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101	Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers more books like this by Jim Rogers add to wishlist Legendary investor Rogers gives his view of the world on a 24-month, 51-country motorcycle odyssey in his bestselling adventure book "Investment Biker." see all copies from $3.99! new only from $9.76! \| first editions \| SVS
102	Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey more books like this by V S Naipaul add to wishlist This account of his travels to four countries of the Islamic world, by a writer who was born in Trinidad and lives in England, is definitely an outsider's view, and aroused immediate controversy upon its publication. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.51! \| first editions \| SVS
103	Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg more books like this by James M McPherson add to wishlist Pulitzer prize-winning historian McPherson offers a walking tour of the historic site that was the turning point of the Civil War. Stopping at key locations and memorials, McPherson explains the battle and provides background and context in a succinct and accessible manner. see all copies from $4.81! new only from $8.34! \| first editions \| SVS
104	Blue Highways more books like this by William Least Heat Moon add to wishlist William Least Heat Moon is part Sioux (hence the name), part Anglo. Filled with wanderlust after losing both his wife and his job, he took to the road with the goal of traveling to "those little towns that get on the map...only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill." His idiosyncratic, colorful, character-filled journey across the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $63.22! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
105	Slowly Down the Ganges more books like this by Eric Newby add to wishlist Newby's tribute to the richness of life along the Ganges River was written after a 1200-mile trip he made in 1961 with his wife, Wanda. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.14! \| first editions
106	Drink, Play, F@#k: One Man's Search for Anything Across Ireland, Las Vegas, and Thailand more books like this by Andrew Gottlieb add to wishlist In "Drink, Play, F@#k" Bob Sullivan, a jilted husband, sets off to explore the world, experience a meaningful connection with the divine, and rediscover his passion. His travels lead him from his home in New York City to a drinking bender across Ireland, through the glitz and glamour that is Las Vegas, and to the hedonistic pleasure palaces of ... see all copies from $6.49! new only from $7.26! \| first editions \| SVS
107	River-Horse: A Voyage Across America more books like this by William Least Heat Moon add to wishlist The Nikawa, or "river horse," is the boat on which William Least Heat-Moon crossed the United States, from New York to Oregon in 1995. This is his third book on his American travels, following the enormously successful BLUE HIGHWAYS, and PRAIRYERTH. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.59! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
108	Dreaming of Jupiter more books like this by Ted Simon add to wishlist Back in the seventies, Ted Simon drove a Triumph motorcycle around the world. His book, Jupiter's Travels, became the acknowledged classic of motorcycle adventure. It inspired thousands, Ewan McGregor included, to roam the globe. Now in his own seventies, thirty years after his epic journey began, Ted has retraced that epic journey, still on a ... see all copies from $9.37! new only from $9.37!
109	Sahara more books like this by Michael Palin (Read by) add to wishlist The Monty Python alumnus and bestselling author takes readers on a journey through Morocco, Gibraltar, Tangier, and Tunisia as he explores the past and present of the Sahara Desert. 175 full-color and B&W photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
110	On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal more books like this by Mary Taylor Simeti add to wishlist Mary Taylor Simeti went to Sicily in 1962 for a visit. She fell in love with a Sicilian, got married, and stayed for over 20 years. This is her magical account of a year in a place she came to love--its sounds, taste, colors and myths, its religious festivals, its foods and its people. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.01! \| first editions \| SVS
111 view cover	House in Sicily more books like this by Daphne Phelps add to wishlist This is the captivating memoir of a resourceful woman who started life anew in the "most beautiful house in Sicily. " For fifty years, at Casa Cuseni in the small Sicilian town of Taormina, Daphne Phelps has extended her English charm and warm hospitality to seasoned travelers and professional escapists as well as to writers and artists like ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
112 view cover	My Life as an Explorer more books like this by Sven Anders Hedin add to wishlist Sven Hedin (1865-1952) spent three decades exploring Central Asia: traveling the Silk Road, discovering long-lost cities, mapping uncharted rivers. This memoir tells the story of his exploits and accomplishments. see all copies from $6.91! new only from $9.23! \| first editions \| SVS
113 view cover	A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal more books like this by Anthony Bourdain, Lord (Read by) add to wishlist Anthony Bourdain follows up his best-selling memoir, KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL, with this account of a world tour in search of not only the perfect meal but the perfect total food experience. Traveling to Vietnam, Japan, France, Mexico, and other places, he has a series of adventures, both culinary and other, including many wonderful meals. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
