Olympia, Washington: Shiny Penny Press, (2003). SIGNED - In 1996, after "retiring at age 50, training over 1000 miles and planning for two years, these two soul mates waved good-bye to their three grandsons and three adult children and began a 3000 mile walk across America in Birkenstock sandals and to honor Habitat for Humanity International. Along the way, they experienced pain, blisters and a near lightening strike. They also experienced the kindness of their fellow Americans, deep admiration for each other and a new understanding of themselves as individuals." SIGNED by both authors on the title page with the words "Our life is what our thoughts make it." Doublepage map, photographs, list of support drivers, training schedule, etc. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-972678301.

Norman, OK: Vintage Books, (1987). In the summer of 1981, Seth, a young Indian graduate student in China, decided to hitchhike back home to Delhi by way of Tibet. This insightful and engaging book is the account of his journey. His first regularly published book(preceded by a poetry chapbook.) 178 pp. ISBN: 0-394-75218x.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (1999). Shackleton's account of the first expedition he led to the Antarctic in an attempt to reach the South Pole, originally published in 1909. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xviii, 452 pp. ISBN: 0-786706848.

Luton: Leagrave Press, 1950. Hardcover first edition - A photographic tour of the English village of Ayot St Lawrence where this Irish playwright, critic and political activist spent the last 44 years of his life. In addition to writing the clever rhymes, Shaw took all the pictures for the book; this was his last completed work. Lain in are four postcards, one of George Bernard Shaw aged 94 (the last portrait of him), and the other three of his house, "Shaw's Corner." Also laid is a Shaw Memorial Appeal. 35 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition -

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of two excursions in tropical rain forests by a journalist who is described as 'part biologist, part linguist, part anthropologist, ...who is fascinated by other ways of living..'. In the first section he describes his ascent of the Nhamunda river, a little-known, but long, tributary of the Amazon; in the second part he explores Zaire in Africa, trekking into the heart of the Ituri forest, the land of the BaMbuti and Efi pygmies. Cover praise from Russell Banks and Tracy Kidder. Index. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-671494414.

Placerville, California: Placerville Times, 1940. dj. Hardcover first edition - Travels around the world by freighter in the years between the wars From the Philippines to Japan, through China, India, the Near East, and Europe, to the British Isles - recounts visits to Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat in Cambodia, hearing Mussolini speak in Italy - and much more. Illustrated with photographs. 104 pp.

New York: Time Incorporated, 1965. An account of a 1930 expedition to Patagonia, even as revolution is going on in Argentina. New introduction for this edition by Laurence M. Gould. Illustrated. Double page map. xxv, 289 pp.

New York: Pittman Publishing, 1968. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of classic writing by the world's most famous mountaineers - including Rebuffat, Hillary, Herzog, Sir Leslie Stephen and many more. Illustrated with 20 color and over 40 black and white photographs. Slightly oversized format, 361 pages including bibliography. Boldly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by both editors.

New York: Arno Press, 1974. Hardcover - Originally published in 1918. Illustrated with photographs. An account of a British minister's visit to the United States during World War I. A title in the Foreign Travelers in America, 1810-1935 series. Index. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-405-054734.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2001. The story of Alexander Selkirk, whose experiences inspired the classic Defoe novel, as well as a vivid picture of the piracy and privateering and seafaring life of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1956.). A more personal book by this writer who is best known for her travel books in Central Asia and the Arab world - the topics range from memory, to Italian Renaissance tombs, the deserts of Arabia, the women of Cyprus and much more. Illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. BP 24. 179 pp.

London: John Murray, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays, many on travel and writing, but touching on other topic also, and even including three short fiction pieces (she compares this book to a patchwork quilt), together with Stark's commentary on each piece. Illustrated with a frontispiece self portrait and woodcuts by Reynolds Stone, list of sources. 230 pp.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1956.). A more personal book by this writer who is best known for her travel books in Central Asia and the Arab world - the topics range from memory, to Italian Renaissance tombs, the deserts of Arabia, the women of Cyprus and much more. Illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. BP 24. 179 pp.

