The Globe Corner Bookstores is the largest and one of the oldest travel book and map stores in North America, offering an unparalleled range of travel and geographic reference materials for the world, covering a range of outdoor activities such as biking, walking, trekking, hiking, camping, skiing, kayaking, canoeing, climbing, diving, sailing, and a range of subjects with a geographical reference such as architecture, wildflower guides, birding guides, photography, cookbooks, nautical books, language books, tapes and cds, history, current politics, armchair travel accounts, and fiction which evokes a sense of place.