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Discover the best of recently released travel writing.
Updated May 9, 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
Brian Kelly
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...
Custodians of wonder : ancient customs, profound traditions, and the last people keeping them alive
Stein, Eliot
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
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,...
A season for that : lost and found in the other southern France
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...
Reservations : the pleasures and perils of travel
Burgess, Steve
Paper Book
A personal investigation into the real price of our holidays. Travel was once a marker of sophistication. Now the tourist is just as likely to be viewed as one locust in an annihilating swarm. Tourists face tough questions: When does economic opportunity become exploitation? How do we...
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 . . . The World Walk ...
Out in the world : an LGBTQIA+ (and friends!) travel guide to more than 120 destinations around the world
Scher, Amy B.
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
Lakshmi, Padma
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...
Atlas obscura : Wild life : an explorer's guide to the world's living wonders
Giaimo, Cara
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...
I'm mostly here to enjoy myself : one woman's pursuit of pleasure in Paris
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...
The cosmography and geography of Africa
Leo, Africanus
Paper Book
In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity, in the process taking the name Johannes Leo Africanus. Acclaimed in the papal court for his learning,...
The new tourist : waking up to the power and perils of travel
McClanahan, Paige
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....
DK Caribbean
DK, Travel.
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
USA Today bestseller American Booksellers Association bestseller 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...
Paradise Bronx : the life and times of New York's greatest borough
Frazier, Ian
Paper Book
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...
Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
Kaminski, Anna
Paper Book
Lonely Planet's local travel experts revealallyou need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania. Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from visiting the streets of Vilnius' Old Town with its Renaissance buildings, baroque domes and...
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 ...
Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean
Alex Christofi
Paper Book
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 "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...
Fodor's Amalfi Coast, Capri & Naples (Full-color Travel Guide)
Fodor’s Travel Guides
Paper Book
Whether you want to drive the cliff-hugging Amalfi Coast road, explore the ruins of Pompeii, or eat pizza in Naples, the local Fodor's travel experts in Italy are here to help! Fodor's The Amalfi Coast, Capri & Naples guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and...
A race to the bottom of crazy : dispatches from Arizona
Grant, Richard
Paper Book
The bestselling author of Dispatches from Pluto and The Deepest South of All turns his sharp wit and observational powers on the epicenter of America's most divisive issues: Arizona. When Richard Grant and his wife moved with their four-year-old daughter back to...
The slow road north : how I found peace in an improbable country
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...
Germany
Schulte-Peevers, Andrea
Paper Book
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Germany. Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from living out your fairy-tale fantasies at Schloss Neuschwanstein to frolicking around Hanover's...
Fodor's Montréal & Québec City
Barry, Chris (Travel writer)
Paper Book
Whether you want to party at Jazz Fest, explore La Citadelle , or stroll the promenade in front of the Chateau Frontenac, the local Fodor's travel experts in Montreal & Quebec City are here to help! Fodor's Montreal & Quebec City guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations,...
Tokyo
Tan, Winnie (Travel writer)
Paper Book
Lonely Planet's Experience Tokyo travel guide reveals exciting new ways to explore this iconic city with insider tips from our local experts and handy planning tools so you can create your own unique trip. Discover amazing local experiences from climbing the...
Best in travel 2025 : the best destinations, journeys & experiences for the year ahead
Paper Book
"the perfect book to have on hand when you're wondering where to go next" - The Independent "indispensable" - The Design Files "the sky___er, the planet's the limit" - Editor's Choice, Best Products "these are the shining stars"<...

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