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by Wilfred Thesiger  
Publisher Comments Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life"the machines, the calling cards, the... (read more)  List Price $14.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Alex Kerr Publisher Comments Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr takes us on a backstage tour, as he explores the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo'... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Larry Habegger Publisher Comments The land of gods and goddesses, myth and history, the cradle of western civilization, the birthplace of drama and democracy — no country resonates with history like Greece. This book plumbs that rich past and the equally rich present in a dazzling... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roberta Allen Publisher Comments At last, an alternative to the Harrison Ford-style travel adventure! Amazon Dream is the real story of a woman's journey into the Peruvian Amazon, a mysteriously beautiful region of the world that is also the nexus of calamitous ecological realities... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Clint Willis Publisher Comments In this pioneering anthology, Clint Willis presents 75 years of great writing -- from Neil O'Dell to Jon Krakauer -- on the fabled peaks. Here are stories of two British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s; a piece on the 1939 K2 attempt that claimed... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Clarke Publisher Comments From Stephen Clarke, the internationally bestselling author of A Year in the Merde and In the Merde for Love, Merde Happens is the third installation of Paul West's hilarious mis-adventures in merde. This time around Paul finds himself in financial... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rick Ridgeway Publisher Comments Combining gripping adventure writing with intimate memoir, Rick Ridgeway takes readers to the mysterious mountain domain of Tibet and into the remote corners of his past. In what Tim Cahill called the "most intensely personal" of his books, Ridgeway... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Farah Griffin Publisher Comments Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing This anthology documents two centuries of writing by African-Americans who have traveled abroad in search of new opportunities, political insight, pleasure, and adventure. Includes work by James Baldwin,... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $4.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joanna Kavenna Publisher Comments A legend, a land once seen and then lost forever, Thule was a place beyond the edge of the maps, a mystery for thousands of years. And to the Nazis, Thule was an icy Eden, birthplace of Nordic "purity." In this exquisitely written narrative, Joanna... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Lee Settle Publisher Comments A book of discovery, in which the landscape of Spain, its history, and its people flow together, each explaining the other. MARY LEE SETTLE, at the age of eighty-two, set off alone to find the Spain she thought she knew from guidebooks, from friends, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Pearson Publisher Comments Better than guidebooks, these first-person accounts paint vivid pictures of a traveler's experience in Italy. Like familiar music and favorite scents, they'll awaken a taste for adventure in those who have yet to travel, and bring back memories for those... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by A A Gill Publisher Comments Critic, essayist and cultural savant A.A. Gill is probably the most widely read columnist in Britain. His books The Angry Island and A.A. Gill is away have found delighted fans in America as well, and sparked a loyal following. His new book of travel... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Harvey Publisher Comments Far in the north of India are the mountains of Ladakh. Cut off by snow for six months of the year, Ladakh is where the purest form of Tibetan Buddhism is practiced, with meditations that date back to 300 years before the birth of Christ. Harvey traveled... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (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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by Ella Maillart Publisher Comments A classic account of a trip through China during the golden age of travel In 1935 Ella Maillart contemplated one of the most arduous journeys in the world: the "impossible journey" from Peking, then a part of Japanese-occupied China, through the distant... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Horton Publisher Comments "He has captured in full the life of the island."—Washington Post Book World A classic of Chesapeake Bay literature, Tom Horton's An Island Out of Time chronicles the three years Horton and his family spent on Smith Island, a marshy archipelago in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Polly Evans Publisher Comments Polly Evans was a woman with a mission. Before the traditional New Zealand male hung up his sheep shears for good, Polly wanted to see this vanishing species with her own eyes. Venturing into the land of giant kauri trees and smaller kiwi birds, she... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alice Steinbach Synopsis The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer searches for answers to the question "Who am I, away from the things that define me?" as she travels to some of the most exciting places in the world. What results is a fascinating inner and outer journey, an... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Goodman Publisher Comments "One of the most charming, perceptive and subtle books ever written about the French by an American."--San Francisco... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $2.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Barber Publisher Comments Pilgrimage, the journey to a distant sacred goal, is found in all the great religions of the world. It is a journey both outwards to hallowed places and inwards to spiritual improvement; it can express penance for past evils, or the search for future... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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