Autographed Books
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Morning Glory Farm and the Family that Feeds an Island
by Tom Dunlop, photographs by Alison Shaw
A beautiful and evocative look at this most traditional of farms, along with 70 favorite Martha’s Vineyard recipes. Enjoy the story of the family that for thirty years has brought healthy, locally grown food to the island.
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Yemen the Unknown Arabia
by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Yemen is arguably the most fascinating and least known country in the Arab world. Crossing mountain, desert, ocean, and three millennia of history, Mackintosh-Smith reveals a land that, in the words of a contemporary poet, has become the dictionary of its people. In Yemen: The Unknown Arabia we witness the extraordinary in the ordinary.
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah
edited by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Ibn Battutah set out on a 29-year-long pilgrimage to Mecca from Morocco in 1325. He wrote of his travels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian, and occasional botanist and gastronome. Mackintosh-Smith brings to life these adventures in an abridged version of Battutah’s Travels.
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Travels with a Tangerine
by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Captivated by the great Arab explorer Ibn Battutah’s account of his journey, the Arabic scholar and award-winning travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith set out to follow in the peripatetic Moroccan’s footsteps.
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The Places in Between
by Rory Stewart
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan–surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. Along the way Stewart met heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers, Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers. He was also adopted by an unexpected companion–a retired fighting mastiff he named Babur, in honor of Afghanistan’s first Mughal emperor, in whose footsteps the pair was following.
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The Prince of the Marshes And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
by Rory Stewart
In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad, where he was appointed deputy governor of Amara and Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote marsh regions of southern Iraq. The Prince of the Marshes tells the story of Stewart’s year as he attempted to splice together some semblance of an infrastructure for a population of millions teetering on the brink of civil war.
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The Widow Clicquot
by Tilar J. Mazzeo
In The Widow Clicquot, Tilar J. Mazzeo brings to life - for the first time - the fascinating woman behind the iconic yellow label: Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin. She was a daring and determined entrepreneur, a bold risk taker, and an audacious and intelligent woman who took control of her own destiny when fate left her on the brink of financial ruin.
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Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insects
by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson, illustrations by Margaret C. Nelson
The study of the superorganism, as the authors demonstrate, has led to important advances in our understanding of how the transitions between levels have occurred in evolution and how life as a whole has progressed from simple to complex forms.
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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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Best Hikes with Dogs Boston and Beyond
by Jenna Ringelheim
Explore the classic beauty of the Commonwealth State’s wild areas with your dog! Whether you’re in bustling Beantown, the peaceful Berkshires, or out for a beach walk on the Cape, you and your canine buddy will have a blast on the trail. Areas covered in this guide include Dogtown Commons, Estabrook Woods, Callahan State Park, Blue Hills Reservation, Mount Watatic, island beaches,and much more.
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
by Paul Theroux
Thirty years after his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, one of the world’s most acclaimed travel writers recreates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In the three decades since Theroux made this trip, the world he recorded in that book has undergone phenomenal 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 Elephanta Suite
by Paul Theroux
This far-reaching book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today’s India. Theroux’s Westerners risk venturing far beyond the subcontinent’s well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A middle-aged couple on vacation veers heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds succor in Mumbai’s reeking slums. And a young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore.
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The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
by Paul Theroux
In this unique and hugely entertaining railway odyssey, Theroux vividly recounts his travels–and the people, places, and landscapes he encountered–on the Orient Express, the Khyber Mail, and the Trans-Siberian Express, through such countries as Turkey, Iran, India, Southeast Asia, Japan, and the Soviet Union.
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The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
by Paul Theroux
After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like. The result is this perceptive, hilarious record of the journey.
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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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Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean
by Paul Theroux
The bestselling travel writer and novelist now takes us on a magical tour of the Mediterranean.
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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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Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution
by Moying Li
This inspiring memoir follows Moying Li from age 12 to 22, illuminating a complex, dark time in China’s history as it tells the compelling story of one girl’s difficult but determined coming-of-age during the Cultural Revolution.
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Crescent City Cooking: Unforgettable Recipes from Susan Spicer’s New Orleans
by Susan Spicer
One of New Orleans’s brightest culinary stars, Susan Spicer has been indulging Crescent City diners at her highly acclaimed restaurants, Bayona and Herbsaint, for years. Now, in her long-awaited cookbook, Spicer–an expert at knocking cuisine off its pedestal with a healthy dash of hot sauce, and at elevating comfort food to the level of the sublime–brings her signature dishes to the home cook’s table.
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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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When Asia Was the World
by Stewart Gordon
While European intellectual, cultural, and commercial life stagnated during the early medieval period, Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion.
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A New England Autumn: A Sentimental Journey
photographs by Ferenc Maté
This magnificent collection of photographs is a journey through back roads and hidden corners of America’s idyllic and beloved region. Each scene, suffused with color and light, brings a moment of private discovery and awakens a sense of home.
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Ghost Sea
by Ferenc Maté
Based on a true story, this novel reaches its thrilling climax at the last secret, hallucinatory potlatch of the ancient Kwakiutl culture, where the history of a doomed people is melded with the fury of three hearts.
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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.
