Without bothering to get approval from the President, the State Department, or even the FTC... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-55800-697-4
Author:  Dave Barry

His portrait is a rare and unforgettable depiction of a dangerous and beautiful land and the people that call it home.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-9725312-0-3
Author:  Peter Jenkins

Explorer, adventurer and linguistic genius, Sir Richard Francis Burton was the first Englishman... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-55690-763-X
Author:  Sir Richard Francis Burton

The great author Robert Louis Stevenson received a fateful telegram from his friend Fanny Osbourne... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-55690-010-4
Author:  Robert Louis Stevenson

Frances Mayes - widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer - opens the door to a wondrous new world... ... Read More

ISBN:  N/A
Author:  Frances Mayes

In these engaging walking tours of the nation`s capital, Christopher Buckley, a speechwriter for Vice President Bush during Reagan`s first term, lets plenty of insider secrets out of the bag.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7366-9416-1
Author:  Christopher Buckley

Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity... ... Read More

ISBN:  0553525662
Author:  Frances Mayes

In 1994, retired CBS correspondent Charles Kuralt set out to spend a perfect year in America - traveling to... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-671-79745-X
Author:  Charles Kuralt

After living in Britain for 2 decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and... ... Read More

ISBN:  N/A
Author:  Bill Bryson

Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early `70s - in search of enlightenment, beer, and women... ... Read More

ISBN:  N/A
Author:  Bill Bryson

When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife Masako visited central Mexico one winter, they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely... ... Read More

ISBN:  N/A
Author:  Tony Cohan

Ranging far from his adopted Provence, Peter Mayle now travels to every corner of France, armed with knife, fork, and corkscrew. He takes us to tiny, out-of-the-way restaurants... ... Read More

ISBN:  N/A
Author:  Peter Mayle

"I wanted to drive the American roads at the century`s end to look at the country again, from border to border and beach to beach..." ... Read More

ISBN:  N/A
Author:  Larry McMurtry

Alaska, 1925: the diphtheria serum is 674 miles away... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-553-52763-0
Author:  Gay Salisbury ,  Laney Salisbury

"In mid-July of 1879, John Muir sailed for the first time through the sheer-walled fjords of Alaska`s Inside Passage... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-0948-3
Author:  John Muir