Browsing: Travel

From the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six…

After losing vital supplies in an accident, explorer Douglas Mawson waged a harrowing battle for survival deep in the polar wilderness. This “intense and thrilling epic… earns for Mawson and his team a well-deserved place of honor in the so-called heroic age of Antarctic exploration” (Booklist).

The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial…

When Chris Stewart bought a sheep farm in Spain’s Alpujarra Mountains, what started as an impulsive decision became a way of life. Read this transportive account of how he and his wife, Ana, learned to love their rural paradise, quirks and all. “Enchanting” (Publishers Weekly).

A New York Times bestseller: When a Michigan hairdresser founded a beauty school in Afghanistan, she became part of a community of women that would change her life… This vivid memoir is “witty and insightful” (Publishers Weekly starred review), with over 3,900 five-star ratings on Goodreads!

“Social history at its best” (Publishers Weekly): This evocative work examines the harsh lives of settlers in Montana and the Dakotas during the homesteading rush. “As good a book as I have read about rural America in a very long time” (The New York Times Book Review).

A “delightful” New York Times bestseller (The Washington Post): When Peter Mayle and his wife bought a centuries-old French farmhouse, they were soon navigating a world of rural oddities and gastronomical delights. “I really loved this book” (Julia Child).