Category Archives: Travel Guides
Let`s Eat Italy!: Everything You Want to Know About Your Favorite Cuisine
From the same team that created `Let`s Eat France!` comes this celebration of Italian food in the form of an oversized, obsessively complete, visual feast of a book. With a mix of gastronomy, food science, history, cultural references, legend, lore, charts, graphs, photos, and illustrations, every one of the 400 pages in `Let`s Eat Italy`
Once And Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
Translated by John BesterA collection of classic, fantastical tales from Northern Japan that are equal parts whimsical and sophisticated, perfect for readers of all ages.Kenji Miyazawa is one of modern Japan`s most beloved writers, a great poet and a strange and marvelous spinner of tales, whose sly, humorous, enchanting, and enigmatic stories bear a certain
The Kinfolk Travel: Slower Ways to See the World
Explore the art of mindful travel with `Kinfolk`, the pioneers in “slow living,” their philosophy of simplicity, authenticity, intentionality and community. With nearly 450,000 copies in print, the Kinfolk series has applied this philosophy to entertaining (`The Kinfolk Table`), interior design (`The Kinfolk Home`), and living with nature (`The Kinfolk Garden`). Now they have turned
My Friends
Bove`s tale of a World War I veteran living in postwar Paris, searching for friendship and warmth, is an ironic, entertaining masterpiece by one of France`s favorite authors.`My Friends` is Emmanuel Bove`s first and most famous book, and it begins simply, though unusually, enough: “When I wake up, my mouth is open. My teeth are
Wild Design: The Architecture of Nature
Nature is the original architect, designing and building extraordinary structures through more than four billion years of evolution, and in response to the tremendous forces of the Earth. Wild Design celebrates wild design in the world of animals, plants, and other organisms, as well as in earth, stone, and water. This illustrated compendium explores structures
Free Day
A haunting and powerful portrait of a young French girl, and her desire to escape the world in which she is born, without losing her identityIn the marshy, misty countryside of southwestern France, fourteen-year-old Galla rides her battered bicycle from the private Catholic high school she attends on scholarship to the rocky, barren farm where
She Heard the Birds: The Story of Florence Merriam Bailey
`She Heard the Birds` tells the story of pioneering birder and activist Florence Merriam Bailey, whose compassionate approach to nature influenced modern bird-watching and inspired a lasting sense of curiosity and respect for the world`s feathered creatures. Spending much of her life outdoors, Bailey studied birds in their natural habitats by quietly waiting, watching, and
Arabia Felix
A riveting account of a landmark expedition that left only one survivor, now back in print for the first time in decades.`Arabia Felix` is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 six men leave Copenhagen by sea–a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor, an
The Farm in the Green Mountains
`The Farm in the Green Mountains` is a story of a refugee family finding its true home’”thousands of miles from its homeland.Alice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar era Berlin. She was a former actor turned medical student, he was a playwright, and their circle of friends included Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler,
Notes of a Crocodile
The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin`s coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award.Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, `Notes of a Crocodile` is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at
The Communist
Walter Ferranini has been born and bred a man of the left. His father was a worker and an anarchist; Walter himself is a Communist. In the 1930s, he left Mussolini`s Italy to fight Franco in Spain. After Franco`s victory, he left Spain for exile in the United States. With the end of the war,
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish
Fifteen brilliant essays written over as many years provide a map of the sensibility and critical intelligence of Tom McCarthy, one of the most original and challenging novelists at work today. `Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish` explores a wide range of subjects, from the weather considered as a form of media, to the paintings of Gerhard Richter
The Resurgence Of Central Asia
A seminal introduction to the rise of Central Asia, covering Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan`The Resurgence of Central Asia` is Ahmed Rashid`s seminal study of the states that emerged in the aftermath of the breakup of the Soviet Union: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. All have Muslim majorities and ancient histories but are
Curiosities of Paris: An Idiosyncratic Guide to Overlooked Delights… Hidden in Plain Sight
Francophiles and Paris buffs will find something new and fascinating in this timeless guidebook, filed with sites, passageways, hotels, shops, and more…What if–walking around Paris–instead of seeing only the Paris of 2017, you glimpsed Paris in Revolutionary times? Or Paris when it was home to 80,000 horses; or Paris lit by gaslight; or medieval Paris?
A Balcony In The Forest
It is the fall of 1939, and Lieutenant Grange and his men are living in a chalet above a concrete bunker deep in the Ardennes forest, charged with defending the French-Belgian border against the Germans in a war that seems unreal, distant, and unlikely. Far more immediate is the earthy life of the forest itself
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick`s illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades.Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form, criticism worthy of the literature in question. In the essays collected here she
Kolyma Stories
Translated by Donald RayfieldNow in its first complete English translation, this masterpiece chronicles life in a Soviet gulag, based on the author`s own years in a USSR prison camp.`Kolyma Stories` is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen years that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag.
Basic Black With Pearls
A brilliant, lost feminist classic that is equal parts domestic drama and international intrigue.Shirley and Coenraad`s affair has been going on for decades, but her longing for him is as desperate as ever. She is a Toronto housewife; he works for an international organisation known only as the Agency. Their rendezvous take place in Tangier,
Footsteps of Federer: A Fan`s Pilgrimage Across 7 Swiss Cantons in 10 Acts
A writer and tennis player seeks inspiration by traveling in the footsteps of Roger Federer in the wake of a serious illness.Roger Federer could live anywhere in the world, but he always returns to the place he loves most: Switzerland. Dave Seminara is a mad traveler and tennis lifer who has written about Federer for
Mad Travelers: A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth
A brilliant, young con artist offered to help the world`s most traveled people reach the planet`s last untouched frontiers; instead, they were taken for a wild ride that turned into a costly lesson on the perils of wanderlust.At twenty-three, William Simon Baekeland was well on his way to becoming the world`s best traveled person. The
