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Under the Dragon by Rory Maclean Synopsis Using novelistic techniques to weave together the patient endurance of the Burmese, together with their fragility and immense charm, the author makes us feel the weight of the current regime, from the girls who work on the building-sites, to the drunken... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Weakness for Almost Everything: Notes on Life, Gastronomy, and Travel by Aldo Buzzi Publisher Comments Launched in 1999, this series spans all aspects of Italian culture -- art, politics, history, food, and travel -- in reissues of classic works and novels by contemporary Italian... (read more) List Price $9.50 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Three Worlds Gone Mad: Dangerous Journeys Through the War Zones of Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific 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 add to wish list The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers 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 add to wish list Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World 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 $13.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Gentleman From Finland 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 add to wish list Fodor's Guide to the Da Vinci Code: On the Trail of the Bestselling Novel 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 add to wish list Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd 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 add to wish list Coconut Chaos: Pitcairn, Mutiny and a Seduction at Sea by Diana Souhami Publisher Comments A personal voyage to obscure Pitcairn Island, with profound modern echoes of the Bounty mutineers who settled there, this story moves from a simple, random event to its complex connections. Its conceptual core is how a small, chance thing—the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cartographies: Meditations on Travel 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 add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Travel Writing on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke Publisher Comments An urban antidote to A Year in Provence, Stephen Clarke's book is a laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of an expat in Paris-for Francophiles and Francophobes alike.A Year in the Merde is the almost-true account of the author's adventures as an... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Literary Trips 2: Following in the Footsteps of Fame 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 add to wish list Sea Room by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments A riveting book for all readers who know and love a place where the sea meets the land. In 1937, Adam Nicolson's father answered a newspaper ad -- "Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides, 600 acres . . . Puffins and seals. Apply . . . " -- and... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World (Vintage Departures) by Pico Iyer Publisher Comments The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From Iceland to Bhutan to Argentina, Iyer remains both uncannily observant and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Woman's World Again: True Stories of World Travel 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 add to wish list The Road Within: True Stories of Transformation and the Soul by Sean Oreilly Publisher Comments The Road Within" is a book of transformation, of lessons learned, maps drawn and burned, and spiritual blessings bestowed by travel. This book takes readers on a worldwide quest to discover the Garden of Paradise in the human heart, feel the power of the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia by Tom Bissell Publisher Comments In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a na-ve Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Italy, a Love Story: Women Write about the Italian Experience 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 add to wish list We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light by John Baxter Publisher Comments "We'll always have Paris," Humphrey Bogart reminds Ingrid Bergman in their bittersweet parting at the end of Casablanca, and undoubtedly those words resonate for lovers everywhere. Indeed for many people, Paris is not just a place; it is an intoxicating... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture by Jose Saramago Publisher Comments When José Saramago decided to write a book about Portugal, his only desire was that it be unlike all other books on the subject, and in this he has certainly succeeded. Recording the events and observations of a journey across the length and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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