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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 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 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 Helen Thayer Publisher Comments Everyone told her it couldn't be done...especially by a woman. But in 1988, fifty-year-old Helen Thayer, accompanied only by her black husky Charlie, became the first woman ever to ski solo to the North Pole. After overcoming her first obstacle--the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Redmond Ohanlon Publisher Comments O'Hanlon takes us into the bug-ridden rain forest between the Orinoco and the Amazon--infested with jaguars and piranhas, where men would kill over a bottle of ketchup and where the locals may be the most violent people on earth (next to hockey fans).... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cees Nooteboom Publisher Comments Roads to Santiago is an evocative travelogue through the sights, sounds, and smells of a little known Spain-its architecture, art, history, landscapes, villages, and people. And as much as it is the story of his travels, it is an elegant and detailed... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Calvin Trillin Publisher Comments This delightful book collects Calvin Trillin's accounts of his trips to Europe with his wife, Alice, and their two daughters. In Taormina, Sicily, they cheerfully disagree with Mrs. Tweedie's 1904 assertion that the beautiful town "is being spoilt," and... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sybille Bedford 
Powells.com Staff Pick A classic in travel writing now re-published, this delightful chronicle of Bedford's journeys through Mexico following World War II wonderfully captures the landscape and people of this vast country. Moreover, in florid yet engaging prose... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 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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by Peter Hopkirk Publisher Comments For nineteenth-century adventures, Tibet was the prize destination, and Lhasa, its capital situated nearly three miles above sea level, was the grandest trophy of all. The lure of this mysterious land, and its strategic importance, made it inevitable... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Corn Publisher Comments Clothed in mystery and lost in uncharted seas, the Spice Islands of the early sixteenth century tantalized European imagination to the point of obsession. As the only place on Earth where grew the "holy trinity" of spices-cloves, nutmeg, and mace-these... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alvah Simon
Publisher Comments In June 1994 Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set off in their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of icebergs, tundra, and fjords lying high above the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would trap Simon alone on... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Holmes Publisher Comments Richard Holmes knew he had become a true biographer the day his bank bounced a check that he had inadvertently dated 1772. Because for the acclaimed chronicler of Shelly and Coleridge, biography is a physical pursuit, an ardent and arduous retracing of... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jamie Zeppa
Publisher Comments In 1989, Jamie Zeppa, a naïve, well-educated twenty-three-year-old from Sault Ste. Marie, commits to a two-year teaching contract in Bhutan against the wishes of both her fiancé, Robert, and her controlling grandfather. Following orientation here and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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