Essays & Travelogues

Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest...

Australia has more things that can kill you than anywhere else. Nevertheless, Bill Bryson journeyed to the country and promptly fell in love with it....

She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone....

Believing that a good, interesting life is marked by quality, not quantity....

For centuries the Alps have seen the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers and the dreams of engineers....

Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger’s stunning account of five years spent crossing the Arabian Peninsula by foot and on camels, with nomadic Bedouin tribesmen as guides....

In 1834, Ralph Waldo Emerson, formerly a Unitarian minister, began a new career as a public lecturer. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy. This collection contains 11 of his most celebrated and memorable essays.... 

Among the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia....

Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor....

On October 6, 1973, Ted Simon knew there was no going back. He loaded up his 500cc Triumph Tiger in the pouring rain and said good-bye to London....

A tale of adventures, as Lin and Larry Pardey continue their voyaging on board their self-built 24'4" cutter....

Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty memoir of a creative life....

Twenty years ago Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country....

This audiobook will change the way we understand ourselves and the great outdoors....

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail...

In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling....

When Michael Palin was researching his novel Hemingway's Chair, his interest was stimulated by Hemingway's appetite for travel and "Papa's" evocations of the places he knew....

Why would a middle-aged businessman who had never even spent the night outdoors, attempt to hike the entire Appalachian Trail....

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children....

Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather....

França é o país estrangeiro onde vivem mais portugueses. São quase 600 mil. Se contarmos com os descendentes, são mais de um milhão....

Learn with rhythm, learn with tunes, German, English words you'll use! Bilingual vocabulary builder for German or English....

A collection of letters Mark Twain wrote for a newspaper publication....

From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new collection of essays taking his listeners on a bizarre and stimulating world tour....

Truly unforgettable, The New York Nobody Knows will forever change how you view the world's greatest city....

An inimitable tale of survival, resilience, and sheer willpower, Walking the Nile is an inspiring chronicle of an epic journey down the lifeline of civilization in northern Africa....

From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and America....