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- A voyage across an ancient ocean, a bicycle journey through the northern dominion of oil, David Goodrich
- Korea, a walk through the land of miracles, Simon Winchester
- No friends but the mountains, dispatches from the world's violent highlands, Judith Matloff
- The puma years, a memoir, Laura Coleman
- South of the Clouds, travels in southwest China, Bill Porter
- A Year in Paris, Season by Season in the City of Light, John Baxter
- God save Texas, a journey into the soul of the Lone Star State, Lawrence Wright
- Duck season, eating, drinking, and other misadventures in Gascony -- France's last best place, David McAninch
- Figures in a landscape, people and places : essays: 2001-2016, Paul Theroux
- The optimist, a case for the fly fishing life, David Coggins
- An innocent abroad, life-changing trips from 35 great writers, edited by Don George
- The third bank of the river, power and survival in the twenty-first-century Amazon, Chris Feliciano Arnold
- Every day the river changes, four weeks down the Magdalena, Jordan Salama
- Open mic night in Moscow, and other stories from my search for black markets, Soviet architecture, and emotionally unavailable Russian men, Audrey Murray
- Texas blood, seven generations among the outlaws, ranchers, Indians, missionaries, soldiers, and smugglers of the borderlands, Roger D. Hodge
- The best American travel writing 2021, edited with an introduction by Padma Lakshmi ; Jason Wilson, series editor
- Travel as a political act, Rick Steves
- The life and afterlife of Harry Houdini, Joe Posnanski
- A land gone lonesome, an inland voyage along the Yukon River, Dan O'Neill
- The Greek house, the story of a painter's love affair with the island of Sifnos, Christian Brechneff, with Tim Lovejoy
- On the noodle road, from Beijing to Rome, with love and pasta, Jen Lin-Liu
- Even darkness sings, from Auschwitz to Hiroshima : finding hope in the saddest places on Earth, Thomas H. Cook
- Spying on the South, an odyssey across the American divide, Tony Horwitz
- The monk of Mokha, Dave Eggers
- The four roads to heaven, France and the Santiago pilgrimage, Edwin Mullins
- South to America, a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation, Imani Perry
- Dirt, adventures in Lyon as a chef in training, father, and sleuth looking for the secret of French cooking, Bill Buford
- Picnic in Provence, a memoir with recipes, Elizabeth Bard
- Ruthless river, love and survival by raft on the Amazon's relentless Madre de Dios, Holly FitzGerald
- The Seine, the river that made Paris, Elaine Sciolino
- Love is an ex-country, a memoir, Randa Jarrar
- Walking to Samarkand, the Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia, Bernard Ollivier ; translated by Dan Golembeski
- Raptor, a journey through birds : with a new preface, James Macdonald Lockhart
- St. Everywhere, travels in search of the lady saints, Mary Lea Carroll
- A pilgrimage to eternity, from Canterbury to Rome in search of a faith, Timothy Egan
- Walking to listen, 4,000 miles across America, one story at a time, Andrew Forsthoefel
- On the water, discovering America in a rowboat, Nathaniel Stone ; illustrations by Elizabeth Stone
- Outlandish, walking Europe's unlikely landscapes, Nick Hunt
- The voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin ; with introduction, notes, and illustrations
- How to be Parisian wherever you are, love, style, and bad habits, Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Sophie Mas, Caroline De Maigret
- Secret marvels of the world, written by Alex Howard [and 51 others] ; illustrator, Lauren Crow ; editors, Samantha Forge, Nick Mee, Christina Webb
- Owls of the eastern ice, a quest to find and save the world's largest owl, Jonathan C. Slaght
- Northland, a 4,000-mile journey along America's forgotten border, Porter Fox
- Postcards from Stanland, journeys in Central Asia, David H. Mould
- The far land, 200 years of murder, mania, and mutiny in the South Pacific, Brandon Presser
- Skeletons on the Zahara, a true story of survival, Dean King
- The worrier's guide to the end of the world, love, loss, and other catastrophes through Italy, India, and beyond, Torre DeRoche
- Alpine cooking, recipes and stories from Europe's grand mountaintops, Meredith Erickson ; photographs by Christina Holmes ; maps by Samuel Bucheli
- In the weeds, around the world and behind the scenes with Anthony Bourdain, Tom Vitale