The Best American Travel Writing 2002 is edited by Frances Mayes, the author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany and the master of 'running away to live in the place of one's dreams' (Los Angeles Times). Giving new life to armch...

Be very, very afraid. When you step through your door for an innocent excursion, grave danger awaits. You might be mugged; tied up; attacked by scorpions, piranhas, or tarantulas; trapped in a falling plane or elevator, a runaway trai...

An entertaining and informative resource on Provence includes more than two hundred alphabetically organized entries on such wide ranging subject matter as architecture, expatriates, Aix-en-Provence, Provenal linguistic oddities, loca...

In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman-and never went home again.Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pavé au poivre, the steak's pink...

A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His trave...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The...

September 1996 found Philip Caputo on Barter Island, a wind-scoured rock in the Beaufort Sea populated by two hundred Inupiat and a handful of whites. As he gazed upon an American flag above the only school for a hundred and fifty mil...

For the tourist or the armchair traveler comes a unique combination of travel and foreign language instruction that could only be offered on audio. Includes walking tours of each area plus a CD of essential phrases in the country's la...

Experience a refreshing adrenaline rush on this NPR guided tour of the ultimate in outdoor fun: Whether whitewater rafting on the Hudson River, mountain climbing in the Himalayas, kayaking in Alaska, airboarding in Oregon's Cascade mo...

[Read by Joe Barrett]Combining history, art, colonialism, adventure, and ethnography, Savage Harvest is a mesmerizing whodunit and a fascinating portrait of the clash between two civilizations that resulted in the death of one of Amer...

Michael Palin journeys to a vast country of unimaginable contrasts—Brazil. An economic powerhouse, it is host to a staggering variety of peoples. He starts his journey in the north, in the remote mountains and forests on the border ...

In His Seventh Voyage of Discovery, Michael Palin Reads His Own Account of a Journey into a New Europe! Michael Palin: New Europe starts with a simple idea: that only a couple of hours from home is a half of Europe that is for him a...

Three years after going Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin was off again. Traveling from one end of the globe to the other, Palin and his team endured extremes of heat and cold as they crossed seventeen countries on trains, tr...

PThis two-disc set features some of best known literary adventurers and explorers of the twentieth century in their own words. The recordings—mostly sourced from the BBC Sound Archive and never before published—are a mixture of ra...

Very similar in style to Walden, and in fact written while he stayed at Walden Pond, this account chronicles Thoreau's 1830 boat trip. In it, he weaves together travel writing, essays on religion, history, and lyrical poetry, as well ...

In 1917, amid the turmoil of World War I, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edith Wharton traveled to Morocco. A classic of travel writing, In Morocco is her account of this journey through the countrys cities and its deserts.