Out in the World: An LGBTQIA+ (and Friends!) Travel Guide to More Than 100 Destinations Around the World
Amy B Scher
Paper Book
This first-of-its-kind travel guide explores inclusive destinations around the world where LGBTQIA travelers and their allies can have an uncensored and memorable vacation experience. Full of fun and practical travel information, this comprehensive guidebook takes you from...
The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024 (Best American Food Writing)
Padma Lakshmi
Paper Book
A collection of the year's top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi. "Food and travel are natural companions," writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi...
Iceland
Eygl ̤Svala Arnarsdt̤tir
Paper Book
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Iceland. Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from sailing among majestic icebergs in Iceland's most famous glacier lagoon, Jökulsárlón; to...
The 10 best of everything national parks : 800 top picks from parks coast to coast
Paper Book
Fully updated and revised-with 100 brand-new excursions-this idea-filled guidebook highlights top-tier adventures across the U.S. National Park System. National parks are more than the best idea America ever had―they're our country's best playgrounds for millions of...
Atlas Obscura: Wild Life: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Living Wonders
Cara Giaimo
Paper Book
From the bestselling authors of Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura comes a nature book like no other--a dazzling, over-the-top collection of the world's most extraordinary wild species that takes you to all seven continents and beyond. It's more than a field...
You deserve good gelato : reasons to travel the world, embrace failure, and do the sh*t that scares you
Rose, Kacie
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this funny and honest feel-good memoir, social media star Kacie Rose offers a refreshingly honest take on navigating a new life abroad. In 2021, Kacie decided to leave her life as a pro dancer in New York City and move to Italy - and she...
I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
Glynnis MacNicol
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...
The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel
Paige McClanahan
Paper Book
"A genuinely helpful framework for thinking about our own voyages" (The Atlantic), The New Tourist explores how tourism has shaped the world, for better and for worse, and offers essential reading for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the implications of their wanderlust....
Caribbean
Dowds, Ben Ffrancon
Paper Book
Make your trip to the Caribbean extraordinary Sailing around the Virgin Islands' sun-soaked shores. Relaxing on pink-sand beaches in the Bahamas. Dancing the night away at Trinidad's colourful carnival. The Caribbean offers enough bucket-list experiences to fill a lifetime....
The Last American Road Trip
Sarah Kendzior
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her family embark on a series of road trips, in a book that is part memoir, part history, and wholly unique. It is one thing to...
Road trips in the USA : 50 adventures on the open road
Usher, Charlie
Paper Book
Hit the open road with 50 epic drives promising the all-American adventure Whether you've always dreamed of skirting the US on a motorcycle, are looking to go coast-to-coast in an RV or simply want to roll down your car windows and plug into a classic playlist, Road Trips in...
To the Limit: The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas
Michael Crawley
Paper Book
'A fascinating and multilayered exploration of what it means to endure' Alex Hutchinson, author of Endure The author of Out of Thin Air, winner of the Margaret Mead Award 2022, journeys through different cultures to find out the meaning of endurance....
Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
Ian Frazier
Ian Frazier's magnum opus: a love song to New York City's most heterogeneous and alive borough. For the past fifteen years, Ian Frazier has been walking the Bronx. Paradise Bronx reveals the amazingly rich and tumultuous history of this amazingly various piece of our...
East Coasting: The Ultimate Roadtripper’s Guide to New England
Christine Chitnis
Paper Book
Discover the ultimate illustrated guide to road-tripping up through historic New England, and the must-visit spots along the way * A USA Today Bestseller This beautifully illustrated guide to roadtripping through New England spans Connecticut to...
Back roads and better angels : a journey into the heart of American democracy
Barry, Francis S.
Paper Book
Bringing together two of America's unifying loves - road trips and Honest Abe - journalist Francis S. Barry takes readers on a thought-provoking journey that delves deep into the soul of the country and our shared history. A year into his marriage and having never driven an RV, Frank Barry and his...
Paris
Averbuck, Alexis
Paper Book
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Paris. Discover Paris' most popular experiences and best kept secrets - neighbourhood by neighbourhood - from beholding the beauty of Cathédrale Notre Dame de...
This earthly globe : a Venetian geographer and the race to map the world
Di Robilant, Andrea
Paper Book
From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair ("A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing" --The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced European minds to the wider world through his passion for geography ...
Fodor's American spirits
Bigg, Margot
Paper Book
Whether you want to taste the wines of Napa Valley, learn about craft beer brewing in Michigan, or explore the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, the local Fodor's travel experts across the United States are here to help! Fodor's American Spirits: Exploring the Best Wineries, Breweries, and Distilleries in...
Arctic traverse : a thousand-mile summer of trekking the Brooks Range
Engelhard, Michael
Paper Book
"Alternately profound, funny, and enlightening . . . focused not on the death-defying prowess of the adventurer, but on the wild glory of place." --Erin McKittrick, author of A Long Trek Home, on American Wild A lyrical memoir that interweaves wilderness, homeland,...
The Unofficial Guide to Universal Orlando 2025 (Unofficial Guides)
Seth Kubersky
Paper Book
Save time and money with in-depth reviews, ratings, and details from the trusted source for a successful Universal Orlando vacation. How do some guests get on the big, new attraction in less than 20 minutes while others wait for longer than 2 hours--on the same day? Why do...
Birnbaum's 2025 Walt Disney World: The Official Vacation Guide (Birnbaum Guides)
Birnbaum Guides
Paper Book
Prepare for your Walt Disney World vacation with the one and only official, up-to-the-minute insider's guide to America's most popular travel destination! Updated annually with expert advice and reviews, coupons, and more! Trust Birnbaum as your 2024-2025 guide for: insider tips for budgeting,...
The believer : a year in the fly-fishing life
Coggins, David
Paper Book
The author of the instant fishing classic The Optimist shares new wisdom, humor, and experience in seven extraordinary fly-fishing expeditions--"an engaging personal journey about finding what you need to find and keeping it in your heart" (Kirkus Reviews). In...

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