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The Man Who Ate the World: In Search of the Perfect Dinner

by Jay Rayner

Change Your Life Through Travel: Inspiring Tales and Tips for Richer, Fuller, More Adventurous Living

by Jillian Robinson

Notes from a Small Island

by Bill Bryson

Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted

by Annie Hawes

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

by Bill Bryson

Blood River

by Tim Butcher

The Traveller's Tree

by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Good Morning Corfu: Living Abroad Against All Odds

by David A. Ross

Desert Places

by Robyn Davidson

Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa

by Karin Mu?ller

The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa

by Neil Peart

The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal

by Vicki Croke

Lost on Planet China

by J. Maarten Troost

Globejotting: How to Write Extraordinary Travel Journals (and still have time to enjoy your trip!)

by Dave Fox

John Fielder's Best of Colorado 2nd Edition

by John Fielder

Riding Outside the Lines: International Incidents and Other Misadventures With the Metal Cowboy

by Joe Kurmaskie

In a Sunburned Country

by Bill Bryson

Metal Cowboy: Tales from the Road Less Pedaled

by Joe Kurmaskie

It's Not About the Tapas: A Spanish Adventure on Two Wheels

by Polly Evans

French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France

by Tim Moore

Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2008: The Travel Skills Handbook (Rick Steves)

by Rick Steves

Frommer's The Carolinas & Georgia (Frommer's Complete)

by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince

Bound for Canaan (the underground railroad and the war for the souls of america)

by Fergus M. Bordewich

Pauline Frommer's New York City (Pauline Frommer Guides)

by Pauline Frommer

Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time

by Michael Perry

Bicycling the Lewis & Clark Trail

by Michael McCoy, Adventure Cycling Association

Bill Bryson African Diary

by Bill Bryson

First We Quit Our Jobs: How One Work Driven Couple Got on the Road to a New Life

by Marilyn J. Abraham

The Road That Has No End: How We Traded Our Ordinary Lives For a Global Bicycle Touring Adventure

by Tim Travis

Travels with Charley

by John Steinbeck

American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads

by Pascale LeDraoulec

Empire of the Soul

by Paul William Roberts

A Reasonable Life: Toward a Simpler, Secure, More Humane Existence

by Ferenc Mate

Toujours Provence (Vintage Departures)

by Peter Mayle

Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Vintage Departures)

by Peter Mayle

On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town

by SUSAN HERRMANN LOOMIS

Parrot's Wood

by Erma J. Fisk

Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast

by Mike Tidwell

The Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit

by Taras Grescoe

Through the Volcanoes: A Central American Journey

by Jeremy Paxman

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

French By Heart: An American Family's Adventures in La Belle France

by Rebecca S. Ramsey

Holy Cow! an Indian Adventure

by Sarah Macdonald

C'est La Vie : An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost French

by Suzy Gershman

Finding George Orwell in Burma

by Emma Larkin

Ciao Asmara: A Classic Account of Contemporary Africa

by Justin Hill

A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya

by Linda Schele

Tristes tropiques

by Rene?. Hostache, Claude Levi-Strauss, John Weightman, Doreen Weightman

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

by Bill Buford

Between the woods and the water : on foot from Constantinople the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates

by Patrick L. Fermor

Paris to the Moon

by Adam Gopnik

Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens

by Sofka Zinovieff

WHEN THE GOING WAS GOOD

by Evelyn Waugh

Arabian Sands: Revised Edition (Travel Library)

by Wilfred Thesiger

The Great Railway Bazaar

by Paul Theroux

Arabia through the Looking Glass

by Jonathan Raban

Journey into Russia (The Collected Works of Laurens Van Der Post)

by Laurens Van Der Post

A House in Sicily

by Daphne Phelps

The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Susan Orlean

The White Nile

by A. Moorehead, Alan Moorehead

Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph

by T. E. Lawrence

Stalking the Elephant Kings

by christopher Kremmer

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

by Peter Hessler

Tales from the Torrid Zone

by Alexander Frater

Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel

by Lawrence Durrell

From the Holy Mountain : A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

by William Dalrymple

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier

by Thaddeus Carhart

Neither East Nor West: One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran

by Christiane Bird

Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War And Wilderness

by Doug Peacock

Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future

by Mark Hertsgaard

Song of the Dodo

by David Quammen

The Art of Travel

by Alain De Botton

Inca Kola

by Matthew Parris

ORCHID FEVER

STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING

by Beryl Markham

Journey without Maps

by Graham Greene

Iron and Silk (Vintage Departures)

