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The Spiritual Tourist: A Personal Odyssey Through the Outer Reaches of Belief
by Mick Brown  Publisher Comments On a pilgrimage to see the Dalai Lama in the foothills of the Himalayas; blissed out in Germany with a beautiful Indian girl, believed to be "the Divine Mother"; witnessing miracles in the ashram of Sai Baba; and searching for the Messiah in the back...
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Shooting the Boh: A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo (Vintage Departures)
by Tracy Johnston Publisher Comments A thrilling, touching, and densely instructive book, Shooting the Boh is also a frank self-portrait of a woman facing her most corrosive fears--and triumphing over them--with fortitude and unflagging wit. "A captivating and truly offbeat rite of passage"....
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When Elephants Fly: One Woman's Journey from Wall Street to Zululand
by Carol Batrus Publisher Comments After graduating from MIT and working in the health care field, Carol Batrus changed directions and got her MBA at Columbia and went to work for a prestigious New York investment bank. Still unsatisfied, she eventually gave it all up, cut the tether to...
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Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain
by Michael Paterniti 
Publisher Comments A journalist, an 84-year-old pathologist, and Albert Einstein's brain rocket across the country through the palpable zeitgeist of contemporary America. Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, "Driving Mr. Albert" is one of the most...
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Florence: A Delicate Case
by David Leavitt Publisher Comments David Leavitt brings the wonders and mysteries of Florence alive, illuminating why it is, and always has been, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world.The third in the critically-acclaimed Writer and the City Series-in which some of the...
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Notes From a Small Island
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments When Bill Bryson decided to take his family back to America for a while, he took one last tour around the British Isles. After the very humorous and bestselling accounts of his trips to Europe ("Neither Here Nor There") and back to small-town America...
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Size of the World: Once Around Without Leaving the Ground
by Jeff Greenwald Publisher Comments By the time that travel writer Jeff Greenwald hit his late thirties, he had covered more ground than Magellan, Marco Polo, and Columbus combined. But he also came to a sobering conclusion: airplanes had reduced his exotic explorations to a series of long...
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The Clumsiest People in Europe: Or, Mrs. Mortimer's Bad-Tempered Guide to the Victorian World
by Todd Pruzan Publisher Comments "A hoot, even if you do feel guilty for laughing.""--Entertainment Weekly" Caustic, cranky, and inadvertently hilarious, the bestselling Victorian author Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer rarely left the house--but that didn't stop her from writing several...
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Jaguars and Electric Eels
by Alexan Von Humboldt Publisher Comments A great and innovative thinker, the young Humboldt went on his epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe. This part of his matchless narrative of adventure and scientific research focuses on his time in...
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The Prize of All the Oceans : the Triumph and Tragedy of Anson's Voyage Round the World
by Glyn Williams Publisher Comments This work recounts this classic story from sea history, detailing the dramatic hardships, diasters, mutiny and heroism that occurred....
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There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled: The Best Travel Humor and Misadventure (Travelers' Tales Guides)
by Doug Lansky Publisher Comments A rolling stone may gather no moss, but one thing it does gather is funny stories, as this collection of goofy travel essays shows. The perfect trip, where nothing goes wrong, is surely no the memorable trip, which is where everything goes wrong and one...
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Wrong About Japan
by Peter Carey
Powells.com Staff Pick Here's the cure for the otaku blues! In his latest work, two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey recounts his anime- and manga-inspired trip to Japan with his son, Charley. Throughout the book we tag along with Carey as he navigates not only Japanese...
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America Day by Day
by Simone De Beauvoir Publisher Comments This is a great piece of road literature written by one of the preeminent intellectuals of the twentieth century....
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Shopping for Buddhas (Lonely Planet Journeys)
by Jeff Greenwald Publisher Comments There was a need for non-attachment, to be sure; but also a prerequisite of knife-like resolve. Here in this exotic land, we were compelled to raise the art of shopping to an experience that was, on the other hand, tinged with desperation, like shopping...
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To the Ends of the Earth
by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments "Travel writing at its best."<BR>THE HOUSTON POST<BR>Author and travel writer Paul Theroux does what no one else can: he travels to the isolated, unusual, and fascinating spots of the world, and creates an elegy to them that makes readers...
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Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire
by Wade Davis Publisher Comments " One of the intense pleasures of travel is the opportunity to live among people who have not forgotten the old ways, who still feel their past in the wind, touch it in stones polished by rain, recognize its taste in the bitter leaves of plants...
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Among Warriors
by Pamela Logan Publisher Comments The province of Kham is one of the remotest regions in in all of Tibet, and its people, the fierce horsemen who for twenty-five years waged a relentless guerilla war against the Chinese occupation, the most elusive. In Among Warriors, Pamela Logan, a...
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Alone Against the Sea: And Other True Adventures
by Jon Bowermaster Publisher Comments Readers will feel the bite of icy waters as Jon Bowermaster careens down the most dangerous sections of the Yangtze River - so treacherous the Chinese government has closed it to boaters - and descends for the first time ever Chile's Futaleufu, one of...
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On Pilgrimage
by Jennifer Lash Publisher Comments From the remarkably talented novelist comes an unforgettable travel memoir. In 1986 Jennifer Lash learned she had cancer, and after a painful operation, she embarked on a solitary pilgrimage through France to Spain. Travelling to places of contemporary...
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My Love Affair with England: A Traveler's Memoir
by Susan Allen Toth Publisher Comments Journalist and memoirist Susan Allen Toth brings her special England vivdly to life as she recalls her many trips there over the years, where she explored the countryside, traveled both second-class and in luxury, theatre-hopped, hunted for ghosts, and...
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