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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 449,285 ratings — published 1998
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 69,713 ratings — published 1998
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 1,852,235 ratings — published 2006
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as description)
avg rating 3.90 — 112,202 ratings — published 2009
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 873,849 ratings — published 2012
Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.32 — 297 ratings — published 2010
Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 3,357 ratings — published 1998
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 3,619 ratings — published 2008
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 65,085 ratings — published 1989
Notes from a Small Island (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 120,487 ratings — published 1995
The Ramen King and I: How the Inventor of Instant Noodles Fixed My Love Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.54 — 812 ratings — published 2009
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 79,582 ratings — published 1991
Radio Shangri-la: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.49 — 2,278 ratings — published 2010
The Colors of Us (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,918 ratings — published 1999
Married to Bhutan (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,635 ratings — published 2011
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 8,149 ratings — published 2009
The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.20 — 1,314 ratings — published 2010
Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 1,558 ratings — published 2002
Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,335 ratings — published 2010
Istanbul: The Collected Traveler: An Inspired Companion Guide (Vintage Departures)
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avg rating 4.06 — 132 ratings — published 2009
Bill Bryson's African Diary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.49 — 10,538 ratings — published 2002
The Partly Cloudy Patriot (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 28,820 ratings — published 2002
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 18,724 ratings — published 1999
I.C.S.E Sonkolita Complete Guidebook (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 62 ratings — published
ధీర సమీరే గంగాతీరే Dheera Sameere Ganga Teere (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 95 ratings — published
Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 319 ratings — published 2011
Wild, Wild Hair (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 89 ratings — published 1997
The Gardener (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 7,216 ratings — published
Travels with Charley: In Search of America (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 108,736 ratings — published 1961
The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.39 — 513 ratings — published 2010
Minnesota Off the Beaten Path: A Guide to Unique Places (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 24 ratings — published 2001
The new America's wonderlands: Our National Parks (World in color library)
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avg rating 3.80 — 45 ratings — published 1959
The Ladies' Paradise (Les Rougon-Macquart #11)
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avg rating 3.98 — 20,966 ratings — published 1883
The Enochian Tarot: A New System of Divination for a New Age (Llewellyn's High Magick)
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avg rating 3.57 — 30 ratings — published 2002
The Snail and the Whale (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 10,773 ratings — published 2003
The Gruffalo's Child (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 11,606 ratings — published 2004
The Gruffalo (Gruffalo, #1)
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avg rating 4.46 — 46,836 ratings — published 1999
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,340 ratings — published 2009
Ethical Questions in Name Authority Control (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 20 ratings — published 2019
The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.14 — 128,172 ratings — published 2010
You Must Remember This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.49 — 5,079 ratings — published 2023
To Kill a Shadow (Mistlands, #1)
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avg rating 3.74 — 9,644 ratings — published 2023
Truly, Madly, Deadly (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 8,109 ratings — published 2013
The Awakening and Other Stories (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,129 ratings — published 2000
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 587,137 ratings — published 1969
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 14,028 ratings — published 2001
Mission To Tashkent (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 211 ratings — published 1946
On the Spine of Time: A Flyfisher's Journey Among Mountain People, Streams & Trout (The Pruett Series)
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avg rating 4.27 — 144 ratings — published 1991
Two Tribes (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.41 — 940 ratings — published 2022
“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind













