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

This is the inspiring nineteenth-century account of a gritty, determined man whose Alaskan adventures epitomized the “can-do” attitude that transformed a nation. Edited by his great-grandson John Clark, Hazelet’s Journal is an... Read More

Steve Kanji Ruhl’s "Appalachian Zen" is a memoir about a Buddhist awakening. Ruhl grew up in a trailer park in Appalachia with a deep yearning to be somewhere else. He began to practice Zen Buddhism, viewing it as a welcome contrast to... Read More

In "Wake Up, This Is Joburg", photographer Mark Lewis and writer Tanya Zack document stories about people getting by on the fringes of Johannesburg. These pieces are sometimes sad, sometimes inspiring, and add up to a complicated picture... Read More

In "Chasing Plants", botanist Chris Thorogood shares how his lifelong obsession with plants led him to precarious situations in far-flung places to find them, no matter what it took. Thorogood sketched and scribbled his way around the... Read More