Travel Books

Tony Horwitz sets off on a pilgrimage to find out who really colonized America.

'A Year in Japan' is a colorful journey to the beauty, poetry, and quirkiness of modern Japan, a book not just to look at but to experience.

Robert Sullivan's story of moving his family back and forth from the East Coast to the West Coast (and various other migrations), is replete with all the minor disasters, humor, and wonderful coincidences that characterize life on the road, not to mention life.

Paul West, with his French girlfriend in tow, sets off on a tour of America to take part in an international competition to promote Britain as a tourism destination.

An engaging account of Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe in which Laurence Bergreen draws the early sixteenth century with so much lifelike detail that the reader is drawn into the story even as Magellan himself remains something of an enigma.

55 essays themed around an intimate acquaintance between Self and his environs, many of which feature Self's pursuit of "ambulatory sartori," and all wonderfully accompanied by Ralph Steadman's artwork.

It is the individuals that Paul Theroux meets along his epic railroad journey , more than the cities, buildings, or sites of touristic import, to which he devotes his most generous descriptions.

More of a travelogue than the self-helplessness book suggested by its title - an edgy ramble through the mind of the author as world traveler.