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Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa Publisher Comments Jamie Zeppa was 24 when she left a stagnant life at home and signed a contract to teach for two years in the Buddhist hermit kingdom of Bhutan. Much more than just a travel memoir, Beyond the Sky and the Earth is the story of her... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Midnight in Sicily by Peter Robb Publisher Comments In late 1995 Giulio Andreotti, seven-time prime minister of Italy and once called "the finest political mind in Europe," went on trial both for murder and for his association with the Sicilian Mafia. With hundreds of witnesses still to be called, there... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton Publisher Comments Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ciao, America!: An Italian Discovers the U.S. by Beppe Severgnini Publisher Comments In his American publishing debut, the Bill Bryson of Italy spends a year in one of Washington, D.C.'s toniest neighborhoods, bargain hunting at a mattress warehouse, savoring pizza from a franchise, and trying not to drown in the shower. It wasn't... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Manhattan Unfurled by Matteo Pericoli and Paul Goldberger Publisher Comments Matteo Pericoli trained as an architect in Milan and then came to work in New York in 1995. His arrival preceded by just a few days the arrival of the biggest snowstorm of the decade, and the sense of the city in its wake–especially its silence... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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World Music: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia & the Pacific by Rough Guide Publisher Comments The Rough Guide to World Music was published for the first time in 1994 and became the definitive reference source. Six years on, the subject has become too big for one book: hence this new two-volume edition World Music 2: Latin and North America,... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Literary Trips 2: Following in the Footsteps of Fame by Victoria Brooks Publisher Comments Sir Arthur C. Clarke kicks off a second exotic feast of literary adventure that transports both the reader (vicariously) and the traveler (via practical guide) around the world. Twenty-four tales again raise the bar for the very best in travel writing... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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National Geographic Family Reference Atlas of the World (National Geographic) by National Geographic Publisher Comments A modern atlas, especially one designed as a general family reference, demands not just state-of-the-art cartography but a vast array of information organized clearly, efficiently, and above all, usefullyand that's what the Family Reference Atlas... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea (Vintage Departures) by Eric Hansen Publisher Comments In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Baghdad Without a Map by Tony Horwitz Publisher Comments This wild and comic tale of Middle East misadventure is "a very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region. Fearlessness is a valuable quality in a travel writer, and Mr. Horwitz...seems as intrepid as they come". (The... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz Staff Pick Blue Latitudes is an enjoyable and often hilarious journey into the amazing life and adventures of Captain James Cook and his crew. There is no better way to learn nautical history than to bring an Aussie, and a bottle of grog, along.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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World Music: The Rough Guide: Africa, Europe and the Middle East: An A-Z of the Music Musicians and Discs: Volume 1 by Rough Guide Publisher Comments The Rough Guide to World Music is the unchallenged reference work on sounds from around the globe. This third edition is more comprehensive than ever - updated and expanded throughout and with a number of new countries added. Volume 1: Africa andamp... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pole to Pole: North to South by Camel, River Raft, & Balloon by Michael Palin Book News Annotation First published by BBC Books (New York) in 1992. The print companion to the PBS series in which former Monty Pythonian Palin visited 17 countries in 1991 and early 1992 in his trek from the north to the south pole. The almost daily account is... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin Publisher Comments In Patagonia is Bruce Chatwin's exquisite account of his journey through "the uttermost part of the earth," that stretch of land at the southern tip of South America, where bandits were once made welcome and Charles Darwin formed part of his "survival of... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris From Powells.com Jan Morris first visited Trieste, now part of Italy, at the end of World War II. At the time, she was a young Welsh soldier named James. She went on to become, not only a she (Morris changed genders in 1972), but one of the most distinguished... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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8 Men and a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island by Nick Thorpe Publisher Comments On a fateful South American bus trip, journalist Nick Thorpe overheard some fellow passengers discussing an improbable plan to sail 2,500 miles from northern Chile to Easter Island on the Viracocha -- a boat made of reeds. The crew's aim in reviving... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant by Michael S Sanders List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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