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by Christina De Tessan  Publisher Comments In accounts on food shopping in China to child rearing in India to socializing in Ireland, the contributors give fascinating glimpses of what it's really like to be a woman starting over in a new country.... (read more)  List Price $16.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments Fresh Air Fiend is Theroux's first collection devoted exclusively to travel writing, for which the author of such classics as The Great Railway Bazaar and Riding The Iron Rooster (as well as more than twenty works of fiction, including The Mosquito... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Howard Blum Publisher Comments Mount Sinai. For many, it is the most sacred place on Earth—the site where God descended to give Moses the Ten Commandments. Yet for centuries, mankind has not known its exact location. In this heart-pounding true story, award-winning journalist and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Bass Publisher Comments Originally published in 1990, this book tells of Thomas Bass's two-year journey across Africa, from Timbuktu to the Zambezi River, during which he spent most of his time in the company of scientists. In the course of his travels, he met a Cambridge... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Larry Habegger Publisher Comments Platypuses, billabongs, ancient song lines, deserted islands, camel treks, surfing, scuba diving, rock climbing — all come to life when readers travel from outback to rainforest, from the red center to the great barrier reef, as they learn about... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Barrow Publisher Comments Told from Cook's own journals, this account of his three world voyages is as much a work of literature as one of pure history, and is a testament to eighteenth century exploration as well.... (read more) Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mike Leonard Publisher Comments Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Feiler 
Powells.com Staff Pick From the beginning of pre-history, human cultures have rooted sacred stories in actual landscapes, a legacy that becomes increasingly untenable as ballooning populations find it difficult to share their sacred places. Nowhere is this trend more evident... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony Doerr Publisher Comments Anthony Doerr has received many awards — from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then came the Rome Prize, one of the most prestigious awards from the American Academy of Arts and... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Paul Kauffman Synopsis Kauffmann follows in the footsteps of the 18th century sailor Yves-Joseph Kerguelen, who gave his name to the archipelago he discovered in the Indian Ocean. When he made his discovery, Kerguelen was convinced he had found Hell.... (read more) Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Edwin N Wilmsen Publisher Comments From 1973 to 1994, anthropologist Edwin Wilmsen lived and worked among the Zhu, Mbanduru, and Tswana people of the Kalahari desert in southern Africa. Thousands of miles from his home, immersed in what first seemed a radically different place, and... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Marybeth Bond Publisher Comments Spanning the emotional and physical globe and cutting a wide swathe of sensibilities, these stories conduce and cajole readers to hit the road, to discover what's out there in the world beyond them, and to ultimately discover themselves. The writers... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Barry Publisher Comments Ann Barry was a single woman, working and living in New York, when she fell in love with a charming house in Carennac in southwestern France. Although she knew it was the stuff of fantasy, even though she knew she would rarely be able to spend more than... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Miller Publisher Comments This 15th anniversary reissue of Millers travel classic follows the making and marketing of a single Panama hat. Its a captivating story of cultures in collision, raw capitalism, and an exotic, humorous journey.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David W Mcfadden Publisher Comments Writer David W. McFadden arrives in Ireland to begin a tour of exploration. The result is a funny, affectionate, and sometimes eccentric look at 'this enchanted, complex, and poorly understood island.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dervla Murphy Publisher Comments Dervla Murphy has been recording her travel experiences-treks through (among other places) India, Transylvania, and several countries in Africa-for well over thirty years. In South from the Limpopo, she continues her writings on the African continent... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Hodgson Synopsis Hodgson profiles adventurous women who sacrificed personal comfort and respectability to pursue experiences traditionally open only to men. Filled with fascinating portraits, historical maps, and intricate drawings, this is at once a beautifully... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Feiler Publisher Comments An irresistible, entertaining peek into the privileged realm of Wordsworth and Wodehouse, Chelsea Clinton and Hugh Grant, Looking for Class offers a hilarious account of one mans year at Oxford and Cambridge -- the garden parties and formal balls, the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paolo Barbaro Publisher Comments THE CITY OF VENICE is a kind of miracle - surrounded by the sea, cut by as many canals as streets, built on fill reinforced with pilings made of huge tree trunks, it defies nature and belief. No city has been more often painted or written about; for... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jennifer Lee Publisher Comments “Paris is a moveable feast,” Ernest Hemingway famously wrote, and in this captivating anthology, American writers share their pleasures, obsessions, and quibbles with the great city and its denizens. Mark Twain celebrates the unbridled energy... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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