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Chicken Soup for the Traveler's Soul: Stories of Adventure, Inspiration and Insight to Celebrate the Spirit of Travel by Jack Canfield Publisher Comments Whether your idea of travel at its finest is trekking through Europe with a backpack, a map and a foreign-language dictionary; road-tripping across America in a fully loaded RV; or cruising the Caribbean aboard a luxury liner, Chicken Soup for the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best Women's Travel Writing 2007: True Stories from Around the World (Best Women's Travel Writing) by Lucy Mccauley Publisher Comments These tales are thematically eclectic and cover spiritual growth, hilarity and misadventure, romance, solo journeys, service to humanity, family travel, and exotic cuisine, all told from a woman's perspective.... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Risks of Sunbathing Topless: And Other Funny Stories from the Road by Kate Chynoweth Publisher Comments - This book will appeal to the same market which made No Touch Monkey! a best-seller.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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There's No Toilet Paper . . . on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure by Doug Lansky Publisher Comments This collection captures the wackiest experiences of writers whose travels took a detour, such as Dave Barry vainly trying to learn more Japanese than how to order a beer, and Mary Roach, who discovers that utilizing an Antarctic outhouse at the very... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New Granta Book of Travel by Liz Jobey Publisher Comments Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and James Fenton set out to document life in largely... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Best Travel Writing 2009: True Stories From Around the World (09 Edition) by James O'reilly Synopsis High adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity, misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine highlight these stories from fellow travelers. This edition takes the reader on a harrowing raft ride off the coast of Panama, on a... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places by Klara Glowczewska Publisher Comments Another spellbinding trip around the globe with some of today's most celebrated writers and journalists Condé Nast Traveler is the preeminent travel magazine in the United States, boasting a readership of 3.5 million. This second collection of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Road within: True Stories of Transformation and the Soul by Sean O'Reilly Publisher Comments The Road Within is a book of transformation, of lessons learned, maps drawn and burned, and spiritual blessings bestowed by travel, that great and hard teacher. Learn what the great mystics and saints have always known -- that wondrous things await... (read more) List Price $15.16 Your price: $13.45 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Gift of Rivers: True Stories of Life on the Water by Pamela Michael Publisher Comments Rushing, rolling, flowing — rivers provide the ultimate metaphor for movement. They carve borders, create livelihoods, provoke adventure, and offer healing. From white-knuckle rafting rides to fishing stories to eco-essays, this collection by top... (read more) List Price $11.96 Your price: $10.61 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Best American Travel Writing (Best American Travel Writing) by Sloane Crosley Publisher Comments The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the countrys finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volumes series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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By the Seat of My Pants: Humorous Tales of Travel and Misadventure by Lonely Planet Publisher Comments Lonely Planet knows that some of lifes funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures, unidentifiable dinners or unforgettable encounters, they can give birth to our most profound travel... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Moveable Feast (Travel Literature) by Lonely Planet Publisher Comments From bat on the island of Fais to chicken on a Russian train to barbecue in the American heartland, from mutton in Mongolia to couscous in Morocco to tacos in Tijuana - on the road, food nourishes us not only physically, but intellectually, emotionally... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure by Doug Lansky Publisher Comments Discusses the bizarre and humorous misadventures of great writers, including P.J. O'Rourke, Dave Barry, Caryl Rivers, Peter Mayle, and Joseph O... (read more) List Price $10.36 Your price: $9.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places by John Keay Publisher Comments A timely reissue of this classic collection, formerly titled The Mammoth Book of Explorers, contains over 40 fascinating first-hand accounts of exploration including the first crossing of North America, exploration of the Congo, and adventures in Machu... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Something to Declare: Good Lesbian Travel Writing by Gillian Kendall Synopsis Editor Gillian Kendall has brought together in Something to Declare a collection of impressionistic, literary travel essays that explore the sense of place and the pull of wanderlust, and reveal what happens when a traveler follows her heart. On these... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Travel Writing 2000 (Best American Travel Writing) by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments This collection of travel articles includes contributions written by writers such as Bill Buford and Ryszard Kapuscinski, and range across myriads from New York's Central Park to to the Saharan Mauritania.... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying by Dorothy Spears Publisher Comments Over the last century air travel has evolved from a high-risk experiment involving a few visionary pioneers to an efficient—and often irritating—means for distributing masses of people to the far reaches of the globe. During the hundred-year... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The New Age of Adventure: Ten Years of Great Writing by National Geographic Publisher Comments National Geographic Adventure has published the best work by todays finest writers, and this tenth anniversary anthology assembles an elite corps of authors that includes Sebastian Junger, Peter Matthiessen, Philip Caputo, and two dozen others. These... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Woman's Path: Best Women's Spiritual Travel Writing by Lucy Mccauley Synopsis Anne Lamott, Linda Ellerbee, Jan Morris, Sue Bender and others reflect on the great and subtle ways that travel awakens us. While many of these stories occur on the road, others lead the reader on an inward journey, equally ambitious and equally... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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