Janice MacLeod

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

One Woman's Journey from the Fast Lane to a Slow Stroll in Paris

A New York Times bestseller

For readers of Eat Pray Love, Under the Tuscan Sun, and The 4-Hour Workweek, comes a funny, romantic, and inspiring travel memoir about a woman who quits her job, moves to Paris, and finds love--and herself.

With romantic Paris as the backdrop and beautifully illustrated with the author's own sketches, Paris Letters is for those who dream of a life richer and more fulfilling than the one they are living today.

Exhausted and on the verge of burnout, Janice MacLeod cuts back, saves up, and buys herself two years of freedom in Europe. In Paris, Janice meets Christophe, the cute butcher down the street--who doesn't speak English. They embark on a whirlwind Paris romance, and she soon realizes she can never return to the world of twelve-hour workdays. But her dwindling savings force her to find a way to fund her dreams again. So Janice turns to her three loves--words, art, and Christophe--to figure out a way to make her happily-ever-after in Paris last forever.

Not only is this a charming nonfiction love story, but it's also filled with financial tips, including MacLeod's list of "100 Ways to Save," and other practical advice to make your dream of living abroad reality.

Praise for Paris Letters:

"Janice MacLeod's charming Paris Letters takes us on her starry-eyed discovery of Paris, the joys of learning the French language, a unique career in art and, best of all, the romance of a lifetime! C'est bon!"--Lynne Martin, author of Home Sweet Anywhere

"Written as though to a best friend telling her story over lattes--or café crème. Relatable and inspiring ... cleverly crafted with wit and unexpected wisdom"--New York Journal of Books

"Aspirational fiction? No, a true story to inspire similar dreamers out there."--National Geographic's "Intelligent Travel"

A wonderful gift for the armchair traveler, artist, and people who love to travel.

Paris Letters

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New York

The Best American Travel Writing 2015

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Signed Edition

• The ultimate insider's guide to Houston

• Features fascinating and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides

• Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 650 titles and 3.8 million copies in print worldwide

• Appeals to both the local market (more than 2 million people call Houston home) and the tourist market (more than 22 million people visit Houston every year!)

• Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs

• Revised and updated edition

Space City. Bayou City. Hustletown. Clutch City. Crush City. What's the story behind all these nicknames? 111 Places in Houston That You Must Not Miss is your guide to the hidden stories behind the city's monikers, stereotypes, and statistics. As America's most diverse city, this book provides 111 different ways to explore Htown. This illustrated guidebook is a readable tour of places representing the distinct personalities that make up the population of the nation's fourth largest city. Traverse Houston's massive landscape of strip malls and interstates, and you will find a city that not only embraces diversity, but transforms it into its own culture, where Hindu temples take up office space, an enterprising Vietnamese jeweler supplies the hip hop scene with bling, and one man's mission to cover his house in beer cans is now a museum. Whether you're a native Houstonian or a newcomer, this book serves as both a good read and a resource for getting to know the city - one unique place at a time



Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

SIGNED!! - 111 Places In Houston That You Must Not Miss 

John Moretti

New Jersey

Moon Living Abroad in Italy

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Paul Theroux

Rare signed first edition in like new condition. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean

"DAZZLING." --Time "[THEROUX'S] WORK IS DISTINGUISHED BY A SPLENDID EYE FOR DETAIL AND THE TELLING GESTURE; a storyteller's sense of pacing and gift for granting closure to the most subtle progression of events; and the graceful use of language. . . . We are delighted, along with Theroux, by the politeness of the Turks, amazed by the mountainous highlands in Syria, touched by the gesture of an Albanian waitress who will not let him pay for his modest meal. . . . The Pillars of Hercules [is] engrossing and enlightening from start (a damning account of tourists annoying the apes of Gibraltar) to finish (an utterly captivating visit with Paul Bowles in Tangier, worth the price of the book all by itself)." --Chicago Tribune "ENTERTAINING READING . . . WHEN YOU READ THEROUX, YOU'RE TRULY ON A TRIP." --The Boston Sunday Globe "HIS PICARESQUE NARRATIVE IS STUDDED WITH SCENES THAT STICK IN THE MIND. He looks at strangers with a novelist's eye, and his portraits are pleasantly tinged with malice." --The Washington Post Book World "THEROUX AT HIS BEST . . . An armchair trip with Theroux is sometimes dark, but always a delight." --Playboy "AS SATISFYING AS A GLASS OF COOL WINE ON A DUSTY CALABRIAN AFTERNOON . . . With his effortless writing style, observant eye, and take-no-prisoners approach, Theroux is in top form chronicling this 18-month circuit of the Mediterranean." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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R. MURRAY

Open-minded and relaxed, Cape Town offers lively cafés, magnificent surf beaches, superb mountain walks and the nearby historic towns of the Winelands. Because of its cosmopolitan history, Cape Town is perhaps the safest city in Africa for the visitor. This indispensable guide is packed with insider tips and suggestions; essential for both leisure and business travel-lers.

