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by Fergus Fleming  Publisher Comments The author of "Barrow's Boys" presents the epic story of the men who stopped at nothing to unravel the mysteries of the North Pole.... (read more)  List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Laura Fraser 
Publisher Comments When Fraser's husband leaves her for a high school sweetheart, she sets off for southern Italy where she meets M, an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized love of life. This intimate, sensuous travelogue is wrapped around their unlikely but... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pico Iyer Publisher Comments Pico Iyer — one of our most compelling and profoundly provocative travel writers — invites us to accompany him on an array of exotic explorations, from L.A. and Yemen to Haiti and Ethiopia, from a Bolivian prison to a hidden monastery in Tibet.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicholas Clapp Publisher Comments The most fabled city in ancient Arabia was Ubar, described in the Koran as "the many-columned city whose like has not been built in the whole land". But like Sodom and Gomorrah, Ubar was destroyed by God for the sins of its people. Buried in the desert... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Annie Caulfield
Publisher Comments Annie Caulfield's honest and humorous account of her relationship with a Bedouin man unravels some western myths about Jordan and the Arab world.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments “Here is a man who suffers so his readers can laugh.” — Daily Telegraph Bill Bryson travels to Kenya in support of CARE International. All royalties and profits go to CARE International. Bryson visits Kenya at the invitation of CARE... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Kremmer Publisher Comments Apart from oil, rugs are the Muslim world's best-known commodity. While rugs are found in most Western homes, the story of religious, political, and tribal strife behind their creation is virtually unknown. In "The Carpet Wars, award-winning journalist... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Scott Huler Publisher Comments When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce's Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book's inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Keath Fraser Publisher Comments The entries in this collection take us to the farthest extremes of travel with tales of danger, disorientation and bemused discomfort; combines reportage, fiction and poetry representing some of the best-known writers of our time.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Gifford Publisher Comments For decades after his death in 1789, John Ledyard was celebrated as the greatest explorer America had ever produced. A veteran of Captain Cook's final voyage, he walked across nearly all of Russia and suggested to his friend Thomas Jefferson that... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Beppe Severgnini Publisher Comments The book on perplexing Italians . . . Severgninis most systematic probe of the Italian psyche yet . . . A keen observer of human nature, (he watches) his compatriots with amused insight . . . Laugh-out-loud funny ("International Herald Tribune").... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Randy Wayne White Publisher Comments Whether he's looking for wild orangutans on Borneo or diving off the coast of South Africa, Randy Wayne White is one of America's most adventurous travelers. Now Randy's back in Last Flight Out, a brand-new collection of essays keeping us up to date on... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nancy Brown Publisher Comments Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Elliott Hester Publisher Comments One year. Six continents. Twenty-two countries. Endless stories to tell. In October 2002, Elliott Hester sold his car, abandoned his apartment, and took off alone on a trip around the world, during which he drifted to more than fifty destinations... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lucy Mccauley Publisher Comments More than just adventure, the writing in "A Woman's Path" shares the unforgettable moments when a journey opens a traveler's eyes and profoundly alters who she is.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments From the bestselling author whose memoirs Under the Sun and Bella Tuscany have captured the voluptuousness of Italian life comes a lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany's people, food, landscapes, and art. In Tuscany celebrates the abundant... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-361) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Geoffrey Moorhouse Publisher Comments Visible on a clear day off the west coast of Ireland, the Skellig Islands, a cluster of cruel rocks, rise spectacularly from the Atlantic Ocean. A sanctuary to birds and seals today, for over six hundred years during the middle ages it was a center for a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jason Webster Publisher Comments Includes discography (p. [327]-328).... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patricia Storace Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of the Year <BR>"Full of insights, marvelously entertaining . . . haunting and beautifully written."<BR> --The New York Review of Books <BR>"I lived in Athens, at the intersection of a prostitute and a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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