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by Laura Williams  Publisher Comments The Storks' Nest is the true story of a young American woman who moves to a remote village in western Russia and falls in love with a nature photographer. Together they explore the wilderness of the impenetrable Bryansk Forest, coming face-to-face with... (read more)  List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Jason Elliot Publisher Comments Part historical evocation, part travelogue, and part personal quest, An Unexpected Light is the account of Elliot's journey through Afghanistan, a country considered off-limits to travelers for twenty years. Aware of the risks involved, but determined to... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Ross Publisher Comments Ross is one of the most seasoned and skilled safari guides at work in Africa today, and he writes here about his close-hand encounters with danger and natural beauty in Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Uganda. 8-page photo insert.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jose Saramago Publisher Comments When José Saramago decided to write a book about Portugal, his only desire was that it be unlike all other books on the subject, and in this he has certainly succeeded. Recording the events and observations of a journey across the length and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Cook Publisher Comments Cook's three great voyages into the uncharted Pacific, told in his own words. Travel classic recounts exploration of the eastern coastline of Australia, mapping of New Zealand, discovery of Hawaiian Islands, much more.<BR>... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tahir Shah Publisher Comments By turns hilarious and harrowing, this work by an acclaimed English travel writer is the story of his family's move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore converge--and nothing... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cash Peters Publisher Comments Fans of Cash Peters' "Bad Taste Tours" on public radio will hail this outrageously funny collection of essays about his experiences traveling to and reporting on the most bizarre and tacky tourist attractions across the United States.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Rapoport Publisher Comments From the artist attacked by the entire waitstaff of a Chinese restaurant in New York after he dared criticize the lo mein, to a splendid anteater served for Thanksgiving dinner, this collection of travel disasters is guaranteed to make you rethink those... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments Whether it is trekking through the icy Maine woods, or journeying to a remote island in the South Pacific where the first atomic bombs were detonated, Theroux serves as both camera and the eye. This collection of essays and articles is the ultimate good... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Miles Harvey Publisher Comments The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tracy Johnston Publisher Comments A thrilling, touching, and densely instructive book, Shooting the Boh is also a frank self-portrait of a woman facing her most corrosive fears--and triumphing over them--with fortitude and unflagging wit. "A captivating and truly offbeat rite of passage".... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Clarke Publisher Comments An urban antidote to A Year in Provence, Stephen Clarke's book is a laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of an expat in Paris-for Francophiles and Francophobes alike.A Year in the Merde is the almost-true account of the author's adventures as an... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jennifer L. Leo Publisher Comments Button your blouse, here comes a sandstorm of laughs! Travel isn't always what we dream it will be, but oh, the stories that follow. Share in the hilarious, bizarre, and unforgettable misadventures of 29 women whose trips went comically awry. From... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marlena De Blasi Publisher Comments They had met and married on perilously short acquaintance, she an American chef and food writer, he a Venetian banker. Now they were taking another audacious leap, unstitching their ties with exquisite Venice to live in a roughly renovated stable in... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Paterniti 
Publisher Comments A journalist, an 84-year-old pathologist, and Albert Einstein's brain rocket across the country through the palpable zeitgeist of contemporary America. Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, "Driving Mr. Albert" is one of the most... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tony Horwitz Publisher Comments Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs to explore the exotic reaches of his adopted land. So one day, armed only with a backpack and fantasies of the open road, he hitchhikes off into the awesome emptiness... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments One of today's most highly acclaimed young travel writers retraces the steps of two monks who undertook an epic journey, across the entire Byzantine world, in the year 587 AD. An elegy to the slowly dying doctrine of Eastern Christianity and the people... (read more) Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments When Bill Bryson decided to take his family back to America for a while, he took one last tour around the British Isles. After the very humorous and bestselling accounts of his trips to Europe ("Neither Here Nor There") and back to small-town America... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $14.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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