New York: The Viking Press, (1981.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of a 1979 safari into the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania, with text by Matthiessen and full color photographs by Hugo van Lawick portray the people, the land, and the numerous wild animals of one of the world's last great wilderness areas. with accompanying photographs, chronicling their 1979 safari to the Selous Game Reserve of southern Tanzania. SIGNED by Matthiessen on the title page. Notes. Slightly oversized format, map endpapers. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-670-616966.

New York: Broadway Books, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "With her beloved Tuscany as a home base, Mayes travels to Spain, Portugal, France, The British Isles, elsewhere in Italy, and to the Mediterranean world of Turkey, Greece, and North Africa, Fez" Map endpapers. 420 pp. ISBN: 0-767910052.

New York: Broadway, (2000.). Italy in the springtime - a book full of happiness. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-7679-0284x.

New York: Broadway Books, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A lavishly illustrated tribute to Italian village life with new essays by Mayes, including one by her husband poet Edward Mayes, illustrated with 200 full color photographs by Bob Krist, including many 2 page spreads. SIGNED by Frances Mayes on a bookplate on the front endpapers. Slightly oversized, printed on heavy stock, 269 pp. . ISBN: 0-7679-05350.

New York: Vintage Books, 1992. ISBN: 0679736042.

New York: Vintage Books, 1992. The author's wonderful account of what it was like to move into a 200 year old farmhouse in a remote region of the Luberon. ISBN: 0-679731148.

Los Angeles: Saturday Night Publishing Company, 1928. Hardcover first edition - First publication in book form of the author's letters from a Mediterranean trip - a journey which took him to Madeira, Granada, Seville, Tunis, Carthage, Athens, Constantinople, Cairo, Thebes, Abydos, Luxor, Capri, and elsewhere. Full of interesting sidelights and comments - for example, Henry Timkin, the inventor of the revolutionary tapered roller bearings, and his wife were among the passengers and this leads to a digression on the need in California of faster transcontinental railroads; a brief comment "oil makes the world go round. Will oil be the cause of a future conflict?" Illustrated with 22 half-tone photographic plates by the author, with titled tissue guards. 117 pp. Map endpapers.

Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, (1948). Hardcover first edition - Combines more than 100 photographs with maps for motorists, divided into four main areas: Southern Coast (including San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura); Mid-Coast (Monterey Peninsula to Drake's Bay); The Mother Lode Area (gold rush country in the Sierra foothills); and other scattered areas. Historical Key and index of place names at end of book. xvi, 149 pp. Map endpapers.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (1997). In the introduction to this book, the author, an award-winning African American poet, Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.describes this as a book of "impressions of journeys, memories held in fragments, like footprints on a beach." Her travels took her to Malaysia, to Fiji, to Ayers Rock in Australia and much more. 241 pp. ISBN: 1-566890594.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1995). Probably his best known book (this was certainly his 'break-through' book), and the longest, this is a fascinating study of Alaska and of contemporary Alaskans. Originally published in 1977. Map frontispiece. 417 pp. ISBN: 0-374-522871.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1978.). McPhee returns to the island of his ancestors - Colonsay, 25 miles west of the Scottish mainland. A moving portrait of this fragment of the Hebrides - of the history and legends, and most of all of the people. Illustrated with drawings by James Graves. 159 pp. ISBN: 0-374-514658.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - McPhee's fascinating and entertaining "portrait of Switzerland as seen through its ubiquitous army." 150 pp. ISBN: 0-374182418.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - McPhee's fascinating and entertaining "portrait of Switzerland as seen through its ubiquitous army." 150 pp. ISBN: 0-374182418.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - An in-depth look at how Fremont's report on his expedition in 1842 "altered American views of geography, progress, and the need for a transcontinental railroad as well as provoking the great migration to Oregon and providing an aesthetic justification for the national park system. By helping to shape the very notion of Manifest Destiny, the report became one of the most important documents in the history of American landscape." On this expedition he and a small party of men journeyed up the Kansas and Platte Rivers to the Wind River Range in Wyoming, a region known as the Great Desert. Maps and illustrations. Notes and index. xxix, 249 pp. ISBN: 978-0803238077.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. Hardcover first edition - A detailed and very readable discussion of one oceanographic expedition - that of the 'Nova' in 1967. Illustrated with photographs, maps and charts. References, index. 255 pages.

Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker and Hoard, (2005.) dj. Hardcover - Award-winning poet describes his late boyhood, his years at Princeton, and his first trip (at age 20, already married and graduated from Princeton) to a Europe in 1948, still ravaged by World War II, but also timeless and magical, 216 pp. ISBN: 1593760728.

