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by Jan Morris  Publisher Comments What's it like to be there? "Travelers' Tales" gives the best possible answer through the true stories of other travelers. Following the recent publication of Jan Morris's final book, here is her very first. Fresh from her success reporting on the first... (read more)  List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 $16.50 (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 Michael Palin Publisher Comments "Ever affable and eclectic, Palin disarms and delights. He has an unerring eye for the bizarre. His book is sheer escapism, pure entertainment, and I love it." -- Sunday Times (London) "Palin brings into focus the complex issues facing this region and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeffrey Greene Publisher Comments When Jeffrey Greene, a prizewinning American poet, and Mary, his wife-to-be, a molecular biologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, discover a moss-covered stone presbytery in a lovely village in the Puisaye region of Burgundy, they know they have to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 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 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 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 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 $9.95 (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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by David Downie Publisher Comments Like all great cities and yet unlike any other Paris is alive and fluttering, it changes with the light, buffeted by Seine-basin breezes. This place called Paris is at once the imaginary land of literature and film, a distant view through shifting, misty... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Littlewood Publisher Comments Here, said the reviewer for Salon.com, is a book that is "lively and accessible and erudite...the perfect companion for anyone who wouldn't be caught dead with an airport paperback-though I wouldn't want to wager which one provides more juice... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.75 (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 $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elliott Hester Publisher Comments Make sure your seatbacks and tray tables are in their full upright and locked position for these shocking, bizarre, hilarious, and outrageous stories of airplane travel. You're belted into a middle seat with burly businessmen on either side. It's... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments "Curious, sensible, and irrevereent...Crichton comes to see his travles--both in mind and through country--as ways of getting in better touch with himself." LOS ANGELES TIMES Here is a record of Michael Crichton's astonishing adventures. It is a vision... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $6.95 (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 $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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