About the Author Award-winning journalist and author Pallavi Aiyar spent si x years living in a hutong home in the heart of the old imperial city of Be ijing. She reported from across China for the Hindu and Indian Express in a ddition to teaching English at the Beijing Broadcasting Institute. She curr ently lives in Brussels with her husband, son and two cats. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Buddhism, Booze, and the Four Noble Truths. View More...
The author of The Outer Banks recounts his three-week-long trek through Wal es, describing the country's Roman roads, mountain paths, coastal cliffs, b eaches, local inhabitants, merchants, workers, and more. National ad/promo. View More...
"At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthie ssen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book." --David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Charles Bowden's Red Line is a look at America through the window of the s outhwest. His vision is as nasty, peculiar, brutal, as it is intriguing and , perhaps, accurate. Bowden offers consciousness rather than consolation, b ut in order to do anything about our nightmares we must take a cold look an d Red Line casts the coldest eye in recent memory." --Jim Harrison. View More...
A crisp clean hardcover, no markings throughout, NOT an ex-lib: Nostalgia, identity, eccentricity, gin drinking and occasional violence... these are just some of the themes that stand-up comedian Dara O Briain expl ores in Tickling the English. O Briain moved to England many years ago, but when he takes his show on tou r around the country - from deserted seaside towns and remote off-shore isl ands, to sprawling industrial cities and sleepy suburbs - it's clear to him that his adopted home is still a bit of an enigma. Why do the English pretend to be unhappy all the time? Why can't they accept... View More...
The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America-majestic mountains, silent for ests, sparking lakes. If you're going to take a hike, it's probably the pla ce to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you'll find . He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of t he other hardy (or just foolhardy) folks he meets along the way-and a coupl e of bears. Already a classic, A Walk in the Woods will make you long for t he great outdoors (or at least a comfortable chair to sit and read in... View More...
It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parall el universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely differ ent. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of it as a kind of alternative southern California, a place of constant sunsh ine and the cheerful vapidity of a beach lifestyle, but with a slightly Bri tish bent - a sort of Baywatch with cricket...' Of course, what greeted Bil l Bryson was something rather different. Australia is a country that e... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read som ewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by a liens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were g reeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pan... View More...
Chasing the Devil tells the story of Tim Butcher's audacious expedition fro m Freetown at the mouth of the Sierra Leone river overland through forest-c overed mountains and malarial plains to the coast of Liberia. He ventures d eep into areas not visited by outsiders for years. Both nations are on a de velopmental cusp and Tim explores whether national and international attemp ts to chase away the devil of war can succeed Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
With charm and gentle humor, Martin Calder describes one extraordinary summ er spent working on a family farm in a remote hilltop village on southwest France's Gascony coast. A Summer in Gascony is a tale of village festivals, dusty roads, and sun-baked wine country, all dotted with lively and colorf ul characters. It evokes the spirit of a place, all told in sensuous detail by a man who understands the Gascon way of life.--From B & N Includes bibliographical references. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Examines the varied lifestyles and people that populate Martha's Vineyard, from presidents and fishermen to Native Americans and African Americans. View More...
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: "This is a gracious Book about walking. It is an important book about the s hore..." -- The Barnstable Patriot About the Author Elliott Carr writes frequently on the environment and economy for the Cape Cod Times and Cape Codder. President of the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank since 1982, he is the former president and chairman of the Massachusetts Bankers Association and a graduate of Dartmouth and of Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He lives in Brewster with his wife, Susan. View More...
Journalist Susan Casey joins a strange band of surfer-scientists on a remot e island off the California coast for some close encounters with the jaws o f the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators in the New York Times bestseller, The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks. Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white shark s of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins swirling around a small motorboa t in a documentary. These sharks were the alphas among alphas, some longer than twenty feet, and there were too man... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In Highway 39: Journeys through a Fractured Land, Sudeep Chakravarti attemp ts to unravel the brutal history of Nagaland and Manipur, their violent and restive present, and their uncertain and yet desperately hopeful future, a s he travels along Dimapur, Kohima, Senapati, Imphal, Thoubal, and their hi nterlands - all touch points of brutalized aspiration, identity, conflict a nd tragedy. These are the lands that nurture deadly acronyms - like AFSPA, a... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Colombia, November 1993: a reconstructed old passenger train, bespangled with yellow butterflies, is carrying one hundred musicians, acrobats, and artists on a daring adventure through the heart of a country soaked in violence. The intention is to put on free shows for locals at railway stations along the way: vibrant spectacles involving music, trapeze, tattoo-art, an ice museum and, star of the show, Roberto the fire-breathing dragon. Leading this c... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-win ning author of Newjack, an absorbing book about roads and their power to ch ange the world. Roads bind our world--metaphorically and literally--transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them. Roads have unparalleled powe r to impact communities, unite worlds and sunder them, and reveal the hopes and fears of those who travel them. With his marvelous eye f... View More...
The writings of a first-rate scientist and daring adventurer, and a major i nspiration for Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling novel The Signature of All T hings John Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 an d 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted Australia and the whole coast of New Zealand, and brought bac k detailed descriptions of the natural history of the Pacific. Accounts bas ed on Cook's journals were issued at the time, but it was not until this ce ntury that the original journals were published in Beaglehole's... View More...
