Who would have guessed that an innocent search for an inexpensive edition of War and Peace could lead to an all-consuming obsession? Nancy and Lawrence Goldstone's romance with rare books arose from just such a search and led them to a world they had never encountered before: the world of antiquarian books. They quickly found themselves infatuated with this quaint and curious world, and scoured the East Coast in search of first editions and rare books. This search, and the curious people they met along the way, is chronicled in their book Used and Rare. Their second book, Slightly Chipped, continues this exploration, taking us on tours of book fairs, libraries, and auctions. No longer the wide-eyed innocents, the Goldstones delve a little deeper into the book world: they explore facets such as fine printing and literary movements, pour over Bram Stoker's notes for Dracula, and puzzle over the incredible markup of hypermoderns. (Never heard of hypermoderns? They are collectible books recently published. A first edition of Sue Grafton's A Is for Alibi sold for $1,250 in 1998. Better check your shelves.) Both the avid bibliophile and the casual reader will find things to enjoy in Slightly Chipped. For the collector, the Goldstones' discussion of the Internet's impact on collecting is illuminating, and their look at the hypermodern market is positively eye-opening. Plus, visits to such places as the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia and the Pequot Library in Connecticut will get any bibliophile's salivary glands going. For the casual reader, Slightly Chipped is as warm and engaging as Used and Rare; although the Goldstones have become sophisticated book collectors, there is still plenty of the ingenuous surprise and delight that made Used and Rare such a joy to read. They balance out the serious aspects of book collecting with a liberal peppering of literary anecdotes, ranging from William Morris's tyrannical leadership of the Kelmscott Press to the sexual proclivities of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, keeping the tone light and the pace lively. All this packed into one volume makes Slightly Chipped a rare treat for book lovers of all types. --Perry Atterberry

In 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like―to get to the roots of the American nature and experience. He set out on a journey that was to last three years, visiting many sections of the country and making friends of all descriptions. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare is the result of that odyssey.

Henry Miller’s landmark travel book, now reissued in a new edition, is ready to be stuffed into any vagabond’s backpack. Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel literature. It has preceded the footsteps of prominent travel writers such as Pico Iyer and Rolf Potts. The book Miller would later cite as his favorite began with a young woman’s seductive description of Greece. Miller headed out with his friend Lawrence Durrell to explore the Grecian countryside: a flock of sheep nearly tramples the two as they lie naked on a beach; the Greek poet Katsmbalis, the “colossus” of Miller’s book, stirs every rooster within earshot of the Acropolis with his own loud crowing; cold hard-boiled eggs are warmed in a village’s single stove, and they stay in hotels that “have seen better days, but which have an aroma of the past.”

Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons: a night of love, a stay in a luxury hotel, or simply to disappear for a while. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry, and then stays when he finds he can live off just a few dollars a day. Osborne's Bangkok is a vibrant, instinctual city full of contradictions. He wanders the streets, dining on insects, trawling through forgotten neighbourhoods, decayed temples and sleazy bars. Far more than a travel book, Bangkok Days explores both the little-known, extraordinary city and the lives of a handful of doomed ex-patriates living there, 'as vivid a set of liars and losers as was ever invented by Graham Greene' (New York Times).

From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east―and of the tour itself Sick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself. He took a six-month journey across the so-called Asian Highway―a swathe of Southeast Asia that, since the Victorian era, has seduced generations of tourists with its manufactured dreams of the exotic Orient. And like many a lost soul on this same route, he ended up in the harrowing forests of Papua, searching for a people who have never seen a tourist. What, Osborne asks, are millions of affluent itinerants looking for in these endless resorts, hotels, cosmetic-surgery packages, spas, spiritual retreats, sex clubs, and "back to nature" trips? What does tourism, the world's single largest business, have to sell? A travelogue into that heart of darkness known as the Western mind, The Naked Tourist is the most mordant and ambitious work to date from the author of The Accidental Connoisseur, praised by The New York Times Book Review as "smart, generous, perceptive, funny, sensible."

