Autographed Books
Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China
by Jen Lin-Liu
In Serve the People, Lin-Liu gives a cook’s tour of today’s China as she progresses from cooking student to noodle-stall and dumpling-house apprentice to intern at a chic Shanghai restaurant. The characters she meets along the way present an unforgettable slice of contemporary China in the full swing of social and economic transformation.
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To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism
by Chuck Thompson
The guru of extreme tourism sets out to face his worst fears in Africa, India, Mexico City, and – most terrifying of all – Disney World. He’s out to discover if some of the world’s most ill-reputed destinations live up to their bad raps, while confronting a few of his own travel anxieties in the process.
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Smile When You’re Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer
by Chuck Thompson
From Bangkok to Bogota, a hilarious behind-the-brochures tour of picture-perfect locales, dangerous destinations, and overrated hellholes from a guy who knows the truth about travel. Travel writer, editor, and photographer Chuck Thompson has spent more than a decade traipsing through thirty-five (and counting) countries across the globe, and he’s had enough.
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The 1858 Map of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket
by Robert Finch and Joseph Garver
This must-own book for anyone with an interest in the history of Cape Cod and the islands is based on an original five-foot-square map from 1858 providing an almost encyclopedic overview of the region at that time.
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Marco Polo Didn’t Go There
by Rolf Potts
Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is more than just an entertaining journey into fascinating corners of the world. The book is a unique window into travel writing, with each chapter containing a “commentary track” – endnotes that reveal the ragged edges behind the experience and creation of each tale.
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Vagabonding
by Rolf Potts
Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life – from six weeks to four months to two years – to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel.
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Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City
by Anthony Flint
Like A Civil Action before it, Wrestling with Moses is the tale of a local battle with far-ranging significance. By confronting Robert Moses and his vision for New York, Jane Jacobs forever changed the way Americans understood the city, and inspired citizens across the country to protest destructive projects in their own communities.
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Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa
by Michel Moushabeck, photographs by Hiltrud Schulz
In this book the author and photographer capture the essence of this majestic mountain with over 200 full-color photographs and a narrative that smoothly ties together personal observations with the mountain’s history, its people, and its ecology. A spectacular collection of images and words that offer a detailed glimpse into the unique beauty and rhythm of Africa’s natural wonder.
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The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World
by Steven Kazlowski
Over the course of the last six years, wildlife photographer Steven Kazlowski has photographed the polar bear in its wild habitat, from Hershel Island in Canada to Point Hope in Alaska. The Last Polar Bear pairs his intimate images with anecdotes about his Arctic adventures, as well as authoritative essays about the polar bear in the context of climate change.
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
by Paul Theroux
In the travel writing tradition that made Paul Theroux’s reputation, Dark Star Safari is a rich and insightful book whose itinerary is Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town: down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda, and ultimately to the tip of South Africa. Going by train, dugout canoe, “chicken bus,” and cattle truck, Theroux passes through some of the most beautiful – and often life-threatening – landscapes on earth.
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Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
by Paul Theroux
In one of his most exotic and breathtaking journeys, the intrepid traveler Paul Theroux ventures to the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. This exhilarating tropical epic is full of disarming observations and high adventure.
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The Mosquito Coast
by Paul Theroux
Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilization and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.
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Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
by Paul Theroux
In this adventure, Theroux embarks on a journey in the grand romantic tradition, by train across Europe, through the vast underbelly of Asia and in the heart of Russia, and then up to China. Here is China by rail, as seen and heard through the eyes and ears of one of the most intrepid and insightful travel writers of our time.
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Mothers and Sons: Stories
by Colm Toibin, Hardcover and Softcover
Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power between mother and son, or changes the way they perceive one another.
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The Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal
by Peter Thomson
Following a difficult divorce, veteran environmental journalist Peter Thomson sets off from Boston with his younger brother for one of nature’s most remarkable creations, in one of the farthest corners of the planet.
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Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story
by Maureen Wheeler and Tony Wheeler
The New York Daily News once described Tony and Maureen Wheeler as “the specialists in guiding weird folks to weird places.” And thanks to their relentless spirit of adventure and thirty years of travel publishing, they’ve inspired generations of weirdos and not-so-weirdos to get out there.
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Bad Lands: A Tourist On the Axis of Evil
by Tony Wheeler
Bad Lands is an amusing travelogue and social commentary examining nine contrasting countries that are largely closed off from the outside world. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in politics or a skerrick of curiosity about the state of the world today.
