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National Geographic Directions
Among Flowers, A Walk in the Himalaya
• Jamaica Kincaid
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
An atmospheric account of celebrated writer and gardener Jamaica Kincaid's journey to Nepal and the Himalayas with a small team of botanists. A volume in the National Geographic Directions series.
(HML62, $10.95) |
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Barcelona, The Great Enchantress
• Robert Hughes
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
Robert Hughes returns to his beloved Barcelona in this short love letter to the city. In his personable, cheekiest best, Hughes opens with a chapter on his first encounters in Barcelona in the 1960s, moving on to sketch the history, art, architecture and pleasures of the city from Roman outpost to present. A volume in the National Geographic Directions series.
(SPN227, $12.95) |
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Crete
• Barry Unsworth
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
A travel memoir from the Booker prize-winning novelist, richly detailed and seeped in the millennia-old traditions, myths, literature and history of the island.
(GRE303, $10.95) |
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Desert Memories, Journeys Through the Chilean North
• Ariel Dorfman
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2003 •
HARD COVER
• 304 PAGES
A quest for national history, personal memories, and family origins in the Atacama by the noted playwright, novelist, and essayist. Dofrman, whose wife's family first settled in the north, tackles the legacy of mining, Pinochet, and his own history in this meditative account. We also recommend Dorfman's Heading South, Looking North (CHI22), a memoir. Dorman is professor of literature at Duke. A book in the series National Geographic Directions.
(CHI53, $21.00) |
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The Edge Of Maine
• Geoffrey Wolff
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2005 •
HARD COVER
• 144 PAGES
A portrait of the coast of Maine, its culture, geology and history, by a writer long familiar with the region. With chapters on lobsters and boat building (among other topics). A volume in the series National Geographic Directions.
(USE367, $20.00) |
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I Myself Have Seen It, The Myth of Hawai'I
• Susanna Moore
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2003 •
HARD COVER
• 192 PAGES
Novelist Moore's evocative account of life in old Hawa and particularly Kuai, where she spent her school holidays as a child in the 1950s. She also looks at the Polynesian and colonial history of the islands up to the 20th century. Moore is the author of several novels including "My Old Sweetheart," "In the Cut," "Sleeping Beauties" and "The Whiteness of Bones." A volume in the National Geographic Directions series.
(HWI89, $20.00) |
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Imagined London, A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
• Anna Quindlen
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2004 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
Best-selling author Anna Quindlen looks at London, evoking the Dickensian city of fog and alleyways and the shadowy streets of Sherlock Holmes. Here are some of the world's most recognizable figures, both real and fictional, on the streets which they made so famous. A volume in the National Geographic Directions series.
(GBR482, $10.95) |
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Into a Paris Quartier, Reine Margot's Chapel and other Haunts of St. Germain
• Diane Johnson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 204 PAGES
An affectionate, personal portrait of place, Johnson writes with insight, verve and wit of her neighborhood on the Left Bank. She weaves history, anecdote, and tales of the many, mostly American, expatriates of St. Germain. The book, a volume in the National Geographic Directions series, works as both a history and walking guide.
(FRN491, $10.95) |
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The Mays of Ventadorn, Tales from Southwest France
• W.S. Merwin
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
A shapely memoir and meditation by the great poet and author of The Lost Upland: Stories of Southwest France. Merwin -- who has had a farmhouse in the region for decades -- writes of rural traditions, his own love of the region, and, specifically, of the narrative poems and songs of the troubadours. The title refers to the ruined 12-century chateaux of Bernart de Ventadorn in southern France. A book in the series National Geographic Directions.
(FRN341, $20.00) |
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Mr. Jefferson's University
• Garry Wills
HISTORY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
A well-told, consice history of the construction of the University of Virginia. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills discusses Jefferson's vision, along with the university's architectural details legacy. A title in the National Geographic Directions series.
(USE316, $10.95) |
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My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries and Preoccupations
• Howard Norman
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2004 •
HARD COVER
• 208 PAGES
• FAVORITE
Howard Norman returned to Nova Scotia over a period of 30 years to interview local legends and research the folklore of the area. Norman writes with an impressionistic intimacy to create a portrait of this enchanting place and its people. A volume in the National Geographic Directions series.
(CND204, $20.00) |
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Oaxaca Journal
• Oliver Sacks
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2012 •
PAPER
• 160 PAGES
• COMING IN MARCH
A man of many talents, neurologist Sacks is not only a marvelous essayist and intrepid traveler but also a man with a keen eye for nature and an interest in traditional cultures. This book, the result of a trip to Oaxaca with (of all things) the American Fern Society displays his wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, interweaving his observations and travels with history, nature and culture of the region. A volume in the National Geographic Destinations series.
(MEX100, $14.95) |
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The Road to Santiago
• Kathryn Harrison
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2003 •
HARD COVER
• 176 PAGES
The novelist's meditative, personal account of journeys along the route of St. James from St.-Jean-Pied-de-Port in France to Santiago de Compostela. A volume in the National Geographic Directions series.
(SPN209, $20.00) |
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Sicilian Odyssey
• Francine Prose
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2003 •
HARD COVER
• 192 PAGES
Novelist Francine Prose tries her hand at travel writing in this lyrical, vibrant and concise portrait of Sicily. Prose evokes Sicily's history, art, landscape and cuisine through considerations of her own journey across the island -- blurring the divide between past and present. Includes Prose's own photographs. A volume in the National Geographic Directions series.
(ITL451, $20.00) |
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