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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 Rachel Spencer Publisher Comments Part travel memoir, part coming-of-age tale, "Au Paris" is a story of self-discovery, independence, and following one's heart at all costs.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Laura Fraser 
Publisher Comments When Fraser's husband leaves her for a high school sweetheart, she sets off for southern Italy where she meets M, an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized love of life. This intimate, sensuous travelogue is wrapped around their unlikely but... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.63 (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 $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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by Rosemary Caperton Publisher Comments This is a collection of the comic and cathartic tales by more than 25 women travelers. These women are hilarious casualties of tourism, whether they're breezy, independent trekkers who discover the necessity of preparation far too late, or impeccable... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marlena De Blasi Publisher Comments They had met and married on perilously short acquaintance, she an American chef and food writer, he a Venetian banker. Now they were taking another audacious leap, unstitching their ties with exquisite Venice to live in a roughly renovated stable in... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Cahill
Publisher Comments Under the spell of la dolce vita... For centuries Italy has been many things to many people. In this brilliant anthology and traveler's companion, twenty-eight first-rate women writers reveal why the land that is the heart and soul of European... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alfred Lansing From Powells.com Days before the outbreak of World War One renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail to attempt the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. More than eighty miles from their destination, however, their... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Twain Publisher Comments How I did loath that journey around the world--except the sea-part & India.- Mark Twain, letter to W. D. Howells, 4/2/1899 Following The Equator is an account of Mark Twain's round-the-world lecture tour of 1895/96. The book opens in Paris, from which... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.95 (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 $10.50 (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 $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by George Crane Publisher Comments From the author of the acclaimed and delightful Bones Of The Mastercomes a whole new set of rollicking and moving adventures. From the peaceful woods of Upstate New York, to sailing through hurricanes in the Carribean, from the cafes of Paris to the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Faith Conlon Publisher Comments The idea of a journey without companions is too daunting for most travelers. Not so the women of this collection. These contemporary pioneers savor the ultimate freedom of solo travel. Marybeth Bond discovers the dubious pleasures of desert camel-riding... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael S Sanders
Powells.com Staff Pick Immerse yourself in the customs and culture of Les Arques, France, a hilltop village untouched by the modern era that struggles to remain vital. Part travelogue, part exploration of French cuisine, Michael Sanders's charming book reveals the traditions... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Oreilly Publisher Comments Since 1993, readers have looked to Travelers' Tales for award-winning stories about the world, adventure, spirituality, and the transformative experiences that accompany life on the road. The Best Travel Writing 2008 is the fifth volume in the series... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cash Peters Publisher Comments Fans of Cash Peters' "Bad Taste Tours" on public radio will hail this outrageously funny collection of essays about his experiences traveling to and reporting on the most bizarre and tacky tourist attractions across the United States.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 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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