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by Carlos Eire  
Publisher Comments This haunting memoir of the Cuban Revolution, seen through the eyes of a small boy, is the heartbreaking story of the author's privileged childhood in pre-Revolution Havana, and how he lost everything, including his father.... (read more)  List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Peter Hessler Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Iron & Silk" comes a powerful memoir about a young American teacher in the Peace Corps living in the small Chinese city of Fuling as it navigates increasing waves of cultural and social upheaval. Maps.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jerri Nielsen
Publisher Comments Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six-year-old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on Earth. The "Polies," as the inhabitants are... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tony Horwitz
Powells.com Staff Pick With the same sly humor and neighborly curiosity he brought to Confederates in the Attic and Blue Latitudes, in A Voyage Long and Strange Tony Horwitz roams the New World, surveying the destinations of history's foremost explorers: Leif Eiriksson... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ayun Halliday Publisher Comments Ayun Halliday may not make for the most sensible travel companion, but she is certainly one of the zaniest, with a knack for inserting herself (and her unwitting cohorts) into bizarre situations around the globe. Curator of kitsch and unabashed... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Taras Grescoe
Publisher Comments A journey into illicit pleasure the world over. From Norwegian moonshine to the pentobarbital sodium sipped by suicide tourists in Switzerland — and, in between, baby eels killed by an infusion of tobacco, a garlicky Spanish stew of bull's... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adam Gopnik Publisher Comments Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner — in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Hansen
Publisher Comments In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Whitaker Publisher Comments A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon The year is 1735. A decade-long expedition to South America is launched by a team of French scientists racing to measure the circumference of the earth and to reveal the mysteries of a little... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alice Steinbach Publisher Comments This funny and tender book combines three of Alice Steinbach's greatest passions: learning, traveling, and writing. After chronicling her European journey of self-discovery in Without Reservations,"" this Pulitzer Prize--winning columnist for the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rita Golden Gelman
Publisher Comments "I move throughout the world without a plan, guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities." — From the Preface Tales of a Female Nomad is the story of Rita Golden Gelman, an ordinary woman... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jane F Geniesse
Publisher Comments Freya Stark — traveler, explorer, Arabist, and woman of letters — began the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize her — and would catapult her into public life for the next sixty years — in 1927. And with the publication of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tim Parks Publisher Comments In this deliciously seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks celebrates ten... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan Raban From Powells.com "I had a boat, most of a spring and summer, a cargo of books, and the kind of dream of self-enrichment that spurs everyone who sails north from Seattle," explains Jonathan Raban at the outset of his journey along the Inside Passage from... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.50 (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 $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thad Carhart
Publisher Comments This intimate and idiosyncratic history of the piano and a view into the secret heart of Paris life is written by an American expatriate, who details his attempts to gain entry into a piano shop where locals gathered to discuss music, love, and life.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran Publisher Comments The most absurd, hilarious, and ridiculous travelogue ever told, by two hit-TV comedy writers who raced each other around the world—for bragging rights and a very expensive bottle of Scotch It started as a friendly wager: two old friends from The... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Beppe Severgnini Publisher Comments Join the bestselling author of Ciao, America on a lively tour of modern Italy that takes you behind the seductive face it puts on for visitors-- la bella figura-- and highlights its maddening, paradoxical true self You won't need luggage for this... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Least Heat-Moon Publisher Comments Since hitting the American roads in "Blue Highways", William Least Heat-Moon has been following another calling--to traverse America by its rivers. From the waterways of his 5,000-mile voyage, Least Heat-Moon shares a sharp and stirring vision of America.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Morris Publisher Comments This story of a middle-aged woman's odyssey down the Mississippi River is a funny, beautifully written, and poignant tale of a journey that transforms a life In fall 2005 acclaimed travel writer Mary Morris set off down the Mississippi in a battered old... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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