"Beyond the Next Village" is a nurse’s memoir about her transformative, extraordinary experiences in Nepal. American nurse Mary Anne Mercer’s sensitive memoir "Beyond the Next Village" is about the challenges of her life-changing... Read More

Timothy Phillips visits strategic points along the former Soviet border in his travelogue "Retracing the Iron Curtain". The Iron Curtain was an ideological and physical barrier that cut Europe into East and West for decades. Though the... Read More

Josep Sucarrats’s radiant visual encyclopedia "Markets" introduces global markets and bazaars. A warm foreword by Spanish chef Ferran Adrià of El Bulli restaurant fame sets the stage for this encouraging exploration of markets around... Read More

"Travels in the Americas" is Albert Camus’s lively, intimate travel record, covering his encounters abroad as well as his inner world with Gallic flair. An astute observer of people and places and an avid participant in the life around... Read More

Max Humphrey’s "Lodge" is a photographic guide to ten historic buildings within the west and southwest of the US’s National Park Service. After the establishment of the first national parks in the late nineteenth century, travelers... Read More

The Chinese diaspora meets culinary ingenuity in "Have You Eaten Yet?", Cheuk Kwan’s robust food travelogue and social history of Chinese restaurants. Kwan, whose documentary Chinese Restaurants spanned five continents, revisits the... Read More

"The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein" trace the enigmatic genius’s 1925 tour through Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Einstein agreed to the extended visit for academic and humanitarian reasons; he was also trying to end an affair... Read More

In the summer of 1978, Mark Abley and his friend Clare embarked on the Hippie Trail, an overland route from Turkey to Nepal that many Westerners took in search of adventure and spiritual enlightenment. "Strange Bewildering Time" is... Read More