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West with the Night by Beryl Markham Publisher Comments A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time Beryl Markhams West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exup&... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn Publisher Comments "Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, Krakauer searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled 24-year-old Chris McCandless to leave civilization behind and head into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Four months later, McCandless'... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America by Linda Lawrence Hunt Publisher Comments With their family home facing foreclosure, seventeen-year-old Clara Estby and her mother, Helga, need to raise a lot of money fastno easy feat for two women in 1896. Helga wants to tackle the problem with her usual loud and flashy style, while Clara... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pass the Butterworms: Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered by Tim Cahill Publisher Comments The Intrepid voyager and author of "A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg" presents another delightful collection of adventure-travel writings that are full of the irreverent wit and appreciation for the absurd that are uniquely--and hilariously--his.... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Snake Lake by Jeff Greenwald Publisher Comments In a circular valley beneath the looming peaks of the Himalaya lies Kathmandu, Nepal. Its a city of shimmering prayer flags, sacred cows, lavish festivals, and violent political turbulence and a world that journalist Jeff Greenwald has come to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto (Vintage Departures) by Pico Iyer Publisher Comments When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks Publisher Comments Have you ever made a drunken ben? Worse, still, have you eveer tried to win one? In attempting to hitchhike round Ireland wich a fridge, Tony Hawks did both, and his foolhardiness led him to one of the best experiences of his life. Joined by his trusty... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Crofter and the Laird by John Mcphee Publisher Comments When John McPhee returned to the island of his ancestorsColonsay, twenty-five miles west of the Scottish mainlanda hundred and thirty-eight people were living there. About eighty of these, crofters and farmers, had familial histories of unbroken... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk From Powells.com "Fugitives and Refugees is more than a book about the weird people and dark corners of Portland. Tucked surreptitiously between chapters are eleven 'postcards,' which, cobbled together, make up a sort of memoir of Palahniuk's years in his adopted city... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful by Gideon Lewis-Kraus Publisher Comments In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the fear and self-sacrifice that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane Publisher Comments How we walk, where we walk, why we walk tells the world who and what we are. Whether it's once a day to the car, or for long weekend hikes, or as competition, or as art, walking is a profoundly universal aspect of what makes us humans, social creatures,... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate) by Amy Thomas PW Review "Traveling foodies of the world, rejoice Thomas provides the sweet scoop on Paris and New York in this mouth-watering memoir. While an associate creative director at ad agency Ogilvy & Mather, Thomas was offered a position as copywriter on the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself and her readers in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over by Geraldine Brooks Publisher Comments As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe,... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Literary Paris: Hemingway, Colette, Sedaris, and Others on the Uncommon Lure of the City of Light by Jamie Cox Robinson Synopsis You don't have to live in Paris to experience her unique beauty, allure, and enchantment. With this dazzling literary celebration of the City of Light, you can stroll along the Seine with David Sedaris in Me Talk Pretty One Day, sample croissants in a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions by John Franklin Publisher Comments In 1845 Sir John Franklin and his expedition, sailing on the Erebus and the Terror, set out in search of the Northwest Passage. In their pursuit of that elusive water route across North America they all perished, their fate remaining unknown for many... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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