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Mile Markers: Essays on Cycling

Through personal anecdotes and reported pieces, Robert Isenberg takes us on a winding journey on two wheels. Here we learn the potential of “airless tires,” what car racks say about our social status, and whether paratroopers should be equipped with mountain bikes. We meet the engineer who invented the smallest folding bicycle and the Victorian woman who risked everything to ride.

Hear Robert’s interview about the book with the Boston Globe’s Ed Fitzpatrick.

The Green Season: A Writer’s First Year in Costa Rica

A dynamic collection of essays and reportage, The Green Season illustrates daily life in Costa Rica, a tiny Central American nation dedicated to peace and teeming with tropical life. With his trademark humor and observation, Isenberg explores the country head-on, fighting his way through San José traffic, mingling with venomous snakes, and even making a cameo in an epic soccer film at the height of World Cup fever. Richly detailed and tenderly written, The Green Season is one expat’s love letter to his adoptive homeland.

The Archipelago: A Balkan Passage

Isenberg’s travelogue explores an intimate view of the Balkans through the eyes of a young American adventurer.

Lonely Planet: Central America

Isenberg served as coordinating writer for this Lonely Planet guide (and penned the chapter on Nicaragua). Discover Central America’s most popular experiences and best kept secrets from gazing into the magma-churning Volcán Masaya in Nicaragua; to swimming through near-transparent Caribbean waters around the teensy island of Caye Caukler in Belize; and people-watching in the Parque Central of Granada before strolling its 500-year-old streets.