Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions

by Pico Iyer
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As a respected and beloved journalist and travel writer, Pico Iyer has earned a reputation and a loyal following, and Tropical Classical is a good indication why. This "best of " collection of essays, book reviews, and articles is segmented into chapters entitled "Places," "People," "Books," "Themes," and "Squibs," covering topics as varied as Paddington Bear, the numeral 9, Tibet, and the accumulation of frequent-flyer miles.

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

by Bill Bryson
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When this American transplant to Britain decided to return home, he made a farewell walking tour of the British countryside and produced Notes from a Small Island. Once back on American soil and safely settled in New Hampshire, Bryson once again hears the siren call of the open road--only this time it's a trail. The Appalachian Trail, to be exact. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson tackles what is, for him, an entirely new subject: the American wilderness. Accompanied only by his old college buddy Stephen Katz, Bryson starts out one March morning in north Georgia, intending to walk the entire 2,100 miles to trail's end atop Maine's Mount Katahdin.

No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo

by Redmond O'Hanlon
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Redmond O'Hanlon does not visit the places most of us would like to go: tropical islands, Swiss Alps, perhaps North African bazaars for the more adventurous among us. No, he lights out for areas of maximum hardship, including the jungles of Borneo and of the Amazon, and now, in No Mercy, the swamps of the Congo basin.

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Alfred Lansing
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In the summer of 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set off aboard the Endurance bound for the South Atlantic. The goal of his expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland, but more than a year later, and still half a continent away from the intended base, the Endurance was trapped in ice and eventually was crushed. For five months Shackleton and his crew survived on drifting ice packs in one of the most savage regions of the world before they were finally able to set sail again.

Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

by Caroline Alexander
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Melding superb research and the extraordinary expedition photography of Frank Hurley, Endurance by Caroline Alexander is a stunning work of history, adventure, and art that chronicles "one of the greatest epics of survival in the annals of exploration." Setting sail as World War I broke out in Europe, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by renowned polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, hoped to become the first to cross the Antarctic continent.

About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory

by Barry Holstun Lopez
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"Read. Find out what you truly believe. Get away from the familiar." This advice, given to a father whose daughter wants to learn to write, is the organizing principle behind Barry Lopez's latest collection of essays and also the central theme behind his life as a writer. Author of 12 acclaimed books of nature writing, including the National Book Award-winning Arctic Dreams, Lopez is one of our most eloquent masters of the nearly lost art of paying attention.

Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy

by Frances Mayes
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In this memoir of her buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Frances Mayes reveals the sensual pleasure she found living in rural Italy, and the generous spirit she brought with her. She revels in the sunlight and the color, the long view of her valley, the warm homey architecture, the languor of the slow paced days, the vigor of working her garden, and the intimacy of her dealings with the locals.

Pass the Butterworms: Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered

by Tim Cahill
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Tim Cahill, a founding editor of Outside magazine and the author of Jaguars Ripped My Flesh and A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg, offers more exotic travel seen through eccentric eyes in Pass the Butterworms. Essays on diving in Bonaire, fishing in Montana, horseback riding in Mongolia, and kayaking misadventures in Glacier Bay give some idea of the breadth of Cahill's venturing.

Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer
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"God, he was a smart kid..." So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn'tanswer the question with certainty, Into the Wild does shed considerable light along the way.

Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi

by Jonathan Raban
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"It is as big and depthless as the sky itself. You can see the curve of the earth on its surface as it stretches away for miles to the far shore." So begins Old Glory, in which Jonathan Raban recounts his eye-opening descent of the Mississippi River in a 16-foot aluminum motorboat. As the English author explains, his obsession with the subject began with Huckleberry Finn, which he first read as a 7-year-old.

Hitchhiking Vietnam

by Karin Muller
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For seven months Karin Muller traversed Vietnam--sometimes by motorbike, often by foot--covering 6,400 miles from the Mekong Delta to the Chinese border. Along the way she survives 52 motorbike breakdowns, 14 arrests, and one awful bout with scurvy. She plants rice with farmers, saves a few leopard cubs from the black market, learns to drive a passenger train, and gets to know a lot of people on her Ho Chi Minh Trail trek.

Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West

by Timothy Egan
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Timothy Egan plunged deep into the lush landscapes of the Pacific Northwest to capture "The Good Rain." In "Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West", he ventures even further, driving the "sunset side of the 100th meridian" to write 14 lively and insightful essays on an American West that hovers between past, present, and future.

North to the Night: A Year in the Arctic Ice

by Alvah Simon
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Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, armed with little more than a two-way radio and a cat named Halifax, set sail for an adventure of self-discovery in the Arctic, where they wintered over, Shackleton-style. "North to the Night" is Simon's extraordinary chronicle of their survival and an ode to the surprisingly fragile Arctic landscape.

Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight

by William Langewiesche
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"Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours." In previous books William Langewiesche has explored the open wastes of the Sahara and the no-man's land along the U.S.-Mexico border. In "Inside the Sky" he takes to the wild blue yonder to examine an altogether different topography--the sky.

The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East Africa

by Rick Ridgeway
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Known for such feats as being the first climber to reach the summit of K2 without bottled oxygen, scaling Antarctica's highest mountain, and leading a team to the top of a formidable 2,000-foot granite tower in the most remote corner of the Amazon's Orinoco jungle, in his latest book, "The Shadow of Kilimanjaro," Rick Ridgeway takes a walk. Of course, it's no ordinary stroll.

Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica

by Sara Wheeler
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Until recently, Antarctica was the province of explorers and scientists; indeed, the names Amundsen, Shackleton, and Scott are written large across the vast wastes of its inhospitable landscape. Then Sara Wheeler got an artist's grant to spend seven months among the icebergs and the penguins in what may be the last "Terra Incognita" on earth.

Marking the Sparrow's Fall: Wallace Stegner's American West

by Wallace Stegner, Page Stegner (Introduction)
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Whether you're Westward bound, a Westerner at heart, or just a fan of great writing, "Marking the Sparrow's Fall," the first collection published since Wallace Stegner's death in 1993, makes for powerful reading. With 15 never-before- published essays selected by Stegner's son, Page, this collection is resonant with the essential West.