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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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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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Le Road Trip: A Traveler's Journal of Love and France by Vivian Swift Publisher Comments Road trip: those are still the two most inspiring words to vagabonds and couch potatoes alike; after all, the great American spirit was forged by road trippers from the Pilgrims to Lewis and Clark to the Dharma Bums. Le Road Trip combines the appeal of... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago by Hape Kerkeling Publisher Comments From one of Germany’s most beloved celebrities, a cross between Bill Bryson and Paulo Coelho. It has sold over 3 million copies and been translated into eleven different languages. Pilgrims have increased along the Camino by 20 percent since the... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down Signed Edition by Rosecrans Baldwin Publisher Comments A fresh, exhilarating take on one of the worlds most popular topics — Paris, the City of Light! — by an acclaimed young novelist. A self-described Francophile, Rosecrans Baldwin always dreamed of living in Paris — drinking le caf... (read more) Available June 10, 2012 Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover 
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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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Europe on Five Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide by Doug Mack Publisher Comments Prepare to Get Lost on the Beaten Path... When Doug Mack picked up a 1963 edition of Europe on Five Dollars a Day, he stumbled on an inspired idea: to boldly go where millions have gone before, relying only on the advice of a travel guide that's nearly... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 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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Vroom with a View: In Search of Italy's Dolce Vita on a '61 Vespa by Peter Moore Publisher Comments It was love at first sight--the Vespa had everything he wanted--a few dents and scratches, saddle seats and temperamental electrics. When Moore sat on it for the first time, he felt like a sharp-suited, Ray Ban wearing young Marcello Mastroianni. Riding... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme Staff Pick An inspiring look at the life and times of the culinary genius, Julia Child's My Life in France is a good-humored memoir of her influential and transformative early experiences in France with her then new husband, Paul. Julia's devotees, as well as those... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route Into Spain by Jack Hitt Publisher Comments When Jack Hitt set out to walk the 500 miles from France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, he submitted to the rigorous traditions of Europe's oldest form of packaged tour, a pilgrimage that has been walked by millions in the history of Christendom. Off... (read more) Your price: $17.99 New - Trade Paper
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Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments In this sequel to her New York Times bestsellers Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, the celebrated "bard of Tuscany" (New York Times) lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-long love affair with Tuscany's people, art, cuisine, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour by Rachel Shukert Publisher Comments When she lands a coveted nonpaying, nonspeaking role in a play going on a European tour, Rachel Shukert—with a brand-new degree in acting from NYU and no money—finally scores her big break. And, after a fluke at customs in Vienna, she gets her... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - 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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On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe by Andrzej Stasiuk Publisher Comments PRAISE FOR NINE: "An accomplished stylist with an eye for telling detail . . . I caught a flavor of Hamsun, Sartre, Genet, and Kafka in Stasiuks scalpel-like but evocative writing." —Irvine Welsh, New York Times Book Review "Stasiuk takes us... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $15.41 New - Hardcover
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Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A J Liebling Publisher Comments New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de Blasi Publisher Comments When Fernando spots her in a Venice caf and knows immediately that she is the One, Marlena de Blasi is caught off guard. A divorced American woman traveling through Italy, she thought she was satisfied with her life. Yet within a few months, she quits... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $12.42 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate) by Amy Thomas PW Review "Traveling foodies of the world, rejoice — Thomas provides the sweet scoop on Paris and New York in this mouth-watering memoir. While an associate creative director at ad agency Ogilvy & Mather, Thomas was offered a position as copywriter on the... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Roumeli Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Lee Fermor Publisher Comments Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greece--stretching from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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