by Mark Salzman

NIGHT TRAIN TO TURKISTAN - MODERN ADVENTURES ALONG CHINA'S ANCIENT SILK ROAD

by Stuart Stevens

The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca

by Tahir Shah

Diary of an Amazon Jungle Guide: Amazing Encounters with Tropical Nature and Culture

by Paul Beaver

Parrot's Wood

by Erma J. Fisk

My Family and Other Animals

by Gerald Durrell

birds, Beasts and Relatives

by Gerald Durrell

Fillets of Plaice

by Gerald Durrell

Iberia

by James A. Michener

Travels with a Tangerine: From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam's Greatest Traveler

by Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Three Weeks With My Brother

by Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

by John Steinbeck

by Lawrence Durrell

Propero's Cell & Reflections on a Marine Venus

Bird of Life, Bird of Death

by Jonathan Evan Maslow

The Places in Between

by Rory Stewart

Getting Lost: Mishaps of an Accidental Nomad

by Dave Fox

Desert Solitaire

by Edward Abbey

Birding Babylon: A Soldier's Journal from Iraq

by Jonathan Trouern-Trend

Fielding's the World's Most Dangerous Places (Fieldings the Worlds Most Dangerous Places)

by Robert Young Pelton

Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

by Paul Fussell

A Life of My Choice

by Wilfred Thesiger

Flaubert in Egypt : A Sensibility on Tour

by Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller

River in the Desert: A Modern Traveller in Ancient Egypt

by Paul William Roberts

African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan

by Edward Hoagland

Bitter Lemons

by Lawrence Durrell

Cape Cod

by Joseph J. Moldenhauer, josep Moldenhauer, Henry David Thoreau

The Journals of Captain Cook (Penguin Classics)

by James Cook, Philip Edwards

The Greek Islands

by Lawrence Durrell

Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

by Jan Morris

The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage

by Jan Morris

Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)

The Mountains Of Rasselas: An Ethiopian Adventure

by THOMAS PAKENHAM

Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic

by Redmond O'Hanlon

Yemen: The Unknown Arabia

by Tim MacKintosh-Smith, Tim MacIntosh-Smith

Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses

by Bruce S. Feiler

Vermilion Sea: A Naturalist's Journey in Baja, California

by John Janovy

Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions (Vintage Departures)

by Pico Iyer

To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession

by Dan Koeppel

Time Among the Maya Travels In Belize Gu

by Ronald Wright

Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds

by Tim F. Flannery

This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland

by Gretel Ehrlich

Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador

by John Gimlette

The Temple of the Jaguar

by Donald G. Schueler

The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong

by Edward A. Gargan

The Other Nile: Journeys in Egypt, The Sudan and Ethiopia (Penguin Travel Library)

by Charlie Pye-Smith

The Lost Continent

by Bill Bryson

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

by John Steinbeck

The Kingdom by the Sea : A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

by Paul Theroux

The Jaguar Smile

by Salman Rushdie

The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

by Paul Theroux

The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy (Vintage Departures)

by Robert D. Kaplan

The Colossus of Maroussi

by Henry Miller

The Best American Travel Writing 2002 (Best American)

The Best American Travel Writing 2000

The 8.55 to Baghdad (Unabridged)

by Andrew Eames

Stranger in the Forest : On Foot Across Borneo

by Eric Hansen

Steinbeck Travels with Charley

by John Steinbeck

South From the Limpopo

by Dervla Murphy

So Far From God: A Journey to Central America

by Patrick Marnham

Searching for Steinbeck's Sea of Cortez: A Makeshift Expediton Along Baja's Desert Coast

by Andromeda Romano-Lax

Savages

by Joe Kane

Sandstorms: Days and Nights in Arabia

by Peter Theroux

Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge

by Jill A. Fredston

Route 66 AD

by Tony Perrottet

Pillars of Hercules

by Paul Theroux

Pass the Butterworms

by Tim Cahill

On Persephone's Island

by Mary Taylor-Simeti

Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi

by Jonathan Raban

Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas

by Colin Woodard

O Canada!: Travels in an Unknown Country

by Jan Morris

Nothing to Declare

by Mary Morris

No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo

by Redmond O'Hanlon

Motoring With Mohammed Journes to Yemen and the Red Sea

by Eric Hansen

Margaret Mee In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests: Diaries of an English Artist Reveal the Beauty of the Vanishing Rainforest

by Margaret Mee

Locations

by Jan Morris

Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

by Kenn Kaufman

Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan

by Ann Jones

Journeys

by Jan Morris

Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration

by Bert Holldobler

Into the heart : one man's pursuit of love and knowledge among the Yanomama

by Kenneth Good

Into the Heart of Borneo (Vintage Departures)

