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Armchair Travel
Travel the world without leaving the comforts of that favorite chair at home. Or, plan your next trip through the eyes and experiences of another.


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Luigi Barzini
The Italians/Memories of Mistresses: Reflections from a Life

Bill Bryson
The Palace Under the Alps
Notes from a Small Island
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America


C
Tim Cahill
Pass the Butterworms: Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered
A Wolverine is Eating my Leg

Ian Cameron
Antarctica: The Last Continent Mountains of the Gods

C.W. Ceram
Gods, Graves and Scholars
The Secret of the Hittites: The Discovery of an Ancient Empire
The First American: A Story of North American Archaeology

Chatwin, Bruce
Nowhere is a Place: Travels in Patagonia
The Songlines


D
Christopher Dickey
With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua
Expats: Travels in Arabia, from Tripoli to Teheran

Christina Dodwell
A Traveller in China
Travels with Pegasus: A Microlight Journey Across West Africa


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Nicolas Gage
A Portrait of Greece
Hellas, a Portrait of Greece

Jeff Greenwald
The Size of the World
Shopping for Buddhas


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Eric Hansen
Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and Red Sea
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Italian Days
The Islands of Italy


Thor Heyerdahl
Kon-Tiki, Across the Pacific by Raft
The Ra Expeditions
The Tigris Expedition: In Search of Our Beginnings
Aku-Aku, the Secret of Easter Island

Christopher Hibbert
London, the Biography of a City
Rome, the Biography of a City


Peter Hudson
A Leaf in the Wind

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Pico Iyer
Falling off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
Video Night in Kathmandu: and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto


J
Peter Jenkins
Across China
A Walk Across America
The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2
Along the Edge of America The Tennessee Sampler


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Tristan Jones
Ice
Adrift
A Steady Trade: A Boyhood at Sea
Seagulls in My Soup: Further Adventures of a Wayward Sailor
Somewheres East of Suez


Charles Kuralt
A Life on the Road
To the Top of the World: The Adventures and Misadventures of the Plaisted Polar Expedition
Charles Kuralt's America


L
David Lamb
The Arabs: Journey Beyond the Mirage
A Sense of Place



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Andrew Malcolm
U.S. 1, America's Original Main Street
The Canadians
Mississippi Currents: Journeys Through Time and Valley


Peter Matthiessen
Sand Rivers
African Silences


Peter Mayle
Toujours Provence
A Year in Provence


Jan Morris
Scotland: The Place of Visions
Journeys
Locations
A Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country
Spain


Mary Morris
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers
Wall to Wall: From Beijing to Berlin by Rail

H.V. Morton
H.V. Morton's Britain
A Traveller in Southern Italy
This is Rome: A Pilgrimage in Words and Pictures
In Search of the Holy Land

Farley Mowat
The Desperate People
Aftermath: Travels in Post-war World
Westviking, the Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America


Dervla Murphy
Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir
Cameroon with Egbert


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Redmond O'Hanlon
Into the Heart of Borneo
No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo
In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon


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Jonathan Raban
Arabia: A Journey Through the Labyrinth
Bad Land: An American Romance


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Timothy Severin
The Brendan Voyage
Explorers of the Mississippi
In Search of Genghis Khan


Alex Shoumatoff,
In Southern Light: Trekking Through Zaire and the Amazon
The Rivers Amazon
The Capital of Hope: Brasilia and its People


Stuart Stevens,
Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along
China's Ancient Silk Road


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Paul Theroux
Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries, 1964-1984
To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux
The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean
The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around Great Britain
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
Sailing Through China
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train through Asia
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas/Nowhere is a Place: Travels in Patagonia
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific


Colin Thubron
Istanbul
Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China


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Thubron, Colin
Istanbul
Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China


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Niall Williams
The Pipes Are Calling: Our Jaunts Through Ireland
The Luck of the Irish: Our Life in County Clare
O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare
When Summer's in the Meadow

Ronald Wright
Stolen Continents: The Americas Through Indian Eyes Since 1492
Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico