Ah, to travel.  To get to the great outdoors, to be one with nature, to enjoy the al fresco...  A decent book should be a journey: whether to a new place or a different period of time, or perhaps another culture.  I enjoy history and travel, especially from a woman's perspective.  Perhaps not so coincidentally, I also enjoy good cooking, which can be a journey of new taste and experience as well.  Now if I could only figure out how to persuade Harriett to let me outside...
 

Here's a real history of the Civil War, or The War Between the States.  This collection of letters of the family of Rev. Dr. Charles Colcock Jones of Liberty County, Georgia gives more than one perspective of the Confederate experience of the war.  We have lost the art of letter-writing in this day and age, but these letters are clearly more than artful correspondence: they are the signs of the time, personality reflections, gender studies, real communication, and a barometer of a political and sociological time now gone.  Travel back with me and learn something from this historical experience. Myers, Robert Manson, ed.  The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War.  Yale University Press, 1972, first edition.  A whopping 1,845 pages.  Writing on rear endpapers and wear to the edges.  VG/VG <SOLD>

Ah, to be in Vermont.  That's where all good cats should be on a beautiful spring day like this.  Or in winter, autumn, summer, night, dawn; you get the idea.  I can lounge on a rug thinking about it all day...  So here's a good guide, from the esteemed WPA American Guide Series. American Guide Series.  Vermont: A Guide to the Green Mountain State.  Houghton Mifflin, 1937, first edition.  Lavishly illustrated with black and white photographs and fold-out map in pocket of rear endpaper. Ex-library copy in great shape.  VG/VG.  <SOLD>