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by Kevin Rushby  Publisher Comments The Koh-i-Noor diamond, the Mountain of Light, the world's largest diamond was found in India, traveled from Golconda to the Mughal palaces in the north. Fought over, cursed and occasionally lost, it finally reached the sikhs in the Punjab, only to be... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Hardcover) 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 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 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 Tony Hawks Publisher Comments Another outrageous bet sends Tony Hawks on a travel adventure in an attempt to beat the members of the Moldovan soccer team at tennis. During this hilarious journey, he is taken in by gypsies, narrowly escapes a kidnapping attempt, and smuggles his way... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Reeves Publisher Comments "A joy to read". -- Washington Post With a twelve-foot-wide map of the world spread across the wall of Richard Reeves' back porch, the award-winning writer and his family planned the trip of a lifetime, a month-long journey that would take the eight of... (read more) Your price $13.50 (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 Daniel Liebowitz Publisher Comments Traces the nineteenth-century, three-year African expedition of Henry Morton Stanley, a journey that was launched with the official intention of rescuing jihad victim lieutenant Emin Pasha of the southern Sudan, in an account that reveals Stanley's... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Moorcraft Publisher Comments Self-described "renegade academic turned journalist" Paul Morrcraft recounts his chaotic adventures as he bumbles through the world's war zones and trouble spots. A behind-the-scenes look at humorous travel in serious places.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joe Kane Publisher Comments The voyage began in the lunar terrain of the Peruvian Andes, where coca leaf is the only remedy against altitude sickness. It continued down rapids so fierce they could swallow a raft in a split second. It ended six months and 4,200 miles later, where... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (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 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 Pete Mccarthy Publisher Comments "It was half past five in the morning as I lurched through the front door of the B&B. Mrs. O'Sullivan appeared just in time to see me pause to admire the luminous Virgin holy water stand with integral night-light, and knock it off the wall. Politely... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dan Kieran Publisher Comments From the geniuses behind "Crap Jobs" come hilarious stories of vacation hell--tales of broken dreams, travel sickness, and horrible roadtrips.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.50 (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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by Billy Connolly Synopsis Billy Connolly, one of Britain's best-loved comedians, now triumphs Down Under with a witty and perceptive view of Australia. Billy is a veteran of many visits to Oz. He loves Australia and Australlians and the feeling is reciprocated... his concert... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Hans Chris Andersen Publisher Comments Between 1831 and 1867, Hans Christian Andersen made 29 trips throughout Europe and North Africa. Translator Anastazia Little has gathered many of his travel writings which show Andersen accumulating ideas for later stories, displaying neurotic concerns... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ewan Carpenter Publisher Comments Enjoy the facts, the figures, the myths, and the legends of some of the world's greatest sporting and cultural events. Whether it's impressing new friends or boning up on great global spectacles, we'll make you feel as though you've stood on sporting's... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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