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Traveling the Incense Route
From Arabia to the Levant in the Footsteps of the Magi

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Carrying frankincense and myrrh, spices from India, gold and exotic African animal skins, the Incense Route was the lifeblood of the countries through which it...
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Twelve Days in Persia
Across the Mountains with the Bakhtiari Tribe

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
A year after Vita Sackville-West first travelled to Iran - a journey described in the classic Passenger to Teheran - she returned to the land that had so...
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To Peking
A Forgotten Journey from Moscow to Manchuria

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
When in 1934 at the age of twenty-seven, Peter Fleming set out for the Far East, his ultimate goal was to return from China to India overland - a journey he...
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The Silk Road
Ten Thousand Miles through Central Asia

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Linking East and West, Asia with Europe, the Silk Road was once the most important trading route in the world. A conduit for the exchange of prized silks,...
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Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons
Travels in Sicily on a Vespa

Thomas Dunne Books
Replete with authentic Siclian recipes culled directly from the out of the way island stoves and cafe kitchens that cook them, Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons...
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A Voyage Long and Strange
On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America

Picador
W hat happened in North America between Columbus's sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620? On a visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he...
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An Island in Greece
On the Shores of Skopelos

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Scattered in a crescent in the sparkling waters of the Aegean, the islands of the Sporades are known to Greek fishermen as "the gates of the wind." It was to...
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Roadtripping USA 3rd Edition

Let's Go Publications
LET’S GO hits the open road to rediscover the classic American roadtrip, offering firsthand advice, budget-savvy tips, and plenty of local flavor to boot. This...
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The Trail of War
On the Track of Big Horse in Central Asia

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Commissioned by the Chinese to map a road through one of the most inhospitable regions in the world, Hedin set out on a journey that saw him become entangled...
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In the Shadow of Vesuvius

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
A sparkling portrait of the city of Naples.

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McCarthy's Bar
A Journey of Discovery In Ireland

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Despite the many exotic places Pete McCarthy has visited, he finds that nowhere else can match the particular magic of Ireland, his mother’s homeland. ...
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Let's Go 2009 Europe

Let's Go Publications
Packed with travel information, including more listings, deals, and insider tips: • CANDID LISTINGS of hundreds of places to eat, sleep, drink, and feel...
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Route 66, 75th Anniversary Edition
The Mother Road

St. Martin's Griffin
America's Main Street is celebration, Michael Wallis hit the road again, revisiting people and places that made the Mother Road on American icon, and...
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Die Happy
499 Things Every Guy's Gotta Do While He Still Can

St. Martin's Griffin
Attention, guys of America: It’s time to get off the couch, turn off the PlayStation, and set down your beer (just kidding—never set down your beer). Your days...
  
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Blue Latitudes
Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

Picador
Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before Two centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers on a wild ride across...
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Route 66
Traveler's Guide and Roadside Companion

St. Martin's Griffin
Fully revised and expanded New stories-more details -Nearly 30 feet of strip maps -350 towns and attractions -More highway...
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Round Ireland with a Fridge

St. Martin's Griffin
Have you ever made a drunken ben? Worse, still, have you eveer tried to win one? In attempting to hitchhike round Ireland wich a fridge, Tony Hawks did both,...
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Looking for Alaska

St. Martin's Griffin
More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation. His memoir of...
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A Small Place

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If...
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Honeymoon with My Brother
A Memoir

St. Martin's Griffin
This is the true story of Franz Wisner, a man who thought he had it all- a high profile career and the fiancée of his dreams- when suddenly, his life...
  
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Let's Go Australia 10th Edition

Let's Go Publications
Packed with travel information, including more listings, deals, and insider tips: • CANDID LISTINGS of hundreds of places to eat, sleep, and drink like an...
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Marching Powder
A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail

St. Martin's Griffin
An account of life inside one of the strangest and most notorious prisons in the world, San Pedro in Bolivia.
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Let's Go New Zealand 8th Edition

Let's Go Publications
Packed with travel information, including listings, deals, and insider tips: CANDID LISTINGS of hundreds of places to eat, sleep, drink, and tramp like a...
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The Devil's Teeth
A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

Holt Paperbacks
A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators-and the strange...