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: 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.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - "An ebuLlient celebration of the lovely, exotic North. . . Loosely following a course first charted by the Vikings ten centuries ago, Millman wandered from Norway to Newfoundland by way of the Shetland Islands, the Faeroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador." Dust jacket praise from Annie Dillard and Howard Norman, among others. 242 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: -39543615X.

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 and dated in year of publication. 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. 404 pp.

San Francisco: Travelers' Tales, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of an unusual quest: "'Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America.' Brad Newsham was only 22 when he scribbled this note in his journal with 'only an immature sense of the staying power of ideas.' Years later, this casual prophecy came true, and Newsham documents the events that led up to it in . . the story of his 100-day journey through the Philippines, India, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, as he seeks just the right person to bring to America." SIGNED on the title page. Double page map, photographs. 353 pp. ISBN: 1-885211511.

New York: St Martin's, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the author's travels through Colombia's cocaine underworld, described by Jay McInerney as both 'hilarious and hair-raising.' The Fruit Palace was the name of the cafe where Nicholl had his first encounter with Columbian drug smugglers back in the 70's - although then it was mostly marijuana. Map. 307 pages. ISBN: 0-312-309260.

New York: St Martin's, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the author's travels through Colombia's cocaine underworld, described by Jay McInerney as both 'hilarious and hair-raising.' The Fruit Palace was the name of the cafe where Nicholl had his first encounter with Columbian drug smugglers back in the 70's - although then it was mostly marijuana. Map. 307 pages. ISBN: 0-312-309260.

New York: Harper & Row, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of 3300 miles of traveling across the United States - Nigel, the father, started in Miami and goes up the coast to the Canadian border, along the Great Lakes and then down the middle of the country to New Orleans and back up again to his rendezvous with Adam at Dodge City, Kansas, while Adam starts out in Los Angeles and travels up to San Francisco, Oregon and Washington, through Idaho and Montana and back down to Utah and Arizona. Two very different trips, two different views which combine to give a fresh perspective on the United States. Map, family tree, index. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-060390646.

Privately Printed, 1916. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED by the author on the front pastedown "To Dear Carrie, from Russ" and dated 12/25/16. Colophon at rare states that this was "privately published and this volume is #39. 48 pp.

Pittsburgh, PA: Beta Phi Mu, 1974. Hardcover first edition - Number 10 in the series of chapbooks issued by Beta Phi Mu, the library science honorary fraternity. This gives a narrative overview of James Cook's three voyages (from 1768-1777, 1772-1775 and 1776 to 1780) and comments on the best of the many works which study the voyages. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Cook and three maps. Index. One of 5500 copies, designed, printed and bound by the Lakeside Press. xiv, 80 pp. ISBN: 0-910230102.

Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, (1982.). First edition - Novel based on the travels of the Moroccan slave Estevan who accompanied the Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez, also known as Cabeza de Vaca, across the southern part of the New World - from what is now Florida to the Gulf Coast of Mexico - from 1527 to 1536. Maps. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page and dated in 1990. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-8214-06809.

New York: Grove Press, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - In addition to being a prize-winning novelist, Parks has translated many Italian books. This, his second book on living in Italy, focuses on his children (who were born in Italy) and on Italian family life. ISBN: 0-8021-1508x.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992, dj. Hardcover first edition - A celebration of 10 years of living in Montecchio in Italy by this prize-winning novelist and translator. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-15314.