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by Roger Rapoport Publisher Comments You say you woke up in your hotel room, the staff disappeared and all the doors were locked? None of your samples arrived at their destination in Brazil and your marathon sales trip has collapsed? You took the staff out for Thai food in Chicago to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $4.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 add to wish list
by Sam Apple Publisher Comments Hans Breuer, Austria's only wandering shepherd, is also a Yiddish folksinger. He walks the Alps, shepherd's stick in hand, singing lullabies to his 625 sheep. Sometimes he even gives concerts in historically anti-Semitic towns, showing slides of the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert D Kaplan Publisher Comments Eastward to Tartary," Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. <BR>Kaplan takes... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Wilson Publisher Comments A Certain Somewhere collects thirty essays originally published in Preservation magazine. Writers were asked to describe a place that is significant to them, to decipher what makes it mysterious and meaningful, and to examine the nature of attachment to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.71 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Pete Mccarthy Publisher Comments The #1 Irish BestsellerDespite the many exotic places Pete McCarthy has visited, he finds that nowhere else can match the particular magic of Ireland, his mother’s homeland. In McCarthy's Bar, his journey begins in Cork and continues along the west... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jeffrey Tayler Publisher Comments Hailed by Bill Bryson and the New York Times Book Review as an emerging master of travel writing, Tayler penetrates one of the most forbidding regions on Earth. Journeying along routes little altered since the Middle Ages, he uses his linguistic and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Cindy Ross Publisher Comments A compelling narrative of a young woman's journey on the rugged Pacific Crest Trail.... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Tim Moore Publisher Comments "'A donkey?' blurted my family as one. For a moment it didn't seem they'd ever be able to list all the reasons that made this so entertainingly ludicrous....Yes, I'd never ridden a donkey on a beach or petted one at a city farm, never even pinned a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bruce Chatwin Publisher Comments New edition published as part of the Vintage Classics series.... (read more) Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Carol Drinkwater Publisher Comments The Olive trilogy is the story of the love affair beween actress Carol Drinkwater, her husband Michael and the olve farm which they fall in love with and restore with the aim of producing the finest olive oil. Following "The Olive Farm, The Olive Season"... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 add to wish list
by Peter Moore Synopsis A humorous travel book encompassing the hippy trail of the Sixties and written by the author of NO SHITTING IN THE TOILET.... (read more) Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Paul Starkey Publisher Comments The urge of 19th-century travelers to write down and record their experiences of Egypt has provided material of great interest and value. This large and varied collection of accounts will appeal not only to the specialist investigating the European... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Stuart Stevens Publisher Comments The first account of travel in Chinese Turkistan, closed to foreigners since 1949, shows a world where bureaucratic hazards often loom larger than geographical ones.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Sullivan Publisher Comments Sullivan, who has driven cross-country more than two dozen times, recounts his family's annual summer migration from Oregon to New York, and of moving his family back and forth from coast to coast. In his trademark celebration of the mundane, he... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Neville Shulman Publisher Comments Unique adventures to the Artic and Antarctic enhanced Z99 Zen... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 add to wish list
by Leonard Barkan Publisher Comments The bewitching story of Rome teaching a lonely scholar how to discover himself, "Satyr Square"--part memoir, part literary criticism, part culinary and aesthetic travelogue--is a poignant, hilarious narrative about an American professor spending a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $13.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Richard Cobb Publisher Comments Perhaps no one loves France as much as the English--at least some of the English--and Richard Cobb, the incomparable Oxford historian of the French Revolution, was a passionate admirer of the country, a connoisseur of the low dive and the flophouse, as... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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