Travel : Essays & Travelogues

Free excerpts are available for this ebook: Download Free Excerpt for Adobe Reader Download Free Excerpt for Microsoft Reader Download Free Excerpt for Palm Reader Shapes on the Wind is the autobiography of David Lewis, one of the world's old sea salts, sailors and adventurers. An uncompromising participator in the varieties and vagaries of active life, he has ventured onto sea, land and ice in every corner of the globe, investigating and testing the elements and himself for emotional and aesthetic potential. This account builds up a comprehensive portrait of a most unusual person in our present culture, a person dedicated to experiencing life outside the usual value systems of money, material possessions and conventional morality. more...

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In 1880, Robert Louis Stevenson followed Frances Osbourne to her home in San Francisco, where she agreed to his proposal of marriage. The couple decided to honeymoon in an abandoned shack on the Silverado mine site in California’s developing wine country. Stevenson’s account is a delightful travel story that provides a rare and vivid look at the flora and fauna, and above all the people, of an extraordinary period in the American West. more...

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It's the stuff of dreams. A Scottish family giving up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. But dreams, as everyone knows, have a nasty habit of not turning out quite as intended. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many surprises and 'experiences', and it isn't long before they realise that they have been sold a bit of a lemon of an orange farm by the wily previous owners. more...

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From the #1 travel magazine in the country, a collection of travel tales from some of today’s finest writers Travel writing maintains its seemingly endless popularity, and this volume offers a particularly transporting body of work, pairing exotic locales with writers of the highest caliber: Russell Banks writes on the Everglades, Francine Prose explores the secrets of Prague, Robert Hughes takes us on a tour of Italy, and more. From the most beautiful gardens to visit in Japan to the best free things to do in Provence, this book is as enlightening as it is entertaining. Whether off to the other side of the globe or to their favorite reading chair, wanderers of every sort will find this book truly indispensable. Other featured writers and places include:Nik Cohn on SavannahPhilip Gourevitch on TanzaniaShirley Hazzard on CapriPico Iyer on Iceland and EthiopiaNicole Krauss on JapanSuketu Mehta on the HimalayasEdna O’Brien on BathPatricia Storace on Provence and AthensJames Truman on IranGregor Von Rezzori on RomaniaEdmund White on JordanSimon Winchester on Mount PinatuboWilliam Dalrymple on his pilgrimage to SantiagoJohn Julius Norwich on the VaticanJan Morris on Hawaii more...

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Stevenson was called to the Scottish bar in 1875, but instead of practicing law Stevenson he himself to writing travel sketches, essays, and short stories for magazines. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne , his popular description of a 12-day trek with a recalcitrant donkey, Modestine, in the Cevennes Montains of France was published in 1879. more...

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