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Land's End
A Walk in Provincetown

Picador
"Cunningham’s short book is a haunting, beautiful piece of work. . . . A magnificent work of art." —The Washington Post "Easily read on a plane-and-ferry...
  
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The Magnetic North
Notes from the Arctic Circle

North Point Press
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title More than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth...
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High Line
The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky

FSG Originals
How two New Yorkers led the transformation of a derelict elevated railway into a grand—and beloved—open space The High Line, a new park atop an ele-vated...
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Everything but the Squeal
Eating the Whole Hog in Northern Spain

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
John Barlow, self-confessed glutton, found himself in a tricky situation: living in one of the most meat-loving places on earth, married to a vegetarian. ...
  
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Once Upon a Country
A Palestinian Life

Picador
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A teacher, a scholar, a philosopher, and an eyewitness to history, Sari Nusseibeh is one of our most urgent and...
  
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Midnight in Sicily
On Art, Feed, History, Travel and la Cosa Nostra

Picador
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes...
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Temptations of the West
How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond

Picador
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In Temptations of the West, Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on...
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The Naked Tourist
In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall

North Point Press
Sick of producing the picturesque bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism...
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Fast Company
A Memoir of Life, Love, and Motorcycles in Italy

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
It’s the thick of the mid-1990s boom, and David M. Gross is racking up billable hours for a Manhattan corporate law firm and thinking that there must be more...
  
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Apple's America
The Discriminating Traveler's Guide to 40 Great Cities

North Point Press
Unpretentious, sophisticated, and always appetizing advice from a celebrated authority For more than thirty years, R. W. Apple Jr. roamed the United States...

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A Small Place

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If...
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Coming into the Country

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive...
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Great Plains

Picador
National Bestseller With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000...
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Amusing the Million
Coney Island at the Turn of the Century

Hill and Wang
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the...
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The Dark Heart of Italy

North Point Press
In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very...
  
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Rowing to Latitude
Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge

North Point Press
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug...
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The Tuscan Year
Life and Food in an Italian Valley

North Point Press
The Tuscan Year recounts the daily life and food preparation of a family living on a farm in Tuscany. Elizabeth Romer chronicles each season’s activities...
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Gone to New York
Adventures in the City

Picador
Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and...
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Stolen Figs
And Other Adventures in Calabria

North Point Press
Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy -- a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scorching...
  
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Prague in Black and Gold
Scenes from the Life of a European City

Hill and Wang
Prague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city's unique culture. In Prague in...
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False Papers

Picador
In these fourteen essays Andre Aciman, one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, dissects the experience of loss, moving from his forced departure...