Berkeley, CA: Traveler's Tales, (2001). SIGNED first edition - A "poignant and hilarious worldwide tour of culinary and romantic adventures" that "exhibits Lowell Thomas Award winner Richard Sterling at his tough and tender best." SIGNED on the dedication page. Prologue, epilogue. x, 286 pp. ISBN: 1-885211708.

Palo Alto, California: Lewis Osborne, 1967. Hardcover first edition - Foreword by Kenneth M. Johnson. A young New York doctor's account of his 194 day voyage around Cape Horn, mainly drawn from his letters to friends and his journal. Among the other 96 passengers were Mark Hopkins, J. Ross Browne, and A.S. Marvin, who went on to co-found Marvin & Hitchcock, the prominent San Francisco booksellers. In his later life, Stillman became an important figure in the development of Southern California's wine industry. An attractive production illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, a map on the front endpapers, and drawings and engravings from the collections of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, the Peabody Museum, and the Bancroft Library of the University of California. Number 451 of 1950 individually numbered copies. 92 pp.

XLIBRIS, (2014). The two authors met at a local writer's group meeting in 2004, and developed a close friendship. However, despite their age and health problems, both women were adventurous and, using the excuse of visiting family in St Paul, they set off from California to the Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore and across the country on a 5000 mile road trip. The question was could they do this and still be friends at the end. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-1499079357.

London: Hollis and Carter, 1955. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of an expedition in the foothills of Nepal and on the lower slopes of Everest in search of evidence of the existence of the 'yeti.' Illustrated with photographs, foreword by Brigadier Sir John Hunt. Index. 209 pages.

New York: Pantheon, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir of travelling through modern Greece, a "land of noisy anarchic cities and quiet idyllic towns and harbors" where the influence of the past - the Roman, the Byzantine, the Ottoman - is still felt. The author, an award-winning poet, "conjures a country where history and modernity coexist in often surprising ways, and with the past as an ineluctable backdrop, [she] paints in the everyday details that bring the country and its people vividly to life." xii, 398 pp. ISBN: 0-679421343.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. First edition - Includes a foreword by Jason Wilson, series editor, and an introduction by Strayed. Collects 24 of the best essays from both commercial and literary publications in 2017. Includes contributions from Pam Houston, Ian Frazier, Nathan Heller, Eileen Pollack, Jennifer Hope Choi and others. Notes on contributors. xix, 328 pp. ISBN: 0-618118810.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - An entertaining book in which the author, a biologist, describes hiking in Death Valley to the invention of matches, and the chemistry of cooking, as he mixes "pop science, personal experiences, and historic asides into a fun and informative commentary on a subject that few people think about despite its inherent life and death implications." (Publishers Weekly) Extensive notes, index.xvii, 349 pp. ISBN: 978-0316105330.

New York Viking, (1952.). Hardcover - Illustrated by Charles Michael Daugherty in pen and ink drawings. Map endpapers. Index. 275 pp.

New York: Putnam. (1988.) dj. Hardcover - Travelling through China as the Chinese do, from Peking to Urumchi near the Siberian border. An entertaining and enlightening book by one of our best and most adventurous travel writers. 480 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-399-133097.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, dj, 1964. Hardcover first edition - Essays on a variety of topics - from travel, of course, including Malaysia, a leper colony, old Afghanistan, but also on Tarzan the expat, V. S. Naipaul, Graham Greene, John McEnroe, Rudyard Kipling and much more. 365 pp. ISBN: 0-395-382211.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A trip through some of the most threatened and beautiful land in the world, by train, dugout canoe, chicken bus and truck. Forty years after Theroux first went to Africa to teach in the bush in Malawi, he finds devasting changes - poorer, more decrepit, more pessimistic, less educated, more corrupt. 472 pp. ISBN: 0-618-134247.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. dj. Hardcover first edition - "Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work 'The Great Railway Bazaar,' Theroux re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. . . In the three decades since, the world he recorded in that book has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed and China has risen; India booms while Burma smothers under dictatorship; Vietnam flourishes in the aftermath of the havoc America was unleashing on it." 496 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-618-418873.