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Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy
Rating: 159 customer reviews
Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to experience the pleasures of primavera, an Italian spring. A…
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In a Sunburned Country
Rating: 543 customer reviews
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail resulted…
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K2: Life and Death On the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
Rating: 112 customer reviews
A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the best-selling author of No Shortcuts…
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King Solomon's Mines
Rating: 270 customer reviews
Allan Quatermain, a middle-aged big game hunter, is invited to join Sir Henry Curtis on an expedition to find Curtis's estranged younger brother George in the remote…
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Dark Star Safari
Rating: 170 customer reviews
Forty years ago, Paul Theroux first went to Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush. Now, nearing 60, he returns to travel by train, canoe, bus, and cattle truck from…
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Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
Rating: 202 customer reviews
In this delightful sequel to her best seller Tender at the Bone, the beloved food writer Ruth Reichl returns with more tales of love, life, humor, and marvelous…
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
Rating: 203 customer reviews
In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this…
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Into Thin Air
Rating: 3473 customer reviews
Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of Eiger Dreams and Into…
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River Horse: A Voyage Across America
Rating: 110 customer reviews
In this abridgement of River-Horse, the pre-eminent chronicler of American back roads - who has given us the classics Blue Highways and Prairyerth - recounts his…
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Adrift: 76 Days Lost At Sea
Rating: 152 customer reviews
Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's Adrift chronicled one of the most astounding voyages of the century and one of the great…
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Deep Survival: True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death
Rating: 871 customer reviews
After her plane crashes, a 17-year-old girl spends 11 days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A…
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Looking for Alaska
Rating: 130 customer reviews
Over twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate went looking for himself and his nation. His memoir of what he found, A Walk Across America, captured the…
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Rating: 337 customer reviews
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration…
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The Climb
Rating: 297 customer reviews
The Climb is a true, gripping, and thought-provoking account of the worst disaster in the history of Mt. Everest: On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed…
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The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
Rating: 117 customer reviews
Every year on January 1, a quirky crowd of adventurers storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year: a grand, grueling,…
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Three Weeks With My Brother
Rating: 391 customer reviews
In January 2003, Nick Sparks and his brother Micah set off on a three-week trip around the world. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at 35 and 36,…
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My Life in France
Rating: 452 customer reviews
In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found "her true calling". From the…
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Holy Cow!: An Indian Adventure
Rating: 146 customer reviews
After backpacking her way around India, Sarah Macdonald decides she hates the country with a passion. When a beggar at the airport reads her palm and insists she will…
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Notes from a Small Island
Rating: 623 customer reviews
After nearly 2 decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best sellers as The Mother Tongue, Made in America, and A Walk in the Woods, decided it…
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Under the Tuscan Sun
Rating: 982 customer reviews
Frances Mayes - widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer - opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the…
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Post Captain: Aubrey/Maturin Series, Book 2
Rating: 109 customer reviews
Post Captain is the second novel in Patrick O'Brian's beloved adventure series. In 1803 Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens, and Captain Jack Aubrey, Royal Navy,…
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One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
Rating: 131 customer reviews
To live in a pristine land unchanged by man... to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed... to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log…
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A Walk in the Woods
Rating: 1386 customer reviews
"Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire, I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town." So begins Bill…
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift In the Equatorial Pacific
Rating: 201 customer reviews
At age 26, Maarten Troost decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to a remote South Pacific island. The idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the…
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Rating: 167 customer reviews
In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux retraces the steps he took thirty years ago in his classic The Great Railway Bazaar. From the Eurostar in London, he…
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
Rating: 7538 customer reviews
Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned 30, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed…
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The Pirate Hunter
Rating: 178 customer reviews
Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer. However, Captain William Kidd was no career cut-throat; he was a tough, successful New…
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Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
Rating: 214 customer reviews
On May 10, 1996, nine climbers perished in a blizzard high on Mount Everest, the single deadliest day ever on the peak. The following day, one of these victims was…
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Lost On Planet China
Rating: 115 customer reviews
J. Maarten Troost charmed listeners with his humorous tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific in The Sex Lives of Cannibals and Getting Stoned with…
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The Voyage of the Beagle
Rating: 120 customer reviews
Charles Darwin was just 22 when he went on his first voyage around the world in 1831. Darwin's father at first refused to allow his young son to go on the voyage.…
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