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by Edward Beau Maurice  Publisher Comments At 16, Maurice impulsively signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company and was sent to an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where he immersed himself in the Inuit people's culture and way of life. Through deadly epidemics and the struggle to... (read more)  List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Herman Melville Publisher Comments The only single-volume edition of the earliest work by the author of 'Moby Dick', with an authoritative foreword by Margaret Drabble.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pico Iyer Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of Video Night in Kathmandu and The Lady and the Monk continues his one-man re-invention of the essay in this eloquent new book, which soars from the remotest places on the planet to the frontiers of contemporary literature, culture,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Polly Evans Synopsis Fighting deadlines from a twizzly office chair and free use of the coffee machine seemed just too easy for Polly Evans, so she packed it all in and headed to Spain with her bicycle. From the thigh-burning ascents of the Pyrenees to the relentless olive... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ferenc Mate Publisher Comments In the bestselling tradition of "Under the Tuscan Sun" and "A Year in Provence, " this lush, witty memoir chronicles the charming, funny, and life-enriching experiences of Mate and his wife after they quit their jobs and bought an ancient farmhouse in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments New reversion to Transworld, subtitled "Travels In Europe". "Hugely funny (not snigger-snigger funny, but great-big-belly- laugh-till-you-cry funny" "Daily Telegraph".... (read more) Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jennie Goode Publisher Comments The road trip has always held a place in America’s literary imagination. But while most road-trip writing has centered on the male experience, women also travel the highway and for all of the same reasons men do: broken hearts, restless spirits... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Biddlecombe Publisher Comments This is the fifth in a series of dispatches from all over the world in which Peter Biddlecombe recounts his battles to survive the black magic voodoo of 5-star international travel. Former European footballers of the year open their own high... (read more) Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kirsty Crawford Publisher Comments A hugely enjoyable read Much Have I Travelld is full of favourite literature and poems as well as pithy sayings from famous... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Diane Johnson Publisher Comments An elegant boxed set of travel classics about France, with an introduction from the best-selling author of Le Divorce. In this inaugural edition of our Atlas Pocket Classics series, Diane Johnson introduces three masterpieces of travel writing. Robert... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $34.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Yeadon Publisher Comments Beginning with a life-changing event in the mountains of Iran, and roaming the globe from the backcountry lanes of Yorkshire to the Australian outback, David Yeadon shares serendipitous encounters with amazing people, unexpected challenges, and near... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Strassberg Publisher Comments Alongside the scores of travel books about China written by foreign visitors, Chinese travelers' impressions of their own country rarely appear in translation. This anthology is the only comprehensive collection in English of Chinese travel writing from... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price $27.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Henry David Thoreau Publisher Comments Howarth's expert and illuminating commentary, printed alongside Thoreau's text, allows the present-day hiker to retrace Thoreau's foot-steps up some of New England's most popular mountain destinations.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edwidge Danticat Publisher Comments One of Haiti's most acclaimed native daughters returns to her homeland to celebrate her first Carnival, taking readers on a journey beyond the hedonistic surface and into the heart of the celebration. She also explores the area's hills and rainforests... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Chris Stewart Publisher Comments At the age of seventeen, Chris retired as the drummer of his school band and launched a new career as a sheep shearer and travel writer. Sinking his life savings into a farm with no electricity or water supply, he and his wife Ana introduced electric... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Willia Langewiesche 
Publisher Comments The world's vastest and most forbidding desert is revealed in all its cruelty and wonder in this masterpiece of contemporary travel writing by the author of Cutting for Sign. William Langewiesche crossed the Sahara from Algiers to Dakar, determined to... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Berendt
Powells.com Staff Pick Once again John Berendt proves he is a powerful magnet for eccentrics. With clever proficiency, Berendt depicts for readers a host of quirky characters, providing an exclusive glimpse into the Venice you won't see as a tourist. Gossipy yet wholly... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jason Goodwin Publisher Comments On Foot to the Golden Horn recounts Jason Goodwin's breathtaking journey with two companions through Eastern Europe from the dikes and marshes of Poland's Baltic coast across to the Golden Horn in Istanbul. Along the way, they sleep in haystacks, drink... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dario Castagno Publisher Comments Recent years have seen a virtual flood of books about Tuscany—first-person accounts about Americans trying to do American things in Italy and bumping up against a centuries-old stone wall of tradition. It’s only fair that we now hear a native... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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