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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments Paul Theroux returns to the transcontinental expedition that made Great Railway Bazaar a classic of travel literature and realizes—in rich, anecdotal detail—how much the world has changed. Half a lifetime ago, Paul Theroux... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful by Gideon Lewis-Kraus Publisher Comments In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the kind of constraint that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife,... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.87 Sale - Hardcover
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Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything by Simon Majumdar Publisher Comments When Simon Majumdar hit forty, he realized there had to be more to life than his stable but uninspiring desk job. As he wondered how to escape his career, he rediscovered a list of goals he had scrawled out years before, the last of which said: Go... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Travel Writing (Best American Travel Writing) by Bill Buford Publisher Comments Edited by The New Yorkers Bill Buford, the pieces collected here “prove that a restless, intrepid spirit isnt unwelcome to American readers” (New York Times Book Review).... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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From Cape Wrath To Finisterre by Bjorn Larsson Publisher Comments Travelogue of a sailing trip around the Celtic fringe coastline of Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Northern France and Spain. *Also appeared in June Buyer's Notes*... (read more) Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Three Letters From the Andes by Patrick Leigh Fermor Publisher Comments In 1971 the celebrated traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor accompanied 5 friends on a remarkable journey into the high Andes of Peru.... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Budapest (Armchair Traveller) by Nicholas Clapton Publisher Comments This is an engaging and affectionate guide to great art in a great European capital. Nicholas Clapton finds a true sense of otherness here, in spite of Hungary's geographical closeness to the West, and the political rapprochements of the last two decades.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Atlas Pocket Travelers: France: Travels with a Donkey, Gleanings in France, a Motor-Flight Through France by Diane Johnson Publisher Comments An elegant boxed set of travel classics about France, with an introduction from the best-selling author of Le Divorce. In this inaugural edition of our Atlas Pocket Classics series, Diane Johnson introduces three masterpieces of travel writing. Robert... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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I'll Never Be French (No Matter What I Do): Living in a Small Village in Brittany by Mark Greenside Publisher Comments Tired of Provence in books, cuisine, and tablecloths? Exhausted from your armchair travels to Paris? Despairing of ever finding a place that speaks to you beyond reason? You are ripe for a journey to Brittany, where author Mark Greenside reluctantly... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space by Cees Nooteboom Publisher Comments Since his first voyage, as a sailor earning his passage from his native Holland to South America, Cees Nooteboom has never stopped traveling.Now his best travel pieces are gathered in this collection of immense range and depth, informed throughout by the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language by Katherine Russell Rich Publisher Comments "Riveting and sharply observed." —Wall Street Journal "Verbally and emotionally dazzling . . . [Rich] became fluent in the language of human possibility." —O, the Oprah Magazine, "10 Top Reads of 2009" In this... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Driving Mr. Albert by Michael Paterniti Synopsis This travel book reveals how Michael Paterniti agreed to take a road trip from New Jersey to California, reuniting the preserved brain of Albert Einstein with his granddaughter Evelyn. Paterniti's travelling companion is 84-year-old Thomas Harvey, the... (read more) Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Roumeli Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Lee Fermor Publisher Comments Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greece--stretching from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Neither Here Nor There:: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies -- in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. Twenty years later he decided to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth. The result is... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Umbria (Armchair Traveller) by Patricia Clough Publisher Comments When Patricia Clough bought a house in Umbria, she knew that buying her dream home did not mean that one's life became a dream. By the end of this book she is sure that "if one has basic requirements for being happy, then Umbria provides some of the best... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Taste of Dreams: An Obsession with Russia and Caviar by Vanora Bennett Publisher Comments The Taste of Dreams is both a quest for the romantic Russia of the authors dreams, and a tale of amazement as she discovers and gets caught up in the new, anarchic Russia emerging from its Soviet constraints. At its heart is the story of caviar—... (read more) Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel's narrator, a down-on-his-luck writer, escapes to Waikiki and soon finds himself the manager of the Hotel Honolulu, a low-rent... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival by Alison Wright Publisher Comments An extraordinary spiritual memoir about the will to survive . . . one breath at a time While traveling in Laos on a winding mountain road, the bus that award-winning journalist Alison Wright was riding in collided with a logging truck. As she waited... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shadow of the Silk Road (P.S.) by Colin Thubron Publisher Comments To travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, and camel, Colin Thubron covered some... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's... (read more) Your price: $14.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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