《吃鱼歌》主要收入关于饮食、记游的文章。作者鼓腹而歌，唱出日本文化百般滋味；率性而游，始终追寻历史的脚步和文化的脉络。在整套文集中，这一册可谓最为活色生香，动感十足。李长声，1949年生于长春，曾任日本文学杂志副主编。20世纪90年代以来，为北京、上海、广东、台湾等地的报刊写随笔专栏，结集出版有《日知漫录》、《东游西话》等。

奔宁山脉是英格兰的脊柱，山顶长约四百公里的奔宁步道贯穿了约克郡、诺桑比亚郡，一直延伸至苏格兰境内。诗人阿米蒂奇的故乡就位于步道南端。二〇一〇年夏天，他由北向南徒步回家，身上一文不名，全靠为沿路居民朗诵诗歌来换取旅费，其目的在于“测试我本人的名声，更是测试诗歌在当今世界的地位”。这一壮举为BBC、《卫报》、《独立报》、《每日电讯》等多家媒体争相报道，作者也被誉为“现代行吟诗人”。此书就是诗人自己对这段旅程中所遇风景与人的描绘与感悟。

此书是作者在日本神户居留一年期间，所游所思所观所感。所游之地都在日本的关西地区，就是京都、神户、奈良、大阪、滋贺县、三重县、兵库县、四国等，这里被称为是最有日本文化味道的一个区域。尤以留存的古都、古城风貌而闻名于世。从古代到近代，奈良、京都等地曾经是首都，同时这里也是文乐、歌舞伎、茶道、插花等艺术的发祥地。 这份游记，虽然也写山水美景、个人游踪、思乡之情，但始终存在着一份对日本民族古典文化的观照和对望，对于日本人的生死观、民族性、日本美学、民间故事以及历史传说等都有深入的观察和思考。

京都时空多堆叠，无论名胜古迹，或是街角巷弄，皆有过往事迹存遗。正因完整保留了许多故事，才使京都散发着历史弥新的魅力

本书是关于法国当代生活文化艺术的游记，作者陈侗到法国实地考察了40来天，具有大量的原码感受，原书中配有作者拍摄的图片。与其它游记不同，由于作者从事中法艺术出版交流多年，本书的大部分文字都是与法国的艺术出版有关，作者以游记的轻松手法，介绍了自己亲身经历的法国的艺术书店、出版社、艺术大师等与艺术出版有关的人与事，从中可以看出作者“自己的世界”。

林文月以一个旅游者的眼光来看待20世纪70年代初期的日本生活，为读者呈现了日本的秀美风光、民情风俗、鬼神传说乃至宗教迷信。用清新动人的笔墨，向读者转述自己对日本这个远东国家古怪而陌生的印象。雅俗共赏的内容与笔触，不同的读者会得到不同的体验与启示。 本中主要介绍京都这座历史文化城市，所涉猎的范围，虽然没有一定的系统性，但具有非常及引人的可读性，有如一幅白描长卷，将日本的历史生活风貌一一展现在读者眼前。

我们每个人都从自己生命的起点一路跋涉而来，途中难免患得患失，背上的行囊也一日重似一日，令我们无法看清前面的方向。在这场漫长的旅行之中，有些包袱一念之间便可放下，有些则或许背负经年，更有些竟至令人终其一生无法割舍。但所有这些，都不过是我们自己捏造出来的幻象罢了。

曾說出「我對奧運一點興趣也沒有」的小說家會在奧運現場看到什麼？這是村上春樹在2000年雪梨奧運的二十三天日記實錄，跟著村上一同搭機飛扺雪梨國際機場，看看害羞的鴨嘴獸及能致人於死的鱷魚「小鹹」，品味澳洲的葡萄美酒和牛肉派。在克盡職責的帝苑酒店（Royal Garden Hotel）好好睡一覺起來，前往地方公園（Regional Park），與五萬人一同參觀奧運聖火，迎接奧運的來臨，現場目睹馬拉松、自行車、三項鐵人比賽，聽聽選手跑向終點時群眾的叫喊聲。

1990 年村上春樹將其旅遊希臘．土耳其邊境所見所聞融合而成《雨天．炎天》一書，內容包括兩個篇章：希臘篇──亞陀斯「上帝的現實世界」、土耳其篇：紅茶、軍隊與羊──「21 日環遊土耳其」。村上途經伊佛隆、費羅修奧、卡拉卡魯、大勞拉等眾多修道院，以及土耳其、黑海、賀巴等地，品嚐過各式各樣的露可米、利久酒，甚至長黴麵包的滋味。書中充滿脫離現實世界的異國情調，在雨天炎天的季節輝映下，卻有冷暖自知的人情。那些點滴在心頭的無奈、他鄉遇故知的感動，帶領我們欣賞旅遊過程中獨特的村上式詼諧，別有一番令人莞爾的況味。