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Captain Cook: Voyager Between Two Worlds by John Gascoigne Book News Annotation In this reprint from 2007, Gascoigne (Australian Academy of the Humanities) details the travels of Captain James Cook in terms of how his British cultural roots intersected with the cultures of countries he voyaged to in the Pacific. He describes the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co. 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 add to wish list Searching for Crusoe: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands by Thurston Clarke Publisher Comments They inspire feelings of great passion, serenity, and sometimes fear . . . they give people the opportunity to find themselves--or to lose their minds . . . they are revered as paradise or treated as junkyards . . . both haunted by and respectful of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas by Gary Geddes Publisher Comments From war-torn Afghanistan, through the snow-capped Himalayas and across the burning sands of the Taklamakan desert, to a rapidly modernizing China and on to the Central American jungles: it is an impossible journey, but one that Gary Geddes eagerly... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood 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 $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico by Ronald Wright Publisher Comments The Maya created one of the world's most brilliant civilizations, famous for its art, astronomy, and deep fascination with the mystery of time. Despite collapse in the ninth century, Spanish invasion in the sixteenth, and civil war in the twentieth... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and Journey to the Ends of the Earth by Dan Glick Publisher Comments A suddenly single father — and nationally known environmental reporter — takes his children on a world tour of some of the world's rare and endangered life forms while reckoning with loss, change, and the challenges of parenting in this frank... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer Powells.com Staff Pick In The Open Road, Pico Iyer gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the Dalai Lama. This is more than a history book, though. The author shares his personal day-to-day spiritual journey in a way that will speak to Westerners. It's a wonderful book; I couldn'... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Notes from a Roman Terrace by Joan Marble Publisher Comments Joan Marble has lived in a 16th-century Roman Palazzo apartment for 30 years. A lifetime of integrating with the Romans and gardening on her beloved terrace above the rooftops has resulted in this memoir. Highly personal and containing anecdote, history,... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France by Richard Goodman Publisher Comments A story about dirt--and about sun, water, work, elation, and defeat. And about the sublime pleasure of having a little piece of French land all to oneself to till. Richard Goodman saw the ad in the paper: "SOUTHERN FRANCE: Stone house in Village near... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Travel Writing on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Irons in the Fire 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 add to wish list My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City by Alexandra David-Neel Publisher Comments An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David–Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list America's Back Porch by Daniel Jeffreys Publisher Comments On America's back porch, the most diverse and exotic cultures flourish in wild abandon; but it often takes the scrutiny of an outside observer, with an eye for the bizarre, to bring into relief the hilarious, often unsettling, bounty of strange... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hold the Enlightenment: More Travel, Less Bliss by Tim Cahill Publisher Comments In Hold the Enlightenment, America's favorite and funniest adventure writer returns with his most entertaining collection of essays yet, as he travels the globe and faces down challenges that are animal, topographical-- and human. Hold the Enlightenment... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list To the Frontier by Geoffrey Moorehouse Synopsis For three months, Geoffrey Moorhouse travelled through Sind, Baluchistan and the Punjab to the legendary North West Frontier. The first foreigner for some years to ascend the Khyber Pass as far as the border with Afghanistan, he then climbed in the Hindu... (read more) Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude and Outright Lunacy by Fergus Fleming Publisher Comments Barrow's Boys is a spellbinding account of perilous journeys to uncharted areas under the most challenging conditions. Fergus Fleming captures the passion for exploration that led a band of men into situations that would humble today's bravest... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lonely Planet the Olive Grove: Travels in Greece by Katherine Kizilos Synopsis Katherine Kizilos travels to fabled islands, troubled border zones and her family's village deep in the mountains, vividly evoking breathtaking landscapes, generous people and passionate politics.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time: A Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe by Mark Jacobson Publisher Comments A family comedy reminiscent of "The Osbournes," Jacobson's odyssey is also a wider journey. It is a story about parenting that stretches across generations, an expedition into the minds of five family members as they make their way through a succession... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Devil and the Disappearing Sea: Or, How I Tried to Stop the World's Worst Ecological Catastrophe by Rob Ferguson Publisher Comments Set among the ruins of the Soviet empire, this darkly comic true-crime thriller involves environmental disaster, international intrigue, and an unsolved murder. In January 2000, Rob Ferguson went to Uzbekistan to work on a project designed to save the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan by Edward Hoagland Publisher Comments Open this book and enter into a richly detailed landscape and an exotic society. Follow Hoagland's travels, from equatorial mountain forests to the Sahara desert; from small Sudanese towns in the south and west to short stays in the capital, Khartoum... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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