Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Travel writing

Carsick

by John Waters – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (June 03, 2014)

Carsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdo

John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache,...

The Tuscan Year

by Elizabeth Romer – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (November 30, 1994)

The Tuscan Year recounts the daily life and food preparation of a family living on a farm in Tuscany. Elizabeth Romer chronicles each season's activities month by month: curing prosciutto and making salame in...

Access All Areas

by Sara Wheeler – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (January 22, 2013)

Adventures in going forth and staying put from one of our greatest travel writers

In vivid, urgent books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler reckoned with the allure and brutality of...

Great Plains

by Ian Frazier – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (May 04, 2001)

National Bestseller

With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring...

Ghost Milk

by Iain Sinclair – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (July 17, 2012)

From "an astonishingly original and entertaining writer" (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post) and "our greatest guide to London" (The Spectator), an extraordinary book about a disappearing city

The Olympics,...

Stolen Figs

by Mark Rotella – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (May 01, 2004)

An effortlessly artful blend of travel book, memoir, and affectionate portrait of a people

Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy—a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to...

Rowing to Latitude

by Jill Fredston – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (October 10, 2002)

Two by sea: A couple rows the wild coasts of the far north

Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband,...

The Naked Tourist

by Lawrence Osborne – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (June 12, 2007)

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,...

The Magnetic North

by Sara Wheeler – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (February 01, 2011)

A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title

More than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselling Terra...

Travels in Siberia

by Ian Frazier – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (October 12, 2010)

A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains

In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye...