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Foreign Correspondence
by Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks is also the author of Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women and a former foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, where she reported on wars and famines in the Middle East, Bosnia, and Africa. A native of Australia and a graduate of Sydney University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she currently lives in Virginia with her husband and young son.
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Tales Of a Female Nomad
by Gelman, Rita Golden
Rita Golden Gelman is the author of more than seventy children’s books, including More Spaghetti, I Say!, a staple in every first-grade classroom. As a nomad, Rita has no permanent address. Her most recent encampments have been in Mexico and New York City.
The Last Train to Zona Verde
by Paul Theroux
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 2014. 3rd printing. Condition: Near fine softcover, very slight edge nicks.From the publisher: Over a decade ago, Paul Theroux's best-selling Dark Star Safari chronicled his epic overland voyage from Cairo to Cape Town, providing an insider's look at modern Africa. Now, with The Last Train to Zona Verde, he returns to discover how both he and Africa have changed in the ensuing years...
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The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland
by Stewart, Rory (Author)
New York, New York: Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin Company, 2017. First Thus. Softcover. Good+/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.
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CA$15.90
Blue Highways: A Journey Into America, Volume 1 (Travel Trilogy)
by Heat-Moon, William Least (Author)
New York, New York: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, 1999. Later Printing. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.
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[RUSSIAN GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND BY THE IMPERIAL ORTHODOX PALESTINE SOCIETY (IOPS)] ???????????? ?? ????????? ?? ??????????, ?????? ????? ? ??????? ????????? ??????? : ?? ?????????, ???????? ?????? ? ??????? ?????????? / Putevoditel' v' Palestinu po Ierusalimu, Svatoj Zemle i drugim' sva^tyna^m' Vostoka: s' risunkami, doroznoj kartoj i planom' Ierusalima [i.e., Guide to Palestine and Jerusalem, the Holy Land and other shrines of the East, with drawings, road map and plan of Jerusalem].
by ANONYMOUS (A pilgrim)
Odessa: Izdatelstvo Afonskago sv. Andreevskago Skita., [1890], 1890. 1st Edition . Leather. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Contemporary quarter brown calf, six raised bands to spine, new cloth labels including gilt title and date with place on second and fourth compartments. 4to. (26 x 20 cm). In Russian. vi, 601, ii p., 29 unnumbered engraved plates of 33, decorated head titles, one folded map of Jerusalem of 2. Stains on boards, lacking title page, one folded map (Palestine, Second...
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Return to Venice
by Larimer, Daniel
Paperback. Very Good-/None. Signed. SIGNED by the illustrator, this staplebound pictorial softcover (front and rear) was printed in a limited edition of 4,000 copies. Only lightly soiled and edgeworn. Interior clean and unmarked. The text is the reproduced handwriting-presumably of Larimer-in brown, with hand painting and sketches of Venetian characters, buildings, and scenes by Robert Doney, also in brown. A paean to the lively, vibrant city, sinking or not. 'It's with no grand purpose then...
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Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted
by Hawes, Annie (Author)
New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used Book: Hard Cover Very slight shelf wear to the dust jacket, cover, and spine. Binding remains tight and pages are clean and unbent.
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CA$23.51
Decade of Discovery: A Couple's Adventure That Spanned the Globe
by Nygaard, Peter (Author); Nygaard, Shahla (Author)
2017. First Thus. Softcover. Good+/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.
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CA$27.66
Trading with the Enemy
by Miller, Tom (Author)
New York, New York: Atheneum / Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Used Book: Hard Cover Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.
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Jaguars Ripped My Flesh
by Tim Cahill
Bantam, New York. 5th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, spine has light creasing, price sticker on rear cover.The author of A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg and Pecked to Death by Ducks gives new meaning to the words "going to extremes" in this exhilarating--and frequently hilarious--collection of adventure travel writing.
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The Way of Wanderlust
by Don George
Traveler's Tales, Palo Alto. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear.Foreword by Pico Iyer.As a professional travel writer and editor for the past 40 years, Don George has been paid to explore the world. Through the decades, his articles have been published in magazines, newspapers, and websites around the globe and have won more awards than almost any other travel writer alive, yet his pieces have never been collected into one volume. The Way of Wanderlust: The...