History

City Guide

Cape Town

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Marshall C. Eakin

BRAZIL: THE ONCE AND FUTURE COUNTRY is the most comprehensive introduction to Brazil available in English. In his quest to understand the largest country in Latin America, Eakin reveals Brazil to be a land of the marvelous and the mystical, the sublime and the tragic. A country that encompasses half of the land of South America and that is home to one-third of all Latin Americans, Brazil is a nation defined by paradoxes: immense wealth surrounded by widespread poverty, a modern industrial infrastructure alongside an outmoded agricultural system, a largely white South and a Northeastern coast that is overwhelmingly of African descent. Eakin chronicles Brazil's development from its origins in the sixteenth century, when it was created as a by-product of European imperial expansion, to the present day. He takes the reader from the hovels of São Paulo to the pleasure palaces of Rio de Janeiro and all places in between to show the rich cultural mix that is Brazil. History, religion, society, culture, politics, and economy are mixed together to make Brazil: The Once and Future iCountry a fascinating piece of work.

The Once and Future Country

As the most comprehensive introduction to Brazil available in English, Brazil: The Once and Future Country shows Brazil to be a land of the marvellous and the mystical, the sublime and the tragic. Eakin describes a country defined by paradoxes: immense wealth surrounded by widespread poverty, a modern industrial infrastructure alongside an outmoded agricultural system, a largely white South and a Northeastern coast that is overwhelmingly of African descent. Eakin chronicles Brazil's development from its origins in the sixteenth century, when it was created as a by-product of European imperial expansion, to the present day. He takes the reader from the hovels of Sao Paolo to the pleasure palaces of Rio de Janeiro and all places in between to show the rich cultural mix that is Brazil. Brazil: The Once and Future Country is a fascinating read that anyone interested in Brazil will want. It is also the perfect book for the traveller, armchair or otherwise, interested in this endlessly fascinating country.

Brazil

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Charles Kuralt

Rare like new signed edition in very fine condition. Collectible. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The author presents an account of some of his travels in search of quintessentially American people and places

Charles Kuralt's America—Signed

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Pierre Bayard

Michele Hutchison

Social Studies

On the Importance of Armchair Travel

Written in the irreverent style that made How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read a critical and commercial success, Pierre Bayard takes readers on a trip around the world, giving us essential guidance on how to talk about all those fantastic places we've never been. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Places You've Never Been will delight and inform armchair globetrotters and jet-setters, all while never having to leave the comfort of the living room. Bayard examines the art of the "non-journey," a tradition that a succession of writers and thinkers, unconcerned with moving away from their home turf, have employed in order to encounter the foreign cultures they wish to know and talk about. He describes concrete situations in which the reader might find himself having to speak about places he's never been, and he chronicles some of his own experiences and offers practical advice. How to Talk About Places You've Never Been is a compelling and delightful book that will expand any travel enthusiast's horizon well beyond the places it's even possible to visit in a single lifetime.

How to Talk about Places You've Never Been

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Greg Benchwick

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Lonely Planet

Now in full-colour, special wildlife feature Comprehensive planning information including suggested itineraries In-depth information on the indigenous peoples of Ecuador

Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands

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Cecily Wong

Dylan Thuras

Atlas Obscura

Massachusetts

A Food Adventurer's Guide

We've been stuck at home for long enough! It's time to get out and taste the world again. From those ever-curious, ever-quirky minds behind the #1 New York Times bestselling Atlas Obscura,with over 800,00 copies in print, comes an unputdownable guide that marries our endless appetite for travel with our insatiable interest in food. Continent by continent, country by country, Gastro Obscura takes up the mantle of Atlas Obscurato radically expand our sense of wonder about the world - in this case, what humans eat and drink, which turns out to be far more marvellous than we could ever imagine.



Created by the founders of AtlasObscura.com, GastroObscura.com delivers fresh food stories daily to the millions of Atlas Obscura readers and Facebook fans, along with its own burgeoning dedicated email newsletter that is currently reaching over 192,000. And it is now serving up the best of it in a lavishly illustrated food-lover's gift of nearly 500 dishes, ingredients, traditions, and experiences.



