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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by Tony Horwitz  Publisher Comments On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp...
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by Eric Weiner Publisher Comments Laugh. Think. Repeat. Repeatedly. If someone told me this book was this good, I wouldn't have believed them. --Po Bronson, author of What Should I Do With My Life? Think Don Quixote with a dark sense of humor and a taste for hashish and you begin to...
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Outposts CD: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remains of what once made Britain great. He traveled 100,000 miles back and forth,...
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Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell 
Powells.com Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever...
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A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller
by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself—and her readers—in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. A...
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
by J. Maarten Troost Synopsis At age twenty-six, Maarten Troost packed up his flip-flops to move to a remote South Pacific island. He should have known better. This is the laugh-out-loud true story of a harrowing and hilarious two-year stay in the worst place on earth....
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Gullible's Travels: The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist
by Cash Peters Synopsis Join British journalist Cash Peters, of public radios hilarious The Bad Taste Tours program, for this outrageous behind-the-scenes look at some of the more ridiculous journeys and adventures of his travel-reporting career....
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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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Notes from a Small Island, Neither Here Nor There, and I'm a Stranger Here Myself
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments Notes from a Small Island After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to move his wife and kids back to his homeland of the United States. But not before taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly...
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Down Under (UK Edition)
by Bill Bryson Synopsis After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. He tries to find out why Aussies are so cool, digging up a past that reveals...
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Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii
by Mark Twain Synopsis Mark Twain arrived in Honolulu on Sunday, March 18, 1866, to write a series of travel letters to be published in the Sacramento Union. His letters about "the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean" show Twain's keen ability to detail...
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The Best American Travel Writing 2000 (Best American Travel Writing)
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments This inaugural edition of THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING journeys around the world to reveal our fascination with places both familiar and foreign. Guest editor Bill Bryson has gathered together remarkable pieces that travel across the remote stretches...
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At Home and Abroad (UK Edition)
by Publisher Comments Following in the footsteps of the Englishman at home and abroad in the varied company of such characters as The Honourable John Byng, Virginia Woolf, T E Lawrence and William Cobbett. Muliti-voiced, 2 double cassettes, running time approximately 4 hours....
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Eight Feet in the Andes
by Dervla Murphy Synopsis The eight feet are those of Dervla Murphy, her nine-year-old daughter Rachel, and their patient mule Juana. Together they covered 1300 miles through the Central Andes from Cayamarca south to Cuzco. On the journey they encounter as daily hazards extremes...
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Gullible's Travels: The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist
by Cash Peters Synopsis Join British journalist Cash Peters, of public radios hilarious The Bad Taste Tours program, for this outrageous behind-the-scenes look at some of the more ridiculous journeys and adventures of his travel-reporting career....
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Around the World in 80 Days
by Michael Palin Synopsis Michael Palin set out with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. This fascinating and humorous account tells the story of his travels: from Venice on the...
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Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea
by Steven Callahan Synopsis Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's Adrift chronicled one of the most astounding voyages of the century and one of the great sea adventures of all time. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books...
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Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape, Vermont's Champlainvalley and New York's Adirondacks
by Bill Mckibben Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of The End of Nature takes a three-week walk from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks and reflects on the deep hope he finds in the two landscapes. Bill McKibben begins his journey atop Vermont’s...
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A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments More than 40,000 listeners have enjoyed this story on cassette. Now anyone who’s ever dreamed of getting away from it all can enjoy the charms and challenges of A Year in Provence on CD Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists...
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Notes From a Big Country (UK Edition)
by Bill Bryson Synopsis An audio cassette featuring some of Bill Bryson's "Mail on Sunday" columns about that strange phenomena, the American way of life, in which he brings his bemused wit to bear on one of the world's craziest countries....
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