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by Peter Biddlecombe  Publisher Comments Paperback edition of this travel book-cum- businessman's guide. Published simultaneously with >Around the World on Expenses<, Biddlecombe's latest hardback.... (read more)  Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies 
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by Travellerseye Publisher Comments An eclectic collection of over a hundred anecdotal travel stories made up of poems, short anecdotes and longer pieces up to a thousand words. Some are amusing, some informative, others are dramatic, the emotions experienced range from heavenly to hellish.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Black Synopsis William Black is serious about Italian food, and in this title he eats whatever gets in his way - expounding the joys of everything from maggot-infested cheese to pasta with donkey sauce. William travels the length and breadth of Italy in his quest fro... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeff Greenwald Publisher Comments By the time that travel writer Jeff Greenwald hit his late thirties, he had covered more ground than Magellan, Marco Polo, and Columbus combined. But he also came to a sobering conclusion: airplanes had reduced his exotic explorations to a series of long... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Hopkins Publisher Comments Sticks & Wires & Cloth is about escaping into the skies of a bygone era in a 1929-design biplane, an episodic log of the author's five years traveling around Texas and most of the rest of the United States. Anne Hopkins brings a fresh voice to writing... (read more) Your price $53.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James D Houston Publisher Comments Sample Poems Dictionary As a small south american squirrel inhabiting mostly mountainous regions would feed on lizards half-way between poles of the tropics, I too would fall heartbreaked in the settlement of feuds of the fields of kentucky. When the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Chatwin Publisher Comments Here is a journey into the interior of a celebrated novelist and traveler, charged with all of the narrative power and intellectual challenge of his fiction.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bettina Knapp Synopsis Travel is sacred. Travel is a quest. Travel is an escape. Travel is a passion! It is enlightening, a distraction, a novelty, a dream fulfilled. It may inspire joy, terror, longing ? often, all three. Women explorers and travelers are a special breed... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David R Grant Synopsis Of all the attempts to circumnavigate the globe, the tale of the Grant family's epic seven year journey by horse-drawn caravan must be one of the most extraordinary. This is a look at family life in a pressure cooker environment, and an account of how... (read more) Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alistair Caldicott Publisher Comments From the word go, the style and tenor of this book is set. And it doesn't take long before we realise we are in for a raunchy, realistic, roughish ride; so seat yourself comfortably. Be transported from the relentlessly chaotic assault on the senses that... (read more) Your price $26.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dana Facaros Publisher Comments "Tall Tales and Tittle-Tattle" is a fascinating, entertaining, wry and utterly absorbing book, combining hilarious yet unbelievable snippets from their travels, with an array of historical, cultural and travel miscellany and tittle-tattle from around the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $3.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Hill Gates Synopsis For decades, anthropologist Hill Gates had waited for an opportunity to get to know the citizens of China as she had done in Taiwan -- face to face, over an extended period of time. At last in the late 1980s she set out on an excursion to Sichuan... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $42.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Pfister Publisher Comments There is no frigate like this book to take the reader away to distant lands. In Penang, in Athens, in rural Germany and in the Himalayas, these non-fiction narratives always involve people as well as landscapes; giving the reader a strong sense of place... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Josie Dew Publisher Comments In this book, Josie Dew takes another quirky and riotous ride, choosing to circumnavigate the coastline of the British Isles—discovering that her homeland can be as surprising and full of incident as anywhere she has ever been. Beginning... (read more) Your price $28.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Glyn Williams Publisher Comments This work recounts this classic story from sea history, detailing the dramatic hardships, diasters, mutiny and heroism that occurred.... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Fergus Publisher Comments Little Lava is a farmhouse on the west coast of Iceland. No roads lead to it; the way lies across a lagoon flooded twice a day by the tide. A lava field borders the farm. Views give onto mountains, volcanoes, rugged coast, and the pure Icelandic sky. In... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J R Daeschner Synopsis "Best described as Bill Bryson meets Tony Hawks" ("The Observer") "True Brits" is the hilarious account of the antics and utterly strange traditions of 21st-century Britain.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments Account of Mayes' experiences buying and restoring a villa in the Tuscan countryside. She has successfully captured the essence of the Tuscan way of life. Includes mouth-watering recipes.... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawrence Osborne Publisher Comments A travelogue into that heart of darkness known as the Western mind, this volume is the most mordant and ambitious work to date from the author of "The Accidental Connoisseur," praised by "The New York Times Book Review" as "smart, generous, perceptive... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Watson Publisher Comments RICHARD WATSON, scholar and spelunker extraordinaire is back. Having told how to win the fight against fat in The Philosopher's Diet, and having painted the definitive portrait of philosopher Rene Descartes (Cogito, Ergo Sum), he here confronts his most... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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