114 view cover	Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy more books like this by Eric Hansen add to wishlist Eric Hansen writes entertainingly and often hilariously about the sinister world of orchid raising--a $9 billion business worldwide. Specifically, he explores the black market in rare and endangered plants that are smuggled out of ecologically precarious areas and sold to enthusiasts at inflated prices. Hansen's book, full of fascinating stories ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
115 view cover	Off Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets and Gatemouth's Gator: Essays more books like this by Michael Perry add to wishlist Whether he's fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perrys essays draw on his rural roots and footloose lifestyle in a perspective that merges the local with the global. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
116 view cover	Travels in West Africa more books like this by Mary Henrietta Kingsley add to wishlist Novelist Evan S. Connell writes the introduction to Kingsley's classic travel book. see all copies from $2.98! new only from $9.84! \| first editions \| SVS
117	Stonehenge decoded more books like this by Gerald S. Hawkins add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
118 view cover	Roots of the Western Tradition: A Short History of the Ancient World more books like this by C Warren Hollister add to wishlist "Roots of the Western Tradition" is a brief chronological survey that covers the Ancient world in three parts: Prehistoric Europe and Ancient Near East; Ancient Greece; and Ancient Rome. Succinct enough to be used with supplements, the coverage is carefully balanced between narrative and interpretation, highlighting historians' varying viewpoints ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.66! \| first editions \| SVS
119 view cover	Vanishing Cornwall more books like this by Daphne du Maurier add to wishlist There was a smell in the air of tar and rope and rusted chain, a smell of tidal water. Down harbour, around the point, was the open sea. Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known. Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone ...I for this, and this for me.' Daphne du Maurier lived ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
120 view cover	French or Foe?: Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France more books like this by Polly Platt add to wishlist Polly Platt's title French or Foe? is more timely than ever, as the Franco. American alliance frays a little more with each day, the exchanges more vitriolic than ever before. Her book has long been the reference for what it is about theFrench that rubs Americans the wrong way, why the Franco-American alliance has difficulties, and how to handle ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.94! \| SVS
121 view cover	Two Years Before the Mast more books like this by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. add to wishlist On August 14, 1834, Richard Henry Dana, convalescing from an illness, set off for California from his Boston home--via a sailing ship. Using the journals he kept on the voyage, Dana created a classic re-creation of his experiences, both the highs and the lows, in what has long been considered a definitive look at the seaman's life in the 19th ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
122 view cover	On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel more books like this by Tony Cohan add to wishlist Novelist Tony Cohan and his wife fell for the laid-back pace of life in San Miguel de Allende in Central Mexico. Impulsively, they sold their California house and moved south. This is the chronicle of their move, and of how they managed--gradually, and not without trauma--to become integrated into the life of a Mexican town. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
123 view cover	The saddest pleasure : a journey on two rivers more books like this by Moritz Thomsen add to wishlist This is an account, introduced by Paul Therox, of the author's journey as a 63-year-old gringo through Brazil. During the course of this journey he reflects on his escape in middle age from his wealthy Pacific Northwest family to South America, where he became a Peace Corps worker in Ecuador. He then tells of how he bought a farm which he worked ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $25.03! \| first editions
124 view cover	Kon-Tiki more books like this by Thor Heyerdahl add to wishlist Photographs illustrate the author's account of his voyage from Peru to Tahiti on a balsa raft to test a theory concerning the origins of the Polynesian race. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
125 view cover	Ripening Sun: One Woman and the Creation of a Vineyard more books like this by Patricia Atkinson add to wishlist For most people giving up the day job and moving to a beautiful area of France and living off the vines is an impossible but delicious dream. In 1990, Patricia Atkinson and her husband decided to sell up in Britain and emigrate to the Dordogne. Their idea was to buy a house with a few vines attached and employ someone to tend to the wine while ... see all copies from $7.98! new only from $8.45! \| first editions \| SVS

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