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by Marlena De Blasi  Publisher Comments When Marlena de Blasi traveled to Italy, she expected to fall in love with the country, not to be swept away by a Venetian man. Filled with the foods and flavors of Italy, "A Thousand Days in Venice" is an enchanting story.... (read more)  List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Joe Kane Publisher Comments Savages is a firsthand account, by turn hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life. Includes eight pages of photos.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel J. Boorstin 
Publisher Comments Daniel Boorstin, former librarian of the Library of Congress, gives a fascinating history of world civilization. From astronomical development, microscopes, telescopes, medicine, vaccines, genetics and map-making, this book delves into the discoveries of... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dan Glick Publisher Comments After his brother died and a painful divorce left him a single dad of two, environmental reporter Glick and his kids set off on a six-month tour to see the world's most exotic and endangered habitats--for some karmic rejuvenation.... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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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 $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Silverwood Synopsis To escape the humdrum of life in Southern California, a man, his wife, and four young children decide to set sail across the high seas and embark on the adventure of a lifetime--one that will change them forever. 16-page photo insert.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rachel Dewoskin
Publisher Comments Determined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a "fiery" life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a plane to Beijing to work for an American PR firm based in the busy capital. Before she knows it, she is not just exploring Chinese culture... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Doug Lansky Publisher Comments A rolling stone may gather no moss, but one thing it does gather is funny stories, as this collection of goofy travel essays shows. The perfect trip, where nothing goes wrong, is surely no the memorable trip, which is where everything goes wrong and one... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Gimlette Publisher Comments In 2004, John Gimlette set off across Europe, following in the footsteps of one of the greatest armies ever assembled: the United States forces of 1944–45. His guide (emotionally if not geographically) was Putnam Flint, an eighty-six-year-... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jennifer L. Leo Publisher Comments Button your blouse, here comes a sandstorm of laughs! Travel isn't always what we dream it will be, but oh, the stories that follow. Share in the hilarious, bizarre, and unforgettable misadventures of 29 women whose trips went comically awry. From... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments Peter Mayle, francophile phenomenon and author of A Year in Provence, brings another delightful (and delicious) account of the good life, this time exploring the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France. The French celebrate food and drink more... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jennifer Niven Publisher Comments Based on the diaries of those who were rescued and those who perished, this is the chilling true story of the "Karluk's" doomed 1913 exploration of the Arctic and the heroic efforts of the ship's captain, the Ice Master, who traveled by foot through... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith Babcoc Wylie Publisher Comments Travelers' Tales Love & Romance is a collection of literary essays -- all true stories -- of love, lust, and romance encountered while traveling. They range from a tender story of how travel kept the spark in a 50-year marriage, to one woman's story of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Angela Murrills Publisher Comments Hot Sun, Cool Shadow is the story of one couple's discovery of the Languedoc--a region of France near the Mediterranean coast and the Pyrennes--and their quest for a new home where they could have a simpler life and where they could "live to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (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 $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Samrat Upadhyay Publisher Comments From the first Nepali author writing in English to be published in the West, Arresting God in Kathmandu brilliantly explores the nature of desire and spirituality in a changing society. With the assurance and unsentimental wisdom of a long-established... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pico Iyer
Publisher Comments When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Benoit Nadeau Publisher Comments "Sixty Million Frenchmen does its job marvelously well. After reading it, you may still think the French are arrogant, aloof, and high-handed, but you will know why." --Wall Street Journal Decrypting French ideas about land, food, privacy, and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rudolph Wurlitzer Publisher Comments "Hard Travel to Sacred Places" is the record of a personal odyssey through Southeast Asia, an external and internal journey through grief and the painful realities of a decadent age. Wurlitzer--novelist, screenwriter, and Buddhist practitioner--travels... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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