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Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place
by Robert Pyle  Publisher Comments Sky Time in Gray's River is an elegant meditation on life in the rural Northwest. Although Robert Michael Pyle is a lepidopterist and southwestern Washington is notable for its lack of butterflies, something about the village of Gray's River spoke to him...
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Around the World in 80 Dinners: The Ultimate Culinary Adventure
by Cheryl Jamison Publisher Comments Join Cheryl and Bill Jamison, James Beard Award winners of The Big Book of Outdoor Cooking and Entertaining, on a gastronomic tour around the world After years of writing award-winning cookbooks, renowned culinary experts Cheryl and Bill Jamison were...
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Panther Soup: Travels Through Europe in War and Peace
by John Gimlette Publisher Comments In 2004, John Gimlette set off across Europe, following in the footsteps of one of the greatest armies ever assembled: the United States forces of 1944–45. His guide (emotionally if not geographically) was Putnam Flint, an eighty-six-year-...
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Zeus: A Journey Through Greece in the Footsteps of a God
by Tom Stone Publisher Comments In the tradition of Walking the Bible, an irresistible tour through some of the most powerful stories ever told. Lusty, lightning-tempered, polyamorous Zeus was the most powerful and charismatic of the Greek gods, and the progenitor of some of the...
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Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics (Vintage Departures)
by Alexander Frater Publisher Comments A vibrant, witty, and captivating account of a lifetime's worth of travel in the tropics, from one of the most celebrated travel writers working today. Tales from the Torrid Zone is a diverting, loose-limbed tour of the Earth's hot zones ("The2New York...
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A Thousand Days in Venice
by Marlena De Blasi Publisher Comments When Marlena de Blasi traveled to Italy, she expected to fall in love with the country, not to be swept away by a Venetian man. Filled with the foods and flavors of Italy, "A Thousand Days in Venice" is an enchanting story....
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La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
by Beppe Severgnini Publisher Comments Join the bestselling author of Ciao, America on a lively tour of modern Italy that takes you behind the seductive face it puts on for visitors-- la bella figura-- and highlights its maddening, paradoxical true self You won't need luggage for this...
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Ispeak Chinese Phrasebook (MP3 CD + Guide) with CD (Audio) (I Can Write)
by Alex Chapin Publisher Comments See it. Hear it. Speak it. Turn your iPod into a portable translator and put 1,500 Chinese phrases in your pocket. Instead of just listening to the latest hits, you can use your iPod to hear and see 1,500 essential Chinese phrases. It's as simple as...
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Riding Toward Everywhere
by William T. Vollmann Publisher Comments Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence. He has investigated the causes and symptoms of humanity's obsession with violence (Rising Up and Rising Down), taken a personal look into...
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Standard Deviations: Growing Up and Coming Down in the New Asia
by Karl Taro Greenfeld Publisher Comments “I was twenty-three and I had set off for Asia to become a writer, intrigued by lurid tales of booms, busts, drugs, sex, violence, magic. There was a wicked sorcery in Asia, in the economic profligacy of the early nineties, in the way financiers...
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Barcelona the Great Enchantress (National Geographic Directions)
by Robert Hughes Publisher Comments Robert Hughes has been a regular visitor to Barcelona since the 1960s and published a book about the city in 1992 that was quickly hailed as a classic. In Barcelona the Great Enchantress, Hughes crafts a more personal tale of his nearly forty-year love...
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Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations
by Eric Dinerstein Publisher Comments In 1972, Eric Dinerstein was in film school at Northwestern University, with few thoughts of nature, let alone tiger-filled jungles at the base of the Himalayas or the antelope-studded Serengeti plain. Yet thanks to some inspiring teachers and the...
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The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures
by Louis Theroux Publisher Comments No, it doesn't get much weirder than this: Thor Templar, Lord Commander of the Earth Protectorate, who claims to have killed ten aliens. Or April, the Neo-Nazi bringing up her twin daughters Lamb and Lynx (who have just formed a white-power folk group...
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Digging for the Truth: One Man's Epic Adventure Exploring the World's Greatest Archaeological Mysteries
by Josh Bernstein Publisher Comments Bernstein, host of The History Channels hit series "Digging for the Truth," takes readers beyond the cameras for an even closer look at his adventures through some of the most intriguing places on the planet....
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Language Learning Card Games German Combo CD (Linguafun! CD and Card Games)
by Penton Overseas Publisher Comments - Includes 54 game cards, 45-minute audio cassette, and easy-to-understand instruction booklet- Ideal for ages 7 to adult, 1-4...
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One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-The-World Journey with Our Children (Travelers' Tales Footsteps)
by David Elliot Cohen and Devyani Kamdar 
Publisher Comments A year off from work. A meandering, serendipitous journey around the globe with the people you love most. No mortgage, no car payments, no pressure. Though it sounds like an impossible dream for most people, one day David Cohen and his family decide to...
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Merde Happens
by Stephen Clarke Publisher Comments From Stephen Clarke, the internationally bestselling author of A Year in the Merde and In the Merde for Love, Merde Happens is the third installation of Paul West's hilarious mis-adventures in merde. This time around Paul finds himself in financial...
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To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger
by Mark Jenkins Publisher Comments For nearly eight years as the monthly columnist for Outside magazine, and in his award-winning books, Mark Jenkins has held fans spellbound with his riveting accounts of expeditions to remote parts of the globe. In To Timbuktu...
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Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran
by Jason Elliot Publisher Comments Filling a long-neglected gap in the travel writing of the region, Mirrors of the Unseen is a rare and timely portrait of the nation descended from the world's earliest superpower: Iran. Animated by the same spirit of exploration as its acclaimed...
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Long Way Down: An Epic Journey by Motorcycle from Scotland to South Africa
by Ewan Mcgregor Publisher Comments Eighteen countries. Five shock absorbers. Two bikers. One amazing adventure... After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. Inspired by their UNICEF...
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