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by Victoria Brooks  Publisher Comments Sir Arthur C. Clarke kicks off a second exotic feast of literary adventure that transports both the reader (vicariously) and the traveler (via practical guide) around the world. Twenty-four tales again raise the bar for the very best in travel writing... (read more)  List Price $19.95 Your price $5.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Lloyd Jones Publisher Comments Controversial and acclaimed in its previous editions, this dazzling hybrid of travel writing and imaginative writing is now being published for the first time in the U.S. Traveling to Albania in 1991, the author finds a relentlessly bizarre world of half-... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert M. Goldstein Publisher Comments Two days aboard what he believes is the Trans-Siberian Express, the author of this humorous memoir discovers heâ??s on the wrong train. It is 1987, and he is traveling in the Soviet Union, holding a train ticket that mistakenly identifies him as a Finn.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jennifer Paull Publisher Comments This fully illustrated guide to the best-selling novel gives you fresh insight into the Da Vinci Code phenomenon. Following the path of the novel's characters, Fodor's Guide to The Da Vinci Code delves into the locations, people, historic events, and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Camille Cusumano Publisher Comments Legendary for fabulous food, persistent men, and a lyrical language, Italy has inspired many great love affairs--with the country itself. In this thrilling and layered new collection, women from Barbara Grizzuti Harrison to the neo-Tuscan Frances Mayes... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mishi Saran Publisher Comments In the seventh century AD, the Chinese monk Xuanzang set off on an epic journey to India to study Buddhist philosophy from the Indian masters. Traveling along the Silk Road, braving brigands and blizzards, Xuanzang finally reached India, where his... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Victoria Hammond Publisher Comments With its shimmering palaces and decaying mansions, enchanted forests and basements full of Soviet art, the history of St. Petersburg comes alive in this memoir of one art devotee's journey to reveal the strength and wonder behind Russia's crumbling... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Julian Barnes Synopsis A collection of essays on France from Julian Barnes. Written over a 20 year period, the topics Barnes covers range from landscape to literature, food to flaubert, film and song to the Tour de France.... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wade Brackenbury Publisher Comments Wade Brackenbury wanted an adventure, and he got the journey of a lifetime. Along with a charismatic photographer named Pascal, Wade went seeking the Drung people, a dwindling minority in the vast empire of China, said to live in an obsure valley in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Levi Publisher Comments In 1970, Peter Levi—classical scholar, archaeologist, and poet—set off with Bruce Chatwin in search of the classical heritage of Afghanistan. Greek conquerors, Buddhist monks, Moghul emperors, doomed British soldiers—all have traveled... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Young Pelton Publisher Comments What's it's like to live, and die, in the world's trouble spots.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary (edt) Morris Publisher Comments In this newly illustrated edition, 300 years of wanderlust are captured as women travel the world for pleasure and peril. Among the extraordinary women whose writing is included here are Gertrude Bell, Rose Macaulay, Mary McCarthy, Vita Sackville-West... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William Least Heat-Moon Publisher Comments The arrival of Christopher Columbus on American shores, albeit controversial, remains one of the most consequential events in world history. In "Columbus in the Americas", acclaimed and bestselling author William Least Heat Moon turns his attention to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sam Apple Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Confederates in the Attic" comes a hilarious account of a journey with Austria's last wandering shepherd.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ron Butler Publisher Comments Ron Butler never dreamed Mexico would capture his heart and his soul. However after crisscrossing the country, he was seduced by its charms, rhythms and melodies. He goes off the beaten path in Acapulco and Cancun, and walks in the footsteps of movie... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marjorie Agosin Publisher Comments On the impulse behind "Cartographies, Marjorie Agosin writes, "I have always wanted to understand the meaning of displacement and the quest or longing for home. In these lyrical meditations in prose and poetry, Agosin evokes the many places on four... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Gott Publisher Comments All too often, travel writers plunge into seemingly obscure parts of the globe with little knowledge of where they are, whom they are among, or what has happened there in the past. In this trend-breaking anti-travel book, Richard Gott describes his own... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Li Gui Publisher Comments A record of China's first officially sanctioned eyewitness account of people and places around the world<BR>... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol Drinkwater Synopsis This is actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical account of a new life in France: the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it and farming the olives; and the overcoming of the heartache in taking on a "new" French family and... (read more) Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicola Ross Publisher Comments Whether you are a summer visitor or a fifth-generation resident, you will love this book about one of Ontario's most diverse and beautiful regions.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $5.28 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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