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by Alex Kerr  Publisher Comments Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr takes us on a backstage tour, as he explores the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo'... (read more)  List Price $10.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Ella Maillart Publisher Comments A classic account of a trip through China during the golden age of travel In 1935 Ella Maillart contemplated one of the most arduous journeys in the world: the "impossible journey" from Peking, then a part of Japanese-occupied China, through the distant... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tim Cahill Publisher Comments 'The set, boxed in a lavish silver metallic, features The Best American Travel Writing 2006, edited by Tim Cahill; The Best American Spiritual Writing 2006, introduced by Peter J. Gomes; and, like the first set, The Best American Short Stories 2006... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kinta Beevor Publisher Comments The sparkling memoir of an idyllic, bohemian childhood in an enchanted Tuscan castle between the wars. When Kinta Beeevor was five, her father, the painter Aubrey Waterfield, bought the sixteenth-century Fortezza della Brunella in the Tuscan village... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments Following an urge to rediscover his youth, Bill Bryson left his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that would take him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook. With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gretel Ehrlich 
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-361) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jamie Zeppa Publisher Comments In the tradition of Iron and Silk and Touch the Dragon, Jamie Zeppa's memoir of her years in Bhutan is the story of a young woman's self-discovery in a foreign land. It is also the exciting debut of a new voice in travel writing. When she left for the... (read more) Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Kohnstamm Publisher Comments For those who think that travel guidebooks are the gospel truth. The waitress suggests that I come back after she closes down the restaurant, around midnight. We end up having sex in a chair and then on one of the tables in the back corner. I pen a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew X Pham
Publisher Comments Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey—a solo bicycle... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George Crane Publisher Comments Hailed as "magical", this "Los Angeles Times" bestseller is a fascinating book tracing a mystical journey with an unlikely pair, a young monk and his American poet friend, into the soul of an ancient religion and inside the mind of a Buddhist master.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by A A Gill Publisher Comments Critic, essayist and cultural savant A.A. Gill is probably the most widely read columnist in Britain. His books The Angry Island and A.A. Gill is away have found delighted fans in America as well, and sparked a loyal following. His new book of travel... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Galbraith Welch Publisher Comments This is the remarkable story of Rene Caillie, a young Frenchman, who in 1828 became the first European to reach the unknown, sacred city of Timbuctoo and escape alive. His is one of the most extraordinary adventures ever undertaken. But his journey was... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol Drinkwater Publisher Comments When Carol Drinkwater and her fiancandeacute, Michel, are given the opportunity to purchase ten acres of an abandoned olive farm in the South of France, they find the region's splendor impossible to resist. Using their entire savings as a down payment... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments Paul Theroux invites you to join him on the journey of a lifetime, in the grand romanttic tradition, by train across Euope, through the vast underbelly of Asia and in the heart of Russia, and then up to China. Here is China by rail, as seen and heard... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments “Here is a man who suffers so his readers can laugh.” — Daily Telegraph Bill Bryson travels to Kenya in support of CARE International. All royalties and profits go to CARE International. Bryson visits Kenya at the invitation of CARE... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Geoffrey Moorhouse Publisher Comments Visible on a clear day off the west coast of Ireland, the Skellig Islands, a cluster of cruel rocks, rise spectacularly from the Atlantic Ocean. A sanctuary to birds and seals today, for over six hundred years during the middle ages it was a center for a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Newby
Publisher Comments The view was colossal. Below us on every side mountains surged away it seemed forever; we looked down on glaciers and snow-covered peaks that perhaps no one has ever seen before, except from the air.' Feeling restless in the world of London's high... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Miles Harvey Publisher Comments The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Laura Fraser
Publisher Comments When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to leave some of her sadness behind. There, on the island of Ischia, she meets M., an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Elliot Cohen and Devyani Kamdar
Publisher Comments A year off from work. A meandering, serendipitous journey around the globe with the people you love most. No mortgage, no car payments, no pressure. Though it sounds like an impossible dream for most people, one day David Cohen and his family decide to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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