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  • A Beginner's Guide to Japan

    Observations and Provocations

    by Pico Iyer ...
    “Arguably the greatest living travel writer” (Outside magazine), Pico Iyer has called Japan home for more than three decades. But, as he is the first to admit, the country remains an enigma even to its long-term residents. In A Beginner’s Guide to Japan, Iyer draws on his years of experience—his travels, conversations, readings, and reflections—to craft a playful and profound book of surprising, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Quiet Place

    A Novel

    by Seicho Matsumoto ...
    Translated by Louise Heal Kawai ...
    An artfully twisty psychological mystery from Seichō Matsumoto, hailed as “Japan’s Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times), exploring the corrosive power of jealousy, guilt, and doubtWhile on an important business trip, Tsuneo Asai receives word that his wife, Eiko, has died suddenly of a heart attack. She had long suffered from heart problems, so the news is not entirely unexpected—though she was far ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Half Known Life

    In Search of Paradise

    by Pico Iyer ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, TIME MAGAZINE & MORE“Masterful . . . A book of inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors . . . One of his very best.” —Washington Post“Dazzling.” —Time Magazine, Best Books of 2023From “one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time” (Brain Pickings): a journey through competing ideas ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Autumn Light

    Season of Fire and Farewells

    by Pico Iyer ...
    In this “exquisite personal blend of philosophy and engagement, inner quiet and worldly life" (Los Angeles Times), an acclaimed author returns to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s sudden death and picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites, reminding us to take nothing for granted.In a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, Pico Iyer comes ... Read more

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  • The Way of Wanderlust

    The Best Travel Writing of Don George

    by Don George ...
    As a professional travel writer and editor for the past 40 years, Don George has been paid to explore the world. Through the decades, his articles have been published in magazines, newspapers, and websites around the globe and have won more awards than almost any other travel writer alive, yet his pieces have never been collected into one volume. The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aflame

    Learning from Silence

    by Pico Iyer ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Reading Aflame may help many to lead lives of greater compassion and deeper peace of mind.” —His Holiness the Dalai Lama“A perfect read for the noisy and anxious world we live in right now." –NBC Today Show“Slender and splendid.” – The Marginalian, Best Books of 2025From the bestselling author of The Art of Stillness, a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Art of Stillness

    Adventures in Going Nowhere

    by Pico Iyer ...
    Series series TED Books
    A follow up to Pico Iyer’s essay “The Joy of Quiet,” The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug.Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico Iyer, who has journeyed from Easter Island to Ethiopia, Cuba to Kathmandu, think that sitting quietly in a room might be the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Lady and the Monk

    Four Seasons in Kyoto

    by Pico Iyer ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the images woven through ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Snow Leopard

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD“A masterpiece that exceeds the boundaries of the travel genre and envelops you with its incredible prose.” —Wall Street JournalAn unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)**In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Lonely Planet The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology

    True stories from the world's best writers

    by TC Boyle, Torre DeRoche, Karen Joy Fowler, Pico Iyer, Alexander McCall Smith, Ann Patchett, Francine Prose ...
    Series series Lonely Planet Travel Literature
    Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherA collection of great travel writing by authors from around the globe, including original stories set in Scotland, Thailand, Malaysia, Moldova, Tanzania, Austria and beyond, edited by long-term Lonely Planet collaborator Don George.The 35 impassioned stories included in this collection - of fortune tellers, tribal baboon hunters, a friendly ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seeds of Fiction

    Graham Greene's Adventures in Haiti and Central America 1954–1983

    by Bernard Diederich ...
    A major new biography of Graham Greene with extensive new material; exclusive, never-before-seen photographs of Greene on his travels; and full family cooperationAn essential read for fans of literary biography, this book finally and fully illuminates a pivotal episode in Graham Greene's life and career in the kind of detail that will sate any fans of his work, but which also provides a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lonely Planet By the Seat of My Pants

    by Simon Winchester, Sean Condon, Don George, Pico Iyer, Jan Morris, Danny Wallace, Wickham Boyle, Tim Cahill, Joshua Clark ...
    Series series Lonely Planet Travel Literature
    Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherHumorous tales of travel and misadventure.Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures, unidentifiable dinners or unforgettable encounters, they can give birth to our most found travel lessons, and our most memorable - and hilarious - ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus