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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
by Bill Bryson  
Publisher Comments The master humorist and bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods now guides us on an affectionate, hysterically funny tour of America's most outrageous absurdities. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the...
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Istanbul : Memories and the City (05 Edition)
by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His...
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It's a Jungle Up There: More Tales from the Treetops
by Margaret D Lowman Publisher Comments Drawn to the mysteries of tropical rain forests and fascinated by life in the treetops, Meg Lowman has pursued a life of scientific exploration while raising her two sons, Edward and James Burgess. This book recounts their family adventures in remote...
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The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments "Possibly his best travel book...an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took him to 51 Pacific Islands." TIME Renowned travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux has been many places in his life and tried almost everything. But this...
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Miles from Nowhere
by Barbara Savage
Publisher Comments This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000 miles global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Miles From Nowhere is an adventure not to be missed...
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Window Seat: Reading the Landscape from the Air
by Gregory Dicum Publisher Comments Talk about a fresh perspective! Perched 35,000 feet in the air, Window Seat decodes the sights to be seen on any flight across North America. Broken down by region, this unusual guide features 70 aerial photographs; a fold-out map of North America...
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson
Publisher Comments The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America — majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you're going to take a hike, it's probably the place to go. And Bill...
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Travels with Herodotus (Vintage International)
by Ryszard Kapuscinski Publisher Comments From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland...
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The Last Season (P.S.)
by Eric Blehm Publisher Comments Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada—mountains as perilous...
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Around the World in a Bad Mood!: Confessions of a Flight Attendant
by Rene Foss Publisher Comments A hilarious slant on the culture of airline travel -- by a flight attendant who's logged more in-flight hours than Federal Express. Around the World in a Bad Mood is a center seat on an oversold flight to laughter. And there's no one better qualified...
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Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
by Alice Steinbach
Publisher Comments "In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alice Steinbach. "For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow." But somehow she had become dependent in quite another way. "I had fallen...
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
by Paul Theroux
Publisher Comments In his first new travel book in eight years, the endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. He endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances...
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Eiger Dreams : Ventures Among Men and Mountains (90 Edition)
by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments A brilliant collection in which Krakauer writes about battling peaks like K2, Denali, Everest, and the Eiger -- always with a keen eye, an open heart, and a hunger for the ultimate experience....
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American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
by Matthew Polly
Powells.com Staff Pick In his adventurous and highly comical journey to martial arts' ancient home, China's Shaolin Temple, Matthew Polly tests his fortitude and manhood, picking up a great deal about Chinese culture along the way. Filled with peculiar characters, crazy moves,...
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Two Wheels in the Dust: From Kathmandu to Kandy
by Anne Mustoe Publisher Comments This is the finest travel writing: Anne Mustoe's phenomenal journey is full of rich experiences and enlightening incidents. Beginning in Kathmandu in Nepal and ending in the tranquil town of Kandy in Sri Lanka, her journey follows in the path of The...
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The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Olive Oil in the South of France
by Carol Drinkwater Publisher Comments When Carol Drinkwater and her fiancé, Michel, are given the opportunity to purchase ten acres of an abandoned olive farm in the South of France, they find the region's splendor impossible to resist. Using their entire savings as a down payment, the...
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Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan
by Jamie Zeppa
Publisher Comments In 1989, Jamie Zeppa, a naïve, well-educated twenty-three-year-old from Sault Ste. Marie, commits to a two-year teaching contract in Bhutan against the wishes of both her fiancé, Robert, and her controlling grandfather. Following orientation here and...
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The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland
by Barbara Sjoholm
Publisher Comments Barbara Sjoholm's moving travel narrative takes readers on a personal journey through the icy landscape of Lapland. A frequent traveler to Northern Europe, Barbara Sjoholm set off one winter to explore a region that had long intrigued her. Sjoholm...
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Travels
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Mountain Madness
by Robert Birkby
Publisher Comments "You're either cruisin' or you're bummin', so you might as well cruise." — Scott Fischer Mountain climber Scott Fischer's mantra would lead him to scale the highest and most treacherous peaks on earth. Best known as one of the guides who...
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