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A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid Publisher Comments A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wanderlust : a History of Walking (00 Edition) by Rebecca Solnit Publisher Comments Drawing together many histories-of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores-Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck Staff Pick Knowing he was dying, John Steinbeck customized a camper-truck and dubbed it Rocinante after Don Quixote's horse. With his dog Charley (Steinbeck's own Sancho Panza) riding along, the melancholic writer circumnavigates the country. This travelogue... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Mass Market
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Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl Publisher Comments Now a major motion picture, Kon-Tiki is the record of Thor Heyerdahl’s astonishing three-month voyage across the Pacific. Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure—a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Italian Neighbors Or a Lapsed Anglo Saxo by Tim Parks Publisher Comments Tim Parks and his wife, Rita, came to their flat on the aging, eccentric Via Colombare in Montecchio twelve years ago for a short stay. There was trouble from the moment they moved in--under cover of night--and it has gone delightfully up and down hill... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.95 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: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins Publisher Comments Chapter OneTalkin' by a Wood Stove Stop right there, son. You ain't goin' nowhere in this blizzard. Now sit down! The huge man blocked the narrow door of the snow-covered country store. I had just thawed out from the heat of the wood stove... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner Staff Pick Eric Weiner takes an entertaining romp around the world in search of geographical happiness, and I was willingly taken along for the ride. His self-professed Eeyore-centric take on the world and his grumpy wit made his discourse all the more fun. Highly... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Pine Barrens by John Mcphee Publisher Comments Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Travels Marco Polo (Penguin Classics) by Marco Polo Publisher Comments Classic translation of Marco Polo's famous travels. Includes index and maps.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich Publisher Comments A stunning collection of personal observations that uses images of the American West to probe larger concerns in lyrical, evocative prose that is a true celebration of the region.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Narrow Road To Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (66 Edition) by Matsuo Basho About the Author Basho, the Japanese poet and diarist, was born in Iga-ueno near Kyoto in 1644. He spent his youth as companion to the son of the local lord, and with him he studied the writing of seventeen-syllable verse. In 1667 he moved to Edo (now Tokyo) where he... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments Following an urge to rediscover his youth, Bill Bryson left his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that would take him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook. With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The World's Most Dangerous Places (World's Most Dangerous Places) by Robert Young Pelton Publisher Comments Robert Young Pelton, a professional adventurer, and his team of international war correspondents have updated this indispensable handbook for the intrepid adventurer-- a "how-to" in getting in and out of the world′s hot... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler Publisher Comments In the heart of China's Sichuan province, tucked away amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this vast and ever-evolving country, Fuling is shifting gears and heading down a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Indian Creek Chronicles : a Winter Alone in the Wilderness (93 Edition) by Pete Fromm Publisher Comments Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromms account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff by Rosemary Mahoney Publisher Comments When Rosemary Mahoney, in 1998, took a solo trip down the Nile in a seven-foot rowboat, she discovered modern Egypt for herself. As a rower, she faced crocodiles and testy river currents; as a female, she confronted deeply-held beliefs about foreign... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics) by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas— now celebrating its thirtieth anniversary IN 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shipwreck At the Bottom of the World : the Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance (98 Edition) by Jennifer Armstrong Publisher Comments Armstrong vividly describes how 28 men sailed from England in 1914 on the "Endurance" to become the first team of explorers to cross Antarctica. She continues the incredible story of their survival on the ship after encountering ice, storms, and remote... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Maiden Voyage by Tania Aebi Publisher Comments The remarkable true adventure of the 18-year-old girl who left on a 27,000-mile, two-and-a-half-year solo sail around the globe, braving typhoons, pirates, and starvation to return home a woman, and a hero.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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