A Walk in the Woods
Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 4, 1999
Price: $14.95
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill...
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Into the Wild (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Written by Jon Krakauer
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $13.95
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his...
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Into the Wild
Written by Jon Krakauer
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 20, 1997
Price: $13.95
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his...
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals
Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
Written by J. Maarten Troost
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $12.95
At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost—who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs—decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to Tarawa, a remote South Pacific island in the Republic of...
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A Year in the World
Journeys of A Passionate Traveller
Written by Frances Mayes
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $15.00
The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself—and her readers—in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places.
A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes—a celebration of the allure of...
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Confederates in the Attic
Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Written by Tony Horwitz
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $15.95
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from...
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In a Sunburned Country
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2001
Price: $14.95
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller
A Walk in the Woods.
In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the...
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Fodor's Hawaii 2009
Written by Fodor's
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $19.95
Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.
Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s...
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