Travel & Adventures

Books for the restless and the daydreaming: long Italian summers, hotels worth the journey, open water, and roads that run to the end of a continent. Open one and you are already halfway gone.

Ottmanngut hotel in Merano: terracotta roof and palm against the mountains, from Great Escapes Italy

Travel & Adventures

A Grand Tour, of Grand Stays

Angelika Taschen — Great Escapes Italy: The Hotel Book

Reclaimed monasteries, baroque palazzi, and whitewashed cliffside inns — a collection of Italy’s most ethereal hotels and escapes.

Racing crew in red gripping the rail as a spinnaker billows, from Sailing America by Onne van der Wal

Travel & Adventures

Setting Off With Stiff Breezes

Onne van der Wal — Sailing America

A colossal, photographic exhibition through twelve American waters — Nantucket fog, Montana sweetwater, Florida brine, and Morro Bay sunsets.

Cliffside path above a boat-dotted bay on Capri, from Il Dolce Far Niente by Lucy Laucht

Travel & Adventures

Sun, Salt, and Nowhere to Be

Lucy Laucht — Il Dolce Far Niente

A southern-Italian summer distilled to its essence — lapping water, long lunches, and the radical idea that nothing might be the whole point.

Cyclist with a loaded touring bike on a salt flat under a cloud-streaked sky, from Two Years on a Bike

Travel & Adventures

A Hemisphere, One Pedal at a Time

Martijn Doolaard — Two Years on a Bike

From Vancouver to Patagonia by bicycle — 400 pages of landscape, solitude, and a genuinely vulnerable journey of self.