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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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Anderson, Stuart Who Picked This Place? The Fantastic Vacations Of A Bald Headed Man And A Bird Watching Woman 2006 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or982676. ISBN #1425715060 / 9781425715069. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Anderson, Stuart Who Picked This Place? The Fantastic Vacations Of A Bald Headed Man And A Bird Watching Woman 2006 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or982676. ISBN #1425715060 / 9781425715069. (filed under: Travels ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Book Description: In his last book about vacation misadventures, Travels with Anne, Stuart Anderson won our sympathy by describing his experiences, in remote corners of the world, with broken-down vehicles, clueless guides, unbearable traveling companions, miserable weather, and decidedly uncooperative wildlife. Unfortunately for Stuart, his new book, Who Picked This Place?, makes it plain that he did not learn a thing from those experiences. Thus, in Who Picked This Place?, we get to follow Stuart to unlikely vacation destinations across the world, and laugh out loud as: Stuart and his bird-crazy companion, Anne, tour the Yucatan Peninsula and discover biting ants, angry monkeys, and the advisability of making sure the lid of that whiskey flask, in your luggage, is screwed on tight. Stuart and Anne decide to vacation, for some inexplicable reason, in Mexico's most politically unstable state, Chiapas. While there, they try mightily to sweat themselves to death climbing Maya pyramids. They also go to church with a bunch of drunks who mark the occasion by chopping the heads off chickens. In Belize, Stuart and Anne canoe a jungle river in the rain-which turns out to be the prelude to a later adventure that involves traveling over miles of ocean, in a small boat, in a much bigger rain. In Belize, also, Stuart and Anne have a guide who is less interested in guiding than in hitting on all the available and some of the unavailable local women. That may explain why Stuart and Anne sometimes find themselves lost. Anne wants to see polar bears in the wild, so she and Stuart go to a lodge on northern Hudson Bay that is miles and miles from nowhere. At the lodge, they share a cabin with the world's most obnoxious photographer, and also with an elderly woman who has difficulties using the bathroom. All of them see polar bears way too close. Anne's dad goes with Stuart and Anne to Kenya, on a photographic safari. Anne's dad, unfortunately, tends to stray from camp on foot and alone, into country inhabited by leopards and lions. He also tends to fall asleep in his dinner. Not wanting to be outdone by Anne's dad, in Kenyan shenanigans, Stuart gets himself mistaken for a CIA agent, by some locals who try to recruit Stuart the CIA agent to murder one of their neighbors. Stuart and Anne go off to southeastern Turkey, even though southeastern Turkey borders on places like Iran, Iraq, and Syria. All of their friends think that Stuart and Anne are crazy. The two survive the trip very well, despite the inconveniences of stopped-up toilets, 120-degree heat, and "cave hotels." In Panama, Stuart and Anne get sick, celebrate the New Year with forty aggressive Pakistanis, and go bird-watching with a "guide" who doesn't speak any English and doesn't know anything about birds. You'll laugh, you'll cry, as you share these and other adventures, on four continents, with the dauntless Stuart and Anne. And, like them, you will often find yourself asking a question that, for one or both of the book's two protagonists, probably has an embarrassing answer: Who Picked This Place?
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Apple, R. W. Apple's America: The Discriminating Traveler's Guide to 40 Great Cities in the United States and Canada North Point Press 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or861062. ISBN #0865476853 / 9780865476851. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Baker, Kim; Baker, Sunny RVer's Bible: Everything You Need To Know About Choosing, Using, & Enjoying Your RV 1997 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1092850. ISBN #0684822679 / 9780684822679. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Baker, Kim; Baker, Sunny RVer's Bible: Everything You Need To Know About Choosing, Using, & Enjoying Your RV 1997 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1092850. ISBN #0684822679 / 9780684822679. (filed under: Travels ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "The RVer's Bible" is the ultimate guide to living and traveling in a recreational vehicle. From purchasing, maintaining, and driving the rig to navigating the emotional pitfalls of life on the road, this handbook covers all the bases including: Buying and equipping your RV -- and how not to overpay; Safety checks and driving school; Campgrounds and stopping places; Caravans and clubs; Tips on saving money on the road; The RV chef and much more Avid RVers, Kim and Sunny Baker took their first trip in 1976 and have been traveling together, living full time and part time in RVs, through four seasons and three countries.
