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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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
by Richard Burton Publisher Comments Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890)--explorer, linguist, anthropologist--was one of the most fascinating figures of the Victorian era. In 1866, while serving as British consul in Brazil, he presented four lectures on the highlights of his travels in Arabia... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Merrill Joan Gerber Publisher Comments When writer Merrill Joan Gerber is invited to join her husband, a history professor, as he takes a class of American college students to study in Florence, Italy, she feels terrified at the idea of leaving her comforts, her friends, and her aged mother... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bruce B Junek Synopsis Join world travelers Bruce Junek and Tass Thacker on a grand tour of seven adventures south of the border: bicycling through Central and South America; kayaking and swimming with whales in Baja; snorkeling with penguins in the Galapagos Islands; hiking... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by L St Aubin De Teran Publisher Comments For this haunting and unusual collection, Lisa St Aubin de Terán has gathered dreams as varied as the dreamers. Included here are the writings of Elizabeth von Arnim, Karen Blixen, Angela Carter, Janet Frame, and Dorothy Parker. Imaginative and far... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by James Morgan Synopsis More than a book about cars, this title is a journey through the American heartland and a meditation on American identity. Morgan takes readers on an unforgettable road trip from Florida to Oregon as he explores America's love affair with the car and the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
by Mark Mccrum Synopsis A lively account of the author's picaresque journey around Australia by Greyhound train, flying and hitching. He meets Aussies from all walks of life - Perth millionaires and desert Aboriginals, royalist hippies and republican cattle-ranchers, Indo... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened. <BR>Here is the month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations that Peter Mayle and his wife --... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter Biddlecombe Publisher Comments Travel-hardened businessman Peter Biddlecombe presents a seventh collection of travel tales. He meets the world's greatest dodgers in Guyana, visits Paramaribo—swapped for New York in one of the greatest cons in history, and sips champagne with a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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