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by Peter Matthiessen  
Publisher Comments When Peter Matthiessen set out with the field biologist George Schaller from Pokhara, in northwest Nepal, their hope was to reach the Crystal Mountain — a foot journey of 250 miles or more across the Himalaya — in the Land of Dolpo, on the... (read more)  List Price $15.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Michael S Sanders Publisher Comments Chapter One One Morning in August By eight o'clock on a late summer day what passes for the morning bustle in Les Arques is well under way. Elise Sé gol, the widow who owns the little house across the street from the restaurant, has thrown open her... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher Comments Daniel Boorstin, former librarian of the Library of Congress, gives a fascinating history of world civilization. From astronomical development, microscopes, telescopes, medicine, vaccines, genetics and map-making, this book delves into the discoveries of... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Least Heat-Moon Publisher Comments New York Times Bestseller. "Better than Kerouac."--Chicago Sun-Times William Least Heat-Moon's journey into America began with little more than the need to put home behind him. At a turning point in his life, he packed up a van he called Ghost Dancing... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Feiler Publisher Comments At a time when America debates its values and the world braces for religious war, Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers Walking the Bible and Abraham, travels ten thousand miles through the heart of the Middle East—Israel, Iraq... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Holly Morris Publisher Comments The creator of the PBS documentary series Adventure Divas describes her various adventures and journeys to the far corners of the globe, as well as the lives of women--politicians, artists, activists, and others--whose actions have transformed the world... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments NATIONAL BESTSELLER Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocative book about life in Provence. With tales only one who lives there could know—of finding gold... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gregory Dicum Publisher Comments Talk about a fresh perspective! Perched 35,000 feet in the air, Window Seat decodes the sights to be seen on any flight across North America. Broken down by region, this unusual guide features 70 aerial photographs; a fold-out map of North America... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Sullivan Publisher Comments Sullivan, who has driven cross-country more than two dozen times, recounts his family's annual summer migration from Oregon to New York, and of moving his family back and forth from coast to coast. In his trademark celebration of the mundane, he... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments Peter Mayle, francophile phenomenon and author of A Year in Provence, brings another delightful (and delicious) account of the good life, this time exploring the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France. The French celebrate food and drink more... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Polly Evans Publisher Comments In this funny and irreverent account, Evans describes her voyage of discovery around Spain--on a bicycle. From the thigh-burning ascents of the Pyrenees to the relentless olive groves of Andalusia, she found more adventure than she bargained for.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tony Hawks Publisher Comments Have you ever made a drunken ben? Worse, still, have you eveer tried to win one? In attempting to hitchhike round Ireland wich a fridge, Tony Hawks did both, and his foolhardiness led him to one of the best experiences of his life. Joined by his trusty... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe Rooster's Nest Jamaica, British West Indies, has something else besides its mountains of majesty and its quick, green valleys. Jamaica has its moments when the land, as in St. Mary's, thrusts out its sensuous bosom to the sea. Jamaica has... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sara Midda Publisher Comments From Sara Midda, whose first book evoked all the pleasures of an English garden, comes a wondrous sketchbook of a year's sojourn in the South of France. This is a very personal journal, crammed with images, notions and discoveries of the day-to-day. In... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Lee Settle Publisher Comments After a twenty-year absence, Mary Lee Settle returns to the land she calls the happiest home she has ever known. A land of intersecting continents, cultures, and contradictions, Turkey beckons her on a cross-country journey, in search of the country's... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marybeth Bond Publisher Comments Whether a world-traveler or an armchair enthusiast, this remarkable collection delights the reader with tales from such varied locales as Prague, India, Tibet, Cuba, and Antarctica. From each piece emerges a distinct and individual voice, resulting in an... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Wesley Powell Publisher Comments Full text of Powell's 1,000-mile expedition down the fabled Colorado in 1869. Superb account of terrain, geology, vegetation, Indians, famine, mutiny, treacherous rapids, mighty canyons, during exploration of last unknown part of continental U.S.<BR... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edmund White
Publisher Comments Bloomsbury is proud to announce the first title in an occasional series in which some of the world's finest novelists reveal the secrets of the city they know best. These beautifully produced, pocket-sized books will provide exactly what is missing in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jennifer Niven
Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the gripping and inspiring tale of a woman's survival alone in the Arctic. In 1921, four men and one woman ventured deep into the Arctic. Two years later, only one returned. When 23-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed on as a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Doug Lansky Publisher Comments Subtitled, "The World's Most Absurd Signs". With the help of signspotters around the globe, "Lonely Planet" have assembled a collection of some of the most unintentionally entertaining postings on the planet, that are sure to confuse and amuse the reader.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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