Travels in Alaska

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Previous slide Next slide Travels in Alaska chronicles John Muir’s adventures in that astonishing and majestic landscape. Muir first journeyed to Alaska […]

Sea and Sardinia

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Previous slide Next slide Sea and Sardinia is a penetrating study of a time and place as seen through the thoughts and […]

Twilight in Italy

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Previous slide Next slide In 1912 D. H. Lawrence eloped with Freida Weekley (née von Richthofen), and they lived for six months […]

Mornings in Mexico

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Previous slide Next slide Mornings in Mexico is the only collection among D. H. Lawrence’s travel writings that focuses on the North […]

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

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Previous Next A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, John Muir’s captivating and lyrical travelogue, chronicles his remarkable 1867 journey from Indiana through […]

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

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Previous Next Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes brims with Robert Louis Stevenson’s wry and exquisite observations and his obvious delight […]

My First Summer in the Sierra

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Previous Next My First Summer in the Sierra is perhaps the most lyrical, joyous, and engaging of all John Muir’s many works. […]

The White Heart of Mojave

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Click Here Previous Next Edna Brush Perkins visited Death Valley with her good friend and fellow suffragette Charlotte Jordan chronicling their beautiful, […]

West with the Night

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– In West with the Night Beryl Markham chronicles her unconventional, free-spirited girlhood in Kenya and her adventures as a rescue pilot, […]