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Uncommon Carriers (06 Edition)
by John Mcphee  Publisher Comments This is a book about people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation. John McPhee rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and...
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Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile
by Ramor Ryan Publisher Comments "What separates Ramor's work from the other outstanding youngwriters is the content of what he is doing. I've never seen anythingclose to his work"-Eddie Yuen, co-editor of Confronting Capitalism "From Belfast to the Bronx and Chiapas to Kurdistan, Ramor...
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Cartographies: Meditations on Travel
by Marjorie Agosin Publisher Comments On the impulse behind "Cartographies, Marjorie Agosin writes, "I have always wanted to understand the meaning of displacement and the quest or longing for home. In these lyrical meditations in prose and poetry, Agosin evokes the many places on four...
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Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road (Travelers' Tales)
by Jennifer L. Leo Publisher Comments Button your blouse, here comes a sandstorm of laughs! Travel isn't always what we dream it will be, but oh, the stories that follow. Share in the hilarious, bizarre, and unforgettable misadventures of 29 women whose trips went comically awry. From...
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My Journey to Lhasa
by Alexandra David-Neel Book News Annotation Reprint of the Harper & Bros. original of 1927. The memoirs of a stout 55-year-old Frenchwoman who trekked in disguise for four months to become the first Western woman to reach Lhasa. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Cost Conscious Cruiser: Champagne Cruising on a Beer Budget
by Lin Pardey Synopsis In this book, a logical successor to their Self Sufficient Sailor and Capable Cruiser, they discuss topics ranging from making your getaway plans to finding a truly affordable boat, keeping your outfitting costs and maintenance time in control, then...
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Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya (National Geographic Directions)
by Jamaica Kincaid Publisher Comments This account of a walk I took while gathering the seeds of flowering plants in the foothills of the Himalayas has its origins in my love of the gardeno?=my love of feeling isolated, of imagining myself all alone in the world and everything unfamiliar, or...
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The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (Vintage Departures)
by Tom Bissell Publisher Comments The Father of All Things is a riveting, haunting, and often hilarious account of a veteran and his son’s journey through Vietnam. As his father recounts his experiences as a soldier, including a near fatal injury, Tom Bissell weaves a larger...
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Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings, 1985-2000
by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments Fresh Air Fiend is Theroux's first collection devoted exclusively to travel writing, for which the author of such classics as The Great Railway Bazaar and Riding The Iron Rooster (as well as more than twenty works of fiction, including The Mosquito...
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Notes From a Small Island
by Bill Bryson Synopsis After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the USA. Before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, he took one last trip around the UK, and in this book, he turns an affectionate but laconic eye on his...
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Hold the Enlightenment
by Tim Cahill 
Publisher Comments In his latest collection of death-defying exploits and far-flung travels, Outside Magazine editor Tim Cahill visits the side of an active volcano in Ecuador, the Saharan salt mines and the largest toxic waste dump in the Western Hemisphere. He also...
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The Boy on the Back of the Turtle: Seeking God, Quince Marmalade, and the Fabled Albatross on Darwin's Islands
by Paul Quarrington Publisher Comments In The Boy on the Back of the Turtle, Quarrington attempts to discover his own little niche in the cosmos. Cruising the volcanic Galapagos Islands on a 90-foot liner in the company of his daughter, age 7, and his father, age 73, he tries to find his...
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Where the Pavement Ends: One Woman's Bicycle Trip Through Mongolia, China & Vietnam
by Erika Warmbrunn Synopsis Erika Warmbrunn's amazing 8,000 kilometer cycling journey through Asia. Winner of the Barbara Savage Miles From Nowhere Memorial Award....
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In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century
by Geert Mak
Powells.com Staff Pick What a thoughtful, delightful book. We go from one end of Europe to the other, traveling in time and space. It's like a tour of Europe with a beloved history professor and, therefore, it's a "must read" for Americans who want to understand the current...
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Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and the Peloponnese
by Robert D. Kaplan Publisher Comments “Artful and intelligent . . . . Kaplan's book has made its own mark. . . I am able to feel the sense of an exotic and timeless part of the world.” — Bob Hoover, Pittsburg Post-Gazette “[Kaplan] helps the distant past resonate...
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Che Guevara and the Mountain of Silver: By Bicycle and Train Through South America
by Anne Mustoe Publisher Comments In her latest travelogue, intrepid ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe dusts off the bicycle clips once more and embarks on a remarkable journey through South America. Following by bicycle in the tracks of che Guevara, Mustoe retraces the route the iconic...
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Dear Exile : the True Story of Two Friends Separated (For a Year) By an Ocean (99 Edition)
by Hilary Liftin
Publisher Comments A funny and moving story told through the letters of two women nurturing a friendship as they are separated by distance, experience, and time. Close friends and former college roommates, Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery promised to write when Kate's...
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From Heaven Lake : Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (83 Edition)
by Vikram Seth Publisher Comments After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story of his remarkable journey and his encounters with nomadic Muslims...
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Little Money Street: In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France (Vintage Departures)
by Fernanda Eberstadt Publisher Comments In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France — a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she found a jealously guarded culture, a...
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The Indochina Chronicles: Travels in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam
by Phil Karber Synopsis From old Viet Cong guerrillas to the new tycoons of Saigon, from hookers and highwaymen to bartenders and ambassadors, Phil Karber has met them all--and had a drink with most. Nobody knows the red states of Indochina better than Phil Karber. This book is...
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