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Iron & Silk (Vintage Departures) by Mark Salzman Publisher Comments Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. In evocative language, she brings the reader... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert Publisher Comments This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik Publisher Comments Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner — in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments "Possibly his best travel book...an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took him to 51 Pacific Islands." TIME Renowned travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux has been many places in his life and tried almost everything. But this... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks Publisher Comments Have you ever made a drunken ben? Worse, still, have you eveer tried to win one? In attempting to hitchhike round Ireland wich a fridge, Tony Hawks did both, and his foolhardiness led him to one of the best experiences of his life. Joined by his trusty... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach Publisher Comments In many ways, I was an independent woman, writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alice Steinbach. For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow. But somehow she had become dependent in quite another way. I had fallen into... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (Vintage Departures) by Vikram Seth Publisher Comments After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story of his remarkable journey and his encounters with nomadic Muslims... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon by Colin Fletcher Publisher Comments The remarkable classic of nature writing by the first man ever to have walked the entire length of the Grand Canyon.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings (Vintage Departures) by Jonathan Raban From Powells.com "I had a boat, most of a spring and summer, a cargo of books, and the kind of dream of self-enrichment that spurs everyone who sails north from Seattle," explains Jonathan Raban at the outset of his journey along the Inside Passage from... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Travels by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments "Entertaining, and in the best sense of the word, unsettling." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Fueled by a powerful curiosity--and by a need to see and feel and hear, firsthand and close-up--Michael Crichton's travels have carried him into worlds diverse... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe by Danny Wallace Publisher Comments Danny Wallace wanted to write about a place so special and so crucial to our existence that it had never before been tackled: the Centre of the Universe. He realised it would be quite difficult to get there, until he heard about a manhole cover tucked... (read more) Your price: $4.50 New - Mass Market
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Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among Aborigines by Julia Blackburn Publisher Comments In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman" (New York Times Book Review) tells a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy by Michael Tucker Synopsis From actor Tucker comes this celebration of a good marriage and a careful study of the nature of home, written with an epicurean's delight in detail and a gourmand's appreciation for all things fine.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.97 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: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leig Fermor Publisher Comments While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. During World War II, he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lost on Planet China: One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation by J Maarten Troost Publisher Comments The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China—a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples by Shirley Hazzard Publisher Comments Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. The Ancient Shore collects the best of Hazzards writings on Naples,... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Turkish Reflections by Mary Lee Settle Publisher Comments After a twenty-year absence, Mary Lee Settle returns to the land she calls the happiest home she has ever known. A land of intersecting continents, cultures, and contradictions, Turkey beckons her on a cross-country journey, in search of the country's... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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