Search Results: Nonfiction-Description & Travel from The Brooklyn Bookman

MATTHIESSEN, Peter: African Silences. New York, Random House, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 225 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Africa – Description and Travel / Natural History – Africa. Book and jacket condition: Very Good Minus. A bit of foxing to the top-side of the book, but no other visible imperfections. Tiny tears to the center-top and bottom of dust wrapper. Price unclipped at the interior front flap. Overall a copy in near first-rate condition with unmarked pages. A moving chronicle of travels made in the Dark Continent by the internationally acclaimed author of The Snow Leopard and At Play in the Fields of the Lord. An important contribution to the travel genre. ISBN: 0679400214

IYER, Pico (Editor): The Best American Travel Writing 2004. Boston & New York, Houghton-Mifflin Company, 2004. First Edition. Softcover, 332 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Travel & Adventure / The Best American Series (Fiction and Nonfiction). Condition: Very Good Plus. Former owner's red inked inscription found on the front endpaper. Copy is in overall excellent condition with clean and unmarked pages. This book "displays American restlessness at its most tantalizaing and entertaining." A most interesting compendium of travel writings on diverse regions such as Patagonia, Kashmir, the Ivory Coast to small town Vermont. ISBN: 0618341269

ROBBINS, Michael W.(Editor): Brooklyn: A State of Mind. New York, Workman Publishing, 2001. Stated First Printing. Softcover, 392 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / New York-Brooklyn / Description & Travel / History. Condition: Very Good. Very light curling to the front cover's edge. Otherwise a copy in top-notch condition with all pages clean and fully illustrated throughout. "Celebrate America's hometown in a rollicking portrait from Brooklyn's legion of writers, artists, raconteurs and neighborhood savants." ISBN: 0761116354

BURUMA, Ian: God's Dust: A Modern Asian Journey. London, Phoenix, 2000. (Originally published in the UK in 1989 by Jonathan Cape, Ltd.) Softcover, 267 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Travel-Asia / Asian Studies. Condition: Very Good. Covers gently worn with lightly-toned pages but all unmarked and clean. "What happens to Asian cultures when traditions of the village break down and are replaced by the complexities of the modern world? [The author's] quest to answer this has taken him to eight countries, starting with Burma...and ending with Japan...Along the way, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea are revealed as never before – searching for their national identities and for meaning in the clash of cultures." ISBN: 0753810891

KRAKAUER, Jon: Into The Wild. New York, Anchor Books, 1997. Originally published: 1996. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback, 207 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Biography / Adventure and Adventurers / Hitchhiking / Wayfaring Life – U.S. West and Alaska. Condition: Good / Acceptable. Some page margins are marked in pen, but the text is readable. Slight tilt to book-spine with USED sticker on it. Moderate wear and creasing to the corners. Compelling account of the life (and death) of Christopher Johnson McCandless who had embarked on an ill-fated odyssey in the deep Alaskan wilderness. ISBN: 0385486804

KONING, Hans: A New Yorker in Egypt. New York & London, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. Stated First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 265 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Egypt-Description & Travel, 1945-Late 1970s. Book & jacket condition: Very Good Plus. Light sunning to the jacket's interior. Small tear to jacket's lower extremity. No other physical defects present. Book copy has clean, white pages. A copy in almost excellent condition, overall. A fascinating portrait of the "New Egypt" during the era of its pioneer leader Anwar el-Sadat. ISBN: 0151655200

TAPLIN, Mark: Open Lands: Travels Through Russia's Once Forbidden Places. South Royalton, VT, Steerforth Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 376 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Russian Federation-Description & Travel / Journeys-Russian Federation / Russia-Personal Narrative Accounts. Book and jacket condition: Very Good/Near Fine. Slightly used appearance to the dust wrapper but in near-fine condition overall. Sturdy wine-dark book boards with clean, white pages (no markings whatsoever). Unique and sobering account of the author's travels and encounters with the places and peoples of the varied regions of the former USSR – places that were considered off-limits to foreigners. A travel narrative account like no other! ISBN: 1883642019

SANTINI, Loretta: Rome and Vatican. Terni, Italy, Edizioni Fotorapidacolor, 1972. Softcover, 127 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Rome & Vatican / Picture Books. Condition: Very Good. Overall used appearance and condition to the pages, but clean with a transparent "dust jacket". Thoroughly illustrated throughout with stunning color photography. An important pictorial guide to the artistic and cultural heritage of the "Eternal City."

KENNEDY, Randy: Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New York. New York, St. Martin's Griffin, 2004. Softcover, 226 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / New York City-Description & Travel / Subways – New York City / New York City Subway – History & Anecdotes. Condition: Very Good. Book copy is in gently-used, near first-rate condition with unmarked pages. This book gives a fascinating account of one of the world's most famous of transportation systems – the New York City Subway – as told through "an extended tour of this storied subterranean land." Included in this account are the movers, the denizens, the shakers, the crazies – and yes, even the wildlife – that have placed a unique stamp of the transportation system of the City that Never Sleeps. ISBN: 0312324340

GERARD, Sarah: Sunshine State: Essays. New York, Harper Perennial, 2017. Stated First Edition (later printing). Softcover, 359 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Essays / Florida-Description-Social and Environmental Conditions-21st Century/ Memoir. Condition: Very Good. Signs of light moderate wear to the covers. All pages clean and unmarked. The noted author's first collection of essays, this books examines in sharp detail the glories (and underbelly) of Florida as the "Sunshine State." Recommended. ISBN: 9780062434876

HOFMANN, Paul: That Fine Italian Hand. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 238 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Italy – Civilization, National Characteristics. Book & Jacket Condition: Very Good. Almost few signs of wear to the jacket with a bit of wear to the central top extremity of dust wrapper but near-fine in appearance. Book copy itself is gently used with all pages unmarked and clean throughout. "A wry close-up of a resourceful people." In this book the author delves into the characteristics of adaptability and quirkiness that "makes the Italians Italian." ISBN: 0805009779

MAYES, Frances: Under The Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy. New York, Broadway Books, 1997. Originally published: 1996. Softcover, 280 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Memoir / Travel-Italy-Tuscany. Condition: Very Good Minus. Evident toning to the pages, yet unmarked. Light smudges to the upper extremities of front cover. Otherwise a first-rate copy. Exuberant and touching account by renowned poet, gourmet cook and travel writer of life in Italy's most picturesque and legendary region of Tuscany. A feast for the senses! ISBN: 0767900383

CHRISTMAN, Henry M. (Editor): Walt Whitman's New York: A Collection of Walt Whitman's Journalism Celebrating New York from Manhattan to Montauk. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1963. Hardcover with dust jacket, 188 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Essays, Journalism & Reportage – New York City and Long Island, 19th Century / Walt Whitman, 1819-1892. Book & jacket condition: Very Good / Good Minus. Book copy encompassed by reddish-brown boards with gold lettering on the spine. Light sunning to the pages but all readable, unmarked and clean. Jacket itself has corners price-clipped with a damp-stain at the upper interior front flap. Some chipping to the central extremities of the spine. Otherwise a dust wrapper in decent condition. A collection of the famed American poet's essays and reportage concerning his beloved New York in the early 19th century.