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Henry Holt Travel Books KEYWORDS: travel, travel writer, tony horwitz, america, history, chuck thompson, nick heil, china, everest

Henry Holt and Company offers a wide range of travel-oriented books. If you want to take a trip with Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Horwitz as he retraces the routes of the discoverers of America (A Voyage Long and Strange), reach the summit of Mount Everest (Dark Summit) or get the hilarious inside scoop on the life of a travel writer (Smile When You're Lying) these books are for you!

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A Voyage Long and Strange

Rediscovering the New World

The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony...

"...of American history that have been ignored.”—Boston Globe “Like travel writer Bill Bryson, Horwitz..."

Tony Horwitz

Tony Horwitz is the bestselling author of Midnight Rising, A Voyage Long and Strange, Blue Latitudes, Confederates in the Attic, and Baghdad Without a Map. He is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has worked for The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker. He lives... more

Randi Baird

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Smile When You're Lying

Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer

From Bangkok to Bogotá, a hilarious behind-the-brochures tour of picture-perfect locales, dangerous destinations, and overrated hellholes from a guy who knows...

"...hellholes from a guy who knows the truth about travel Travel writer, editor, and photographer Chuck..."

Chuck Thompson

The very first editor in chief of Travelocity magazine, Chuck Thompson’s work has appeared in Maxim, The Atlantic, Esquire, National Geographic Adventure, and Escape, among many others. He has played in a variety of bands, and worked as an ESL instructor, DJ, and assistant... more

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China's Great Train

Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet

A vivid account of China’s unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and its obsession to transform its land and its people In the summer of 2006, the...

"...A vivid account of China’s unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and its obsession to transform its land and its people In the summer of 2006, the.... A vivid account of China’s..."

Abrahm Lustgarten

Abrahm Lustgarten is a contributing writer for Fortune magazine and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant for international reporting. His articles have appeared in Esquire, The New York Times, Outside, Sports Illustrated, National Geographic Adventure, Salon, and... more

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Chinese Lessons

Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

A first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years as seen through the life of an award-winning journalist and his four...

"...considered myself lucky to be in China. I’d started to study modern Chinese history and the Chinese..."

John Pomfret

John Pomfret is a reporter for The Washington Post. Formerly the Post’s Beijing bureau chief, he is now the Los Angeles bureau chief. In 2003, Pomfret was awarded the Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Asian Journalism by the Asia Society, an annual award for best... more

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Dark Summit

The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

The inside story of the deadly 2006 climbing season on Everest On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount...

"...formidable tradition of high alpine literature. Nick Heil is alive to Everest's majesty but fiercely..."

Nick Heil

Nick Heil first wrote about the 2006 climbing season for Men’s Journal. Now a freelance journalist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he was a senior editor at Outside from 1999 to 2006. He has also worked as a climbing and skiing instructor, and has traveled extensively in... more

Ryan Heffernan

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