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Home by Another Way: Notes from the Caribbean by Robert Benson Publisher Comments A lovely Caribbean island and its people awaken in author Robert Benson a sense of place and home. The islanders’ warmth and welcome prompt a new understanding of ideas of beauty, community and spiritual belonging. “We live in a world where... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures of Henrietta and Her Foreign Correspondent by Christopher S Wren Publisher Comments Henrietta was an ordinary New York City cat until she ventured overseas with foreign correspondent Christopher S. Wren and his wife and children. Over seventeen years and tens of thousands of miles, she became a plucky, indispensable companion for the... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Extra Virgin by Annie Hawes Publisher Comments Having found a small house for the price of a second-hand car, Annie Hawes unexpectedly finds herself living among the olive groves of the Italian Riviera. Here, fifteen years after her brave move, she tells of her experiences living alongside the hardy... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Winter: Notes from Montana by Rick Bass Publisher Comments 'This book is a classic celebration of winter in a remote Montana valley.'... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Narrow Dog to Carcassonne by Terry Darlington Publisher Comments "We could bore ourselves to death, drink ourselves to death, or have a bit of an adventure..." It was absurd. It was foolhardy. And it was glorious. When they retired, Terry Darlington and his somewhat saner wife Monica—together with... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz Powells.com Staff Pick In a highly entertaining adventure, Tony Horwitz rides the wake of Captain James Cook, recreating the history of his pioneering voyages, the stories of his island landings, and the lasting impact his contact had on the indigenous populations... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Desert Queen by Janet Wallach Publisher Comments Turning her back on her privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate curiosity, journeyed the world and became fascinated with all things Arab. Traveling the length and breadth of the Arab region, armed with a love... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Monkey Dancing by Dan Glick Publisher Comments After his brother died and a painful divorce left him a single dad of two, environmental reporter Glick and his kids set off on a six-month tour to see the world's most exotic and endangered habitats--for some karmic rejuvenation.... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Arabian Sands: Revised Edition by Wilfred Thesiger Publisher Comments Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life"the machines, the calling cards, the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Merde Happens by Stephen Clarke Publisher Comments From Stephen Clarke, the internationally bestselling author of A Year in the Merde and In the Merde for Love, Merde Happens is the third installation of Paul West's hilarious mis-adventures in merde. This time around Paul finds himself in financial... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $18.95 (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   Fried Eggs with Chopsticks: One Woman's Hilarious Adventure Into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own by Polly Evans Publisher Comments As a former editor at Hong Kong's largest weekly newspaper, Evans thought she knew China well. When she learned the Chinese had built enough new roads to circle the equator 16 times, she decided to take a fresh look at this vast nation.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great. He traveled 100,000 miles back and forth,... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list I should have stayed home :the worst trips of great writers by Roger Rapoport Publisher Comments In this hilarious anthology 50 top travel writers, novelists and journalists, including Isabel Allende, Jan Morris, Barbara Kingsolver, Paul Theroux, Mary Morris, Dominique Lapierre, Eric Hansen, Rick Steves, Tony Wheeler and Helen Gurley Brown, tell the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Yukon Alone: The World's Toughest Adventure Race by John Balzar Publisher Comments The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race is one of the most challenging sporting events in the world. Every February, a handful of hardy souls spends over two weeks racing sleds pulled by fourteen dogs over 1,023 miles of frozen rivers, icy mountain... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The 8:55 to Baghdad: From London to Iraq on the Trail of Agatha Christie by Andrew Eames Publisher Comments A dual literary biography and travelogue inspired by Agatha Christie's 1928 ride on the Orient Express follows the author's recreation of Christie's train ride to the Middle East, a journey during which he encountered modern dangers and a host of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Blue Highways: A Journey Into America by William Least Heat-Moon Publisher Comments New York Times Bestseller. "Better than Kerouac."--Chicago Sun-Times William Least Heat-Moon's journey into America began with little more than the need to put home behind him. At a turning point in his life, he packed up a van he called Ghost Dancing... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list East Along the Equator: A Journey Up the Congo and Into Zaire (Traveler / Atlantic Monthly Press) by Helen Winternitz Publisher Comments In this brilliant mix of political journalism and travel writing, Helen Winternitz and fellow journalist Timothy Phelps witness what few Westerners have: life in the ecologically rich but financially impoverished American-backed dictatorship of Zaire... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $1.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Adventures in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird Publisher Comments In this classic account written in the late 1800s by a Victorian adventurer, Bird exalts the dangers of grizzlies, rattlesnakes, and cowboys in the Rocky Mountains as she travels to improve her ill health.... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The River Queen: A Memoir by Mary Morris Publisher Comments This story of a middle-aged woman's odyssey down the Mississippi River is a funny, beautifully written, and poignant tale of a journey that transforms a life In fall 2005 acclaimed travel writer Mary Morris set off down the Mississippi in a battered old... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule by Joanna Kavenna Publisher Comments A legend, a land once seen and then lost forever, Thule was a place beyond the edge of the maps, a mystery for thousands of years. And to the Nazis, Thule was an icy Eden, birthplace of Nordic "purity." In this exquisitely written narrative, Joanna... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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