New York: North Point Press, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An original short story anthology for the Nature Conservancy - among the contributors are Howard Norman, Jill McCorkle, Gretel Ehrlich, Lee Smith, Barry Lopez, Annie Proulx, Rick Bass, Julia Alvarez and more. Introduction by Barbara Kingsolver. SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Eric Lustbader at "Hush," set in Alaska and Barry Lopez at "Two Dogs at Rowena." 262 pp. ISBN: 0-6547-530x.

New York: North Point Press, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An original short story anthology for the Nature Conservancy - among the contributors are Howard Norman, Jill McCorkle, Gretel Ehrlich, Lee Smith, Barry Lopez, Annie Proulx, Rick Bass, Julia Alvarez and more. Introduction by Barbara Kingsolver. SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Eric Lustbader at "Hush," set in Alaska and Barry Lopez at "Two Dogs at Rowena." 262 pp. ISBN: 0-6547-530x.

Dallas, TX: Story Book Press, (1948.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A slim collection of poety, many telling stories of Texas and the South, others inspired by Austin's wide-ranging travels. The front cover of the dust jacket has a photograph of Austin and her daughter, with a St Bernard dog between them, in Switzerland in 1934, with a reference to one of the poems in this book ("Old Moritz.") Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper and dated in 1947.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. dj. First edition - From the dustjacket flap: 'Traveling by tugboat, canoe, train, a nd on foot, Ben Bachman takes us on a voyage up the Connecticut, from its mouth on Long Island Sound to its headwaters in the wildness of Northern New Hampshire. .. He writes of wildlife and plant life, of the rise and fall of the mills and railroads, of Indians and pioneers, of the Gilded Age on the lower river and dairy farming on the upper.' ix, map, 217 pp. ISBN: 0-395-343895.

New York: Harper Collins, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at learning through experience of global culture - from her travels and living in Iran, the Philippines, Tibet, America and more. By the daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who is herself a well-known anthropologist. Sources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168595.

New York: Harper Collins, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at learning through experience of global culture - from her travels and living in Iran, the Philippines, Tibet, America and more. By the daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who is herself a well-known anthropologist. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Sources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168595.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1937). Hardcover first edition - Both in verse and fact, the history of travel is celebrated - from the days when long journeys were made on foot, through coach and horse and bicyle to modern ocean liners and airplanes. Color illustrations by Denise Mary. Oblong format. Unpaginated.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (1979.) dj. Hardcover - Originally published in 1953 in the UK. In this book, the author travelled 'southwards from the Mediterranean coast to the sands, the heart of the Sahara, and beyond to the savannas of the Sudan and the fringes of the great forests' - to Niger, Libya and French Equatorial Africa. Illustrated with 33 photographs, mostly of art and architectural ruins. Index. 212 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-837151864.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1935) dj. Hardcover first edition - An introduction to the pleasures of living in - or visiting - Carmel, Monterey and Santa Barbara, including two chapters on the Franciscan Mission at Santa Barbara. His final book, published posthumously. Illustrated with 35 drawings by his wife, by Mary Seymour Brooks. 158 pp.

New York Broadway Books / Random House (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's personal account of traveling in Australia - he reports on the inhabitants, the weather, and the wildlife and the more desolate parts of the country as well as the things that might very well make it the best of all possible nations. Maps, bibliography, 307 pp. ISBN: 0-7679-03854.

New York: Harper Collins, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fascinating account which begins "with her assignment as a Fulbright Professor teaching journalism in Kyrgyzstan, , , , in the heart of Central Asia -- a place of dilapidated apartments, bizarre food and demoralized citizens clinging to the safety of Brother Russia. But when she refuses to join the other expatriates evacuated from the "-stans," it turns into much more. She flies into Afghanistan just as the Taliban are departing, mingles with tense Iraquis watching the gathering storm clouds of an American-led invasion and becomes the target of the resentments of the old comrades of the former Soviet Union." SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-0524421.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1932. Hardcover - An informal tour of the state of Colorado, with various sections focusing on the pioneers, others on the Rocky Mountains and the incredible geography - the peaks, lakes and glaciers, and on Colorado as a land of legends. Illustrated with nine drawings by Paul Bringle. Appendix with a bibliography and miscellaneous facts. Index. xvii, 322 pp.

New York: Doubleday / Anchor, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1974, the author was a Peace Corps worker in Nepal and he was befriended by an elderly widow, Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny village, befriended the author when he was a Peace Corps worker in 1974. In 1988, she came to visit him in the United States, and together they traveled coast-to-coast, a voyage of rediscovery and an exploration of the beliefs and values that lie beneath the surface of America. Photographs. xii, 299 pp plus a final photograph and a note on the author's previous book. ISBN: 0-385-474180.

