The Art of Travel
by Alain de Botton

An experienced traveler and the author of five books, including How Proust Can Change Your Life, De Botton here offers nine essays concerning the art of travel.

The Best American Travel Writing 2002
by Frances Mayes (Editor); Paperback

Writer Mayes (Under the Tuscan Sun) is the guest editor of this third annual collection, in which "writers cover many latitudes and longitudes, physically and metaphorically.

Eyewitness Travel Guide to Italy
(revised)
Paperback

You'd be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive, engrossing and just plain fun-to-read guidebook than the Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italy.

New York: Then and Now
by Annette Witheridge

With concrete and steel covering every inch of Manhattan and the other boroughs, New York is the city of the 20th century.

Riefenstahl, Africa
by Kevin Brownlee

Colorado : Yesterday & Today
by Joseph Collier, Grant Collier

This photographic history captures the evolution of the Colorado landscape and reminds us of the continuing challenges of respectful stewardship.

New York from the Air
[BARGAIN PRICE]
by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, John Tauranac

Chicago Tribune
"Here is a New York in which you, finally, have the upper hand...and the bird's eye view."

Lonely Planet Central Asia
(2nd Edition)
by Bradley Mayhew, et al