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by Jason Elliot  Publisher Comments Part historical evocation, part travelogue, and part personal quest, An Unexpected Light is the account of Elliot's journey through Afghanistan, a country considered off-limits to travelers for twenty years. Aware of the risks involved, but determined to... (read more)  List Price $18.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Tracy Johnston Publisher Comments A thrilling, touching, and densely instructive book, Shooting the Boh is also a frank self-portrait of a woman facing her most corrosive fears--and triumphing over them--with fortitude and unflagging wit. "A captivating and truly offbeat rite of passage".... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by A W Kinglake Publisher Comments Victorian travel classic describing a Grand Tour through Eastern Europe to Turkey. "One of the most original, graceful and creative of all travel books" Jan Morris.... (read more) Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Plunk Publisher Comments Plunk's on-the-road memoir of peacemaking as he advised the Dalai Lama and served as a mediator for conflicts in Burma, Kashmir, and Afghanistan.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.43 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kent Nerburn 
Publisher Comments Chapter OneGood Bulbs"Hell, there ain't no one beginning. A couple of creeks, some lakes and streams, water running in from some swamps. It all just adds up. Pretty soon there's a river.-- An old Ojibwe man discussing the source of the Mississippi here... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Beau Maurice Publisher Comments In 1930 a sixteen-year-old boy left England to become one of the last of the 'gentlemen adventurers' - the fur traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. In the Arctic he found adventure, love and loss as he came to grips with Eskimo life.... (read more) Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Rips Publisher Comments The quirky and humorous memoir of a criminal lawyer who gives up his practise in New York to spend a year in the Etruscan town of Sutri, near Rome.... (read more) Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Banick Publisher Comments Part travel guide, part illuminating how-to manual for a more fulfilling, connected life, Accidental Enlightenment is an absorbing look into the adventures and insights of Stephen Banick, an inveterate wanderer, observer, and chronicler of the world at... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Burton Holmes Synopsis Wanderlust: Burton Holmes, the father of the Travelogue All the delights of travel for those who stay at home. In a time before air travel or radio, on the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, Burton Holmes (1870-1958) set upon a lifelong... (read more) List Price $49.99 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Kent Nerburn Publisher Comments Ride shotgun with Kent Nerburn on a remarkable journey that uncovers the myths and dreams of America's West Coast. Fearing that his passion for life was dimming and worried that his family needed to escape the harsher realities of Minnesota life, Nerburn... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Balaban Publisher Comments Since relations between the U.S. and Vietnam have normalized, many more people are traveling to this exotic country, previously closed to a generation of Western visitors. Vietnam provides one of the first chances for Americans to know the Vietnamese... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jamie Brisick Publisher Comments Full title: 'We Approach Our Martinis With Such High Expectations'. Professional surfer Jamie Brisick has travelled the world. On his many journeys he accumulated this powerful and diverse collection of images, accompanied here by travel sketches... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andres Carlstein Publisher Comments What makes a man sell all he owns and ride a motorcycle 22,000 miles from his hometown in upstate New York to the southernmost tip of South America? Some call it craziness; Latinos call it "cojones." This funny, fast-paced narrative follows a young man... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harry Thurston Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-383) and index.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $14.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald Pearsall Publisher Comments Armchair travelers and globetrotters alike will appreciate these lavishly illustrated, informative volumes which will rekindle old memories and inspire new flights of fancy.<P>The grandeur of the age of glamorous travel is brought to life in this... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $1.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Luree Miller Publisher Comments The amazing accomplishments of five early women explorers.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edmund White Publisher Comments What happens when one of our most celebrated writers combines talents with a French artist and architect to capture life in their Parisian neighborhood? The result is a lighthearted, gently satiric portrait of the heart of Paris -- including the Marais... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lili Wright Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the true story of a 30-something writer who, burned out on love, embarks on a soul-searching highway adventure.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Krich Publisher Comments John Krich’s Music in Every Room depicts the disappointments and corruptions of modern travel. “This quirky, querulous and oddly appealing travelogue” (The Boston Globe) charts Krich’s journey across Asia with his irascible... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John F. Haslett Publisher Comments In 1995, John Haslett went to a tiny fishing village in Ecuador to begin building a thirty-thousand pound raft made entirely of balsa wood, bamboo, and manila rope. Inspired by Thor Heyerdahl's famed Kon-Tiki voyage, Haslett intended to sail five... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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