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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by Eric Weiner  
Powells.com Staff Pick Eric Weiner takes an entertaining romp around the world in search of geographical happiness, and I was willingly taken along for the ride. His self-professed Eeyore-centric take on the world and his grumpy wit made his discourse all the more fun...
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Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer
by Chuck Thompson
Publisher Comments From Bangkok to Bogotá, a hilarious behind-the-brochures tour of picture-perfect locales, dangerous destinations, and overrated hellholes from a guy who knows the truth about travel. Travel writer, editor, and photographer Chuck Thompson has...
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No-Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey through The Odyssey
by Scott Huler Publisher Comments When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce's Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book's inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero,...
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Way Off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small Town America
by Bill Geist Publisher Comments “To say it very simply, freezer burn may very well have set in.” —neighbor on the frozen dead guy kept on ice in a backyard shed in Nederland, Colorado. “Everybody loves a parade; we were just geographically...
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Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, & Professional Hedonism
by Thomas Kohnstamm Publisher Comments For those who think that travel guidebooks are the gospel truth. The waitress suggests that I come back after she closes down the restaurant, around midnight. We end up having sex in a chair and then on one of the tables in the back corner. I pen a...
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The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
by Edmund White Publisher Comments “One has the impression, reading The Flâneur, of having fallen into the hands of a highly distractible, somewhat eccentric poet and professor who is determined to show you a Paris you wouldn’t otherwise see…Edmund White tells such...
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We've Always Had Paris...and Provence: A Scrapbook of Our Life in France
by Patricia Wells Publisher Comments Patricia Wells, long recognized as the leading American authority on French food, and her husband, Walter, live the life in France that many of us have often fantasized about. After more than a quarter century, they are as close to being accepted 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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Italian a Self Teaching Guide 2ND Edition
by Edoardo A Lebano Synopsis This self-teaching guide focuses on grammar and vocabulary relevant to every day life and travel in Italian-speaking countries and features updated extensive vocabulary and culture notes. It also includes a pronunciation guide, appendices with grammar...
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Feasting on Asphalt: The River Run
by Alton Brown Publisher Comments He’s on the road again. This time, Alton Brown and his motorcycle-mounted crew are off on a thousand-mile, south-to-north journey that follows America’s first “superhighway”—the Mississippi. Starting at the great river’...
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No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice
by Judith Martin Publisher Comments "Add No Vulgar Hotel to the list of books you must read before you come to Venice."—Donna Leon This is the definitive book for managing an incurable passion for a decaying, water-logged village. Whether you already have a raging case of Venetophilia...
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Travels with Herodotus
by Ryszard Kapuscinski Publisher Comments From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain. Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his...
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First Spanish Reader (Dual-Language) (Beginners' Guides)
by Angel Flores Publisher Comments Delightful stories, other material based on works of Don Juan Manuel, Luis Taboada, Ricardo Palma, other noted writers. Complete faithful English translations on facing pages. Exercises....
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Roadfood New Edition 2008
by Jane Stern Publisher Comments For road warriors and armchair epicures alike, the seventh edition of Roadfood is the key to finding some of the tastiest treasures in the United States. The indispensable companion for savvy travelers nationwide, Roadfood is now bigger and better than...
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Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place
by Robert Pyle Publisher Comments The author of Chasing Monarchs takes an extraordinary look at the everyday on a Pacific Northwest homestead. Much the way Donald Hall's Seasons at Eagle Pond captured New England, Sky Time in Gray's River captures the essence of the rural...
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First French Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book
by Stanley (edt) Appelbaum Publisher Comments This excellent anthology introduces newcomers to fifty great writers. Beginners can get their first taste of Voltaire, Rousseau, Balzac, Baudelaire, and Proust with passages from The Red and the Black, Les Misérables, Madame Bovary, and other...
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Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
by Rosemary Mahoney Synopsis Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely...
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Around the World in 80 Dinners: The Ultimate Culinary Adventure
by Bill 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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America from the Air: A Guide to the Landscape Along Your Route with CDROM
by Daniel Mathews Publisher Comments An illustrated guide, in both book and CD-ROM, of landscapes seen from commercial airplane windows across the United States. This is a guide to what an airline passenger sees from his seat while flying over the United States. Through its ingenious...
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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
by Giles Tremlett Publisher Comments “Part modern social history, part travelogue, Ghosts of Spain is held together by elegant first-person prose…an invaluable book…[that] has become something of a bible for those of us extranjeros who have chosen to live in Spain. A...
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