Oct 31 2009
New Arrivals
This varied list of unique books represents just a few of the fascinating and exciting new titles that have come into our store recently.
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Paris in Color
by Nicole Robertson
Take a journey through the world’s most romantic city, traveling from color to magnificent color with this beguiling book. An orange cafe chair, bright blue bicycles against a fence, a weathered white door–Nichole Robertson’s sumptuous photographs of the distinctive details of Paris, all arranged by color, evoke a sense of serendipitous discovery and celebrate the city as never before.
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Le Road Trip: A Traveler’s Journal of Love and France
by Vivien Swift
Part journal of the splendor of being footloose in the French countryside, part instruction manual on how to survive the pitfalls of the vagabond lifestyle, Le Road Trip is a beautiful celebration of the pleasurable perils of travel, love, and France.
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Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide
by Doug Mack
When Doug Mack picked up a 1963 edition of “Europe on Five Dollars a Day,” he stumbled on an inspired idea: to boldly go where millions have gone before, relying only on the advice of a travel guide that’s nearly a half century out-of-date. Add to the mix his mother’s much- documented grand tour through Europe in the late 1960s, and the result is a funny and fascinating journey into a new (old) world, and a disarming look at the ways the classic tourist experience has changed- and has not-in the last generation.
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Londoners: Days and Nights of London Now
by Craig Taylor
Five years in the making, and published on the eve of the 2012 Olympics, “Londoners” is a fresh and compulsively readable view of one of the world’s most fascinating cities–a vibrant, narrative portrait of contemporary London, featuring unforgettable stories told by the real people who make the city hum.
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Getting Genki in Japan
by Karen Pond
The unexpected gift of a favored bottle of shiraz from her husband leads to the adventure of a lifetime for Karen Pond and her family–moving from rural Maine to the largest city in the world: Tokyo, Japan.
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Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America’s Languages
by Elizabeth Little
Little explores the United States’ many cultures and languages in search of what they say about who we are individually, socially, and politically. This book is both a celebration of American multiculturalism and a reflection on what we value, what we fight for, and what we allow ourselves to forget.
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Travel: A Literary History
by Peter Whitfield
From the ancient world to the present, Peter Whitfield offers the first broad survey to range over the whole history of travel writing, highlighting more than one hundred texts, including works by Marco Polo, T. E. Lawrence, Christopher Columbus, Daniel Defoe, Joseph Conrad, and Captain Cook. Whether their travels were merely for pleasure or the result of exploration, military occupation, or trade, the writers discussed here all sought to reimagine their surroundings and, through their writings, reinterpret them for the reader.
