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by Mark Sundeen  Publisher Comments Mark Sundeen receives a call from a big city publisher with an offer to write a book about bullfighting in Spain. Sundeen agrees, assuming that this is his best and last chance to follow the trajectory of his literary heroes, despite the fact that he has... (read more)  List Price $11.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Susan Cahill Publisher Comments Welcome to the Ireland of its Writers <BR>Walk the streets of Dublin with Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Roddy Doyle. Contemplate the wild glens of Wicklow with John Millington Synge and Seamus Heaney. Wander the thrilling Cliffs... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Imoge Edwards Jones Publisher Comments A luxury-hotel manager reveals what goes on behind closed doors in this "Kitchen Confidential" of the hotel industry.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jan Morris 
Powells.com Staff Pick Truly the most skilled travel writer of our time, Jan Morris's keen eye and gifted language captures time and place like no other. This collection of excerpts represents her impressive half-century career as a journalist and essayist. Morris's... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tony Hawks Publisher Comments Another outrageous bet sends Tony Hawks on a travel adventure in an attempt to beat the members of the Moldovan soccer team at tennis. During this hilarious journey, he is taken in by gypsies, narrowly escapes a kidnapping attempt, and smuggles his way... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Franz Wisner Publisher Comments This is the true story of Franz Wisner, a man who thought he had it all- a high profile career and the fiancée of his dreams- when suddenly, his life turned upside down. Just days before they were to be married, his fiancée called off the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Liebowitz Publisher Comments Traces the nineteenth-century, three-year African expedition of Henry Morton Stanley, a journey that was launched with the official intention of rescuing jihad victim lieutenant Emin Pasha of the southern Sudan, in an account that reveals Stanley's... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hans Chris Andersen Publisher Comments Between 1831 and 1867, Hans Christian Andersen made 29 trips throughout Europe and North Africa. Translator Anastazia Little has gathered many of his travel writings which show Andersen accumulating ideas for later stories, displaying neurotic concerns... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Kalder Publisher Comments In a tale of adventure, boredom, conversation, and observation, Kalder reveals a world of hidden cities, bizarre suicidal customs, lost rites, and insanely inventive serial killers in the former Soviet Union.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ewan Carpenter Publisher Comments Enjoy the facts, the figures, the myths, and the legends of some of the world's greatest sporting and cultural events. Whether it's impressing new friends or boning up on great global spectacles, we'll make you feel as though you've stood on sporting's... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Artemis Leontis Publisher Comments Discover Greece — a country that has inspired centuries of travel — through its best modern writers. Against a superb landscape of islands, rocks, caves, villages, windmills, vineyards, cities, ports, beaches, and ruins, all bathed in the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Gr Harrison Publisher Comments "Italian Days" is one of the richest and most absorbing travel books written--a journey that traverses the Italian peninsula and immerses readers in a culture which provides the reader with a definition of the good life. "Harrison's wonderful journal... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Feiler
Publisher Comments In this timely, provocative, and uplifting journey, the bestselling author of Walking the Bible searches for the man at the heart of the world's three monotheistic religions -- and today's deadliest conflicts. At a moment when the world is asking, “... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $7.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Klara Glowczewska Publisher Comments From the #1 travel magazine in the country comes a collection of travel tales from some of todays finest writers: Russell Banks writes on the Everglades, Francine Prose explores the secrets of Prague, Robert Hughes conducts a tour of Italy, and more.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wendy Dale
Publisher Comments From salsa dancing in a rum-induced haze and struggling to exercise in Colombia (“the guerillas were using the track again today”), to crossing international borders unconventionally and dodging bombs in Lebanon (“the good news was that... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jaed Coffin Publisher Comments A the age of 21, Collins, a half-Thai American, left college to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in his mother's native village of Panomsarakram. While addressing the notions of displacement, ethnic identity, and cultural belonging, Coffin chronicles his... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Moorcraft Publisher Comments Self-described "renegade academic turned journalist" Paul Morrcraft recounts his chaotic adventures as he bumbles through the world's war zones and trouble spots. A behind-the-scenes look at humorous travel in serious places.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Benjamin Black Synopsis After spending a year in Israel as a teenager, Scotsman Ben Black decided to make Israel his home. As he tries to reconcile his belief in the inevitability of a peaceful solution to the conflicts with the realities of military serivice, Ben is brought... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joe Kane Publisher Comments The voyage began in the lunar terrain of the Peruvian Andes, where coca leaf is the only remedy against altitude sickness. It continued down rapids so fierce they could swallow a raft in a split second. It ended six months and 4,200 miles later, where... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Dugard Publisher Comments Columbus' fourth voyage is a saga of shipwreck, mutiny, discovery, and political treachery, yet his quest to find a passage to the Orient drove him onward in the face of peril.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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