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Meet Me in Atlantis: Across Three Continents in Search of the Legendary Sunken City

By: Adams, Mark

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 602368

ISBN-13: 9781101983935

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The New York Times Bestselling Travel Memoir The author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu travels the globe in search of the world's most famous lost city. "Adventurous, inquisitive and mirthful, Mark Adams gamely sifts through the eons of rumor, science, and lore to find a place that, in the end, seems startlingly real indeed."--Hampton SidesA few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Far from alien conspiracy theories and other pop culture myths, everything we know about the legendary lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. Stranger still: A...
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Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

By: Adams, Mark

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Dutton : April 2012

Seller ID: 323116

ISBN-13: 9780452297982

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIR What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and "discovered" Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the explorer's perilous path in search of the truth--except he'd written about adventure far more than he'd actually lived it. In fact, he'd never even slept in a tent. Turn Right ...
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Far Appalachia: Following the New River North

By: Adams, Noah

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : December 2011

Seller ID: 738234

ISBN-13: 9780385320108

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

With his sharp eye and gentle wit, Noah Adams doesn't just tell stories, he lets them unfold -- quietly, powerfully, and eloquently. Now the beloved host of NPR's "All Things Considered" and bestselling author of Piano Lessons takes us on a river journey through the heart of Appalachia -- a journey shared by pioneers and preachers, white-water daredevils, bluegrass musicians, and an unforgettable cast of vivid historical characters. Noah Adams has Appalachia in his blood. A native of eastern Kentucky, he comes to the headwaters of the New River not just in search of adventure but to better und...
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Don't Look Behind You!: A Safari Guide's Encounters With Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, And Lovesick Rhinos

By: Allison, Peter

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Lyons Press : September 2009

Seller ID: 475611

ISBN-13: 9781599214696

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Incredible true tales from a world-renowned safari guide and celebrated author Romantic notions aside, being a safari guide isn't always particularly enjoyable or glamorous. Quite often it is beset with challenges, like having to spend a night in a thorn tree with marauding hyenas below. But safari guide Peter Allison lives for such moments. Here, the author of the widely praised Whatever You Do, Don't Run details his time spent in safari camps not only in Botswana but also in South Africa, Mozambique, and Namibia--places he loves, despite how much it feels like they might just be trying to ki...
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide

By: Allison, Peter

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 428376

ISBN-13: 9780762796472

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: "only food runs " With a new introduction and new material from the authorIn the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. Peter Allison gives us the guide's-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the world's fiercest terrain of wild animals and, most challenging of all, managing herds of gaping tourists. Passionate for the animals of the Kalahari, Allison works as a top safari guide in the wildlife-rich Okavango Delta. As he serves the wh...
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Carry On: Stan Zuray's Journey from Boston Greaser to Alaskan Homesteader

By: Attewell, Tim,Zuray, Stan

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Independently published : April 2017

Seller ID: 547249

ISBN-13: 9781521098899

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In 1960s inner city Boston, Stan Zuray had no future. As the Vietnam war took more and more of his friends, and many of those who returned sank further into drugs and despair, Stan looked for meaning and found nothing. His life's purpose lay thirty-three hundred miles northwest, deep in the Tozitna River Valley in the heart of Alaska's frozen interior. Deadly cold, famine, grizzly bears, and one unruly sled dog with a grudge kept Stan on the knife's edge between survival and death. Humbled by the power of nature, the Boston greaser who was destined for prison found a new life in the wild, wher...
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Vietnam: a Traveler's Literary Companion

By: Balaban, John (ed)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : March 2015

Seller ID: 776146

ISBN-13: 9781883513023

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Since relations between the U.S. and Vietnam have normalized, many more people are traveling to this exotic country, previously closed to a generation of Western visitors. Vietnam provides one of the first chances for Americans to know the Vietnamese outside the context of war. Vietnamese have been telling stories for thousands of years, in poetry and in song, in Chinese script and then in Vietnamese n m, and more recently, in novels and short stories. These 17 stories, from contemporary Vietnamese writers living in Vietnam and abroad, take the literary traveler to extraordinary places: from t...
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The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-La

