"Under Vesuvius" is a creative text that combines travel memories with fun poems and personal reflections. Part travelogue, part personal narrative, and part poetry collection, Richard Haffey’s "Under Vesuvius" follows travels through... Read More

"Baobab" is photographer Beth Moon’s tribute to the magnificent, threatened trees upon which cultures and ecosystems depend. When word came of a sacred baobab falling in Madagascar, Moon set aside several weeks to capture the trees’... Read More

Musings on the myths of ancient Greece are intertwined with contemplations on climate change and Covid-19 in Peter Fiennes’s travelogue "A Thing of Beauty". As climate change set the world on fire and Covid-19 emerged, Fiennes traveled... Read More

A thorough history accompanied by intricate illustrations, Sarah Pierroz’s "A Sketch of Venetian History" is a must for any person interested in the city’s gripping past. This in-depth historical review begins in 4000 BCE, when... Read More

"Gastro Obscura" is a fascinating compendium of international food facts and lore. The entries, most about a page long, span the globe and are illustrated with bright photographs and drawings. Some will no doubt induce... Read More

In "Life Lived Wild", outdoorsman, writer, filmmaker, and conservationist Rick Ridgeway recounts his thrilling adventures in the world’s most remote regions. Ridgeway’s daring life is filled with newsworthy firsts. He was the first... Read More

Tom Lutz advocates for eschewing tourist traps and sightseeing tours to embrace the full breadth of the experience, wherever you roam, in his collection of travel essays, "The Kindness of Strangers". From karaoke bars in Bhutan to... Read More

Anne Liu Kellor’s intimate and revealing memoir "Heart Radical" concerns a struggle to know oneself—and to get into the heart of the Chinese people through language. In Chinese, it takes four brush strokes to form the shape of a... Read More