New York: Doubleday / Anchor, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In 1974, the author was a Peace Corps worker in Nepal and he was befriended by an elderly widow, Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny village, befriended the author when he was a Peace Corps worker in 1974. In 1988, she came to visit him in the United States, and together they traveled coast-to-coast, a voyage of rediscovery and an exploration of the beliefs and values that lie beneath the surface of America. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs. xii, 299 pp plus a final photograph and a note on the author's previous book. ISBN: 0-385-474180.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous publication of a collection of reminiscences never before published in English about some of the places Colette lived and visited - including a long piece on moving, chats about her friends, cats, travels, the maiden voyage of the Normandie and most of all, her beloved France. Foreword by Margaret Crosland. Translated from the French by David Le Vay. Photographic frontispiece. Notes, 157 pp.

New York: Picador, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A man, a family and a vintage wooden boat" - in 1992, Coomer bought a 60 year old motor sailer and spent the next 4 years learning to master it. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-312-156464.

New York: Picador, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A man, a family and a vintage wooden boat" - in 1992, Coomer bought a 60 year old motor sailer and spent the next 4 years learning to master it. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-312-156464.

Bath, UK: Paragon Books, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover - SIGNED on the title page by both photographers - Copson and Stone. Slightly oversized square format, printed on heavy glossy stock, with color photographs on every page. Index. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-752574876.

New York: Ballantine, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - "When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as ÒYour fatherÕs the glitter but IÕm the glue.Ó . . . a book about the difference between travel and life experience, stepping out and stepping up, fathers and mothers. But mostly itÕs about who you admire and why, and how that changes over time." 224 pp. ISBN: 978-0345532831.

New York Bloomsbury, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of the adventures of an intrepid young woman and her 19 year old cat who take a road trip accross the US. Color photographs. Map endpapers. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-58234-0544.

New York: Picador, dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An eloquent book on a modern dilemma by this poet and writer, one which that follows her travels along the fringes of the wild, from an Oregon beach to islands in the sea of Cortez, the Bay of Fundy, southern Mexico, South America, and Hawaii. As she traveled she talked with urban planners, educators, commerce boosters, and residents about how tourism is altering that stretch of country, and despite the pressures on these places, she still found room for optimism. SIGNED on the title page. A PEN/West Finalist for Creative Nonfiction. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-312195435.

New York: Macmillan, 1928. Hardcover first edition - Based on a holographic manuscript of Cameron, written when he was 72, shortly before his death in Japan, this is the story of his travels from Scotland at age 17, in 1867, to Hawaii and over 3 oceans. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 10 other photographic plates (of an old-time luau, Honolulu harbor, etc.) and many drawings. Notes. 460 pages.

New York: Vantage Press, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes both an account of a trip to Dar Es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, by this Colorado writer and a selection of her protest poems. 55 pp. ISBN: 0-533-031230.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Definitive history of the maritime disaster caused by the collision of the ocean liner Andrea Doria with the Swedish liner Stockholm in the fog 1956 off the island of Nantucket on the Massachusetts coast. In the eleven hours before the ship sunk, 1700 people were rescued. The ill-fated voyage is recreated using interviews, court documents, memoirs and this book presents technical findings that shed new light on the causes of the disaster. Photographs, sources, index.viii, 294 pp. ISBN: 0-471-38934X.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of 23 essays, covering 40 years by this South African writer. Edited and with an introduction by Stephen Clingman. 3560pp. with index and notes. ISBN: 0-394-573978.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of 23 essays, covering 40 years by this South African writer. Edited and with an introduction by Stephen Clingman. 3560pp. with index and notes. ISBN: 0-394-573978.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - "In 1862 Lucie Duff Gordon reluctantly said farewell to her husband and children and sailed to Egypt." Gordon - author of "Letters From Egypt," a unique testimony to the country which became her spiritual home - spent seven years there, until her death from tuberculosis. This recounts her dramatic transition as she immersed herself in the Egyptian way of life, shrugging off Victorian era restrictions and avoiding the English community there, Family tree, map, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. xi, 399 pp. ISBN: 0-395-546885.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - "In 1862 Lucie Duff Gordon reluctantly said farewell to her husband and children and sailed to Egypt." Gordon - author of "Letters From Egypt," a unique testimony to the country which became her spiritual home - spent seven years there, until her death from tuberculosis. This recounts her dramatic transition as she immersed herself in the Egyptian way of life, shrugging off Victorian era restrictions and avoiding the English community there, Family tree, map, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. xi, 399 pp. ISBN: 0-395-546885.

Lulea, Sweden: JukkasAkademin, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Book issued in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the Icehotel project in the small village of Jukkasjrvi in far northern Sweden - in Swedish Lapland. Each November the hotel is rebuilt with the clear water of the Torne River, never exactly the same, and furnished with original ice art. Illustrated throughout with color photographs by Eivan Carlsson, Peter Grant, Tomas Utsi, Torbjrn Lvgren, and Kenneth Paulsson - pictures which capture just a bit of the beauty and wonder of this structure and its contents. Translated by Mark Wilcox. Oversized square format. 112 pp. ISBN: 9163080672.