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Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence, and Emperor Penguins by Gavin Francis Synopsis Gavin Francis fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the basecamp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. So remote, it is said to be easier to evacuate a casualty from... (read more) Available October 2013 Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Lighthouse Families by Cheryl Shelton-roberts Synopsis Bruce Roberts was director of photography for Southern Living and has published photos in Sports Illustrated, Time, Life, and many other national magazines and newspapers. His wife, Cheryl Shelton-Roberts, traveled to the lighthouses with her husband... (read more) Available October 2013 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The People's Songs: The Songs That Made Britain by Stuart Maconie Publisher Comments In The People's Music, Stuart Maconie argues that what we call pop music has a defiant, unsanctioned concept at its heart: the ability to speak to people, to affect people, to transform their lives. This book tells the story of modern Britain via the... (read more) Available July 2013 Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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Discovery Road (Eye Classics) by Andy Brown Publisher Comments The inspiring story of the first people to ride mountain bikes across the vast deserts of Australia, the dangerous bushlands of Africa, and the mountains of South America Fed up and disillusioned with corporate life, Andy persuaded Tim to... (read more) Available November 2013 Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Four Seasons of Travel: 400 of the World's Best Destinations in Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall by National Geographic Publisher Comments Building on the success of National Geographic's Journeys of a Lifetime series, Four Seasons of Travel brings to life hundreds of the world's most alluring locations and activities--and tells you exactly when and how to best... (read more) Available October 15, 2013 Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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My Venice and Other Essays by Donna Leon Synopsis Donna Leon has won a huge number of passionate fans and a tremendous amount of critical acclaim for her international bestselling mystery series featuring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti. These accolades have built up not just for her intricate plots... (read more) Available December 2013 Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Kerr's Voyages 4: Captain Cook and the Southern Hemisphere by Robert Kerr Publisher Comments This second set brings together voyages in the southern hemisphere and towards the Pole by James Cook as well as accounts of voyages of discovery in the southern oceans by other important figures .The accounts of Captain Cook's voyages are particularly... (read more) Available August 28, 2013 Your price: $982.25 New - Hardcover
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The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939 by Ella K. Maillart Publisher Comments In 1939 Swiss travel writer and journalist Ella K. Maillart set off on an epic journey from Geneva to Kabul with fellow writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in a brand new Ford. As the first European women to travel alone on Afghanistan’s Northern Road... (read more) Available June 2013 Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga by Sylvain Tesson Publisher Comments A meditation on escaping the chaos of modern life and rediscovering the luxury of solitude. Winner of the Prix Médicis for nonfiction, The Consolations of the Forest is a Thoreau-esque quest to find solace, taken to the extreme. No stranger to... (read more) Available September 17, 2013 Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The Whales Know: Travels Along the Baja California Peninsula (Armchair Traveller) by Pina Cacucci Publisher Comments Revisiting some of the locations seen by John Steinbeck, Pino Cacucci travels the length of Baja Californiathe world's longest peninsula. Along the way, he hears the story of a man still suffering from injuries sustained during his past life as a... (read more) Available March 2014 Your price: $22.95 New - Hardcover
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How Now Brown Frau by Merridy Eastman Publisher Comments A poignant, revealing, and hilarious memoir about what happened when a former children's television host and brothel receptionist woke up one morning in Munich four months pregnant, without a word of German under her belt, and surrounded by... (read more) Available September 2013 Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Peasants and the Mariners (Open Door) by Brian Bouldrey Synopsis Storytellers, said Walter Benjamin, are descended from one of two tribes: the mariners or the peasants. We revel in the stories of the sailors, with their lure of exotic places and the treasures a mariner brings home. We hearken to the stories... (read more) Available June 2013 Your price: $10.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Walk Around the Horizon: Discovering New Mexico's Mountains of the Four Directions by Tom Harmer Publisher Comments Outdoor enthusiasts and armchair travelers alike will relish Harmer's precise account of his backpacking adventure, in which this sixty-two-year-old Anglo discovers the realities of complicated cultural legacies ecological challenges, and human foibles... (read more) Available September 2013 Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Deer Hunting in Paris: A Memoir of God, Guns, and Game Meat by Paula Lee Synopsis What happens when a Korean-American preachers kid refuses to get married, travels the world, and quits being vegetarian? She meets her polar opposite on an online dating site while sitting at a café in Paris, France and ends up in Paris, Maine,... (read more) Available July 2013 Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Antarctic Impressions: Seasons in the Southern Ocean by Peter Steyn Publisher Comments One of South Africa 's best-selling birding authors and photographers, Peter Steyn has been travelling to the Antarctic and the islands of the Southern Ocean for many years. Antarctic Impressions is a record in words and pictures of these journeys... (read more) Available July 2013 Your price: $50.00 New - Hardcover
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Best Women's Travel Writing #9: The Best Women's Travel Writing: True Stories from Around the World by Lavinia Spalding Synopsis Since publishing the original edition of A Womans World in 1995, Travelers Tales has been the recognized national leader in womens travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an... (read more) Available July 2013 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Perseus in the Wind: A Life of Travel (Freya Stark Collection) by Freya Stark Publisher Comments Written just after World War II, Perseus in the Wind (named after the constellation) is perhaps the most personal, and haunting, of all Freya Stark's writings. Putting together memories and reflections, "harvested from life and accident", that have... (read more) Available June 11, 2013 Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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An Armchair Traveller's History of the Silk Road (Armchair Traveller's History) by Jonathan Clements Publisher Comments The Silk Road is not a place, but a journeya route from the edges of the Mediterranean to the central plains of China, through high mountains and inhospitable deserts. For thousands of years its history has been a traveler's history, of encounters... (read more) Available January 2014 Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Best Travel Writing #10: The Best Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World by James O'reilly Synopsis The Best Travel Writing, Volume 10 is the latest in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global... (read more) Available December 2013 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of The Wild Places examines the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move In this exquisitely written book, which folds together natural history, cartography, geology, and literature, Robert Macfarlane sets... (read more) Available September 24, 2013 Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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