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by Al Martinez  Publisher Comments In I'll Be Damned if I'll Die in Oakland, popular Los Angeles Times columnist and world traveler Al Martinez takes us on a funny, crazy, surprising, and sometimes poignant ride around the globe with his wife, the ebullient Cinelli, and then with his... (read more)  List Price $23.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Benedict Allen Synopsis What does it feel like to walk off the edge of the map? This anthology presents the words of those who, through the centuries, have set off into "the unknown" and brought it back to their people. It brings together Vikings and cosmonauts, conquistadors... (read more) Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Christine Orban Publisher Comments “No one will ever be like you. Who could be like a sister?” One Day My Sister Disappeared is Christine Orban’s deeply affecting meditation on family, grief, and identity. In spare and tender prose, Orban reflects on the death of her... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Myron Arms Publisher Comments By any account, the impenetrable barrier of sea ice that blocked the Brendan's Isle halfway up the Labrador Coast should not have been there in late July, in what was one of the hottest summers in memory a few hundred miles to the south. Frustrated and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.38 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jan Morris Publisher Comments Superbly written articles about cities as different as Las Vegas and Stockholm, about journeys across Europe and China, and about "romantic re-visits" to such historic sites as the Acropolis and the Taj Mahal.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $3.25 (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 $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments The best-selling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks is well know as an explorer of the human mind — a neurologist with a gift for complex, insightful portrayals of people and their conditions. However, he... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ben Granby Publisher Comments Ben Granby, frustrated American food service worker, takes a multifarious, back roads ramble through the combat zone of Israel/Palestine, circa 2002. His motivation? To throw himself headlong into other people's problems.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michel Butor Publisher Comments This book gathers French writer Michel Butor's essays on his travel in the Mediterranean. Included are pieces on Cordova, Istanbul, Salonica, Delphi, Crete, and northern Italy, as well as an extended essay on Egypt--where, when he was 24, Butor spent a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $2.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments In 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Leigh Fermor Publisher Comments At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey--to walk to Constantinople." A Time of Gifts" is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which "Between the Woods and the Water... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Oreilly Publisher Comments Winner of the Lowell Thomas Best Travel Book Award, this updated, newly designed collection of Thailand travel stories makes you fall in love with this fabulous country. Thailand can satisfy just about any traveller's hunger for the exotic, the beautiful,... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Rips Synopsis This hilarious and quirky travel memoir and autobiography follows a criminal litigator who runs away to a small Etruscan village with his wife and new baby and finds a community of the most eccentric people he's ever met.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Kathie Klareich Publisher Comments Kathie Klarreich, a white Jewish girl from the West Coast, arrived in Haiti as a naove twenty-something in the late 1980s. There she worked for a fair trade organization. Weeks became months, and months became years, as Klarreich, despite the spiraling... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Chris Stewart Synopsis Written by the first drummer for the rock group Genesis, "Driving Over Lemons" is a wonderfully written account--and a number-one bestseller in England--of a family making a life and home in remote but enchanting southern Spain. Photos throughout.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gary Gray Publisher Comments In Running with the Bulls, Gary Gray grabs hold of us and takes us on a grand and intimate tour of one of Spain's most passionate and historic cities. In 1926, Ernest Hemingway brought the frenetic charge of Pamplona's Festival of San Fermin to life in... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rachel Manija Brown Publisher Comments In 1980, when she was seven, the author's parents, '60s-holdover hippies, leave California for an ashram in a cobra-ridden, drought stricken spot in India. Astutely observed and laugh-out-loud funny, this astonishing debut memoir marks the arrival of a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ralph Leighton Publisher Comments As a stamp-collecting boy always fascinated by remote places, Nobel Prize?winning physicist Richard Feynman was particularly taken by the diamond-shaped stamps from a place called Tannu Tuva deep within Outer Mongolia. He hoped, someday, to travel there.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeffrey Tayler Publisher Comments One of today's most intrepid writers chronicles a deadly trek through the legendary region that gave birth to the gulag and gave Siberia its outsize reputation for perilous isolation. In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alasdair Moore Publisher Comments In the Footsteps of Thomas Hanbury. Overlooking the sea on the Franco/Italian Riviera, La Mortola remains one of the most famous botanical gardens in the world. Gardener and writer Alasdair Moore traces the footsteps of Thomas Hanbury, a man who is... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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