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by Susan Allen Toth  Publisher Comments Journalist and memoirist Susan Allen Toth brings her special England vivdly to life as she recalls her many trips there over the years, where she explored the countryside, traveled both second-class and in luxury, theatre-hopped, hunted for ghosts, and... (read more)  List Price $11.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Joe Queenan Publisher Comments One semitropical Fourth of July, Joe Queenan's English wife suggested that the family might like a chicken vindaloo in lieu of the customary barbecue. It was this pitiless act of gastronomic cultural oppression, coupled with dread of the fearsome... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marie Javins Publisher Comments "Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik" is a spirited African adventure of a solo woman traveler whose overland excursion across the continent includes challenges, inevitable mishaps, and more than a few debacles. <BR>Author and world traveler Marie Javins is... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Janet Wallach 
Publisher Comments Turning her back on her privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate curiosity, journeyed the world and became fascinated with all things Arab. Traveling the length and breadth of the Arab region, armed with a love... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Helen Winternitz Publisher Comments In this brilliant mix of political journalism and travel writing, Helen Winternitz and fellow journalist Timothy Phelps witness what few Westerners have: life in the ecologically rich but financially impoverished American-backed dictatorship of Zaire... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $1.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pete Mccarthy Synopsis This is a tale of Pete McCarthy's trip around Ireland. He discovers that it has changed in many ways. Obeying the rule to "never pass a pub with your name on it", McCarthy encounters English hippies, German musicians, married priests and many other... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alex Kerr Publisher Comments Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr takes us on a backstage tour, as he explores the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo'... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Clarke Publisher Comments From Stephen Clarke, the internationally bestselling author of A Year in the Merde and In the Merde for Love, Merde Happens is the third installation of Paul West's hilarious mis-adventures in merde. This time around Paul finds himself in financial... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jamie Zeppa
Publisher Comments In 1989, Jamie Zeppa, a naïve, well-educated twenty-three-year-old from Sault Ste. Marie, commits to a two-year teaching contract in Bhutan against the wishes of both her fiancé, Robert, and her controlling grandfather. Following orientation here and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marco Polo Publisher Comments Classic translation of Marco Polo's famous travels. Includes index and maps.... (read more) Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rick Bass Publisher Comments 'This book is a classic celebration of winter in a remote Montana valley.'... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Stephens Publisher Comments Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways, manners, dress, ceremonies, amusements--all of which makes this a... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments An entertaining and informative resource on Provence includes more than two hundred alphabetically organized entries on such wide ranging subject matter as architecture, expatriates, Aix-en-Provence, Provenal linguistic oddities, local legends and lore... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nan Watkins Publisher Comments On the eve of her sixtieth birthday, Nan Watkins decided to embark on the around-the-globe trip she had always dreamed of—a trip she would take alone. Having endured both the dissolution of her thirty-year marriage and the devastating death of her... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel's narrator, a down-on-his-luck writer, escapes to Waikiki and soon finds himself the manager of the Hotel Honolulu, a low-rent... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexander Frater Publisher Comments A vibrant, witty, and captivating account of a lifetime's worth of travel in the tropics, from one of the most celebrated travel writers working today. Tales from the Torrid Zone is a diverting, loose-limbed tour of the Earth's hot zones ("The2New York... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Clint Willis Publisher Comments In this pioneering anthology, Clint Willis presents 75 years of great writing -- from Neil O'Dell to Jon Krakauer -- on the fabled peaks. Here are stories of two British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s; a piece on the 1939 K2 attempt that claimed... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tim Cahill Publisher Comments 'The set, boxed in a lavish silver metallic, features The Best American Travel Writing 2006, edited by Tim Cahill; The Best American Spiritual Writing 2006, introduced by Peter J. Gomes; and, like the first set, The Best American Short Stories 2006... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edwin Mullins Publisher Comments "The Long Road to Heaven, " the annual pilgrimage to the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela has taken place for over 1,000 years. First published in 1974 and now reissued with a new preface, this classic account of a stirring journey provides an... (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 Paul Theroux invites you to join him on the journey of a lifetime, in the grand romanttic tradition, by train across Euope, through the vast underbelly of Asia and in the heart of Russia, and then up to China. Here is China by rail, as seen and heard... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price $2.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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