Selected Travel Titles, July 2005 - April 2006: National Geographic Books to Neil Wilson Press

Compiled by Robert Dahlin and Charles Hix -- Publishers Weekly, 9/12/2005

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BOOKS

National Geographic Traveler: Piedmont & Northwest Italy with Turin & the Alps (Nov., $21.95) by Tim Jepson begins its tour in Turin, site of the 2006 Winter Olympics. Additional forthcoming National Geographic Traveler titles are Portugal (Nov., $21.95) by Fiona Dunlop, Florence & Tuscany (Feb., $25.95) by Tim Jepson, Mexico (Feb., $27.50) by Jane Onstott, Thailand (Feb., $25.95) by Phil Macdonald, Barcelona (Mar., $22.95) by Damien Simonis, Costa Rica (Mar., $22.95) by Christopher Baker, Hong Kong (Mar., $22.95) by Phil Macdonald, New York (Mar., $22.95) by Michael S. Durham, Alaska (Apr., $22.95) by Bob Devine and Madrid (Apr., $22.95) by Annie Bennett. New to its NG Direction series by noted authors are Oaxaca Journal (Oct., $10.95) by Oliver Sacks and Imagined London (Jan., $10.95) by Anna Quindlen. Other announced titles include National Geographic Guide to the National Parks (Feb., $25), The Ten Best of Everything: An Ultimate Guide for Travelers (Mar., $19.95) by Nathaniel Lande and Andrew Lande and Yosemite National Park Road Guide (Apr., $8.95) by Thomas Schmidt.

NORTH POINT PRESS

A city living in the shadow of its ancient past takes its place in today’s world in Facing Athens: Encounters with the Modern City (Dec., $12) by George Sarrinikolaou.

W.W. NORTON

A man who has traveled to more than 50 countries tells how to capitalize on dozens of different shooting situations in Rick Sammon’s Travel and Nature Photography: Lessons on Capturing Great Images from Around the World (Apr., $TBA) by Rick Sammon. Launched last year, the art/shop/eat series expands with seven new $13.95 titles in September: Milan and Venice, both by Paul Blanchard, Berlin by Simon Garnett, Los Angeles by Jade Chang, San Francisco by Marlene Goldman et al., Madrid by Robert Smyth and Prague by Jasper Tilbury. Blue Guide Greece: The Mainland (Sept., $34.95) by Sherry Marker and James Pettifer is a seventh edition.

OLIVE BRANCH PRESS

Hadani Ditmars has been reporting from Iraq since 1997, and she relates what she has witnessed in Dancing in the No-Fly Zone: A Woman’s Journey Through Iraq (Oct., $16.95). Midnight Tales: A Woman’s Journey Through the Middle East (Nov., $15) is by Middle-Eastern writer Rosina-Fawzia al-Rawi.

OREGON STATE UNIV. PRESS

The 1877 retreat of the Nez Perce Indians from their homeland in the Pacific Northwest to exile in Oklahoma and Canada forms the basis for Following the Nez Perce Trail: A Guide to the Nee-Me-Poo National Historic Trail with Eyewitness Accounts (Dec., $29.95) by Cheryl Wilfong.

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN/I.B. TAURIS

Santorini, Mykonos and Delos are just three of the isles visited by John Freely in The Cyclades: Discovering the Greek Islands of the Aegean (July, $19.95). Venice: City of Art (Mar., $25.95 cloth) by Matteo Varia portrays the city throughout the ages with photos by Livio Bourbon. Spectacular mountains and lush valleys figure prominently in A Passage to Nuristan: Exploring the Mysterious Afghan Hinterland (Apr., $39.50 cloth) by Nicholas Barrington et al. Patrick Marnham’s 1968 trek from Turkey to Nepal is recalled in his Road to Katmandu (Nov., $16.95). In 1932, Ella Maillart set out from Moscow for Russian Turkestan, and her account is Turkestan Solo: A Journey Through Central Asia (Nov., $22.50). Paul William Roberts takes in the present and the past in River in the Desert: A Modern Traveller in Ancient Egypt (Jan., $14.95). Paul Hyland’s travels along the course of the sacred Godavari River in southern India result in Indian Balm: Travels Amongst Fakirs and Fire Warriors (Feb., $14.95). The last four titles are Tauris Parke paperbacks.

