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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Vintage Departures) by David Grann Staff Pick Grann's riveting book, The Lost City of Z, delves into the intrepid life and mysterious disappearance of legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett. Armchair travelers will be whisked away to the Amazon on a wild ride with a surprising finish.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments Every autumn, men and women across the country undertake a quintessential American tradition: deer hunting. The pinnacle of a hunter's quest is killing a buck with antlers that “score” in the Boone and Crockett record book. Whitetail... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes by Scott Wallace Publisher Comments "A riveting and brilliant book blessed with the pacing of a novel but carrying the great weight of world events. This is journalism at its very, very best." Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm Many of us are just awakening to... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Neither Here Nor There:: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies -- in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. Twenty years later he decided to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth. The result is... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds up on the poky, wandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine, which comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert Publisher Comments This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival by Alison Wright Publisher Comments An extraordinary spiritual memoir about the will to survive . . . one breath at a time While traveling in Laos on a winding mountain road, the bus that award-winning journalist Alison Wright was riding in collided with a logging truck. As she waited... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, by Donovan Hohn Publisher Comments A compulsively readable narrative of whimsy and curiosity- andquot;adventurous, inquisitive, and brightly illuminatingandquot; (Janet Maslin, The New York Times). When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shadow of the Silk Road (P.S.) by Colin Thubron Publisher Comments To travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, and camel, Colin Thubron covered some... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik Publisher Comments Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner — in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments In this sequel to her New York Times bestsellers Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, the celebrated "bard of Tuscany" (New York Times) lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-long love affair with Tuscany's people, art, cuisine, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard Publisher Comments In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman--and never went home again. @lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her @lt;i@gt;pav au poivre, @lt;/i... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott Publisher Comments An exquisitely rendered portrait of an African childhood from an astonishing new talent When Robyn Scott 's parents decide to uproot their young family from New Zealand and move to a converted cowshed in rural Botswana, life for six-year-old Robyn... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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One for the Road by Tony Horwitz Publisher Comments "A high-spirited, comic ramble into the savage Outback populated by irreverent, beer-guzzling frontiersmen." --Chicago Tribune "A fascinating insight into what we're all about on the highways and byways along the outback track." --The... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell Publisher Comments A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire:... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and the Peloponnese by Robert D Kaplan Review “Erudite and intrepid. . . . [Kaplan] is a deft guide to wherever he chooses to lead you.” –The New York... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White Publisher Comments Bloomsbury is proud to announce the first title in an occasional series in which some of the world's finest novelists reveal the secrets of the city they know best. These beautifully produced, pocket-sized books will provide exactly what is missing in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sixpence House by Paul Collins Publisher Comments A bibliophile's pilgrimage to where book lovers go when they die-Hay-on-Wye. Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the little cobblestone village of Hay-on-Wye, the 'Town of... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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