by Redmond O'Hanlon

Innocents Abroad

by Mark Twain

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan

by John Lloyd Stephens, Karl Ackerman

In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon

by Redmond O'Hanlon

Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage

by Deborah Cramer

Emma's War: An Aid Worker, a Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil--A True Story of Love and Death in Sudan

by Deborah Scroggins

Following the Equator (National Geographic Adventure Classics)

by Mark Twain

Dinner with Persephone: 5 Books and 25 Bookmarks

by Patricia Storace

Dark Star Safari

by Paul Theroux

Colossus of Maroussi

by Henry Miller

CAIRO THE CITY VICTORIOUS

by Max Rodenbeck

BALKAN GHOSTS

by Robert D. Kaplan

Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia

by Tony Horwitz

Baghdad Journal: An Artist in Occupied Iraq

by Steve Mumford

Bad Trips

Babylon by Bus: Or, the true story of two friends who gave up their valuable franchise selling YANKEES SUCK T-shirts at Fenway to find meaning and adventure in Iraq,

by Ray LeMoine, Jeff Neumann, Donovan Webster

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay (Vintage Departures)

by John Gimlette

An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake (Vintage Departures)

by Tom Horton

American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville

by Bernard Henri Levy

Adventures in a Mud Hut: An Innocent Anthropologist Abroad

by Nigel Barley

A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier

by Diana Preston

Parrot Without A Name, A: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth

by Don Stap

Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel

by David Borgenicht, Joshua Piven

The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall

by Lawrence Osborne

The Unsavvy Traveler: Women's Comic Tales of Catastrophe

by Lucie Ocena

36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan

by Cathy N. Davidson

The Lady and the Monk. Four Seasons in Kyoto.

by Pico Iyer

Hokkaido Highway Blues

by Will Ferguson

The River of Doubt

by Candice Millard

A Thousand Days in Venice

by Marlena De Blasi

Educating Alice

by Alice Steinbach

by Carol Drinkwater

A Walk in the Woods

by Bill Bryson

Eat, Pray, Love

by Elizabeth Gilbert

by Kay Showker

There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure

Touch the Dragon a Thai Journal

by Karen Connelly

Weird Hikes: A Collection of Bizarre, Funny, and Absolutely True Hiking Stories

by Art Bernstein

Midnight in Sicily

by Peter Robb

The Best Places to Kiss in the Northwest: A Romantic Travel Guide, 9th Edition (Best Places to Kiss in the Northwest) (Best Places to Kiss in the Northwest)

by Kate Chynoweth

Best Places Northwest: The Best Restaurants and Lodgings in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia (Best Places Northwest)

Innocents Abroad

by Mark Twain

Classic Hikes of the World: 23 Breathtaking Treks

by Peter Potterfield

Maiden Voyages : Writings of Women Travelers (Vintage Departures)

by Larry O'Connor, Mary Morris

Off the Map: Western Travels on Roads Less Taken

by Stephen Hume

Lonely Planet Hawaii

by Kim Grant, Glenda Bendure, Michael Clark, Ned Friary, Conner Gorry, Luci Yamamoto

Lonely Planet California & Nevada (California & Nevada, 2nd ed)

by Danny Palmerlee~Sandra Bao~Andrew Dean Nystrom~Lucas Vidgen

Tracks

by Robyn Davidson

Insight Guide Seattle (Insight City Guides Seattle)

A Tramp Abroad

Sunset Travel Guide to Washington

by Sunset

Romantic Days and Nights In Seattle

by Jo Brown

Washington Off the Beaten Path, 6th (Off the Beaten Path Series)

by Myrna Oakley

Hidden Cancun & the Yucatan: Including Cozumel, Tulum, Chichen Itza, Uxmal, and Merida (Hidden Cancun and the Yucatan)

by Richard Harris

Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin

by Susana Herrera

Lonely Planet Belize, Guatemala and Yucatan

by Conner Gorry, Danny Palmerlee, Lucas Vidgen

The Rough Guide to Seattle 3 (Rough Guide Mini Guides)

by Richie Unterberger

Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2003: The Travel Skills Handbook for Independent Travelers (Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door)

by Rick Steves

Have Dog Will Travel-Northwest Edition, Oregon-Washington-Idaho, Hassle-Free Guide to Traveling With Your Dog

by Barbara Whitaker

Riding the Iron Rooster

by Paul Theroux

Walk Across America, A

by Peter Jenkins

Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer

The Art of Travel

by Alain De Botton

Under the Tuscan Sun

by Frances Mayes

Outposts

by Simon Winchester

The Innocents Abroad

by M. Richler, Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Guy Cardwell, Tom Quirk

The Songlines

by Bruce Chatwin

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