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The Marvellous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca: Also Malinche
by Haniel Long  Publisher Comments In 1528 Cabeza de Vaca led a Spanish expedition to the Americas, where, shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico, he traveled for eight years across North America enduring starvation and enslavement until his eventual rescue by Native Americans. Based on...
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Kingdom By the Sea a Journey Around TH
by Paul Theroux 
Synopsis Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War and the royal baby, and the ideal time, he found, to suprise the British into talking about...
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Golden Earth: Travels in Burma
by Norman Lewis Publisher Comments The best travel book on Burma since World War II. New edition....
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Investment Biker Around the World New Edition
by Jim Rogers Publisher Comments Legendary investor Jim Rogers gives us his view of the world on a twenty-two-month, fifty-two-country motorcycle odyssey in his bestselling business/adventure book, Investment Biker, which has already sold more than 200,000 copies. Before you invest...
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A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France
by Georgeanne Brennan Publisher Comments Georgeanne Brennan moved to Provence in 1970, seeking a simpler life. She set off on her many adventures in Provençale cuisine by tracking down a herd of goats, a cool workshop, some rennet, and the lost art of making fresh goat cheese. From...
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Land's End: A Walk Through Provincetown (Crown Journeys)
by Michael Cunningham Publisher Comments In this celebration of one of America?s oldest towns (incorporated in 1720), Michael Cunningham, author of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize?winning The Hours, brings us Provincetown, one of the most idiosyncratic and extraordinary towns in the United...
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Lonely Planet a Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Lonely Planet Journeys)
by Eric Newby
Publisher Comments The view was colossal. Below us on every side mountains surged away it seemed forever; we looked down on glaciers and snow-covered peaks that perhaps no one has ever seen before, except from the air.' Feeling restless in the world of London's high...
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1000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die
by Patricia Schultz Publisher Comments It's a traveler's life list, a guide, an inspiration, a memory book. Open it to check out where you've been, and where you should go next. What to see and what to do and what to show the kids. Where to eat and where to stay. And how to change your life...
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The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War
by Norman Lewis Publisher Comments While the rumblings of oncoming war shook a divided Spain, Norman Lewis and his brother-in-law Eugene Corvaja traveled through the Spanish countryside to the family tomb in Seville. Nearly seventy years later, in prose that is witty, understated, and...
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Innocents Abroad Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress (03 Edition)
by Mark Twain Publisher Comments The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old World” provides much comic...
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
by John Steinbeck
Powells.com Staff Pick Wanderlust is a pervasive, seemingly incurable "virus of restlessness." Not contagious in any clinical sense, you either have it or you don't. John Steinbeck did, in spades. As the 1960s commenced, Steinbeck, according to his oldest son, sensed his...
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The Clouded Leopard: A Book of Travels
by Wade Davis Publisher Comments For many years and through many of the world’s most remote regions, Wade Davis has traveled in search of the rare places where cultural diversity survives, untainted by the influences of globalization and modernization. The Clouded Leopard brings...
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Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180
by Mike Magnuson
Powells.com Staff Pick Be fascinated with the cessation of bad habits. Revel in the sound of clicking gears and the whoosh of skinny tires on asphalt. This is a crash and burn, lose your mind with your fat, die or get fit way to becoming a bicycle geek. Donna, Powells...
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Off Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets & Gatemouth's Gator: Essays
by Michael Perry Publisher Comments Whether he's fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and footloose past to write from a perspective that merges the...
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No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts Publisher Comments This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time. For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing's holy grail: to stand atop the world's...
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Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip
by Mark Mordue Publisher Comments Australian award-winning journalist Mark Mordue invites you on his world trip that ranges from a Rolling Stones concert in Istanbul to talking with mullahs and junkies in Tehran, and from a cricket match in Calcutta to an S&M bar in New York, in...
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Riding the Hulahula to the Arctic Ocean: A Guide to Fifty Extraordinary Adventures for the Seasoned Traveler
by Don Mankin Publisher Comments True, the free-wandering '60s are long gone: you sold your backpack years ago, raised a family, enjoyed a fruitful career. Finally, it's time to indulge your wanderlust--and rediscover the incredible fun and excitement of traveling off the beaten path...
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Pies and Prejudice: in Search of the North (UK Edition)
by Stuart Maconie Publisher Comments A northerner in southern exile, Maconie, goes in search of his Northern Soul, delving into his past in this riotously funny journey from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower looking for where the clichés end and the truth begins....
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Quicksands: A Memoir
by Sybille Bedford Synopsis - Her first new book in over 10 years. Bedford is back with what will surely (she says) be her last, and the moving culmination of a story that began in 1956 (when Legacy pubbed in the UK). - Acclaim, acclaim, and acclaim. Sybille Bedford is, simply put,...
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Watersteps Round Europe
by Bill Cooper Synopsis Bill and Laurel Cooper cruised Hosanna around the Greek Islands. Needing a replacement engine, they made an eventful 2,300-mile voyage home via the Ionian Isles, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and the waterways of France, then across the English Channel...
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