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Rides Round Britain
by John Byng, Viscount Torrington; edited by Donald Adamson
London: Folio Society. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1996. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Quarter buckram with paper sides marbled by Ann Muir. Dark red topstain still solid. The brown slipcase has a touch of rubbing. Illustrated by Anne Hayward, with maps by Denys Baker. 18th century travel writing about riding horseback through England and Wales. ; 505 pages .
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CA$23.51
Pictorial Guide to Boston and the Country Around
by [Travel Guides]
Boston: G. W. Armstrong Dining Room & News Co.. Good. 1902. Softcover. Blue illustrated wrappers. Chipping to the spine and rear cover. Owner name and notation to the front cover. Illustrated throughout, vintage ads. ; 203, [37] pages .
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CA$65.00
Pilgrimage: A Memoir of Poland & Rome
by Michener, James A
Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0878579109 . Beige cloth with tan endpapers. Dust smudging to the fore-edge pages, else unmarked. Unwelcome there after publication of his novel Poland, Michener was invited to visit the post-glasnost nation in 1988 for a surprise presentation of its prestigious Medal of Honor. ; 119 pages .
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A Vagabond Journey Around the World
by Franch, Harry A. (Author)
New York, New York: The Century Co., 1920. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Hard Cover Slight shelf wear to the cover and spine. Binding remains tight and pages are clean and unbent.
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CA$46.33
Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign
by Pico Iyer
Vintage, New York. 4th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.One of the best travel writers now at work in the English language brings back the sights and sounds from a dozen different frontiers. A cryptic encounter in the perfumed darkness of Bali; a tour of a Bolivian prison, conducted by an enterprising inmate; a nightmarish taxi ride across southern Yemen, where the men with guns may be customs inspectors or revolutionaries–these are just three of the stops...
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Kon-Tiki
by Heyerdahl, Thor (Author); Lyon, F.H. (Translated By)
Chicago, Illinois: Rand McNally & Company. Hardcover. Good+/Good. Used Book: Hard Cover The jacket is worn with tears and creases, browning at the edges. Minor shelf-wear on the hard cover.
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CA$21.44
The Cracker Barrel (Green Edition)
by Sloane, Eric (Author)
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2005. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Light shelf wear to edges and corners of cover and spine. Binding remains tight and pages are clean and unbent. Very good used reading condition.
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CA$17.29
Alone Across the Artic: One Woman's Epic Journey by Dog Team
by Flowers, Pam (Author); Dixon, Ann (Author)
Portland, Oregon: Alaska Northwest Books / Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 2001. Softcover. Good+/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.
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CA$15.90
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
by Daniel Hernandez
Scribner, New York. 2nd trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Mexico City, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion, and art, and a magnet for thrill-seeking expats from around the world.In 2002, Daniel Hernandez traveled...
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The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck
by Nugent, Rory (Author)
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.
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CA$12.45
Route 66 Across New Mexico: A Wanderer's Guide
by Schneider, Jill
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Very Good. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0826312802 . Signed and dated by Schneider on the title page. Creasing to the corners, and rubbing to the spine. Illustrated, index, maps. Photos by D. Nakii. ; 212 pages; Signed by Author .
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CA$26.28
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
by Peter Matthiessen
Penguin, New York. 5th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and In ParadisePeter Matthiessen crisscrossed 20,000 miles of the South American wilderness, from the Amazon rain forests to Machu Picchu, high in the Andes, down to Tierra del Fuego and back. He followed the trails of old...
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Eating the Flowers Of Paradise
by Rushby, Kevin (Author)
New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Used Book: Hard Cover Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.
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CA$23.51
No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica
by Arnesen, Liv and Ann Bancroft with Cheryl Dahle
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0738207942 . Signed by both authors to the front free endpaper. White cloth spine over blue boards. Illustrated. A firsthand account of the 2000-2001 odyssey across the continent of Antarctica on foot, describing a journey across 1,700 miles of harsh terrain in below freezing temperatures. ; 253 pages; Signed by Author .
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CA$40.11
French Colonial Cookery: A Cooks Tour of the French Speaking World
by Burton, David
London, England: Faber & Faber, 2000. First U.K. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xx, 259pp w bibliography and index. One unpaginated section of color photos w captions. Dark blue boards w fine white lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Photo illustrated DJ is clean and without wear, preserved in archival cover. Octavo
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