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by Joseph Barbato  Publisher Comments From Thomas McGuane on Idaho's Snake River to Louise Erdrich on the tallgrass prairies of her native North Dakota to Carl Hiaasen combing the imperiled fishing grounds of the Florida Keys, some of the country's finest writers celebrate the geography that... (read more)  List Price $13.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe Rooster's Nest Jamaica, British West Indies, has something else besides its mountains of majesty and its quick, green valleys. Jamaica has its moments when the land, as in St. Mary's, thrusts out its sensuous bosom to the sea. Jamaica has... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Feiler 
Publisher Comments Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible describes one man's epic odyssey -- by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel -- through the greatest stories ever told. From crossing the Red Sea to climbing Mt. Sinai to touching the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Y Canby Publisher Comments National Geographic has been called a window on the world and a passport to adventure. Each month an estimated forty million people in 190 countries open its pages and are transported to exotic realms that delight the eye and mind. Such widespread renown... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rosemary Mahoney Publisher Comments Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Despite the extreme conditions, her informed curiosity about the world, her... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Benson Publisher Comments A lovely Caribbean island and its people awaken in author Robert Benson a sense of place and home. The islanders’ warmth and welcome prompt a new understanding of ideas of beauty, community and spiritual belonging. “We live in a world where... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Louis Theroux Publisher Comments No, it doesn’t get any weirder than this: Thor Templar, Lord Commander of the Earth Protectorate, who claims to have killed ten aliens. Or April, the Neo-Nazi bringing up her twin daughters Lamb and Lynx (A.K.A. Prussian Blue, a white-power folk... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marty Essen Publisher Comments Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents follows Marty and Deb Essen on a three-and-a-half-year-long adventure to some of the wildest places on all seven continents. The American couple began crisscrossing the globe with the simple... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Polly Evans Publisher Comments As a former editor at Hong Kong's largest weekly newspaper, Evans thought she knew China well. When she learned the Chinese had built enough new roads to circle the equator 16 times, she decided to take a fresh look at this vast nation.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Klaus Brinkbaumer Publisher Comments Lying in only twenty-five feet of water in a small gulf off the coast of Panama, a shipwrecked vessel managed to escape detection for centuries before it was discovered in the mid-1990s. In 2002, Klaus Brinkba umer and Clemens Ho ges, journalists with... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Kerr Publisher Comments Having battled and succumbed to the manana pace of rural Majorca in his best-selling Snowball Oranges: A Winter's Tale on a Spanish Isle, spring sees Peter Kerr and family relaxing into a supposedly simpler way of life, growing oranges on their little... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Miles H Davidson Publisher Comments The author traces the events of Columbus's life in chronological order, drawing on manuscripts, diaries, private correspondence, court and naval records, and shipping logs to provide a historically credible portrait. He uses sources never before... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $11.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Graham Publisher Comments Stephen Graham's "A Vagabond in the Caucasus" is a supremely unique take on travel through Russia and the Caucasus. Graham takes to the road in a modest fashion, with a bag and his camera at his side. As he arrives in Moscow not long after the Russian... (read more) List Price $171.00 Your price $50.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Dugard Publisher Comments The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus's final, and perhaps greatest, journey to the New World. The final voyage of Christopher Columbus was by far his most dangerous, unexpected, exhilarating, and consequential. It was, as Pulitzer Prize... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jenny Diski Publisher Comments The book about America de Tocqueville might have written had he spent some time in the nation’s smoking sections Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails taking her... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Stark Publisher Comments Well into the nineteenth century, Arctic explorers believed that they needed only to smash their ships through a ring of ice encircling the top of the globe, and from there they could tack easily on soft breezes to the North Pole. Acting on this belief... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lisa Johnson Publisher Comments Every year thousands of young people from America, Britain and Australia head to Europe for the trip of a Lifetime. This eclectic, contemporary anthology drawn from literary magazines, websites and backpacking newsgroups records the trials and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Karin Muller Publisher Comments One of the engineering wonders of the world, the Inca Road was built more than five hundred years ago to link the far-flung outposts of a fabled empire -- an empire that ruled in golden splendor until the conquistadors arrived to plunder El Dorado and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Ross Publisher Comments On November 25, 1970, the world renowned Japanese writer Yukio Mishima committed seppuku with his own antique sword. Mishima’s spectacular suicide has been called many things: a hankering for heroism; a beautiful, perverse drama; a political... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Woodward
Publisher Comments In this elegant, provocative book, the brilliant young art-historian Christopher Woodward looks back to the start of the cult in the eighteenth century, when follies were built in English landscape gardens, artists and writers thrilled to Rome's poetry... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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