By: Balf, Todd

Price: $5.50

Publisher: : October 2012

Seller ID: 452723

ISBN-13: 9780609606254

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

It was the ultimate whitewater adventure on the Mount Everest of rivers, and the biggest challenge of their lives.... October 1998 an American whitewater paddling team traveled deep into the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet to run the Yarlung Tsangpo, known in paddling circles as the "Everest of rivers." On Day 12 of that trip, the team's ace paddler, one of four kayakers on the river, launched off an eight-foot waterfall and flipped. He and his overturned kayak spilled into the heart of the thunderous "freight training" river and were swept downstream, never to be seen again. The Last River: The Tragic...
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New Orleans Observed: Drawings and Observations of America's Most Foreign City

By: Barron, Errol

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Walsworth Publishing Company : December 2011

Seller ID: 489178

ISBN-13: 9780615553733

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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In My Home There Is No More Sorrow

By: Bass, Rick

Price: $6.00

Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing : November 2012

Seller ID: 264678

ISBN-13: 9781936365999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Last year Rick Bass traveled to Rwanda, roaming from the bustle of Kigali to the breathtaking volcanic preserves of the last few mountain gorillas. Now he offers an extraordinary portrait of what can be found in that country today--heartbreaking evidence of the genocide that occurred there a generation ago, dazzling natural beauty, and young people who have emerged from tragedy with a blazingly optimistic spirit and a profound artistic voice. In My Home There Is No More Sorrow is an enchanting, harrowing narrative achievement--an unforgettable exploration of history and human nature from one o...
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A Year in Paris: Season by Season in the City of Light

By: Baxter, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial : February 2019

Seller ID: 725787

ISBN-13: 9780062846884

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A NEW YORK TIMES SUMMER READING PICK From the incomparable John Baxter, award-winning author of the bestselling The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris through the seasons, highlighting the unique tastes, sights, and changing personality of the city in spring, summer, fall, and winter.When the common people of France revolted in 1789, one of the first ways they chose to correct the excesses of the monarchy and the church was to rename the months of the year. Selected by poet and playwright Philippe-Francois-Nazaire Fabre, these new names reflected wha...
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The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris

By: Baxter, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial : May 2011

Seller ID: 812009

ISBN-13: 9780061998546

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Splendid... Reading The Most Beautiful Walk in the World is the next best thing to a Paris vacation." -Boston Globe"Anyone who loves Paris and loves to walk will feel this book was written just for them." -USA TodayIn this enchanting national bestseller, acclaimed author and long-time expat Paris resident John Baxter draws on his experience guiding literary walking tours through the city to proved a delightful walker's guide to France's capital. Baxter sets off with unsuspecting tourists in tow on the trail of Paris's legendary artists and writers of the past. Along the way, he tells the hist...
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Bonjour Kale: A Memoir of Paris, Love, and Recipes

By: Beddard, Kristen

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 668304

ISBN-13: 9781492630043

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A memoir of love, life, and recipes from the woman who brought kale to the City of Light The story of how one expat woman left her beloved behind when she moved to France-her beloved kale, that is. Unable to find le chou kale anywhere upon moving to the City of Light with her new husband, and despite not really speaking French, Kristen Beddard launched a crusade to single-handedly bring kale to the country of croissants and cheese. Infused with Kristen's recipes and some from French chefs, big and small (including Michelin star chef Alain Passard) Bonjour Kale is a humorous, heartfelt memoir o...
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Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold

By: Benanav, Michael

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Lyons Press : January 2006

Seller ID: 773730

ISBN-13: 9781592287727

Binding: Hardcover

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Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" Seasonal PickIn fact, there was no road at all, just an endless stretch of desert sand called "The Land of Terror" by the nomads who cross it, and described by author Michael Benanav with humor and startling insight in this compelling narrative.Benanav joined what is known as the Caravan of White Gold -- so-called because the salt was once literally worth its weight in gold -- on its mission into the deadly heart of the Sahara to haul back gleaming slabs of solid salt for sale at market. He'd been siezed by the idea after coming across an article abo...
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Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment

By: Bernstein, Richard

Price: $4.00

Publisher: : January 2014

Seller ID: 497010

ISBN-13: 9780679781578

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In 629, the revered Buddhist monk Hsuan Tsang set out across Asia in search of the Ultimate Truth, and to settle what he called "the perplexities of my mind." From the Tang dynasty capital at Xian through ancient Silk Road oases, over forbidding mountain passes to Tashkent, Samarkand, and the Amu-Darya River, across Pakistan to the holiest cities of India-and back again-his sixteen-year journey was beset with every hardship imaginable. Pilgrimage complete, Hsuan Tsang wrote an account of his trek that is still considered one of the classics of Chinese literature. In 1998, Richard Bernstein, ve...
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Swiss Watching, 3rd Edition: Inside the Land of Milk and Honey

By: Bewes, Diccon

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey : September 2018

Seller ID: 719726

ISBN-13: 9781473677418

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

New updated edition of the international bestseller, featuring new statistics and a new epilogue, as well as new sections on the Swiss elections, the Swiss citizenship test and how Brexit has affected Switzerland "A great subject for a cultural anthropologist and Bewes is a perfect guide." Financial Times, Book of the Year One country, four languages, 26 cantons, and 7.5 million people (but only 75% of them Swiss): there's nowhere else in Europe like it. Switzerland may be hundreds of miles away from the nearest drop of seawater, but it is an island at the center of Europe. Welcome to the land...
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The Curve of Time

By: Blanchet, M. Wylie

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Whitecap Books Ltd. : March 2002

Seller ID: 553975

ISBN-13: 9781552853511

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This is a biography and astonishing adventure story of a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packed her five children onto a 25-foot boat and cruised the coastal waters of British Columbia, summer after summer.Muriel Wylie Blanchet acted single-handedly as skipper, navigator, engineer and, of course, mum, as she saw her crew through encounters with tides, fog, storms, rapids, cougars and bears. She sharpened in her children a special interest in Haida culture and in nature itself. In this book, she left us with a sensitive and compelling account of their journeys.
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Arrow of The Blue-Skinned God.

By: Blank, Jonah

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : November 2012

Seller ID: 507478

ISBN-13: 9780802137333

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The three-thousand-year-old epic Ramayana chronicles Lord Rama's physical voyage from one end of the Indian subcontinent to the other and his spiritual voyage from Man to God. In Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God, anthropologist and journalist Jonah Blank gives a new perspective to this Hindu classic -- retelling the ancient tale while following the course of Rama's journey through present-day India and Sri Lanka. Ultimately, Blank's journey -- like that of Lord Rama -- evolves into a quest: a quest to understand the chimerical essence of India itself, in all its overwhelming beauty and paradox.
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Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

By: Botton, Sari

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Gallery Books : October 2014

Seller ID: 769632

ISBN-13: 9781476784403

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Gets right to the heart of what it feels like to be a New Yorker--slightly insane, broke, and madly in love. These essays made me laugh out loud with recognition. New York City isn't an easy place to live, but is anything easy really worth doing?" --Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers The follow-up to the award-winning anthology Goodbye to All That, Never Can Say Goodbye is an exuberant celebration of New York, featuring contributions from luminaries such as Elizabeth Gilbert, Susan Orlean, Rosanne Cash, Nick Flynn, Whoopi Goldberg, Phillip Lopate, Owen King, Amy Sohn, Alexander Chee, and ...
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Enduring Cuba

By: Bran, Zoe

Price: $4.00

Publisher: : December 2014

Seller ID: 564113

ISBN-13: 9781741795196

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Intrigued by Cuba, Zoe Bran visits this country of contradictions and interweaving history and current events, personal and wider viewpoints, she paints a vivid and compelling picture of contemporary Cuba."
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