PINEAPPLE PRESS

Charles Feil collaborates with Kevin M. McCarthy in presenting images taken from a gyroplane to show the Everglades, beaches and robust urban centers in Over Southeast Florida (Oct., $19.95 cloth).

RANDOM HOUSE

Whether it’s watching a baseball game in Cuba or reporting on the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Ill., Susan Orlean (The Orchid Thief) is on the scene in a new collection of essays entitled My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere (Oct., $13.95).

RDR BOOKS

Christopher Rush follows the route taken by Robert Louis Stevenson in To Travel Hopefully: Footsteps in the French Cevennes (Sept., $17.95). I Should Have Gone Home: Tripped Up Around the World (Aug., $17.95), edited by Roger Rapoport et al., collects humorous travel stories from all over. Rapoport and Kim Klescewski edited I Should Have Stayed Home: Hotels (Sept.) and …Food (Oct., $13.95 each). Never Get Lost Again (Oct., $9.95) by Linda Gekin is a second edition.

READER’S DIGEST BOOKS

Chen Dayan provides a first-hand account—and more than 120 color images—in Shanghai: A Photographic Journey of China’s Most Cosmopolitan City (Nov., $30 cloth).

ROARING FORTIES PRESS

Three new paperback titles ($19.95 each) in the publisher’s Art Place series join the previously published A Journey into the Transcendentalists’ New England. A Journey into Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexico (July) by Scott Winterrowd explores the ways in which the New Mexico landscape and the noted artist helped to define and inspire each other. Illustrated with vibrant paintings and historic photos, A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York (Dec.) by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick explores the theaters, bars and hotel rooms of the city in which Dorothy Parker sharpened her wit. A Journey into Steinbeck’s California (Feb.) by Susan Shillinglaw investigates the relationship between the iconic writer and the area he loved and that figures so prominently in his work.

RUCKSACK READERS (dist. by Interlink)

Jacquetta Megarry advises how to climb the world’s highest freestanding mountain in Explore Mt. Kilimanjaro (Oct., $15.95). A 73-mile hike is the Scottish path followed by Megarry in The Great Glen Way (Oct., $15.95). Aconcagua (Oct.) by Harry Kikstra and Kilimanjaro (Oct., $14.95 each) by Megarry are new entries in the Rucksack Pocket Summit Guides series.

ST. MARTIN’S PRESS

December brings a flock of Let’s Go editions: Let’s Go: Europe 2006 ($14.99), …Amsterdam ($16.99), …Britain 2006 ($22.99), …Eastern Europe ($23.99), …France 2006 ($22.99), …Greece ($21.99), …Ireland ($19.99), …Italy 2006 ($22.99), …London ($16.99), …Mexico ($22.99), …New Zealand ($19.99), …Puerto Rico ($15.99), …Spain & Portugal 2006 ($22.99), …USA 2006 ($24.99) and …Western Europe 2006 ($24.99).

SANTA MONICA PRESS (dist. by IPG)

The limo that JFK was riding in when he was assassinated, Lizzie Borden’s hatchet, the piano from the movie Casablanca—where are they? Chris Epting tells in The Ruby Slippers, Madonna’s Bra and Einstein’s Brain: The Locations of America’s Pop Culture Artifacts (Feb., $16.95). The creepy sides of many family-oriented places are disclosed in Haunted Hikes: Spine-Tingling Tales and Trails from North America’s National Parks (Mar., $16.95) by Andrea Lankford. Los Angeles has starred in noir films countless times, but Alain Silver and James Ursini add them up in L.A. Noir: The City as Character (Oct., $24.95).

SASQUATCH BOOKS

Lodging and dining reviews as well as information on romantic highlights in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia are assembled in the ninth edition of The Best Places to Kiss in the Northwest: A Romantic Travel Guide (Oct., $21) by Kate Chynoweth.

