Cecily Wong Wonder is around every corner, and on every plate. The curious minds behind Atlas Obscura now turn to the hidden curiosities of food, which becomes a gateway to fascinating stories...

Lonely Planet Lonely The world's leading travel guide publisher Take a journey through every country in the world. 850 images. 230 countries. One complete picture. With details of every United...

Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton “A wanderlust-whetting cabinet of curiosities on paper.”—New York Times Praised as the “bestest travel guide ever” (Mary Roach) and “a joy to read and...

Peter Ackroyd From the author of the bestselling The Biography , a poetic and powerful urban history of life and legend beneath London.This is a wonderful, atmospheric, historical, imaginative, oozing...

Paul Theroux In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel's narrator, a down-on-his-luck writer, escapes to Waikiki and...

Paul Theroux In the Washington Post Book World, Sven Birkerts called this exuberant novel "a complex and gripping work of invention and confession . . . I understood again how...

Danny Wallace How could you refuse the polite invitation of begoggled Danny Wallace in Join Me ? You don't know what you could be missing out on. It's all about...

Jennifer Klinec A relationship was a mathematical formula: the correct variables of age, beauty, morality and finances were entered and the output was a successful, peaceful marriage. It couldn’t be,...

Carol Drinkwater THE OLIVE FARM and THE OLIVE SEASON are television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical accounts of a new life in France; about her house Appassionata and the trials and...

Jon Krakauer When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the...

Mark Twain A travel book by Mark Twain, published in 1869. A must read. February 1, 1966 by Signet Classics

Weike Wang At first glance, the quirky, overworked narrator of this novel seems to be on the cusp of a perfect life: she is studying for a prestigious PhD in...