Armchair Travel

Updated August 26, 2025
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100 places to see after you die : a travel guide to the afterlife
Jennings, Ken
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author and legendary Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings comes a hilarious travel guide to the afterlife, exploring to die for destinations from literature, mythology, and pop culture. Ever wonder which circles of Dante's...

202.3 Jennings 2023

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

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

Driving the Green Book : a road trip through the living history of Black resistance
Hall, Alvin
Paper Book
Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America's haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers experienced...
The impossible first : from fire to ice--crossing Antarctica alone
O'Brady, Colin
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Colin O'Brady's awe-inspiring memoir spans his triumphant recovery from a tragic accident to his gripping 932-mile solo crossing of Antarctica. Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the landmass of Antarctica alone,...
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...
The last ride of the Pony Express : my 2,000-mile horseback journey into the Old West
Grant, Will
Paper Book
USA Today Bestseller! Selected by the Smithsonian as Best Travel Books of the Year "Spellbinding" (Douglas Preston) and "completely fascinating" (Elizabeth Letts), cowboy and journalist Will Grant takes us on an epic and authentic horseback journey...
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...
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....

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