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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Wanderlust: A History of Walking 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... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by 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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (59 Edition) by Alfred Lansing From Powells.com Days before the outbreak of World War One renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail to attempt the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. More than eighty miles from their destination, however, their... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii by A Grove Day Synopsis So Samuel Langhorne Clemens made his excuse for late copy to the Sacramento Union, the newspaper that was underwriting his 1866 trip. If the young reporter's excuse makes perfect sense to you, join the thousands of Island lovers who have delighted in... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Iron & Silk (Vintage Departures) by Mark Salzman Publisher Comments Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost Staff Pick When Troost followed his wife to a small island nation he expected Bali Hai. Instead he found an isolated, polluted, boiling hot hellhole. His wonderful tale is both hilarious and thrilling. This original adventure offers enjoyment and also allows... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 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 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: $6.50 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 $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Valleys of Assassins and Other Persian Travels ((Rev)01 Edition) by Freya Stark Publisher Comments Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled between... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Dove (72 Edition) by Robin Lee Graham Publisher Comments In 1965, 16-year-old Robin Lee Graham began a solo around-the-world voyage from San Pedro, California, in a 24-foot sloop. Five years and 33,000 miles later, he returned to home port with a wife and daughter and enough extraordinary experiences to fill... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 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: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Portrait With Keys: the City of Johannesburg Unlocked (09 Edition) by Ivan Vladislavic Publisher Comments This dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a metropolis since Suketu Mehta's Maximum City. Through precisely crafted snapshots, Ivan Vladislavic observes the unpredictable, day-today... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Abroad : British Literary Traveling Between the Wars (80 Edition) by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson Staff Pick Sometimes laugh-out-loud, sometimes poignant, Bill Bryson takes a trip to the villages of his beloved Britain.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast by Daniel Duane Publisher Comments A wondrous, uproarious, and surprisingly informative account of a year spend surfing, Caught Inside marks the arrival of an exuberant new voice of the outdoors. This remarkable narrative of Daniel Duanes life on the water is enhanced by good-humored... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World (08 Edition) by Eric Weiner Publisher Comments Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of un-unhappiness. The book uses a... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl Publisher Comments The story of the Pacific journey by six men on a raft in search of the path taken by Kon-Tiki, a white voyager, 1500 years before.... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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