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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: $4.50 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 New York Times 36 Hours: 150 Weekends in the USA & Canada by Barbara Ireland Publisher Comments The ultimate travel guide to the USA and Canada To travel in North America is to face a delicious quandary: over these vast spaces, with so many riches from glittering cities to eccentric small towns and heart-stoppingly beautiful mountains and plains... (read more) Your price: $39.99 New - Hardcover
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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales Publisher Comments After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door: The Travel Skills Handbook (Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door) by Rick Steves Synopsis You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Europe, including how to: Plan your itinerary and maximize your time Pack light—and right Find good-value hotels and restaurants Travel smoothly by train... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rick Steves' Provence & the French Riviera 2011 (Rick Steves' Provence & the French Riviera) by Rick Steves Synopsis You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Provence and the French Riviera. In this guide, youll find a dazzling mix of enjoyable cities, warm stone villages, Roman ruins, and breathtaking coastline... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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1000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die by Patricia Schultz Publisher Comments From the author of the worldwide bestseller 1,000 Places to See Before You Die comes 1,000 PLACES TO SEE IN THE U.S.A. AND CANADA BEFORE YOU DIE. Sail the Maine Windjammers out of Camden. Explore the gold-mining trails in Alaska's Denali wilderness... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leig Fermor Publisher Comments While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. During World War II, he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon by Marie Rose Wong Publisher Comments Around the turn of the twentieth century, and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second largest Chinese population in the United States. In terms of geographical coverage, Portland's two Chinatowns (one an urban area of brick commercial structures... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier Publisher Comments '\'\\\'\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lost on Planet China: One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation by J Maarten Troost Publisher Comments The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in Chinaa complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained. Maarten... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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China Road: A Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford Publisher Comments Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Travel Writing (Best American Travel Writing) by Anthony Bourdain Publisher Comments The hilarious and well-traveled Sloane Crosley, author of the New York Times bestseller IWas Told There'd be Cake, helms this collection of the genre's gems.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr Publisher Comments Anthony Doerr has received many awards -- from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then came the Rome Prize, one of the most prestigious awards from the American Academy of Arts and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bill Bryson's African Diary by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments “Here is a man who suffers so his readers can laugh.” — Daily Telegraph Bill Bryson travels to Kenya in support of CARE International. All royalties and profits go to CARE International. Bryson visits Kenya at the invitation of CARE... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Markets of Paris by Dixon Long Publisher Comments The only complete guide to every street market and market district in Paris, with beautiful full color photographs throughout Perhaps the most pleasurable way for any visitor to feel at home in Paris-and one of the easiest ways to get to know the city-is... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre by Richard Grant Publisher Comments Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet and boasts several canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon. The rules of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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