The Factory of Facts

Lucy Sante

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• The acclaimed author of Low Life reinvents the memoir in a cunning, lyrical book that is at once a personal history and a meditation on the constructi... Lees meer

The Tiger

John Vaillant

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A gripping story of man pitted against nature's most fearsome and efficient predator. This "travelogue about tiger poaching in R... Lees meer

Tokyo Underworld

Robert Whiting

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• "A fascinating look at some fascinating people who show how democracy advances hand in hand with crime in Japan."--Mario Puzo In this unorthodox chron... Lees meer

Theatre of Fish

John Gimlette

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• Newfoundland is one of the most intriguing places in North America, a land of breathtaking but cruel beauty, populated by some of the saltiest, oddest... Lees meer

The Best of Outside

Outside Magazine

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• The man-eating proclivities of Komodo dragons. The complicated art of being a cowgirl. A picaresque ramble with a merry band of tree-cleaners. The big... Lees meer

Whiteout

Ted Conover

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• The Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack delivers an irreverent, poignant, and revealing meditatio... Lees meer

Cuba in Mind

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• Since Columbus arrived in 1492 and called Cuba "the most beautiful country that human eyes have ever seen," few places on earth have evoked such passi... Lees meer

Eastward to Tartary

Robert D Kaplan

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• Eastward to Tartary , Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts , introduces readers to an explosive ... Lees meer

Running the Amazon

Joe Kane

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• A personal account of the first expedition to travel the entirety of the world's longest river. Ten men and one woman embarked on this incredible jour... Lees meer

Sun After Dark

Pico Iyer

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• One of the best travel writers now at work in the English language brings back the sights and sounds from a dozen different frontiers. A cryptic encou... Lees meer

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig

John Gimlette

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• Haven to Nazis, smugglers' paradise, home to some of the earth's oddest wildlife and most baroquely awful dictatorships, Paraguay is a nation waiting ... Lees meer

The Ends of the Earth

Robert D Kaplan

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• Author of Balkan Ghosts , Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warrin... Lees meer

Driving Over Lemons

Chris Stewart

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• A funny, generous, wonderfully written account of a family making a life and home in remote but enchanting southern Spain--from the first drummer of t... Lees meer

Near Death in the Desert

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• A travel anthology that gathers the best adventure stories from the world's most barren landscapes. Ranging from 19th-century explorers to modern-day ... Lees meer

In Search of Zarathustra

Paul Kriwaczek

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• Long before the first Hebrew temple, before the birth of Christ or the mission of Muhammad, there lived in Persia a prophet to whom we owe the ideas o... Lees meer

Inside the Sky

William Langewiesche

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• William Langewiesche's life has been deeply intertwined with the idea and act of flying. Fifty years ago his father, a test pilot, wrote Stick and Rud... Lees meer

The Heart of the World

Nik Cohn

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• "The history of Broadway has been written before, but never better. . . . The verbal energy that pours off these pages is enough to transform the hell... Lees meer

You Gotta Have Wa

Robert Whiting

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• A hilarious, informative, and riveting account of Japanese baseball and the cultural clashes that ensued when Americans began playing there profession... Lees meer

Tibet, Tibet

Patrick French

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• At different times in its history Tibet has been renowned for pacifism and martial prowess, enlightenment and cruelty. The Dalai Lama may be the only ... Lees meer

Rolling Nowhere

Ted Conover

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• In Ted Conover's first book, now back in print, he enters a segment of humanity outside society and reports back on a world few of us would chose to e... Lees meer

An Empire Wilderness

Robert D Kaplan

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• "Full of surprises and unusual revelations . . . an informed and disturbing portrait of the new American badlands."-- Chicago Tribune "[Kaplan is] tir... Lees meer

Gun Guys

Dan Baum

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• Dan Baum is a gun fanatic. He is also Jewish Democrat who grew up in suburban New Jersey. In Gun Guys , he takes us on a guided tour of gun stores and... Lees meer

My Lead Dog Was a Lesbian

Brian Patrick O'Donoghue

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• The Iditarod may be the only race that awards a prize for last place. But then how many people can even complete a course that ranges across 1,000 mil... Lees meer

Dear Exile

Hilary Liftin, Kate Montgomery

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Departures
• A funny and moving story told through the letters of two women nurturing a friendship as they are separated by distance, experience, and time. Close f... Lees meer