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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 John, Wassner Publisher Comments The indigenous people of Borneo use blowpipes and poisoned darts. They wear 'pan handle' haircuts, live in communal dwellings and some tribes have mastered the art of making themselves 'invisible' in the jungle. But above all, they have a reputation as... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Oreilly Publisher Comments The more than two dozen stories in this collection span the globe, from battling snakes in Costa Rica to probing personal reactions to India's caste system, navigating the "oldest tourist trap in the world" in Egypt, and learning to cook octopus in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Barich Publisher Comments Here is a travel book with a difference: ten chronological chapters from a year of wandering, from the Pacific Northwest to Tuscany and back again to the trout-laden streams of California. Join Barich as he travels the globe, from the trout streams of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $3.70 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol Batrus Publisher Comments After graduating from MIT and working in the health care field, Carol Batrus changed directions and got her MBA at Columbia and went to work for a prestigious New York investment bank. Still unsatisfied, she eventually gave it all up, cut the tether to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Scott Haas Publisher Comments Scott Haas thought that whisking his wife and eight-week-old daughter off to Europe was a wonderful idea. After all, wasn't great food, enriching travel, and a cultured, foreign locale the perfect recipe for family bonding? But after just one week in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Fagg Olds Publisher Comments Annie Smith Peck attempted seven times to climb Peru's highest mountain; Delia Akeley hunted big game in Africa; Marguerite Harrison spied in Russia for America; Louise Arner Boyd led expeditions to perilous East Greenland. Precursors of the modern Jane... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Symmes Publisher Comments The book gives an insight into the moulding of the great Latin American hero and paints a portrait of a continent whose dreams of utopia give birth not only to freedom fighters but also tyrants. But above all it is the story of a journey on the open road,... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vanora Bennett Publisher Comments The Taste of Dreams is both a quest for the romantic Russia of the author’s dreams, and a tale of amazement as she discovers and gets caught up in the new, anarchic Russia emerging from its Soviet constraints. At its heart is the story of caviar... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Clare De Vries Publisher Comments Clare de Vries fulfills her dream of traveling the States when she decides to quit London with her ailing, beloved cat, Claudius, for a final fling (he wouldn't be allowed back into the UK without a six-month quarantine, so they decide to spend his final... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $2.90 (Used - Hardcover) 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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by Bruce Feiler 
Publisher Comments One part adventure story, one part archaeological detective work, one part spiritual exploration, Walking the Bible vividly recounts an inspiring personal odyssey -- by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel -- through the greatest stories ever told. Feeling a... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jason Roberts Publisher Comments He was known simply as the Blind Traveler. A solitary, sightless adventurer, James Holman (1786-1857) fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon, helped chart the Australian outback—... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joyce Brooks Publisher Comments Joyce shares the inspiring, harrowing and downright hilarious tales of life on the road, in luxurious staterooms, jungle bivouacs and cramped middle seats.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Palin Synopsis Drawing on the research for his bestselling novel "Hemingway's Chair, " Palin pens this travelogue and insightful literary biography of Hemingway, following in his footsteps from Northern Michigan to Paris, Cuba, and elsewhere. A companion to a three... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $3.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi Review "The name Parma signifies a small Roman shield, and during fifteen years in Italy with her husband, a Parma native, the author of this richly absorbing book has experienced the city as an outsider and as a captive. Part autobiography and part travelogue..... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rory Maclean Synopsis Rory MacLean's uncle and aunt lived in a rambling house filled with animals in Potsdam. The author visited them as he passed through Berlin and when he told his aunt of his intention to travel along the line of the old Iron Curtain, she decided to... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James L Newman Publisher Comments Reevaluates the extraordinary exploits of one of history??'s most controversial... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Benanav Publisher Comments Benanav became one of the few Westerners to ever join the Caravan of White Gold. Following his amused guide, Benanav lived for weeks among the camel drivers, marching 18 hours a day for nearly a thousand miles through sandstorms and searing heat to the... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith Martin and Eric Denker Publisher Comments Love of Venice can strike anyone, not just romantic wusses. Among the toughies with serious cases were Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, Ezra Pound, and Ernest Hemingway. There is no cure for this affliction. This is a guide to managing it. 35 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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