New York: Atheneum, 1988. Hardcover first edition - Pat Conroy calls this travel book "a splendid combination of Paul Theroux and Graham Greene. It's also screamingly funny."

New York: Crown, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - A large format book illustrated with many photographs. Produced in conjunction with the 5-part teleivision series of the same name. Foreword by Michener, edited by Peter Chaitin. Index. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-517545276.

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover - During his research for a novel to be set in the Caribbean, author James Michener and his associate John Kings visited Cuba, where they spent 6 days in Havana. This book is based on interviews with almost 200 Cubans of very different backgrounds and positions, and looks at how the country has progressed after 90 years of independence from Spain and under the 30-year leadership of Castro Illustrated throughout with full-color photographs by John Kings. Slightly oversized format, printed throughout on glossy paper. 144 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-292776292.

New York: Sheridan House, (1941). Hardcover first edition - An account - from a woman's perspective - of an expedition to the south coast of Dutch New Guinea concentrating on the Merauke River where the author's father-in-law established an outpost to control cannibal raids across the border into Papua, New Guinea. She saw these as a people best left alone and in their easy going domestic life where they brought her armloads of orchids. Illustrated with photographs. 308 pp. Map endpapers.

Ajans Turk Press, n.d. An account of Mehmed Zilli (1611 1682), known as Evliya elebi, an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years. Illustrated with a color plate in the front and 14 plates at the rear - 4 in full color and 10 black and white plates. Bibliography. 55 pp plus plates.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book written with practical information for sailors and descriptions of destinations from the Bahamas to the Chesapeake, the Baltic Sea to Dalmation coast for armchair travelers. Illustrated with maps. 280 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-684125595.

North Conway, NH: Whitehorse Press, (2001.). First edition - The author's experiences and encounters as he traveled, solo on his BMW GS motorcycle, from his home in Rochester NY, down the Atlantic, through the southwest and north to Alaska - a trip which changed his life. 221 pp. ISBN: 1884313280.

London: Panther, (1976). "During the sixties and early seventies Alberto Moravia made five African journeys, which are recorded in this collection of descriptive essays. He observed this vast and complex continent less as a journalist than as a humanist and a traveler." Translated from the Italian by Angus Davidson. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-586041621.

New York: Villard, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tells the stories of the remarkable women Morris encountered on the road while filming her PBS series 'Adventure Divas'. "We meet Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther and social activist and now a fugitive living in exile in Cuba; Kiran Bedi, New Delhis chief of police, who revolutionized Indias infamously brutal Tijar Jail with her humanitarian ethic; New Zealand pop star Hinewehi Mohi, a Maori who reinvigorates her native culture for a new generation; and Mokarrameh Ghanbari, a septuagenarian painter and rice farmer who lives in the tiny village of Darikandeh on the Caspian plains of Iran, where her creative talents run counter to the governments strict stance on art." Illustrated. List of resources. xx, 283 pp. ISBN: 0-375508279.

New York: Harper & Row, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful book which "celebrates, in words and full-color photographs, the adventure of living in the world's most astonishing city." Illustrated with forty-four full-page color photographs by the author. Large square format, unpaginated, printed on glossy paper throughout. ISBN: 0-06-013092X.

Cambridge: By the Hakluyt Society at the University Press. 1966. Hardcover first edition - A work translated and edited by Celsus Kelly O.F.M. with ethnological introduction, appendix, and other contributions by G.S. Parsonson. 2 volumes. Folded frontispiece map in Volume 1, a total of 11 plates, 4 maps & 3 tables in both volumes. The Hakluyt Society Second Series No CXXVI & CXXVII. Bibliography and index in Volume 2. Volume 1 - xvii, 270 pp; Volume 2 - xv, 272-446 pp

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the US South - from Atlanta to Jackson, Tuskegee to Charleston, tobacco farms and the birthplace of Elvis, with visits to an old white Charleston family, a black woman minister, and Eudora Welty, by this Trinidadian born author, and Nobel prize winning writer. ISBN: 0-394-564774.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2019). SIGNED first edition - A chronicle of the author's "650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California. Led by Gaspar de Portol in 1769, the expedition sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real.. . For twelve weeks, with just a backpack and a tent, he trekked through stretches of California both lonely and urban, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespi." SIGNED on the title page. 404 pp.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2019). SIGNED first edition - A chronicle of the author's "650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California. Led by Gaspar de Portol in 1769, the expedition sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real.. . For twelve weeks, with just a backpack and a tent, he trekked through stretches of California both lonely and urban, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespi." SIGNED on the title page and dated in year of publication. 404 pp.