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Acton, Richard Lord Brit Among The Hawkeyes 1998 hardcover. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085012. ISBN #0813821908 / 9780813821900. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Acton, Richard Lord Brit Among The Hawkeyes 1998 hardcover. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085012. ISBN #0813821908 / 9780813821900. (filed under: Travels ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Since his marriage to an Iowan ten years ago, Richard, Lord Acton has divided his time between England and Iowa. Much of his American life is spent writing the historical studies and whimsical observations of the worlds around him that have endeared him to Iowans. This collection of Acton's essays reflects the rich diversity of the author's interests and experiences. The first chapter, "Finding Myself in Iowa, " concerns the author's attempts to discover what on earth he was doing in the heartland of America and his growing affection for his adopted state. "London Bridges" describes something of the other half of the author's life in "the greatest city in the world." Other chapters invoke a southern African childhood, surprises in the House of Lords, fascinating fragments of Iowa's past, and why "power tends to corrupt."
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Adams, Joey On The Road For Uncle Sam hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1010989. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Akbar, Said Hyder; Burton, Susan Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story Bloomsbury USA 2005 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1064094. ISBN #1582345201 / 9781582345208. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Akbar, Said Hyder; Burton, Susan Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story Bloomsbury USA 2005 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1064094. ISBN #1582345201 / 9781582345208. (filed under: Travels ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The intimate and riveting chronicle of an extraordinarily courageous Afghan-American teenager coming of age in post-9 11 Afghanistan . Building on two acclaimed radio documentaries aired on This American Life , Hyder Akbar tells how his ordinary suburban California life was turned upside-down after 9 11. Hyder's father, a scion of an Afghan political family, sold his business a hip-hop clothing store in Oakland and left for Afghanistan, where he became President Hamid Karzai's chief spokesman and later, the governor of Kunar, a rural province. Obsessed since youth with a country he had never even visited, seventeen-year-old Hyder convinced his father to let him join him on three successive summers. Working alongside his father at the presidential palace and in Kunar has given Hyder a rare front-row seat at the creation of democratic government in Afghanistan. In Come Back to Afghanistan , Hyder interweaves his personal journey a teenager struggling with his identity in his parents' homeland with a dramatic behind-the-scenes account of political and civilian life in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Uncommonly wise and insightful, Hyder travels from palaces to prisons and from Kabul to the borderlands, revealing Afghanistan as readers have never seen or understood it before.
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Armitage, Simon Walking Home: A Poet's Journey 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1139283. ISBN #0871407434 / 9780871407436. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Armitage, Simon Walking Home: A Poet's Journey 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1139283. ISBN #0871407434 / 9780871407436. (filed under: Travels ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Nineteen days, 256 miles, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of England. The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend and foe. The Romantic poets tramped all over the Lake District searching for inspiration. Now Simon Armitage, with equal parts enthusiasm and trepidation, as well as a wry humor all his own, has taken on Britain s version of our Appalachian Trail: the Pennine Way. Walking the backbone of England by day accompanied by friends, family, strangers, dogs, the unpredictable English weather, and a backpack full of Mars Bars , each evening he gives a poetry reading in a different village in exchange for a bed. Armitage reflects on the inextricable link between freedom and fear as well as the poet s place in our bustling world. In Armitage s own words, to embark on the walk is to surrender to its lore and submit to its logic, and to take up a challenge against the self. 29 photographs
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Authors, Various Great American Travel Writings Bdd Promotional Book Co 1991 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137061. ISBN #0792453581 / 9780792453581. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Authors, Various Great American Travel Writings Bdd Promotional Book Co 1991 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137061. ISBN #0792453581 / 9780792453581. (filed under: Travels ) *
A journey across the United States and Canada in prose features works by turn-of-the-century writers and others including Thoreau, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Baker, Trudy; Jones, Rachel Coffee Tea Or Me Bartholomew House Ltd. 1967 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Some Staining. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Tears and damage to jacket. Some Chipping. Book #or887102. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Ballou, Maturin M. Foot-Prints Of Travel; Or, Journeyings in Many Lands Ginn & Company 1889 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Wear from use. Yellowing from age. Some Staining. Book #or850848. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Barclay, Jennifer Traveller's Friend: A Miscellany Of Wit And Wisdom Summersdale 2011 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or948519. ISBN #1849531897 / 9781849531894. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Barclay, Jennifer Traveller's Friend: A Miscellany Of Wit And Wisdom Summersdale 2011 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or948519. ISBN #1849531897 / 9781849531894. (filed under: Travels ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." St Augustine Backpackers, ramblers, jet-setters, and all types of travel junkies will be inspired by this miscellany of quotations, trivia, and beautiful prose celebrating the open road, interspersed with practical advice on everything from packing to photography.
