Six Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawaii's Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes
8 best books like Six Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawaii's Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes (Isabella Lucy Bird): Travels with Charley: In Search of America, The Great Railway Bazaar, Into the Heart of Borneo, The Last Grain Race, Selected Letters, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, Life among the Apaches, Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
| Author | John Steinbeck |
| ISBN | 0142000701 |
A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California’s Monterey Peninsula
To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover...
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0618658947 |
First published in 1975, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local,...
| Author | Redmond O'Hanlon |
| ISBN | 0394755405 |
Humor can be found on the mere incongruity of the person with the place he finds himself in. That is why we enjoy watching those Tarzan-in-the-big-city themed movies: the bewildered savage treating modern civilization as just another type of jungle and behaving just as he was before in his former habitat.
This...
| Author | Eric Newby |
| ISBN | 0864427689 |
In 1938 an eighteen-year-old boy signed on for the round trip from Europe to Australia in the last commercial sailing fleet to make that formidable journey. The four-masted barque Moshulu ended up as a dockside restaurant in Philadelphia; the young apprentice went on to become one of the greatest travel...
| Author | Emily Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0674250702 |
When the complete "Letters of Emily Dickinson" appeared in three volumes in 1958, Robert Kirsch welcomed them in the "Los Angeles Times," saying "The missives offer access to the mind and heart of one of America's most intriguing literary personalities." This one-volume selection is at last available...
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
| Author | Margaret Renkl |
| ISBN | 1571313788 |
An Indie Next Selection for July 2019
An Indies Introduce Selection for Summer/Fall 2019
From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family--and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world.
Growing...
| Author | John Carey Cremony |
| ISBN | 0803263120 |
John C. Cremony's first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s, when he accompanied John R. Bartlett’s boundary commission surveying the United States-Mexican border. Some ten years later, as an officer of the California Volunteers, he renewed his acquaintance,...
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0544323521 |
One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked
Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth...
