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Roads: Driving America’s Great Highways
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Touchstone/Simon &
Schuster 2000
ISBN
0684868857 Near Fine Trade Paperback. Corner creasing of two leaves - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. As he crisscrosses America - driving in search of the present, the past, and himself - Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation’s great trails and the culture that has developed around them. MEMOIRS,AMERICAN SOCIETY,AMERICAN HISTORY Book# 6928 |
US$8.00 |
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Doubleday First Edition
1997 ISBN: 0385474954 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Here, at last, is a key to modern India...there is no better guide to India's kaleidoscopic mosaic than Gita Mehta. ESSAYS,INDIA Book #4602 |
US$13.50 |
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National Geographic First Edition
2003 ISBN: 0792265289 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The familiar image of a Pacific paradise barely scratches the surface of the rich history and fascinating culture of the real Hawai'i - and in this evocative, eclectic, and unfailingly engaging book, novelist Suasanna Moore shows us a hidden realm no tourist is likely to see. Illustrated. HAWAII,PACIFIC,SANDWICH ISLANDS Book #6824 |
US$11.00 |
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Vintage Seventh Printing
1993 ISBN: 0679740309 New Unread Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Mary Wollstonecraft in Norway, Isabella Bird in the Rocky Mountains, Mary Kingsley in West Africa, Isabelle Eberhardt in Morocco, Kate Marsden in Siberia, Isak Dinesen in Kenya, Vita Sackville-West in Persia, Willa Cather in Provence, Rebecca West in Yugoslavia, Mary McCarthy in Florence, Mary Lee Settle in Turkey, Box-Car Bertha on the American Railrosds. WOMEN'S STUDIES,ADVENTURE,TRAVELLERS,WRITERS,AUTHORS Book #4569 |
US$11.50 |
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William Morrow First Edition
1986 ISBN: Very Good Trade Paperback. Mild wear of wraps and spots of top edge. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A delightful street-by-street guide to the homes, clubs and favorite pubs of more than 250 illustrious Americans over the last two centuries. Illustrated with maps and interesting photos. EXPLORATION,ENGLAND,LONDON Book #3636 |
US$7.00 |
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Alfred A. Knopf First American
Edition 1989 ISBN: 0394577949 Fine Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with several tiny chips and a closed corner tear: now nicely held in a clear protective cover. Is it possible that somewhere there exists an "ordinary" American town where "ordinary" Americans live out their lives? What would that town be like? Tony Parker - described by the London Sunday Times as Britain's most expert interviewer - found the answers when he found Bird, Kansas. SMALL TOWNS,MIDWEST,AMERICAN SOCIETY Book #5131 |
US$7.95 |
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Elsevier/Nelson First Edition
1979 ISBN: Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ has very slight edge wear; in a clear protective cover. A tour of Mainland China. COMMUNISM,ASIA,ADVENTURE,EXPLORATION Book #1667 |
US$13.50 |
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University Press of Kansas
Revised Edition 1991 ISBN: 0700604987 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A montage of essays about the land between the coasts by one of the finest of contemporary writers. MID-WEST,U.S.HISTORY,GEOGRAPHY,ESSAYS Book #3170 |
US$10.50 |
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Simon & Schuster
1988 ISBN: 0671659537 Near Fine Trade Paperback. Very gentle creasing of spine - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Universally praised, Mountain Time offers an insider's incomparable view of a natural jewel that has become a geographic mecca and household name - Yellowstone National Park. NATIONAL PARKS,YELLOWSTONE,ROCKY MOUNTAINS,AMERICAN WEST,WYOMING Book #5359 |
US$7.95 |
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Carroll & Graf
2002 ISBN: 0786709847 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "One of the ten essential travel books. "___Paul Theroux. The true and unusual adventures of a young Scotsman in the wild American West. ADVENTURE,AMERICAN WEST,AMERICAN FRONTIER,SAN FRANCISCO Book #6684 |
US$8.00 |
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E.P. Dutton Book Club Edition
1988 ISBN: Very Good Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book has mild rubbing of spine lettering and previous owner's bookplate on back paste-down - else Fine. It is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. An analysis of Japanese society by an author who has lived for eight years among the Japanese. Illustrated. JAPANESE CULTURE,JAPANESE SOCIETY,ASIA,ORIENT Book #3486 |
US$12.00 |
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Mayflower First American Edition
1979 ISBN: 0831717947 Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Fading of upper board margins - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with several tiny scrapes; in a clear protective cover. From the Pennines in winter to the Vale of Evesham at blossom time, from the misty Mountains of Mourne in June to hay harvest in the South of England, the breathtaking beauty of Britain’s richly diverse landscape as it changes month by month has been unforgettably captured in this magnificent book by author and broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. BRITAIN,IRELAND,ENGLAND,ERIN Book #7681 |
US$8.00 |
