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by Jerry E Strahan  Publisher Comments The author recalls his two decades of hilarious encounters with drifters, drunks, and swindlers while a manager of Lucky Dogs, Inc. in New Orleans. Photos.... (read more)  List Price $13.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Philip Caputo Publisher Comments Philip Caputo's passion for travel and adventure was inspired by the works of Joseph Conrad, Jack London, and Herman Melville, and through the years this passion led to a rugged writer's life, filled with hair-raising experiences in the jungles of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Christina Lamb Publisher Comments A bestseller in Britain, The Africa House vividly details the life of an English officer and gentleman and his remarkable house and colony in deepest Africa. In the ides of the British Empire, Stewart Gore Browne built himself a feudal paradise in... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeremy Schmidt Publisher Comments Two young couples' adventures around the Himalaya by bike, truck, and foot.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $11.21 (Used - Hardcover) 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 $17.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Juan Goytisolo Publisher Comments Landscapes of War: From Sarajevo to Chechnya is an incisive examination of the tensions that exist between the West and Islamic societies of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. These essays, originating in Goytisolo's travels in the late 1990s... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Paterniti 
Synopsis A brilliant young writer, 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... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Bowles Publisher Comments Between 1987 and 1989, Paul Bowles, at the suggestion of a friend, kept a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is more than just a record of the meals, conversations, and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering Sky, but a... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Laurie Gough Publisher Comments Laurie Gough is the epitome of a traveler with pluck, who doesn't shrink from the rigors, lessons, or danger of the pilgrim's road, but embraces them with enthusiasm and humor. Through the eyes of a young woman living on a beach in Fiji with new friends... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Quarrington Publisher Comments Poignant observation on a wide-ranging investigation of everything from blue-footed boobies, careerism, taxonomy, and the nature of creation to pirates and the precarious ecology of the Galapagos islands from the author of seven novels, including "The... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alfred Lansing From Powells.com Days before the outbreak of World War One renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail to attempt the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. More than eighty miles from their destination, however, their... (read more) Your price $9.95 (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 Patrick Pfister Publisher Comments Both personal odyssey and thrilling adventure, Pfister reminds us that a voyage to the wildest reaches of the world still echoes in the quietest corner of the human heart.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) 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 Kate Williamson Publisher Comments The Land of the Rising Sun is shining brightly across the American cultural landscape. Recent films such as Lost in Translation and Memoirs of a Geisha seem to have made everyone an expert on Japan, even if they¿ve never been there. But the only way for... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Emily Hiestand Publisher Comments A childhood shaped by her zestful aunt Nan Dean of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; a girlhood spent in Oak Ridge ("Atom City"), Tennessee; a journey north to a seedy seaside town where a stripper named Angela the Upside-Down Girl is her first neighbor--these... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tony Cohan Publisher Comments Told with the intimate, sensuous insight and broad sweep that captivated readers of "On Mexican Time," this is both a celebration of the joys and revelations to be found in this inexhaustibly interesting country and a searching investigation of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Christine Orban Publisher Comments ""No one will ever be like you. Who could be like a sister?"<BR>"One Day My Sister Disappeared is Christine Orban's deeply affecting meditation on family, grief, and identity. In spare and tender prose, Orban reflects on the death of her younger... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.95 (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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by Simon Chapman Publisher Comments The hard evidence amounted to a grainy photo published in a 1929 London newspaper. Sitting on a packing case, propped up with a large stick, was what purported to be the body of a giant ape—the “Mono Rey.” It was said to have inhabited... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price $6.48 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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