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Coasting: A Private Journey by Jonathan Raban
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he s sailing around the serpentine, 2,000-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage which coincided with the ...Show more
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
Category: History | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause are resurrected through ritual and remembrance ...Show more
Elephant Complex - Travels in Sri Lanka by John Gimlette
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
"Brilliant." --The Daily Telegraph No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. In Elephant Complex, he ventures into Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war. Beginning in the exuberant capital, Colombo, Gimlette ventures out in all directions: to the dry zones wh ...Show more
French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew by Peter Mayle
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Peter Mayle, francophile phenomenon and author of "A Year in Provence," brings another delightful (and delicious) account of the good life, this time exploring the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France. The French celebrate food and drink more than any other people, and Mayle shows us just h ...Show more
Motoring with Mohammed by Eric Hansen
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky boat bound for a country that he'd never planned to ...Show more
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence - Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, were rained out of a planned two weeks on the C te d'Azur. In search of sunlight, they set off for Aix-en-Provence; enchanted by the world and life they found there, they soon decided to uproot their lives in England and settle in Provence. They h ...Show more
Old Glory - A Voyage down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban
Category: History | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American travel writing. In the course of his voyage, Raban records the mercurial caprices of the river and the asto ...Show more
Passage to Juneau by RABAN JONATHAN
Category: History | Series: Vintage Departures
The author of the National Book Critic's Circle Award-winning "Bad Land" conducts readers along the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau, transversing a gulf of centuries and cultures, and offering captivating discourses on art, philosophy, and navigation with an unsparing narrative of personal loss. A ...Show more
Stranger in the Forest by Eric Hansen
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Eric Hansen was the first westerner ever to walk across the island of Borneo. Completely cut off from the outside world for seven months, he traveled nearly 1,500 miles with small bands of nomadic hunters known as Penan. Beneath the rain forest canopy, they trekked through a hauntingly beautiful jungle ...Show more
The Emperor's Last Island - A Journey to St. Helena by Julia Blackburn
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
In 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on St. Helena for a surreal exile that would last until his death six years later. "A resonant meditation on exile, fame, the stories we tell about ourselves (and) the bigger stories we tell about our great figures." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
The Hard Way Around - The Passages of Joshua Slocum by Geoffrey Wolff
Category: History | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon ...Show more
The Lady and the Monk : Four Season in Kyoto by Pico Iyer
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
The author spent a year in Japan in search of contemplation. Instead he found a land of contradictions, where the monks spent their evenings watching game shows. It was through his relationship with Sachiko, a Japanese lady who combined the east with the west, that he found his own vision of Japan.