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by Alice Powers  Publisher Comments E.M. Forster observed, "One does not come to Italy for niceness. One comes for life". And there is life abounding in this rhapsodic, witty, and lushly atmospheric anthology, in which forty-one literary travelers train their sensibilities on various... (read more)  List Price $14.95 Your price $7.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Sara Wheeler Publisher Comments Wheeler's "Cherry" is the first biography of the man who shaped the myth of Robert Falcon Scott, written with unrestricted access to his papers and the full cooperation of his widow, who has refused all requests until now.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Twain Publisher Comments Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his loyal readership as Mark Twain, led a life as rich as his collection of published works. Over the span of a lifetime, his growth from a small-town Midwestern boy to a famed writer and lecturer was reflected in the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Christina De Tessan Publisher Comments In accounts on food shopping in China to child rearing in India to socializing in Ireland, the contributors give fascinating glimpses of what it's really like to be a woman starting over in a new country.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments Fresh Air Fiend is Theroux's first collection devoted exclusively to travel writing, for which the author of such classics as The Great Railway Bazaar and Riding The Iron Rooster (as well as more than twenty works of fiction, including The Mosquito... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Marybeth Bond Publisher Comments Spanning the emotional and physical globe and cutting a wide swathe of sensibilities, these stories conduce and cajole readers to hit the road, to discover what's out there in the world beyond them, and to ultimately discover themselves. The writers... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Bass Publisher Comments Originally published in 1990, this book tells of Thomas Bass's two-year journey across Africa, from Timbuktu to the Zambezi River, during which he spent most of his time in the company of scientists. In the course of his travels, he met a Cambridge... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Larry Habegger Publisher Comments Platypuses, billabongs, ancient song lines, deserted islands, camel treks, surfing, scuba diving, rock climbing — all come to life when readers travel from outback to rainforest, from the red center to the great barrier reef, as they learn about... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 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 Michele Slung Synopsis From the Victorian-era world travels of Isabella Bird Bishop to the space flight endurance record set by astronaut Shannon Lucid, the awe-inspiring accounts in Living with Cannibals and Other Women's Adventures illuminate the rich history, and history in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Leavitt Publisher Comments A continuation of the excellent and widely acclaimed series of travel monographs begun by Edmund White in "The Flaneur" and continued by Peter Carey in "30 Days In Sydney". A lively and affectionate account of expatriate life in the city of Florence... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Catherine A Lutz Publisher Comments For its millions of readers, the National Geographic has long been a window to the world of exotic peoples and places. In this fascinating account of an American institution, Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins explore the possibility that the magazine,... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edwin N Wilmsen Publisher Comments From 1973 to 1994, anthropologist Edwin Wilmsen lived and worked among the Zhu, Mbanduru, and Tswana people of the Kalahari desert in southern Africa. Thousands of miles from his home, immersed in what first seemed a radically different place, and... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Victoria Abbott Riccardi Publisher Comments Two years out of college and with a degree from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Victoria Riccardi left a boyfriend, a rent-controlled New York City apartment, and a plum job in advertising to move to Kyoto to study kaiseki, the exquisitely refined form of... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Barry Publisher Comments Ann Barry was a single woman, working and living in New York, when she fell in love with a charming house in Carennac in southwestern France. Although she knew it was the stuff of fantasy, even though she knew she would rarely be able to spend more than... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Theroux Book News Annotation The acclaimed travel writer explores the cradle of civilization bordering the Mediterranean Sea, traveling by foot, bus, train, ferry, and luxury cruiser to the French Riviera, the islands of Greece, war- torn Croatia, and Egypt, where he meets Nobel... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Barrow Publisher Comments Told from Cook's own journals, this account of his three world voyages is as much a work of literature as one of pure history, and is a testament to eighteenth century exploration as well.... (read more) 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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