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by W Scott Olsen  Publisher Comments On the road again "This is a book about gravity, the allure of distance, the attraction of the far away. And while many books are about the other places, this is not one of them. This is a book about the act of going." ANSWERING THE CALL OF THE ROAD... (read more)  List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Tony Horwitz 
Powells.com Staff Pick In a highly entertaining adventure, Tony Horwitz rides the wake of Captain James Cook, recreating the history of his pioneering voyages, the stories of his island landings, and the lasting impact his contact had on the indigenous populations... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tamara Sheward Synopsis Conducting a wayward journey through the underbelly of Southeast Asia, an Australian traveler peppers "Bad Karma" with swindlers, sleazeballs, and sanctimonious hippies as she puts backpacker culture through the wringer.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Cocteau Publisher Comments Jean Cocteau retraces the most celebrated round-the-world voyage of all time: that of Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg in 1873. Taking up an impulsive challenge from the editor of Paris-Soir, Cocteau sets off with his very own ‘Passepartout’... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments A beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house, and always, the pleasures of food.... (read more) Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Rush Synopsis As a human document it astounds me . . . and I marvel at its literary qualities . . . Nothing can shadow the stature of this book or how enriched Ive been by reading it, or my admiration for Christopher Rushs achievement. It is to be treasured not just... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments William Dalrymple retraces Marco Polo's epic journey from Jerusalem to Xanadu, the ruins of Kubla Khan's magnificent palace, north of Peking.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rick Steves Publisher Comments From England to Norway, Burgundy to Bavaria, and Rome to the top of the SwissAlps, this guide to spending the holidays in Europe is filled with enchantingphotos and more than a dozen recipes. Full color.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Monique Mulder Publisher Comments Here are the stories of 30 research scientists who go off the deep ends of the earth. Travel with a young researcher in Dian Fossey's camp as she is handed a gun and told to go out and shoot a gorilla poacher. See how a scientist reacts when he discovers... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Corinne Hofmann Publisher Comments This page-turning tale puts an African spin on "Not Without My Daughter" when a woman abandons her business, family, and own country to follow a Masai warrior. 8-page color photo insert.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Hopkins Publisher Comments Every page drips with memories, writes William Burroughs about this collection of Hopkins' diaries covering two decades of a life lived as an ex-patriot. Hopkins was one of the most influential writers living in Tangier at the time; including, among... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dave Barry Publisher Comments TAKE YOUR TRAVEL TIPS FROM DAVE BARRY, <BR>A GUY WHO IS REALLY GONE! <BR>Complete with maps, histories, quaint local facts (France's National Underwear Changing Day is March 12), song lyrics, helpful hints on how to get through Customs (all... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Wendell Steavenson Publisher Comments Fed up with working for "Time magazine in London, Wendell Steavenson spent two years in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. "Stories I Stole captures, the exuberance of a fledgling nation of local despots, mountain tribes, blood feuds, and an... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jon (edt) Winokur Publisher Comments On the theory that an account of a pleasant journey is best not thrust upon friends, that a disaster makes for a more entertaining story, here is a gathering of quotes, commentary, and anecdotes about the travails of travel, the downright strangeness of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert J Hutchinson Publisher Comments When in Rome is a backstairs tour of one of the world's most mysterious and eccentric cities. Hutchinson introduces the varied and colorful individuals who live and work in the Vatican. In the process, he explores the mysterious orders of medieval... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Myla Goldberg Publisher Comments Sometimes a city can be like a bird. Just as the magpie is an inveterate collector, hoarding beautiful eclectic bits to line its nest, so Prague retains fragments from bygone regimes and centuries past to create a city of juxtaposition that is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Polly Evans Publisher Comments In this funny and irreverent account, Evans describes her voyage of discovery around Spain--on a bicycle. From the thigh-burning ascents of the Pyrenees to the relentless olive groves of Andalusia, she found more adventure than she bargained for.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rachel Dewoskin
Publisher Comments Determined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a "fiery" life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a plane to Beijing to work for an American PR firm based in the busy capital. Before she knows it, she is not just exploring Chinese culture... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pete Mccarthy Publisher Comments Pete McCarthy established one cardinal rule of travel in hisbestselling debut, McCarthy's Bar: "Never pass a bar with your name on it." In this equally wry and insightful follow-up,his characteristic good humor, curiosity, and thirst for adventure take... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Brad Newsham
Publisher Comments Newsham tells the moving true-life story of his 100-day journey through the Philippines, India, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, as he seeks just the right person to bring back to America to visit. The book covers a wide geography not... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $11.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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