Autographed Books
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Schooner: Building a Wooden Boat on Martha’s Vineyard
photographs by Alison Shaw, text by Tom Dunlop
Schooner takes you through the construction of Rebecca of Vineyard Haven, a sixty-foot wooden schooner designed and built by the Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway. At the time of her construction, she was the largest sailing vessel built on the Island of Martha’s Vineyard since the election of Abraham Lincoln. Nearly every part of her is built or cast or fashioned by hand.
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Globish: How the English Language Became the World’s Language
by Robert McCrum
In this new look at the course of empire, Robert McCrum shows how the language of the Anglo-American imperium has become the world’s lingua franca. He describes the ever-accelerating changes wrought on the language by the far-flung cultures claiming citizenship in the new hegemony.
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Chiang Yee: The Silent Traveller
by Da Zheng
This biography is more than a recounting of extraordinary accomplishments. It also embraces the transatlantic life experience of Yee who traveled from China to England and then on to the United States, where he taught at Columbia University, to his return to China in 1975, after a forty-two year absence. Interwoven is the history of the communist revolution in China; the battle to save England during World War II; the United States during the McCarthy red scare era; and, eventually, thawing Sino-American relations in the 1970s.
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The Weeping Goldsmith: Discoveries in the Secret Land of Myanmar
written by W. John Kress, foreword by Wade Davis
The Weeping Goldsmith is a first-person narrative of daunting travel and scientific discovery in the little-known country of Myanmar. W. John Kress recounts his natural history exploration over the course of nine years in the wild lands of Myanmar in search of rare, beautiful, and scientifically unknown plants.
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Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
by Terry Teachout
Wall Street Journal arts columnist Terry Teachout has drawn on a cache of important new sources unavailable to previous Armstrong biographers to craft a sweeping new narrative biography of this towering figure. Certain to be the definitive word on Armstrong for our generation.
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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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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.
