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by Yvone Lenard  Publisher Comments A French-American rediscovers her homeland and transports readers to an enchanted world in which she and her husband build their dream house in Provence. Lenard lends her insight into the subtleties of her native culture and captures the sights, sounds... (read more)  List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Jeff Greenwald Publisher Comments There was a need for non-attachment, to be sure; but also a prerequisite of knife-like resolve. Here in this exotic land, we were compelled to raise the art of shopping to an experience that was, on the other hand, tinged with desperation, like shopping... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $5.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William L Heat Moon Publisher Comments A book that describes Heat-Moon's 13,000 mile journey exploring the backroads of the United States.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Mcphee Publisher Comments This acclaimed collection of essays begins with the title essay and a trip to Nevada, where, in the company of a brand inspector, John McPhee discovers that cattle rustling is not just history.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nesreen Khashan Publisher Comments "Encounters with the Middle East" collects 30 rich, engaging travel stories that capture uplifting scenes from everyday life and deliver sensitive, bittersweet renderings of people and landscapes often shaken by conflict. This book, with black and white... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vicki Croke Publisher Comments Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments The journeys of Paul Theroux take place not only in exotic, unexpected places of the world but in the thoughts, reading, and emotions of the writer himself. A gathering of people, places, and ideas in fifty glittering pieces of gold.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments "DAZZLING."<BR>--Time<BR>"[THEROUX'S] WORK IS DISTINGUISHED BY A SPLENDID EYE FOR DETAIL AND THE TELLING GESTURE; a storyteller's sense of pacing and gift for granting closure to the most subtle progression of events; and the graceful use of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hodding Carter Publisher Comments Hodding Carter dreamed of being an Olympian as a kid. He worshipped Mark Spitz, swam his heart out, and just missed qualifying for the Olympic trials in swimming as a college senior. Although he didn't qualify for the 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments Peter Mayle, francophile phenomenon and author of A Year in Provence, brings another delightful (and delicious) account of the good life, this time exploring the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France. The French celebrate food and drink more... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pankaj Mishra Publisher Comments In his new book, Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on travels that are at once epic and personal as he sees the pressures of Western-style modernity, prosperity, and globalization on a rapidly changing region.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments "Travel writing at its best."<BR>THE HOUSTON POST<BR>Author and travel writer Paul Theroux does what no one else can: he travels to the isolated, unusual, and fascinating spots of the world, and creates an elegy to them that makes readers... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $4.25 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Jon Bowermaster Publisher Comments Readers will feel the bite of icy waters as Jon Bowermaster careens down the most dangerous sections of the Yangtze River - so treacherous the Chinese government has closed it to boaters - and descends for the first time ever Chile's Futaleufu, one of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeremy Mercer Publisher Comments In a leafy square on Paris's Left Bank, a young writer finds a home and an unlikely mentor among the shelves of a legendary bookshop.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tony Perrottet Publisher Comments This inspired travel narrative, tracing a Mediterranean itinerary modeled on that of the world's first tourists, is also a witty discussion of ancient Roman history and culture, as contrasted to our own.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Robb Publisher Comments From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily. South of mainland Italy lies the island of Sicily, home to an ancient culture that — with its stark landscapes, glorious coastlines, and extraordinary treasure troves of art... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Stone Publisher Comments The story of a man in love with a place, a woman, and a dream. Tom Stone went to Greece one summer to write a novel -- and stayed twenty-two years. On Patmos, he fell in love with Danielle, a beautiful French painter. His novel completed and sold, he... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Miles Morland Publisher Comments "[A] humorous and effervescent memoir of reflection, revitalization and good wine." -- San Francisco Chronicle<BR>At age forty-five, Miles Morland left his high-paying job at the London office of a Wall Street firm and took a leap -- actually, a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sumner Macleish Publisher Comments MacLeish's beautifully crafted prose illuminates the unique landscape of a subarctic island in the Bering Sea -- its abundant wildlife, fierce weather, and Aleut inhabitants.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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