 | Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux Houghton Mifflin $28.00 20% off: $22.40 | “Brilliant. No one writes with Theroux’s head-on intensity and raptness, and his descriptions made me want to jump on the next plane to Istanbul.” —Pico Iyer (The Open Road) |
 | Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey by William Least Heat-Moon Little Brown & Co $27.99 20% off: $22.39 | “In the first section of his latest peripatetic writings, [Least Heat-Moon (Blue Highways)] and his wife, Q, trace the...Dunbar–Hunter Expedition of 1804 through the southern half of the Louisiana Purchase .... Few readers will be able to resist tagging along.” —Publishers Weekly (starred) |
 | Shadow of the Silk Road (P.S.) by Colin Thubron Harper Perennial $15.95 20% off: $12.76 | Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, and camel, award-winning novelist and travel writer Thubron covered some seven thousand miles in eight months—out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey—and explored an ancient world in modern ferment. “Moving in a way that’s rare in travel literature.” —The New York Times Book Review |