SIMON & SCHUSTER

Television and restaurant critic for London’s Sunday Times and Vanity Fair contributing writer, A.A. Gill is also a witty and opinionated travel writer. In AA Gill Is Away (Oct., $14), he recounts witnessing starving people in Africa and making a porno film in Los Angeles, along with many other stories.

STACEY INT’L (dist. by Interlink)

Images document the past in Yemen Engraved: Illustrations by Foreign Travelers 1690-1900 (Nov., $50 cloth) by Leila Ingrams and Beyond the River: Ottoman Transjordan in Original Photographs (Nov., $45 cloth) by Raouf Sa’d Abujaber and Felicity Cobbing. Gertrude Bell and T.E. Lawrence are among the contributors to British Travellers in Arabia (Oct., $50 cloth), edited by Eid Al-Yahya. T.E. Lawrence’s campaign to destroy a vital train link is a focus of The Hejaz Railway (Oct., $50 cloth) by James Nicholson.

STEWART, TABORI & CHANG

From the Ozarks to Yellowstone, from Brooklyn to Montauk Point, Peter Kaminsky drops a line everywhere in American Waters: Fly-Fishing Journeys of a Native Son (Nov., $35 cloth). Pebble Beach and Bandon Dunes are among the green gems cited in Fifty Places to Play Golf Before You Die: Golf Experts Share the World’s Greatest Destinations (Nov., $24.95 cloth) by Chris Santella. Louisa Jones takes a culinary tour of southern France in Provence Harvest (Nov., $40 cloth). Taking medical tourism to a whole new level, Jeff Schult presents Beauty from Afar: How to See the World and Save a Fortune on Cosmetic Surgery (Apr., $16.95), detailing how to find a doctor and what the medical practices and conditions are outside the U.S.

THAMES & HUDSON

More than 300 color photos trace the route of a holy Indian river in The Ganges: Along Sacred Waters (Oct., $50 cloth) by Aldo Pavan. Nik Wheeler’s photos join Joan Tapper’s text to depict seductive Island Dreams: Caribbean (Nov., $40 cloth). John Banville edited Magnum Ireland (Nov., $60 cloth), which has some 250 photos in color and duotone. Directions to 100 special places to stay and more than 1,000 photos by Herbert Ypma help guide the way in his Hip Hotels Atlas (Nov., $50 cloth). Little-known landscapes are featured in The Islands of Ireland (Nov., $40 cloth) by Nutan. StyleCity Istanbul (Nov.) by Damla Kurklu and Zeynep Yener covers the city’s hot spots, as do second editions of …New York (Nov.) by Alice Twemlow and …Barcelona (Nov., $24.95 each) by Phyllis Richardson and Cristina Redondo. Peter Sager comes up with a combination travel guide, history, biography and psychoanalysis in Oxford & Cambridge (Feb., $39.95 cloth).

TIME OUT GUIDES

Time Out covers the globe with its new and revised titles priced at $19.95, which travel to Hong Kong (Oct.), Istanbul (Oct.), Lisbon (Oct.), Los Angeles (Oct.), Marrakech (Oct.), Athens (Oct.), Bangkok (Nov.), New Orleans (Nov.), Havana (Nov.), Turin (Nov.), Dubai (Dec.), Florence (Dec.), South of France (Feb.), Barcelona (Feb.), London (Mar.), Paris (Mar.), Mallorca & Menorca (Mar.), New York (Mar.), San Francisco (Mar.) and Vancouver (Mar.). London Eating & Drinking 2006 (Oct., $20) lists some 1,200 venues, while London Shopping 2006 (Dec., $18) assembles details on more than 3,000 shops. Skiing & Snowboarding 2006 (Nov., $16) reviews 250 of Europe’s best runs. London Walks, Vol. 2 (Dec.) is written by local journalists, and Country Walks, Vol. 1 (Nov., $19.95 each) suggests walks to historic sites, fine views and good pubs.

