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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 cauth dead with an airport paperback—though I wouldn’t want to wager which one... (read more)  List Price $24.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Tim Moore Publisher Comments The tradition of the Grand Tour was started in 1608 by an intrepid but down-at-the-heels English courtier named Thomas Coryate, who walked across Europe, miraculously managed to return home in one piece, and wrote a book about his bawdy misadventures... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Shapiro 
Publisher Comments Great writers inspire readers to head out in search of foreign sunsets, but in this instance, they inspired travel writer Michael Shapiro to head out for the great writers themselves. A Sense of Place is one writer's journey to visit all the heroes who... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thurston Clarke Publisher Comments “DELIGHTFUL . . . INQUISITIVE AND INTELLIGENT, THIS BOOK WILL TAKE YOU FAR AND OPEN YOUR EYES.” –The Seattle Times In a penetrating, brilliantly written book that weaves sociology, history, politics, personality, and ancient and popular... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jan Morris Publisher Comments Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as a touchstone for her interests... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Walli Wilde Menozzi Publisher Comments In the 1980s, the American writer Wallis Wilde-Menozzi moved with her Italian husband and her daughter to Parma, a small city in northern Italy that has existed since Roman times. Her search for a place for herself in a society that often seems closed to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harvey A Levenstein Publisher Comments For much of the twentieth century, Americans had a love/hate relationship with France. While many admired its beauty, culture, refinement, and famed joie de vivre, others thought of it as a dilapidated country populated by foul-smelling, mean-spirited... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $21.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Redmond O'hanlon Publisher Comments The story of a 1983 journey to the center of Borneo, which no expedition had attempted since 1926. O'Hanlon, accompanied by friend and poet James Fenton and three native guides brings wit and humor to a dangerous journey.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Jackson Synopsis Highlighting 15 of the greatest festivals the world has to offer, this guide explores these events through the form of each writer's personal experiences, accompanied by a factfile covering all the essential information for those on holiday.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Cohen
Publisher Comments Using "Democracy in America "as his model, acclaimed British and South African journalist David Cohen retraces Alexis de Tocqueville's journey around the country to observe how the balance between the rich and the poor has changed over the past 150 years.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Hanso Mitchell Publisher Comments Mitchell spins the story of his entrancing, sun-drenched bicycle journey fromthe beaches of Southern Spain to solar temples in the Outer Hebrides.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alice Carey
Publisher Comments As a young girl, Alice Carey realized that "home" can mean different things. The only child of poor Irish immigrants, her isolated childhood in a cold-water flat in Queens is transformed when her mother becomes the maid to legendary Broadway producer... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James O'Reilly Publisher Comments The Best Travel Writing 2007 is the fourth volume in the annual series Travelers' Tales launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing — from Nobel Prize winners to emerging writers. These 29 stories cover the globe, from probing the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Samuel Elio Morison Publisher Comments Telling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is a vivid and definitive biography of Columbus that details all of his voyages that, for better or worse, changed the world. 50 drawings, maps & charts; 4 fold-outs.... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Garry Sowerby Publisher Comments Drive the Road...Join Sowerby through 25 years of motoring mania. Partying all night with a Giant and a Brain. Tying his delirious partner to his seat on a flight over the Iran-Iraq war. Trying to out-drive the clock on a race around the world. Regularly... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.13 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Allin
Publisher Comments In October 1826, a ship arrived at Marseille carrying the first giraffe ever seen in France. A royal offering from Muhammad Ali, Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, to King Charles X, she had already traveled 2,000 miles down the Nile to Alexandria, from where she... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kristin Espinasse Publisher Comments Based on the popular blog (French-word-a-day.com) and newsletter comes a heart-winning collection from an American woman raising two "very" French children with her French husband in Provence, and carrying on a lifelong love affair with the language.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Bissell
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-370) and index.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gretel Ehrlich Synopsis Gretel Ehrlich's path leads her to Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces in western China to climb Emei Shan, one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains. For Ehrlich, a practicing Buddhist, the climb is both a spiritual pilgrimage and a troubling encounter... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lynne Withey Publisher Comments Voyages of Discovery is the story of the last great age of European sea exploration, when state-supported expeditions driven by both scientific and political motives set out to map the remaining unknown parts of the globe. Focusing on the voyages of the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $3.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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