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 The Unlikely Voyage of Jack De Crow: A Mirror Odyssey from North Wales to the Black SeaBest Price: $12.79 Sandy Mackinnon says it himself - 'I exaggerate, for effect'. I loved the description of the... |  Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to FreedomBest Price: $12.00 Living in Egypt and seeing firsthand how harshly women were (and still are) treated by men... |  Around the World in 80 Dinners: The Ultimate Culinary AdventureBest Price: $6.95 I wanted to love this book. It has all the components that I love-a memoir, food centered,... |  Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's EdgeBest Price: $6.55 She is an amazing writer...very in tune with herself and her natural settings. Adventerous and... |  Buddha or Bust: In Search of Truth, Meaning, Happiness, and the Man Who Found Them AllBest Price: $7.89 Looking to complete an assignment as well as to discover the heart of Buddhism, the journalist... |
 Dangerous Beauty - Life and Death in Africa: Life and Death In Africa: True Stories From a Safari GuideBest Price: $2.88 I checked this book out of the library and LOVED it. I spent several months in South Africa... |  Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons From The Tokyo Riot PoliceBest Price: $5.49 Eye-opening. What the Japanese police practice seems more like Aikijutsu. The author and his... |  Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon (Destinations)Best Price: $2.98 With her usual wit and style, MFK Fisher brings the food and atmosphere of Dijon alive. It is a... |  Sorcerer's ApprenticeBest Price: $8.89 This book gets an A+. I've been swimming through Tahir's safaris for the last few months and... |  Dork Whore: My Travels Through Asia as a Twenty-Year-Old Pseudo-VirginBest Price: $7.88 ...check out the book Naked in Haiti: A sexy morality tale about tourists, prostitutes &... |
 Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in HavanaBest Price: $3.32 Certainly not as historical as the Diary of Anne Frank, but a great summer read to depict Cuba... |  Booking Passage: We Irish and AmericansBest Price: $7.27 It's hard to define this book. Mostly, it's about the experience of Thomas Lynch and his... |  Eight Women, Two Model Ts, and the American West (Women in the West)Best Price: $11.48 Our whole book club loved this book. Colorful ,gutsy women on an amazing journey. They passed... |  Back on the Road: A Journey Through Latin AmericaBest Price: $6.16 A diary that is rambling but compelling to read. Hard to put down. Shows transformation of... |  Manhattan Memoir: American Girl; Manhattan, When I Was Young; Speaking with StrangersBest Price: $10.58 It's a memoir about Cantwell being in her 20's and 30's in NYCity -- time period is 1950's and... |
 The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab DivideBest Price: $12.39 This book is not worth reading. Its conclusion is drawn before the first word is written: ... |  C'est La Vie: An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost FrenchBest Price: $0.99 I bought this book, I am ashamed to say. I am also reluctant to review it as I do not really... |  Metal Cowboy: Tales from the Road Less PedaledBest Price: $10.00 A "born again bicyclist" who thinks bicycles will save the world, I went to the... |  A House Somewhere: Tales of Life AbroadBest Price: $6.50 This compendium of travel stories provides essays by Isabel Allende, Jan Morris, and more... |  Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and HavanaBest Price: $2.95 My mom and I both recently read this book and our reactions were the same as we discussed our... |
 North Star over My Shoulder: A Flying LifeBest Price: $5.69 I am a professional pilot who has done the freight, airline and corporate thing and now calls... |  A House in BaliBest Price: $11.63 Even as the art & tradition of classical gamelan music fades in Java, gamelans are built... |  Searching for Hassan: A Journey to the Heart of IranBest Price: $5.50 Goes to show how pro-west the Iranian people can be and it is surprising. The story of an... |  A Year in MarrakeshBest Price: $16.27 This bk was written in 1953. The author uses many French and Moroccan arabic phrases in his... |  The Captain's LogBest Price: $13.37 I loved this book. It is broken into self contained chapters so it's easy to pick up and put... |
 Hold the EnlightenmentBest Price: $4.99 This is as good as the other Cahill collections. Funny with lots of heart. Read them all. |  Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and BooksBest Price: $8.85 Disclaimer: I have been a librarian for 35 years, and a motorcycle rider for 46 years, so I can... |  Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New YorkBest Price: $4.50 A selection of beautifully written essays on life in New York as a father, husband, and observer... |  Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an OceanBest Price: $0.98 This is a great book. I don't read very much. It is hard for me to find a book that is really... |  Living the Dream: Sailing the South Pacific and Southeast AsiaBest Price: $14.34 Hard work, sleepless nights, a little terror - then, you lose sight of shore. This book offers... |
