Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“carol wright folbre”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “carol wright folbre”
Skip side bar filters

  • Wishbone

    An American Odyssey in Asia

    by Carol Wright Folbre ...
    In the spirit of Eat, Pray, Love, Carol Wright Folbre’s story is of a young suburban Texas woman’s path to self-discovery in the early 1980s. Newly married, she embarked with her husband on a journey that morphed into an eighteen-month reassessment and discovery of her core skills, values, and presumptions.Folbre’s travels across India, Nepal, China, and Russia were replete with challenge and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Island of Sea Women

    A Novel

    by Lisa See ...
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island.Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Inheritance of Loss

    by Kiran Desai ...
    In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. Kiran Desai's brilliant novel, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lost on Planet China

    The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid

    by J. Maarten Troost ...
    The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China—a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained.Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

    28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar

    by Paul Theroux ...
    The acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar retraces his legendary journey through Europe and Asia in this "funny, informative and lyrical" travelogue ( The Guardian, UK).Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his 25,000-mile journey by train through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. Three decades later, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winds of the Steppe

    Walking the Great Silk Road from Central Asia to China

    by Bernard Ollivier ...
    Translated by Dan Golembeski ...
    Bernard Ollivier pushes onward in his attempt to become the first person to walk the entire length of the Great Silk Road. “A gripping account. More than just a travel story—this is a quest for the Other.”—Alexis Liebaert, L’Événement**Picking up where Walking to Samarkand left off, Winds of the Steppe continues the astonishing tale of journalist Bernard Ollivier’s 7,200-mile walk from Turkey to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lands of Lost Borders

    A Journey on the Silk Road

    by Kate Harris ...
    A woman recounts her life-changing bicycling journey along the Silk Road in this award-winning travelogue and memoir.As a teenager, Kate Harris wanted to be an explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician. With the Earth already mapped by the likes of Magellan and Marco Polo, she set her sights on the stars: she would become a scientist and go to Mars. But in between studying at Oxford and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • High Road to Tibet: Travels in China, Tibet, Nepal and India

    Round The World Travels, #3

    by John Dwyer ...
    Series Book 3 - Round The World Travels
    "John Dwyer might be just the ticket to fill [Michael] Palin's well worn shoes" - HungryFeet.comOverland adventurer John Dwyer has less than three months to cross China, Tibet, Nepal and India and he has a to-do list:- Drink snake blood- Get smuggled into Tibet- Hike to Mount Everest- Watch the dead burning by the Ganges- Get from China to India in ten weeksFrom the Great Wall of China to the Taj ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux

    The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

    by Paul Theroux ...
    The international bestselling author records his many insights and adventures traversing the world by train in these 3 classic travel memoirs.The Great Railway BazaarIn 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on his now-legendary journey from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden ... Read more

    $36.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best Travel Writing 2011

    True Stories from Around the World

    Edited by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, Sean O'Reilly ...
    Series series Best Travel Writing
    The Best Travel Writing 2011 is the eighth volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing - from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2014

    by Jason Wilson, Paul Theroux ...
    Series series Best American
    “Travel connoisseurs divide the world into those places they’ve been dying to visit or revisit and places they’d never set foot in but are glad someone else did. This year’s volume of travel writing . . . focuses mostly on the latter with derring-do dispatches.” — USA TodayA far-ranging collection of the best travel writing pieces published in 2013, collected by guest editor Paul Theroux. The Best ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • The Best Travel Writing 2010

    True Stories from Around the World

    by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, Sean O'Reilly ...
    Series series Best Travel Writing
    The Best Travel Writing 2010 is the seventh volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing - from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus