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by Elizabeth Gilbert  
Powells.com Staff Pick Not long after her thirtieth birthday, on the heels of an ugly divorce, Elizabeth Gilbert traveled for a year, to Italy, India, and finally Indonesia. In Italy she wanted to explore the art of pleasure (pasta, wine, handsome men speaking a beautiful... (read more)  List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments Following an urge to rediscover his youth, Bill Bryson left his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that would take him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook. With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Bryson
Publisher Comments Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $14.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J. Maarten Troost Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals, the laugh-out-loud true story of his years on the islands of Vanuatu and Fiji, among cannibals, volcanoes...and the world's best narcotics. With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Chris Stewart Publisher Comments Driving Over Lemons is the contagiously entertaining account of one couple's beginning a new life as they turn a rundown peasant farm in southern Spain into a home. When Chris Stewart first sees El Valero, he's willing to overlook its lack of electricity,... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Beryl Markham
Publisher Comments "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night? I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write in her flyer's log book. As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rory Stewart Publisher Comments In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Kohnstamm Publisher Comments For those who think that travel guidebooks are the gospel truth. The waitress suggests that I come back after she closes down the restaurant, around midnight. We end up having sex in a chair and then on one of the tables in the back corner. I pen a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $16.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Dugard Publisher Comments With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J. Maarten Troost
Powells.com Staff Pick When Troost followed his wife to a small island nation he expected Bali Hai. Instead he found an isolated, polluted, boiling hot hellhole. His wonderful tale is both hilarious and thrilling. This original adventure offers enjoyment and also allows... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Bryson
Publisher Comments "Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it." After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson-bestsellingauthor of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to returnto... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Grant Publisher Comments Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet and boasts several canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon. The rules of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Phil Doran Publisher Comments A Book Sense Pick for May 2005, this is the humorous tale of how the author moveda against his will and his better judgmentato Italy with his wife, only to rediscover himself, his marriage, and the importance of getting in touch with his inner Italian... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jennifer Niven
Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the gripping and inspiring tale of a woman's survival alone in the Arctic. In 1921, four men and one woman ventured deep into the Arctic. Two years later, only one returned. When 23-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed on as a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Chuck Thompson
Publisher Comments From Bangkok to Bogotá, a hilarious behind-the-brochures tour of picture-perfect locales, dangerous destinations, and overrated hellholes from a guy who knows the truth about travel. Travel writer, editor, and photographer Chuck Thompson has... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robyn Scott Publisher Comments A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirs. Robyn Scott's story of moving at the age of seven to Botswana with her adventure... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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