 Last of the Saddle Tramps (Equestrian Travel Classics)Best Price: $13.62 An interesting story, not too long and easy to read. Obviously this is no literary giant, but a... |  Just Imagine: A New Life on an Old BoatBest Price: $19.44 I very much enjoyed Michelle Caffrey's honest and fresh account of the agony and ecstasy of... |  The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in LaplandBest Price: $3.89 Barbara Sjoholm tours the European countries of the Arctic Circle in the peak of darkness. She... |  Plane Insanity: A Flight Attendant's Tales of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 FeetBest Price: $2.30 I bought this book at an airport to read during a long flight. It is full of funny stories and... |  My Dam Life (Condon) (Travel Literature)Best Price: $7.77 What a thoroughly irritating book. If you are seeking a useful perspective on Amsterdam, the... |
 Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across AmericaBest Price: $3.59 Stripping is a misunderstood and incredibly complex profession. So says Lily Burana. Rather... |  Three Worlds Gone Mad: Dangerous Journeys through the War Zones of Africa, Asia, and the South PacificBest Price: $40.00 The author shows his personal travel iternary of failed states in Africa, Europe and Asia. They... |  La Dolce Vita (the Sweet Life) in Cortona, Tuscany ItalyBest Price: $7.99 While there were some interesting passages in "La Dolce Vita," the grammar, spelling... |  Gertrude Bell: The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914Best Price: $19.68 My purpose in reading this volume of Gertrude Bell's diaries was to learn about this powerful... |  The Village of WaitingBest Price: $4.99 If you want to cast moral judgement on George Packer, don't read this book. If you want to read... |
 How To Pick Up Japanese Chicks And Doom Your Immortal SoulBest Price: $8.44 I laughed out loud at least five times. But at the end I felt like this prick of an author used... |  Scouting on Two ContinentsBest Price: $21.92 Scouting on Two Continents is the autobiography of one of the greatest scouts who ever lived,... |  Where the Indus Is Young: Walking to BaltistanBest Price: $13.55 I am an admitted Dervla Murphy fan, have read most of her books, and gamely suffer her... |  Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in AfricaBest Price: $3.99 For anyone who plans on spending time in West Africa, this is a must read. Shaffer does a... |  The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest AdventuresBest Price: $1.99 I read "Muir Nature Writings" before reading "Wild Muir". I think having an... |
 Passage Through India: An Expanded and Illustrated EditionBest Price: $14.75 In 1962 Gary Snyder, with his wife, the poet Joanne Kyger, joined Allen Ginsberg and his... |  The Ghost of Scootertrash PastBest Price: $11.84 Now maybe I'm not the the best person for putting out an unbiased opinion on this book, seein'... |  Remembering Ahanagran: A History of StoriesBest Price: $15.00 This is the same book published in hardcover with a different cover and the subtitle... |  Atrapa Tu SuenoBest Price: $18.94 Una interesante aventura en donde se refleja el principio de la realizacion de todo sueno o... |  So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in All the Wrong PlacesBest Price: $2.76 Elinor Burkett's account of her travels in Central Asia is vibrant, quirky, and fascinating. I... |
 Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at SeaBest Price: $5.95 This book is great. I fell in love with the characters, and my heart was broken. This book... |  The Butterfield Overland Mail: Only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage (Huntington Library Publications)Best Price: $12.61 Many times I have heard about the Butterfield Stage route, but had no impetus to delve into... |  Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.Best Price: $4.79 Part memoir, part travel book, part character essay. Jeremy Mercer chronicles his months as a... |  The Very Hard Way: Bert Loper and the Colorado RiverBest Price: $11.59 If you have an interest in river running this book is a fascinating look at the early years of... |  When Elephants Fly: One Woman's Journey from Wall Street to ZululandBest Price: $1.93 Wow, what a story! This light little book packs quite a punch. Carol's account is uplifting,... |
 A Tuscan ChildhoodBest Price: $3.69 What amazed me about this book is that in spite of the author's English silver-spoon upbringing... |  David Roberts: Travels in Egypt & the Holy LandBest Price: $30.00 This is not nearly as nice as another David Robert's book, Egypt: Yesterday and Today, but the... |  The Romanian: Story of an ObsessionBest Price: $1.89 Benderson, Bruce, "The Romanian: Story of an Obsession", Tarcher/ Penguin, 2006. An... |  East Toward Dawn: A Woman's Solo Journey Around the World (Adventura Books)Best Price: $5.15 I bought the book after hearing an excerpt on public radio program Sound and Spirit. I was... |  The Way Out: A True Story of SurvivalBest Price: $1.50 Where most people go to resorts or on a cruise for time away from their everyday lives, Craig... |
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