Discover English bog butter. 'Threads of God' pasta (only three women know how to make it). The best black bean fritter restaurant in Brazil. The world's largest floating restaurant. A croissant museum in Poland. Focusing as much on food's place in our lives as well as our bellies, the book covers history - the network of ancient Roman fish sauce factories. Culture - picture four million women gathering to make rice pudding. Travel - scale China's Mount Hua to reach a sacred tea house. Festivals - chase a wheel of double Gloucester at Britain's annual Cooper's Hill cheese rolling competition. And such truly surprising delicacies as sturgeon spinal cord, blood tofu, stinkbug tacos, and more.

 

 

Gastro Obscura

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Jane Simon Ammeson

Ohio

Small-Town Destinations

Where can you travel the Erie Canal on a boat pulled by a horse? What is Wapakoneta, and what does it have to do with Neil Armstrong? Where can you eat ice cream at a stop on the Underground Railroad? Find these answers and more in Little Ohio: Small-Town Destinations. Author and blogger Jane Simon Ammeson traveled across the state to discover where to eat, stay, play, and shop in more than 90 charming small towns. Organized by region, Little Ohio offers fellow road trippers an easy-to-use guide of must-see attractions. Full-color images showcase unmissable museums, quaint Main Streets, historic sites, and more. From wineries to chocolate shops, old mills to Amish villages, river boats to covered bridges, Little Ohio has everything you need for a day, weekend, or week full of fun. No matter where you are in the Buckeye State, there's always something to explore!

Little Ohio

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Shantaram 2004 St. Martin’s Press edition

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Now a major television series from Apple TV+ starring Charlie Hunnam!


“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.”


An escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay, where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter the city’s hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.


As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city’s poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.


Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas―this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart.


The Egyptologist: A Novel 2004 Random House


Description:

From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in turmoil.

Just as Howard Carter unveils the tomb of Tutankhamun, making the most dazzling find in the history of archaeology, Oxford-educated Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush is digging himself into trouble, having staked his professional reputation and his fiancée’s fortune on a scrap of hieroglyphic pornography. Meanwhile, a relentless Australian detective sets off on the case of his career, spanning the globe in search of a murderer. And another murderer. And possibly another murderer. The confluence of these seemingly separate stories results in an explosive ending, at once inevitable and utterly unpredictable.


Arthur Phillips leads this expedition to its unforgettable climax with all the wit and narrative bravado that made Prague one of the most critically acclaimed novels of 2002. Exploring issues of class, greed, ambition, and the very human hunger for eternal life, this staggering second novel gives us a glimpse of Phillips’s range and maturity–and is sure to earn him further acclaim as one of the most exciting authors of his generation.

Historical Fiction Crime Thriller Novel Set of 2 New Paperbacks in Shrinkwrap

Pico Iyer

In Search of Paradise

From "one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time" (Brain Pickings): a journey through competing ideas of paradise to see how we can live more peacefully in an ever more divided and distracted world.

"Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul...A masterpiece." -- #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert

"Immersive and profound.... Iyer matches penetrating insights with some of the most transportive prose around. This further burnishes Iyer's reputation as one of the best." -- starred Publishers Weekly

Paradise: that elusive place where the anxieties, struggles, and burdens of life fall away. Most of us dream of it, but each of us has very different ideas about where it is to be found. For some it can be enjoyed only after death; for others, it's in our midst--or just across the ocean--if only we can find eyes to see it.
 
Traveling from Iran to North Korea, from the Dalai Lama's Himalayas to the ghostly temples of Japan, Pico Iyer brings together a lifetime of explorations to upend our ideas of utopia and ask how we might find peace in the midst of difficulty and suffering. Does religion lead us back to Eden or only into constant contention? Why do so many seeming paradises turn into warzones? And does paradise exist only in the afterworld - or can it be found in the here and now?
 
For almost fifty years Iyer has been roaming the world, mixing a global soul's delight in observing cultures with a pilgrim's readiness to be transformed. In this culminating work, he brings together the outer world and the inner to offer us a surprising, original, often beautiful exploration of how we might come upon paradise in the midst of our very real lives.

The Half Known Life

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West Virginia

A Travel Survival Kit

A guide to travel in New Zealand includes information on New Zealand's national parks, glaciers, hiking trails, and resort towns

New Zealand

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rare find! 1969 The Easy Guide to Merida Yucatán Mexico and Nearby Archaeological Zones by Richard Bloomgarden


cover has minor scratches but pages are pristine. binding glue is losing its adhesive due to age, but all pages are still in tact. please see photos for condition!

