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A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built ... More

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By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated ... More

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Most travel titles are put together in a few weeks by visiting travel writers. Wizard guidebooks take over a year to compile and the writers are ... More

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The "New York Times" bestseller that blew the lid off the fast food industry--exposing how they've malled our landscapes, widened the gap between ... More

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Bestselling authors Doughty and Friedman have covered it all and share all they find--from the top of the Ko'olaus to the lost sunken island of Kane ... More

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In 1973 Mathiessen journeyed wioth George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wiild blue sheep of the ... More

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With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humor, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its ... More

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In this classic account, Jenkins describes how his disillusionment with society in the 1970s drove him out onto the road on a walk across America, ... More

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Unofficial Guides Hotels, attractions, and restaurants in all price categories Evaluations based on reader surveys and critiques--compiled by ... More

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It's three a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties; she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby ... More

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From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language comes a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in ... More

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In 1960, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover and document his native land; accompanied only by his dog, he travelled all across the United States in ... More

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I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to'. And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back ... More

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The longest continuous footpath in the world, the Appalachian Trail stretches along the East Coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine, ... More

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Bestselling author and longtime Hawai'i resident Doughty unlocks the secrets of an island so lush and diverse that many visitors never realize all ... More

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In 2008, Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the unprecedented decision to return as the CEO eight years after he stepped ... More

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Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban industrial corridor between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near ... More

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A pioneering architectural study of the seventy-mile-square city and the historical process which has made it unique as a human settlement.

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The latest volume in The John Muir Library Series is the most popular of Muir's works: the naturalist's account of his first visit to the High Sierra ... More

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The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by ... More

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In this beloved modern classic, the author renders an account of three weeks spent on the Brazos River during the autumn of 1957. Part history, part ... More

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR AND A READER'S GUIDE Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance caused a sensation when it was first published in ... More

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The finest guidebook ever written for Kauai and the only one written by a writer who anonymously reviews the island. He visits every beach, ... More

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When the author lost his job, he set out to follow the tracks of various ancestors and write a book about America. His travels took him to the unsung ... More

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Steinbeck's last full-length work is an exploration of the country he had become famous for writing about. Suspecting that he might have lost touch ... More

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