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by Dorothy Hamilton Publisher Comments Leisurely walks to enjoy, not endure - and all with the promise of a delicious afternoon tea.... (read more) Your price $3.85 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael Dorso Publisher Comments Chapter One The Village January 18, 1999 The midwinter sun has just begun to climb above the flat, blue Pacific, and already the cobbled pavers that form the streets of Puerto Ayora are warm to the touch. Marine iguanas, as common here as house cats... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter Biddlecombe Publisher Comments This fourth travel book by Peter Biddlecombe sees the author negotiating the perils of business life in 20 cities, from Beirut to Budapest. He brings his eye to bear on the economic challenges faced by both post-cold war Europe and the... (read more) Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jennifer Niven Publisher Comments From the author of "The Ice Master" comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate uninhabited Arctic island in 1921.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jan Kaplan Publisher Comments The turbulent history of "The City of a Hundred Spires" is revealed through eyewitness accounts from medieval to modern times. Czech-born Jan Kaplan is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and a notable Prague historian.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael J. Mcrae Publisher Comments Essays from a professional wanderer with an eye for the absurd. Travel writing at its best.-- Joe Kane. Black & white photographs.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $3.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments A stunning tour of China, its people, and its history. Chosen as one of the best travel books of 1996 by the New York Times Book Review.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Cabeza De Vaca Publisher Comments One of the mounted men, Juan Velasquez, a native of Cuillar, impatiently rode into the river. The violent current swept him from his saddle. He grabbed the reins but drowned with the horse. The subjects of that chief--whose name turned out to be... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Stephen Clarke Publisher Comments The latest episode in Stephen Clarke’s almost-true account of his adventures as an expat in France is just as winning as the first. This “anti-Mayle” will have readers chortling over their croissants and café au lait while Paul... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Louis Theroux Publisher Comments No, it doesn't get much 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 (who have just formed a white-power folk group... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Virginia Morell Publisher Comments Sacred, mysterious, powerful, the Blue Nile has carved a deep channel through human history. From its source in the wild Ethiopian highlands, this river passes through some of the most untamed country on Earth as it rushes toward its desert rendezvous... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alexander Frater Publisher Comments A distinguished British travel writer chronicles his various journeys between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, offering a vivid portrait of the rich beauty, diversity, flora and fauna, and people who inhabit the tropical areas of the world... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Sebastian Smith Publisher Comments Escaping to the heart of the Mediterranean.... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments From the bestselling author whose memoirs Under the Sun and Bella Tuscany have captured the voluptuousness of Italian life comes a lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany's people, food, landscapes, and art. In Tuscany celebrates the abundant... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter Bennetts Synopsis Tuvalu is a Pacific nation of low lying coral atolls and islands whose existence is threatened by climate change and rising sea levels. This is a portrait of the tiny island nation showing the culture and environment that will be lost.... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by James Kilgo Publisher Comments This extraordinary, candid account of Kilgo's African sojourn conveys the untamed beauty of the bush country with the attention of a seasoned naturalist and the wonder of a first-time visitor.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Christopher Kremmer Publisher Comments Apart from oil, rugs are the Muslim world's best-known commodity. While rugs are found in most Western homes, the story of religious, political, and tribal strife behind their creation is virtually unknown. In "The Carpet Wars, award-winning journalist... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Stuart Stevens Publisher Comments Stuart Stevens and ex-model Rat Kelly share two interests: exercise and eating. When Rat suggests taking their eating to a new level by touring all the three-star restaurants of Europe, Stuart eagerly agrees. What follows is nothing less than gustatory... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Sarah Moss Publisher Comments This thought-provoking examination of the most influential and popular accounts of polar exploration--from Viking settlers and Renaissance conquerors to expeditions led by such famous explorers as Ernest Shackleton, Richard Byrd, and Roald Amundsen... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.71 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Victoria Brooks Publisher Comments "Slices of on-the-road literary history and detail-rich travel romps with famous writers." Sheila F. Buckmaster, senior editor, National Geographic... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $4.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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