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Baron, Robert C. (Editor); Junkin, Elizabeth Darby (Editor) Of Discovery & Destiny: An Anthology Of American Writers And The American Land Fulcrum 1986 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or971541. ISBN #1555910041 / 9781555910044. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Baron, Robert C. (Editor); Junkin, Elizabeth Darby (Editor) Of Discovery & Destiny: An Anthology Of American Writers And The American Land Fulcrum 1986 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or971541. ISBN #1555910041 / 9781555910044. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Beach, Marjorie M. First the Seed J.F. Rowny Press 1963 hard cover. Signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or700229. (keywords: Travel, History) (filed under: Travels ) *
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Beals, Carleton The Great Circle : Further Adventures in Free-Lancing Lippincott 1940 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Wear from use. Book plate attached. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or937322. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Beebe, William Edge of the Jungle hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1031515. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Bensen, Clara No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering Running Press Adult 2016 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130113. ISBN #0762457244 / 9780762457243. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Bensen, Clara No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering Running Press Adult 2016 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130113. ISBN #0762457244 / 9780762457243. (filed under: Travels ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "An engaging memoir of travel, love, and finding oneself." -- Kirkus Reviews Newly recovered from a quarter-life meltdown, Clara Bensen decided to test her comeback by signing up for an online dating account. She never expected to meet Jeff, a wildly energetic university professor with a reputation for bucking convention. They barely know each other's last names when they agree to set out on a risky travel experiment spanning eight countries and three weeks. The catch? No hotel reservations, no plans, and best of all, no baggage. No Baggage is at once a romance, a travelogue, and a bright modern take on the age-old questions: How do you find the courage to explore beyond your comfort zone? Can you love someone without the need for labels or commitment? Is it possible to truly leave your baggage behind?
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Best American; Crosley, Sloane (edited by) The Best American Travel Writing 2011 Mariner Books 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068134. ISBN #0547333366 / 9780547333366. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Best American; Crosley, Sloane (edited by) The Best American Travel Writing 2011 Mariner Books 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068134. ISBN #0547333366 / 9780547333366. (filed under: Travels ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites . A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected and most popular of its kind. The Best American Travel Writing 2011 includes Andr Aciman, Christopher Buckley, Maureen Dowd, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Ariel Levy, T a Obreht, Annie Proulx, Gary Shteyngart, William T. Vollmann, Emily Witt, and others
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Best American; Iyer, Pico (edited by) The Best American Travel Writing 2004 (The Best American Series) Mariner Books 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068140. ISBN #0618341269 / 9780618341269. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Best American; Iyer, Pico (edited by) The Best American Travel Writing 2004 (The Best American Series) Mariner Books 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068140. ISBN #0618341269 / 9780618341269. (filed under: Travels ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Travel Writing 2004 transports readers from Patagonia to Ivory Coast to small-town Vermont. Readers are treated to car and truck trips across America, can fall "in lust" in the South Pacific, and go into the heart of the Congo to rescue gorillas. This year's volume is edited by Pico Iyer, who writes in his fascinating introduction, "Restlessness is part of the American way. It's part of what brought many of the rest of us to America." The Best American Travel Writing 2004 displays American restlessness at its most tantalizing and entertaining.
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Best American; McCarthy, Andrew (edited by) The Best American Travel Writing 2015 Mariner Books 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067936. ISBN #0544569644 / 9780544569645. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Best American; McCarthy, Andrew (edited by) The Best American Travel Writing 2015 Mariner Books 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067936. ISBN #0544569644 / 9780544569645. (filed under: Travels ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In his introduction, guest editor Andrew McCarthy says that the best travel writing is the anonymous and solitary traveler capturing a moment in time and place, giving meaning to his or her travels. The stories in The Best American Travel Writing 2015 demonstrate just that spirit, whether it is the story of a marine returning to Iraq a decade after his deployment, a writer retracing the footsteps of humanity as it spread from Africa throughout the world, or looking for love on a physics-themed cruise down the Rhone River. No matter what the subject, the writers featured in this volume boldly call out, Yes, this matters. Follow me The Best American Travel Writing 2015 includes Iris Smyles, Paul Theroux, Christopher Solomon Patricia Marx, Kevin Baker, Benjamin Busch, Maud Newton Gary Shteyngart, Paul Salopek, and others ANDREW MCCARTHY, guest editor, is the author of the New York Times best-selling travel memoir The Longest Way Home. He has served as an editor at large at National Geographic Traveler and been named travel journalist of the year by the Society of American Travel Writers. He is also an actor and director. JASON WILSON, series editor, is the author of Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits and the digital wine series Planet of the Grapes. He has written for the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Daily News, and many other publications. He is the founding editor of The Smart Set and Table Matters.