TRAVELSMART

Pet-friendly accommodations comprise one of the highlights in the third edition of Drive I-95: Exit by Exit Info, Maps, History and Trivia (Oct., $22.95 spiral-bound) by Stan Posner and Sandra Phillips-Posner.

TUTTLE

Bali reportedly averages 1.4 million visitors annually, and there may be more with The Natural Guide to Bali (Aug., $24.95), edited by Anne Gouyon. Body, mind and spirit can find rejuvenation thanks to Australia’s Best Spas (Sept., $24.95) by Amanda Jane Clark. Thailand Confidential (Sept., $14.95) by Jerry Hopkins looks into the country’s mystery and mayhem. Bangkok: City of Angels (Oct., $24.95 cloth) by Joe Cummings boasts more than 140 color photos.

UNIV. OF ARKANSAS PRESS

In Stone Songs on the Trail of Tears: The Journey of an Installation (Oct., $24.95 cloth) by Pat Musick et al., site maps allow one to retrace the Trail of Tears route in northern Arkansas taken by the Cherokee in 1838 and the installation sculpture Musick created in 2002 to honor the tragic march.

UNIV. OF TEXAS PRESS

Boxed sets of cards featuring places to visit create an unusual format for Placenotes Austin, …San Antonio and …University of Texas. All are $19.95 September releases by The Charles W. Moore Center for the Study of Place.

UNIV. PRESS OF FLORIDA

Photos and maps tell the story of the 500-mile road between Fernandina Beach and Key West in Highway A1A: Florida at the Edge (Sept., $24.95) by Herbert L. Hiller. 30 EcoTrips in Florida: The Best Nature Excursions (and How to Leave Only Your Footprints) (Oct., $19.95) by Holly Ambrose ventures from the Panhandle to the Lower Keys. More than 500 trails for beginners and the experienced are charted in Hiker’s Guide to the Sunshine State (Dec., $29.95) by Sandra Friend. Florida on Horseback: A Trail Rider’s Guide to the South and Central Region (Nov., $29.95) by Cornelia Bernard Henderson trots from Ocala to the Everglades. Pursuing a moister route, Doug Alderson takes to Waters Less Traveled: Exploring Florida’s Big Bend Coast (Dec., $19.95). Saving South Beach (Dec., $27.95 cloth) by M. Barron Stofik relates the campaign to save a primary tourism destination.

VILLARD

Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson bring a sense of humor to Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger (Apr., $14.95).

VOYAGEUR PRESS

The house’s lead title for fall is California Missions and Presidios (Sept., $29.95 cloth) by Randy Leffingwell, with photos by Leffingwell and Alastair Worden. Backroads of the California Wine Country: Your Guide to the Wine Country’s Most Scenic Backroad Adventures (Apr., $19.95) by Karen Misuraca leads the visitor off the beaten track. South Carolina’s Plantations and Historic Homes (Apr., $24.95 cloth) by Paul M. Franklin and Nancy Mikula harkens back to a rich past.

WESTCLIFFE

Rocky Mountain National Park: The Complete Hiking Guide (Nov., $27.95) by Lisa Foster is said to be comprehensive and extensively field-checked. Native American communities open their doors in Traveling Indian Arizona (Nov., $19.95) by Anne O’Brien. Ren Navez takes the reader on a guided visual tour in Palm Springs: A Pictorial Guide (Nov., $19.95).

WHITECAP

Four October hardcovers ($17.95 each) range across the face of the U.S.: Los Angeles, Nevada, Miami and South Carolina. They are all in the America series and all have color photos throughout.

WHITE STAR (dist. by Rizzoli)

Kazuyoshi Nomachi visualizes moments of prayer along pilgrimage routes in remote places in A Photographer’s Pilgrimage: Thirty Years of Great Reportage (Sept., $39.95 cloth). The World: Flying High (Oct., $24.95 cloth) by Enrico Lavagno showcases the earth from an aerial perspective.

NEIL WILSON PRESS (dist. by Interlink)

Both famous and hidden landmarks are revealed in Glasgow: A Portrait (Oct., $30 cloth) by Roy Firth.