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by Eleanor Clark  Publisher Comments On the northwest coast of France, just around the corner from the English Channel, is the little town of Locmariaquer (pronounced "loc-maria-care"). The inhabitants of this town have a special relationship to the world, for it is their efforts that... (read more)  List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Brian Keenan Publisher Comments For four years Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were incarcerated in a Lebanese dungeon. To displace the ugly confines of their existence, they imagined walking in the High Andes and across the wastes of Patagonia. Five years after their release, they... (read more) Your price $9.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Dinerstein Publisher Comments Readers are invited to follow Dinerstein's unlikely journey to conservation's frontiers, from early research in Nepal to recent expeditions as head of Conservation Science at the World Wildlife Fund, from being swept downstream on an elephant's back to... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $10.88 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Stiller Publisher Comments Two men as different as night and day. One kayak. And 10,000 miles of the most beautiful but treacherous coastline in the world. You'd have to be crazy to think you could kayak around an entire continent, right? But Eric Stiller admits: "It seemed like a... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J Hamilton Paterson Publisher Comments A wonderful inner journey in the outer light and color of a remote coast, uncommonly well written.--Peter... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patricia Storace Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of the Year <BR>"Full of insights, marvelously entertaining . . . haunting and beautifully written."<BR> --The New York Review of Books <BR>"I lived in Athens, at the intersection of a prostitute and a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Claudio Magris Synopsis A journey of the imagination, in which Claudio Magris uncovers the whole of human striving in a microcosm. Delving into his Triestine homeland Magris discovers the city's domestic interiors, its cafes, bars, marketplaces and stations, to be the forums in... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Allin 
Publisher Comments It was the Age of Enlightenment. And in Paris, a gentle, wide-eyed stranger was all the rage. In 1826, a twelve-foot giraffe, captured in the Sudan, shipped down the Nile, carried across the Mediterranean in a ship's hold, was now walking across... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Hyland Publisher Comments "Indian Balm" is the captivating account of a journey Paul Hyland made along the little-known course of the sacred Godavari river in Southern India: a pilgrimage through both his past and India's present. It is the story of the search for his ancestors... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adrian Abbotts Publisher Comments Smuggled in illegally by Chinese truck drivers, Adrian Abbotts and his wife set out to discover the true Tibet and bring to the world's attention the plight of a unique culture. The result is a moving account of the history, culture and traditions of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (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 $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Gifford Publisher Comments For decades after his death in 1789, John Ledyard was celebrated as the greatest explorer America had ever produced. A veteran of Captain Cook's final voyage, he walked across nearly all of Russia and suggested to his friend Thomas Jefferson that... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by National Geographic Publisher Comments Founded more than 112 years ago "for the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge," the National Geographic Society has chronicled the exploits of some of the most famous explorers of the 20th century, and often helped fund those efforts. Roald... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $10.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jack Nisbet Publisher Comments From 1784 to 1812, fur trader, surveyor, and mapmaker David Thompson explored western North America. His field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of what is now British Columbia, Alberta, Montana,... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jack Canfield Publisher Comments Whether your idea of travel at its finest is trekking through Europe with a backpack, a map and a foreign-language dictionary; road-tripping across America in a fully loaded RV; or cruising the Caribbean aboard a luxury liner, Chicken Soup for the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jim Motavalli Publisher Comments Joseph Knowles was a forty-five-year-old part-time painter, ex-Navy man, friend of the Sioux, and onetime hunting guide who stepped-nearly naked-into the woods to live off the land and his own devices. From 1913 to 1916, Knowles’s dispatches to the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Catherine P Finerty Publisher Comments What do most career women do after a successful run on Madison Avenue? Catherine Finerty watched her friends settle into the country-club life. She opted instead for Mexico.<P>When the 60-year-old widow loaded up her car and headed south, what she... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments A reisssue of the book that charts Winchester as he travels 10,000 miles to find what is left of the British Empire. His most recent books, "The Surgeon Of Corwthorne" and "The Map That Changed The World", have been international bestsellers.... (read more) Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Emily Hiestand Publisher Comments 'A dazzling different kind of travel book...It is a rare experience to share the very rich and thoughtful hours of Emily Hiestand.'--Washington Post -- 'If one must travel, one should do it with the eyes of a child, the mind of an ecologist, the heart of... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Heminway Publisher Comments One of America's most distinguished travel writers and the PBS-TV host of hisown program presents a fascinating look at the world of white Africans today.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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