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Best American; Orlean, Susan (edited by) The Best American Travel Writing 2007 Mariner Books 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068130. ISBN #0618582185 / 9780618582181. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Best American; Orlean, Susan (edited by) The Best American Travel Writing 2007 Mariner Books 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068130. ISBN #0618582185 / 9780618582181. (filed under: Travels ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Travel is not about finding something. It s about getting lost -- that is, it is about losing yourself in a place and a moment. The little things that tether you to what s familiar are gone, and you become a conduit through which the sensation of the place is felt. -- from the introduction by Susan Orlean The twenty pieces in this year s collection showcase the best travel writing from 2006. George Saunders travels to India to witness firsthand a fifteen-year-old boy who has been meditating motionless under a tree for months without food or water, and who many followers believe is the reincarnation of the Buddha. Matthew Power reveals trickle-down economics at work in a Philippine garbage dump. Jason Anthony describes the challenges of everyday life in Vostok, the coldest place on earth, where temperatures dip as low as minus-129 degrees and where, in midsummer, minus-20 degrees is considered a heat wave. David Halberstam, in one of his last published essays, recalls how an inauspicious Saigon restaurant changed the way he and other reporters in Vietnam saw the world. Ian Frazier analyzes why we get sick when traveling in out-of-the-way places. And Kevin Fedarko embarks on a drug-fueled journey in Djibouti, chewing psychotropic foliage in the worst place on earth. Closer to home, Steve Friedman profiles a 410-pound man who set out to walk cross-country to lose weight and find happiness. Rick Bass chases the elusive concept of the West in America, and Jonathan Stern takes a hilarious Lonely Planet approach to his small Manhattan apartment.
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Blanchard, Jane V. Women Of The Way: Embracing The Camino 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Some highlighting. Book #or1139391. ISBN #1475247419 / 9781475247411. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Blanchard, Jane V. Women Of The Way: Embracing The Camino 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Some highlighting. Book #or1139391. ISBN #1475247419 / 9781475247411. (filed under: Travels ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary What do you like most when reading about adventures: descriptions about the terrain, the culture, the challenges, the personal growth, the interactions between other adventures? Women of the Way: Embracing the Camino successfully combines all these elements in a heartfelt and personal recounting of Jane V. Blanchard s 2011 five-hundred mile pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago hiking from St-Jean-Pied-de-Port in France over the Pyrenees to Roncesvalles in Spain, and then westward across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostella. For over a millennium, Christians have made this pilgrimage to the cathedral in Santiago, where the remains of St. James the apostle are entombed. Today, this journey is known as a European Cultural Itinerary, attracting people from around the world. In 2011, more than 183,000 people completed the pilgrimage; 44 of these pilgrims were women. Though Women of the Way is about Jane s journey on the Camino de Santiago also known as The Way and discussions with women she met on the pilgrimage, this is not a chic book. It is about embracing the Camino, the personal changes, and the beauty and appeal of the most popular of all the pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela, the Camino Frances. Discover why people from around the world walk the Camino. Learn how to prepare for the Camino, about the daily rituals in long-distance walking, and the camaraderie shared among these modern-day pilgrims. Visualize the beauty of northern Spain through Jane s vivid descriptions. Understand why so many people embrace the Camino. An articulate, well-observed and thoughtful look at walking the Camino. Adam Nathan I felt as though I, too, was a pilgrim as I saw the beautiful landscapes Jane described, felt the tiredness she experienced, enjoyed the food along with her, laughed and cried with her. Elizabeth Chandler My husband, John 62 , and I are reading your book while we prepare to walk the Camino in May of 2013. We are loving it I like your honesty and factual approach. Your descriptions have caused us to laugh and almost cry at times. Thank you We are reading a little each day and John reminds me to bring the book in the car or to bed. The spirit of the Camino is already appearing in our relationship as we prepare. I can see a change and it is wonderful Kim Todaro
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Blin, Christopher S. Swimming To Angola: ... And Other Tips For Surviving The Third World AuthorHouse 2007 paperback. Inscribed by Author. One page dog-eared.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or763699. ISBN #142599749X / 9781425997496. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Blin, Christopher S. Swimming To Angola: ... And Other Tips For Surviving The Third World AuthorHouse 2007 paperback. Inscribed by Author. One page dog-eared.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or763699. ISBN #142599749X / 9781425997496. (filed under: Travels ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This is not your grandfather's idea of a travel book.Swimming to Angola is a gregarious look at how to help improve Third World conditions, and make it back home safely from 96 countries -- with all limbs hopefully attached in the right places.It tells what to do if challenged by machine gun-waving security forces, or if Gypsies are getting a little too close for comfort. Readers can learn how to drive from the USA down to South America, or even the length of the African continent.Tips include how to manage local currency fluctuations to get the best values, while avoiding a myriad of scams that are designed to separate travelers from their resources. The destinations in these pages have rarely, if ever, made it to those high-gloss volumes of global travel literature. And for a good -- or at least logical -- reason: most people in so-called 'advanced' countries looking for 'exotic' locales to spend time in, normally wouldn't want to go here. These are places that we might consider deep in poverty and hopelessness, where civil wars rage, where dictators confiscate land for their own use, where babies starve, and where travel itself is crimped by men in battle fatigues carrying automatic rifles. It also highlights real danger, moments when less luck or less wise on-the-spot decisions might have been life threatening. However, this is an occupational hazard for any hardy world traveler with a yen to veer off the well-beaten path. Traveling light in the pocketbook, in fact, is one of the rules of this book -- the reason being that you don't want to stand out and become a target, especially in the Third World. Being Western looking enough as it is, you don't need a sign around the neck reading: "Free money for everybody, right here."
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