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One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children

David Elliot Cohen - Open Road Distribution

Have you ever wanted to take a year off from your life? A meandering, serendipitous journey around the world with your family? It sounds impossible. But one day, David Elliot Cohen, co-creator of the bestselling Day in the Life and America 247 book series, decided to make this dream a reality....
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

Elizabeth Gilbert - Riverhead Books; Reissue edition
Format: Audiobook

A transformational journey through Italy, India, and Bali searching for pleasure and devotion—the massive bestseller from the author of The Signature of All Things and the forthcoming Big Magic  This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers....
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 1)

Cheryl Strayed - Vintage; 1 edition
Format: Audiobook

A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.
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North Korea Journal

Michael Palin
Format: Audiobook

In this beautifully illustrated journal based on a TV documentary, writer, comedian and world traveller Michael Palin journeys to North Korea, offering a glimpse of life inside the world's most secretive country, uncovering surprises and making friends along the way.
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A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson
Format: Ebook

Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, undertakes a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath-The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine....
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Neither here nor there: Travels in Europe

Bill Bryson - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Ebook

In the early seventies, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe - in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. He was accompanied by an unforgettable sidekick named Stephen Katz (who will be gloriously familiar to readers of Bryson's A Walk in the Woods) . Twenty years later, he decided...
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Whatever you do, don't run : true tales of a botswana safari guide

Peter Allison - Tantor Media
Format: Audiobook

Whatever You Do, Don't Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top -safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where the wrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry -elephants, and the world's most unpredictable animals-herds...
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Tales of a female nomad : living at large in the world

Rita Golden Gelman - Tantor Media
Format: Audiobook

At the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, Rita left an elegant life in Los Angeles to follow her dream of connecting with people in cultures all over the world. In 1986, she sold her possessions and became a nomad, living in a Zapotec village in Mexico, sleeping with sea lions...
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The geography of bliss : one grump's search for the happiest places in the world

Eric Weiner; Hachette Audio. - Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The geography of bliss takes the listener from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture...
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