And Nearby Archaeological Zones

The Easy Guide to Merida Yucatán 

Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff

Notable advice from the classic travel guide publisher for this captivating country. Covers ratings of sights, restaurants, shops, and accommodations. Slight coffee stain on the bottom but otherwise in great condition. Published 2016

With a Side Trip to Angkor Wat

Buzzing cities, world-class cuisine, dramatic landscapes, and welcoming locals give Vietnam a distinct character and have made the country increasingly popular with American travelers. From Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta to the capital city of Hanoi and the northern highlands, Fodor's revitalized new edition has the essential coverage of Southeast Asia's most dynamic nation.

Fodor's Vietnam

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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Georgia

501 must visit destinations 

Alain de Botton

Rare signed first edition in like new condition. Inscribed. 

An exploration of the human desire to travel presents a series of essays on airports, museums, landscapes, holiday romances, and hotel mini-bars, offering suggestions on how to render travel more fulfilling.

The Art of Travel—Signed 

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Rita Ariyoshi

Pennsylvania

TRAVEL & HOLIDAY GUIDES. Several in-depth features introduce you to special aspects of Hawaii, including detailed discussions on the hula, golfing in Hawaii, and the story of the lei.A favorite component of the "Traveler" series are the walks and drives that help the visitor get to know an area intimately; in the "National Geographic Traveler: Hawaii", you are taken on a walk around historic Honolulu, as well as a walk through historic Lahaina; and, a drive around the geologically fascinating Crater Rim in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Sidebars on experiential travel include attending a luau like a local, ziplining on Kauai, and how to enjoy Hawaii's healing arts.

National Geographic Traveler: Hawaii

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Jackie Sheckler Finch

Nancy Mikula

DK Eyewitness Travel's full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled photography, 3-D mapping, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guides are the only guides that work equally well for inspiration, as a planning tool, a practical resource while traveling, and a keepsake following any trip.

Each guide is packed with the up-to-date, reliable destination information every traveler needs, including extensive hotel and restaurant listings, themed itineraries, lush photography, and numerous maps.

Eyewitness Travel Guide - USA

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Susan Patterson

Susan DiLallo

James Patterson

Arizona

The Most Emotional Mother-Daughter Novel in Years

"Every mother and daughter should have conversations that change their lives. This book will win your heart!" -Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Hotel Nantucket



A mother and daughter on vacation in Paris unpack a lifetime of secrets and hopes--with a giant Pattersonian twist at the end!



Every daughter has her own distinctive voice, her inimitable style, and her secrets.

Laurie is an artist, a collector of experiences. She travels the world with a worn beige duffel bag.



Every mother has her own distinctive voice, her inimitable style, and her secrets.

"Dr. Liz," Laurie's mother, is an elegant perfectionist who travels the world with a matched set of suitcases.

When Laurie surprises her mother with a dream vacation, it brings an unexpected sparkle to her eyes. So begins Things I Wish I Told My Mother. You will wish this novel never ends.

Things I Wish I Told My Mother, signed

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Colin Cowie

From legendary lifestyle expert Colin Cowie comes the last word in living a gracious, sensuous life on any budgetColin draws back the curtain on his own chic, passionate, 120-miles-per-hour life, revealing how to create and entertain in an inviting home, garner respect in the workplace, and travel with ease and comfortNo matter how or where you live, or whatever your personal style may be, Colin Cowie Chic will place you on the fast track to experiencing life to the fullest.

This immensely practical handbook offers step-by-step instructions on everything from workplace etiquette to the art of no-sweat, fuss-free travelColin also takes the guesswork out of navigating today's social situations with the kind of charm and confidence that will get you invited back anywhere you want!

The invaluable details he shares include: Home:

Essential comforts for every room Kitchen decorating ideas Know-how for being or hosting a guest

Storage and organization shortcuts

Entertaining:

A wine-and-cheese primer Options for stunning table settings A no-fail hangover cure

Travel:
Unbeatable jet-lag remedies Road-trip guidelines A must-have packing list
Work: Tips for motivating employees and coworkers
Desk etiquette for the office
And much more!
Packed with detailed lists, gorgeous photographs, and helpful illustrations, this is the only guidebook you'll ever need to live a beautiful, elegant life

Delaware

The Guide to Life As It Should Be

Packed with delicious recipes, stunning photography, and invaluable details, this must-have blueprint to stylish living on any budget is the only guidebook readers need to enjoy a beautiful, sensuous, and elegant life. Full color throughout.

Colin Cowie Chic

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Becky Ohlsen

Includes the Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountains, California and the Southwest The region's best scenic drives, including the western portion of Route 66. 3D illustration of Alcatraz.

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