Travel : Essays & Travelogues

In one of the most intrepid travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma’s underground teahouse intellectuals call simply “the Prophet.” In stirring prose, she provides a powerful reckoning with one of the world’s least free countries. Finding George Orwell in Burma is a brave and revelatory reconnaissance of modern Burma, one of the world’s grimmest and most shuttered police states, where the term “Orwellian” aptly describes the life endured by the country’s people. BACKCOVER: “A truer picture of authoritarianism than anyone has written since, perhaps, Orwell himself.”. —Mother Jones. “Mournful, meditative, appealingly idiosyncratic . . . an exercise in literary detection but also a political travelogue.”. —The New York Times. “Combining literary criticism with solid field reporting, [Larkin] captures the country at its best and, more often, its worst.”. —San Francisco Chronicle. “[A] sobering, journalistic memoir . . . A disquieting profile of a country and its people.”. —Newsweek more...

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Three months on a dinghy on East Africa's longest and most remote river, avoiding belligerent elephants and rhinos, and jail in Uganda are just some of the travel experiences had by the indefatigable Christopher Portway. more...

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The New York Times has called James Prosek ''the Audubon of the fishing world,'' and in Fly-Fishing the 41st , he uses his talent for descriptive writing to illuminate an astonishing adventure. Beginning in his hometown of Easton, Connecticut, Prosek circumnavigates the globe along the 41st parallel, traveling through Spain, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, China, and Japan. Along the way he shares some of the best fishing in the world with a host of wonderfully eccentric and memorable characters. more...

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Around the World With Mark Twain. Join America's most beloved humorist and commentator on a sea and land journey through tropical latitudes and exotic lands in this 19th century classic of travel literature. more...

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When Edward decided to cycle around Ireland, he was enchanted by prehistoric fortresses, rugged landscapes, and landladies who insisted on washing his shirts. He takes readers with him on a ride up the west coast, eating fresh fish and enormous breakfasts along the way, and stopping to chat to peat-cutters, fishermen, tourists and a matchmaker. more...

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