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Shadow of the Silk Road
by Colin Thubron  
Powells.com Staff Pick Colin Thubron's Shadow of the Silk Road is a beautiful, important book; part travel writing, part sociology, part history, and part politics, it is hard to pin down to any one genre. But the book's warmth and genuine love for humanity and our...
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Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land (Vintage Departures)
by Patrick French
Powells.com Staff Pick Far from a Hollywood interpretation, French's research on Tibet is enlightening, analytical, and passionate. This historical travel memoir may be the best of its kind. Recommended by Malia...
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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (03 Edition)
by Geoff Dyer
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Dave's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here....
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A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico
by Sybille Bedford
Powells.com Staff Pick A classic in travel writing now re-published, this delightful chronicle of Bedford's journeys through Mexico following World War II wonderfully captures the landscape and people of this vast country. Moreover, in florid yet engaging prose...
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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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The World: Travels 1950-2000
by Jan Morris
Powells.com Staff Pick Truly the most skilled travel writer of our time, Jan Morris's keen eye and gifted language captures time and place like no other. This collection of excerpts represents her impressive half-century career as a journalist and essayist. Morris's...
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American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville
by Bernard Henri Levy
Powells.com Staff Pick Hoping to gauge the success of America's experiment in democracy, France's leading journalist follows Tocqueville's journey across our once nascent nation to rediscover what it means to be an American. Here in opposing and quick succession, we meet...
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Carnet de Voyage
by Craig Thompson
Powells.com Staff Pick Craig Thompson made a huge splash with last year's brilliant Blankets, and he's already back with another gorgeous, albeit smaller, work. Carnet de Voyage is a sketchbook and travel diary depicting Thompson's journeys through Europe and Morocco in May...
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Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier
by Alexandra Fuller
Powells.com Staff Pick In Scribbling the Cat, Fuller forsakes the oblique approach of her bestselling debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, and tackles the Rhodesian War head-on. Visiting her parents in Zambia, she meets a veteran of the all-white Rhodesian Light Infantry...
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The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt
Powells.com Staff Pick Once again John Berendt proves he is a powerful magnet for eccentrics. With clever proficiency, Berendt depicts for readers a host of quirky characters, providing an exclusive glimpse into the Venice you won't see as a tourist. Gossipy yet wholly...
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North of South: An African Journey (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Shiva Naipaul
Powells.com Staff Pick When Shiva Naipaul (younger brother of V.S. Naipaul) went to East Africa in the 1970s to investigate the inflated rhetoric of the newly independent nations — to see whether the promises of the new leaders had been kept — what he found was both...
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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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From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant
by Michael S Sanders
Powells.com Staff Pick Immerse yourself in the customs and culture of Les Arques, France, a hilltop village untouched by the modern era that struggles to remain vital. Part travelogue, part exploration of French cuisine, Michael Sanders's charming book reveals the traditions...
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In a Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson
Powells.com Staff Pick "Everything, it seems, is interesting to Bill Bryson. The marvel is that he can make it all interesting to us. Three billion year old fossilized organisms off the western coast; a giant lobster on the side of a highway; empty, forbidding spaces...In a...
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The ends of the earth :a journey at the dawn of the 21st century
by Robert Kaplan
Powells.com Staff Pick "Robert Kaplan believes tomorrow's headlines have already been written in the Third World; the history of the next millennium is already there to see. He formed this belief while travelling through the Third World and writing The Ends of the Earth, which...
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