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Turn Right at Machu Pichu, Mark Adams

Bright Lights, No City: An African Adventure on Bad Roads With a Brother and a Very Weird Business Plan, Max Alexander

Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places, Andrew Blackwell

A Walk in the Woods:  Rediscovering America on the Appalacian Trail, Bill Bryson

The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean, Philip Caputo

Double Take:  A Memoir, Kevin Michael Connolly

Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout, Philip Connors

Have Mother, Will Travel: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, each other, and the World, Claire Fontaine

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World, Matthew Goodman

Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road, William Least Heat-Moon

Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in the Happiest Kingdom on Earth, Lisa Napoli

Holidays in Heck, P.J. O'Rourke

To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story, Casey Scieszka

Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality, Jacob Tomsky

The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes, Scott Wallace

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