Running the Amazon

Joe Kane

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• A personal account of the first expedition to travel the entirety of the world's longest river. Ten men and one woman embarked on this incredible jour... Lees meer

Passage to Juneau

Jonathan Raban

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• The bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land takes us along the Inside Passage, 1,000 miles of often treacherous water, which he navigates solo i... Lees meer

India in Mind

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• Ever since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This supe... Lees meer

Cairo

Max Rodenbeck

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• From a noted journalist who has spent much of his life in Cairo, here is a dazzling cultural excavation of that most ancient, colorful, and multifacet... Lees meer

The Hard Way Around

Geoffrey Wolff

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the fir... Lees meer

Rolling Nowhere

Ted Conover

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• In Ted Conover's first book, now back in print, he enters a segment of humanity outside society and reports back on a world few of us would chose to e... Lees meer

The Age of Kali

William Dalrymple

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontin... Lees meer

My Twenty-Five Years in Provence

Peter Mayle

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• From the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here th... Lees meer

The Nature of Generosity

William Kittredge

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• The Nature of Generosity is at once a natural sequel to the acclaimed memoir Hole in the Sky and an entirely unique masterwork from one of the finest ... Lees meer

Out in the World

Neil Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• A journalistic account of gay and lesbian life in the diverse gay communities of Thailand, Germany, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, and other loca... Lees meer

Cutting for Sign

William Langewiesche

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• The border between the United States and Mexico extends 1,951 miles. Among the people who live along it are a migrant laborer huddled in a makeshift c... Lees meer

Mediterranean Winter

Robert D Kaplan

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• "Artful and intelligent . . . . Kaplan's book has made its own mark. . . I am able to feel the sense of an exotic and timeless part of the world." -- ... Lees meer

Uneasy Rider

Mike Bryan

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• "Engagingly curious open-mindedness . . . an amiable deadpan worthy of Richard Ford." --Pico Iyer, Time in this offbeat and original road book, cultur... Lees meer

Coasting

Jonathan Raban

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• From the national bestselling, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Bad Land comes "a lively, intensely personal recounting of a voyag... Lees meer

Tibet, Tibet

Patrick French

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• At different times in its history Tibet has been renowned for pacifism and martial prowess, enlightenment and cruelty. The Dalai Lama may be the only ... Lees meer

Italy in Mind

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• Comprising short stories, novel excerpts, essays, journal entries, letters, and poetry. Italy in Mind captures all the contradictions of the Italian s... Lees meer

The Road from Coorain

Jill Ker Conway

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• In a memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood--a journey that would ultimately s... Lees meer

Theatre of Fish

John Gimlette

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• Newfoundland is one of the most intriguing places in North America, a land of breathtaking but cruel beauty, populated by some of the saltiest, oddest... Lees meer

Lands of Charm and Cruelty

Stan Sesser

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• Five probing, "beautifully observed" essays (William Shawcross, author of The Queen Mother ) that explores The New Yorker writer's politically savvy t... Lees meer

Bayou Farewell

Mike Tidwell

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• The Cajun coast of Louisiana is home to a way of life as unique, complex, and beautiful as the terrain itself. As award-winning travel writer Mike Tid... Lees meer

Ruthless River

Holly Fitzgerald

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• A stunning debut; a Departures original publication. The ultimate survival story; a wild ride--the wildest--down a South American river in the thick o... Lees meer

Paris in Mind

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• "Paris is a moveable feast," Ernest Hemingway famously wrote, and in this captivating anthology, American writers share their pleasures, obsessions, a... Lees meer

Toujours Provence

Peter Mayle

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• NATIONAL BESTSELLER Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evoc... Lees meer

Greetings from Bury Park

Sarfraz Manzoor

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• The inspiration for the smash Sundance hit, soon to be a major motion picture, "Blinded by the Light" T he acclaimed memoir about the power of Bruce S... Lees meer