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The Best Women's Travel Writing: True Stories from Around the World
by Lucy McCauley
Published 2007 by Travelers' Tales Guides
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These tales are thematically eclectic and cover spiritual growth, hilarity and misadventure, romance, solo journeys, service to humanity, family travel, and exotic cuisine, all told from a woman's perspective. More...
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Charm City: A Walk Through Baltimore
by Madison Smartt Bell
Published 2007 by Crown Publishing Group (NY)
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With a novelists eye for the beauty of his adopted city, longtime resident Bell leads readers through the fascinating history of Baltimore. He presents what has been forgotten and overlooked about the city, finding the people and stories that evoke the splendor of the towns varied neighborhoods. More...
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Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
by Anthony Doerr
Published 2007 by Scribner Book Company
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From the award-winning author of "The Shell Collector" and "About Grace" comes an evocative memoir of the timeless beauty of Rome and the day-to-day wonderment of living, writing, and raising twin boys in a foreign city. More...
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by Eric Weiner
Published 2008 by Twelve
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Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, "The Geography of Bliss" takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." More...
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Gringos in Paradise: An American Couple Builds Their Retirement Dream House in a Seaside Village in Mexico
by Barry Golson
Published 2006 by Scribner Book Company
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In a lighthearted, uplifting, yet practical account, Golson details the year he and his wife spent building their dream house in Mexico for this first fun and informative chronicle of the new trend of retiring south of the border. Photos. More...
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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
by Joan Druett
Published 2007 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death.... More...
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The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate
by Michael Wallis
Published 2007 by W. W. Norton & Company
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The bestselling author of "Route 66" and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer celebrate Americas first transcontinental highway, one that connects the bright lights of Broadway with the foggy shores of San Francisco. 300 color photos. More...
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Metro Stop Dostoevsky: Travels in Russian Time
by Ingrid Bengis
Published 2003 by North Point Press
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Shadow of the Silk Road
by Colin Thubron
Published 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers
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To be traveling the Silk Road is to be traveling the history of the world: tracing the passage not just of trade and armies, but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Thubrons chosen route passes through China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey. More...
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Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics
by Alexander Frater
Published 2007 by Knopf Publishing Group
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From one of the most celebrated travel writers at work today comes a vibrantly observant, witty, utterly captivating account of a lifetime's worth of travel between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. More...
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