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by Patrick Leigh Fermor  Publisher Comments Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in "A Time of Gifts" <BR>The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on in 1933--to cross Europe on foot with an emergency allowance of one pound a day--proved so rich in experiences that when... (read more)  List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Matthew Polly Publisher Comments The raucously funny story of one young American's quest to become the baddest dude on the planet (and possibly find inner peace along the way) Growing up a ninety-eight-pound weakling tormented by bullies in the schoolyards of Kansas, Matthew Polly... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the #1 "San Francisco Chronicle" bestseller that is an enchanting and lyrical look at the life, the traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany, in the spirit of Peter Mayle's "A Year in Provence." Frances Mayes entered a wondrous new... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara J Scot Publisher Comments The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes details Barbara Scot's experiences teaching English in Nepal. Her insights on her midwestern background, on cultural difference, on the struggles of Nepali Women, and on her role as a global citizen illuminate Scot's... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by W Olsen Publisher Comments A collection of nonfiction travel essays that document and bring to life six road trips undertaken by the author.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Gr Harrison Publisher Comments Six years in the writing, from an author described as brilliant, masterful, and at once a writer's writer and a pleasure giver to the world, An Accidental Autobiography will delight and enchant Barbara Grizzuti Harrison's legion of fans and win her a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $3.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Anneli Rufus Publisher Comments Holy relics -- the bodily remains of saints and other sacred figures -- were for centuries the most revered objects in the Western world, at center-stage in Europe's great churches and cathedrals. Today some relics have been shunted to side chapels and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Hanso Mitchell Publisher Comments In 1962, while he was a student in Paris, John Hanson Mitchell spent a luminous six months on the Mediterranean island of Corsica at the Rose Cafe, in Ile Rousse. Twenty-two, Mitchell spent his idyll hours there observing the lives of the people who... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Chris Duff Publisher Comments A sea kayak battles the freezing Irish waters as the morning sun rises out of the countryside. On the western horizon is the pinnacle of Skellig Michael-700 feet of vertical rock rising out of exploding seas. Somewhere on the isolated island are sixth... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawrence Millman Publisher Comments We follow inveterate traveler Lawrence Millman to Tropical Retreats, Northern Outposts, The Back of Beyond, and Islands off the Map (the four categories into which this book is divided), and without fail, wherever this pied piper takes us, we are sure to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $2.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joe Mcginniss 
Publisher Comments Master storyteller Joe McGinniss travels to Italy to cover the unlikely success of a ragtag minor league soccer team -- and delivers a brilliant and utterly unforgettable story of life in an off-the-beaten-track Italian village.<P>When Joe... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by F Bruce Lamb Publisher Comments This is a spirited retelling of the true story of Manuel Cordova-Rios, who as a young man was abducted by a tribe of Indians while on a rubber-cutting expedition in the Amazon jungle in 1907. This first-person account relates Cordova-Rios' terrifying... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rif K Haffar Publisher Comments Traveling mainly by motorcycle, the author traverses 45 countries on six continents in this memoir, experiencing both fascinating and harrowing travails during a one-year journey. With a healthy mix of contemporary and historical perspectives, new... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Hodgson Publisher Comments When Lady Mary Wortley Montagu visited the baths in Turkey in 1717 she was so tightly corseted that Turkish women were convinced her husband had locked her into some devious machine. Montagu?s account of her journey helped bring the region into the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeremy Seal Publisher Comments Snakes are Jeremy Seal's fascination, and his greatest fear. In an attempt to overcome his phobia, he decides to journey into America, Australia, Africa and India in search of the most notorious and deadly snakes, and to meet the people who live among... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $3.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Rotella Publisher Comments Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy "-- "a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scorching summers. Calabria is also a seedbed of Italian-American culture; in North America, more people of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lonely Planet Publisher Comments We've all been to Nowhere. It might have been in the middle of Borneo or Beijing. It might have been in a Mayan mountain village, along a time-worn trail in Tuscany, on an isolated South Pacific island, or under a desert moon in Mali. Nowhere is a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Mccarthy Publisher Comments A penetrating work of reportage on Venice. " Searching observations and astonishing comprehension of the Venetian taste and character" (New York Herald Tribune).... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jane Geniesse Publisher Comments With the publication of The Valley of the Assassins in 1934, a legend was launched. Freya Stark had begun the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize her, though distinctly unglamorous, as the last of the great travelers. Hailed as a classic, the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tim Cahill Publisher Comments The Intrepid voyager and author of "A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg" presents another delightful collection of adventure-travel writings that are full of the irreverent wit and appreciation for the absurd that are uniquely--and hilariously--his.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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