4.03 avg rating — 25,422 ratings

"It's is a great work of travel journalism, and at one point the author travels through The Pine Barrens, which brings us to John McPhee's great book."

4.19 avg rating — 4,182 ratings

"Once William Least Heat-Moon has piqued your interest in this region, McPhee fills in the intriguing blanks."

3.98 avg rating — 569 ratings

"Raban sails around the British Isles during the Falklands War for an outside-looking-in view of his country. On the way, he runs into ..."

3.75 avg rating — 4,792 ratings

"... Paul Theroux, who while doing his walking tour of the British coastline, is disturbed to come across Raban."

3.86 avg rating — 410 ratings

"In 1932, Ian Fleming's brother tries to find out what happened to Colonel PH Fawcett's expedition to the Amazon."

3.90 avg rating — 110,420 ratings

"David Grann follows in Peter Fleming's footsteps more than half a decade later."

4.21 avg rating — 7,597 ratings

"Classic John McPhee on an amazing part of the world."

3.97 avg rating — 398 ratings

"Together with the book above, a great description of Alaska."