Ursula Pike’s travel memoir "An Indian Among Los Indígenas" covers her two transformative, eye-opening years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia, which fulfilled her desire to “see the world, learn some skills, and help people”... Read More

Exuberant in covering Mexico’s wine country and its splendid natural views, "Exploring Wine Regions: México" is an expansive travel guide. Photojournalist and wine enthusiast Michael C. Higgins’s "Exploring Wine Regions: México" is... Read More

A fascinating, multifaceted collection of armchair treks, Linda Cracknell’s travel memoir "Doubling Back" is about revisiting significant places on foot. Cracknell’s walks, undertaken sometimes solo and at other times with... Read More

An interdisciplinary history of flooding and flood stories, Gareth E. Rees’s book "Sunken Lands" explores the eerie legacy of climate change in humanity’s past. Weaving the oracular, poetic, and horrifying together in tales of... Read More

Visual anthropologist and filmmaker Sarah Thomas’s eloquent memoir-in-essays "The Raven’s Nest" covers her time in Iceland, where her views about people’s relationships to land and to each other sharpened. The book draws contrasts... Read More

Meditative and sumptuous, "Latitudes" is Jean McNeil’s brooding memoir covering travels to remote landscapes; it ruminates on the unsettling impacts of climate change. McNeil is an inquisitive, restless traveler who crafts beautiful... Read More

Made up of intriguing peeks into the state’s historical contributions, "Delaware from Freeways to E-Ways" is a concise, celebratory reference text that focuses on twentieth-century Delaware. A history text in vignettes, Dave Tabler’s... Read More

A prized violin becomes akin to a living, breathing object within a musician’s family in the wrenching, informative memoir "Made in Italy". Thomas Walter Kelley’s memoir "Made in Italy" recounts his and his wife’s astonishing time... Read More