Browsing: Travel

A riveting history from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat: Follow the infamous Donner Party as they set out across the country — and resort to the unthinkable to survive a winter trapped in the mountains. “Remarkable… Hard to put down” (The Seattle Times).

With over 4,600 five-star ratings on Goodreads: In this acclaimed memoir, a wealthy Danish woman becomes the unexpected head of a coffee plantation in a Kenya colonized by the British Empire. The inspiration behind the Academy Award–winning film starring Meryl Streep.

When lovesick Tristran Thorn vows to retrieve a fallen star, he ventures beyond the ancient wall that separates his village from the world of Faerie… A #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a “superb” fantasy (Booklist) with over 141,000 five-star Goodreads ratings.

A “savory and delicious” memoir (Library Journal): Looking for a change, a married couple decided to quit their jobs, buy a boat, and sail around the Caribbean together. “A detailed travelogue and an intimate portrait of self-discovery, this is a refreshing, soulful journey” (Booklist).

In June 1405, King Henry IV stopped at a small Yorkshire manor house to shelter from a storm. That night…

This controversial New York Times bestseller follows a rogue journalist on a raucous journey to 1970s Las Vegas. “There are only two adjectives writers care about… ‘brilliant’ and ‘outrageous.’ Hunter Thompson has a freehold on both of them” (Tom Wolfe).

Fans of Into Thin Air will be enthralled by this true story of courage and chaos atop one of the world’s tallest mountains. In 2008, eight international climbing teams ascended the peak of K2 — but a horrifying, unforeseen disaster would plunge them into a fight for their lives…

A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist who “pulls the curtain back…

Brimming with “vividly detailed scenes and well-developed characters” (Boston Herald), this New York Times bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author tells the rich story of Alaska. “Few will escape the allure of the land and people [Michener] describes” (Los Angeles Times).

From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s…