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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...
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The World without Us
by Alan Weisman 
Powells.com Staff Pick "Let us try a creative experiment," Alan Weisman proposes on page three: If humans disappeared from earth, what would happen? To your home, for example. To our cities, farms, and oceans. To the animals that remain. Or to the billion tons of plastic we'd...
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson
Publisher Comments Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests...
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Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey
Powells.com Staff Pick This memoir by Edward Abbey recounts his years as a park ranger working at Arches National Park in Utah. Abbey's keen eye and sharp writing clearly impart the beauty of the desert and the importance of preserving our limited natural resources. His...
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Last American Man (02 Edition)
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Powells.com Staff Pick Elizabeth Gilbert first met Eustace Conway in New York City, on the sidewalk in front of her apartment. He'd traveled from North Carolina, dressed in handmade buckskin clothing and "carrying an impressive knife on his belt." Gilbert, a...
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Travels With Charley : in Search of America (62 Edition)
by John Steinbeck Publisher Comments With his dog Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and experience America in the 1960s. As he talked with all kinds of people, he sadly noted the passing of region speech, fell in love with Montana, and was appalled by racism in New...
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Never Cry Wolf
by Farley Mowat Publisher Comments The classic of nature writing--the spellbinding story of adventures among arctic wolves--is now available in a new paperback edition....
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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...
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The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith H
by Eliot Wigginton Publisher Comments Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region....
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Perennial Classics)
by Annie Dillard
Publisher Comments Chapter 1. Heaven and Earth in Jest Chapter 2. Seeing Chapter 3. Winter Chapter 4. The Fixed Chapter 5. Untying the Knot Chapter 6. The Present Chapter 7. Spring Chapter 8. Intricacy Chapter 9. Flood Chapter 10. Fecundity Chapter 11. Stalking Chapter 12....
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
by Terry Temp Williams
Publisher Comments As Utah-born naturalist Terry Tempest Williams records the simultaneous tragedies of her mother's death of cancer and the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Sanctuary, she creates a document of renewal and spiritual grace destined to become a...
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In a Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson
From Powells.com "Everything, it seems, is interesting to Bill Bryson. The marvel is that he can make it all interesting to us. Three billion year old fossilized organisms off the western coast; a giant lobster on the side of a highway; empty, forbidding spaces... In a...
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Bill Bryson's African Diary (02 Edition)
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...
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A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments A funny--and often hilarious--month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations of moving into an old French farmhouse in Provence and adapting to a very different way of life....
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Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson
Publisher Comments "Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."<P>After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson-bestsellingauthor of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to...
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Good Life (89 Edition)
by Scott Nearing Publisher Comments This one volume edition of Living the Good Life and Continuing the Good Life brings these classics on rural homesteading together. This couple abandoned the city for a rural life with minimal cash and the knowledge of self reliance and good health....
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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson Publisher Comments Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a...
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Primate's Memoir (01 Edition)
by Robert M. Sapolsky
Powells.com Staff Pick I never imagined that a book written by a primate behaviorologist would make me laugh out loud. Sapolsky is a born storyteller, and I found his experiences of twenty years in Africa studying baboons absolutely fascinating. You get to know the...
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Basin and Range
by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The first of John McPhee' s works in his series on geology and geologists, "Basin and Range" is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world-- a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the...
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Italian Neighbors
by Tim Parks Publisher Comments In this deliciously seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks celebrates ten...
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