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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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Ballantine, Bill High West Rand McNally & Company 1969 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or862057. (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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Bangs, Richard Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Earth Menasha Ridge Press 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or832642. ISBN #0897327365 / 9780897327367. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Bangs, Richard Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Earth Menasha Ridge Press 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or832642. ISBN #0897327365 / 9780897327367. (filed under: Travels ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Running such wild rivers as the crocodile-infested Tekaze in Ethiopia, Richard Bangs used to lived for the adrenalin, for the rush of reveling in the misery of hardship and sidestepping death around every bend. Now a respected conservationist, he still travels to demanding exotic environments, but with a new, more sober objective: he wants to save these special places. Bangs' personal experiences of "witnessing many special places preserved and lost" led him to write Adventures with Purpose, and the book follows the author to Bosnia, Libya, Panama, the American West, Rwanda, Thailand, and more as he seeks out disappearing cultures, peoples, habitats, and ecosystems particularly rivers so that he can show readers that the loss of these special places will be a catastrophe. Written in the vivid, intimate style that made his earlier books both critical and commercial successes, Richard Bangs Adventures with Purpose is an unforgettable composite portrait of a world in peril and an inspiring guide to rescuing it.
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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 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An anthology of writings from 70 North American authors, teachers, naturalists, ranchers, political leaders, and poets.
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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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Beagle, Peter S. I See By My Outfit Ballantine Books 1976 mass market paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Yellowing from age. Book #or879946. ISBN #0345246993 / 9780345246998. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Beagle, Peter S. I See By My Outfit Ballantine Books 1976 mass market paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Yellowing from age. Book #or879946. ISBN #0345246993 / 9780345246998. (filed under: Travels ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary I Loved You Wednesday is a novel about temporary commitments. For Chris and Steve, love develops out of a friendship rooted in their common struggle for that one big break on the TV networks or on Broadway. They must face the rejections and disappointments, readings, and tryouts. Zany, sympathetic, and intensely alive, Chris and Steve live each day with all the verve and delight of a Holly Golightly whose diamonds are the lights of Broadway, but love on Wednesday may not be love on Thursday, for today's 1975 'liberated' generation often plans futilely to fulfill dreams of permanent relationships. The love they share is sadly outgrown as their horizons widen.Tears and laughter join in I Loved You Wednesday to present the total experience of the young lovers living in the mid 1970's.
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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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Best American; Bourdain, Anthony (edited by) The Best American Travel Writing 2008 Mariner Books 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068137. ISBN #0618858644 / 9780618858644. (filed under: Travels ) *
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Best American; Bourdain, Anthony (edited by) The Best American Travel Writing 2008 Mariner Books 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068137. ISBN #0618858644 / 9780618858644. (filed under: Travels ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2008, editor Anthony Bourdain writes that the pieces that spoke the loudest and most powerfully to me were usually evocative of the darker side, those moments fearful, sublime, and absurd; the small epiphanies familiar to the full-time traveler, interspersed by a sense of dislocation and the strange, unholy need to record the experience. With this in mind, Bourdain and series editor Jason Wilson have assembled a wide-ranging and wonderfully eclectic collection that delves headlong into those darker moments and subtle realizations, looking to absorb, provoke, and offer a moving record of what it means to travel in the twenty-first century. Here you will find Seth Stevenson s extraordinary experience of Looking for Mammon in the Muslim World as he makes his way through sweltering and paradoxical Dubai. Exotic tastes and larger-than-life personalities abound as Bill Buford accompanies the chocolate maker Frederick Schilling to the rain forests of Brazil. And on the other side of the world, Calvin Trillin trolls Singapore for the ultimate street food, while Kristin Ohlson delves into the harrowing challenges faced by proprietors of restaurants in Kabul, Afghanistan. The twenty-five pieces in this collection have their fair share of the absurd as well. David Sedaris explains the hilarious highs sundaes and woeful lows sobbing with your seatmate of flying Business Elite. Gary Shteyngart goes To Russia for Love during St. Petersburg s vodka-soaked wedding season. And Emily Maloney gets up close and personal with her fellow travelers and their massage devices in a South American hostel. Culled from an amazing variety of publications, the writing in this volume is so vibrantly good, you ll feel like you ve armchair-traveled around the world Chicago Sun Times .
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