 | Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $0.57 Weltschmerz on the Mediterranean. Paul Theroux romps along its shores during the off-season and sees another side of the Roman Lake. Don't miss it.
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 | The journal of a tour to Corsica, and memoirs of Pascal Paoli by James Boswell
Boswell's account of Corsica's war of independence against Genoa in the 1760s was a bestseller when it came out, but is now out-of-print.
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 | Mogreb-El-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco (Marlboro Travel) by R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $4.38 Disguised as a Syrian doctor, an eccentric Scot makes his way toward a mysterious Moroccan city. Witty as Burton and critical of both Muslims and Europeans.
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 | From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East by William Dalrymple
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $3.50 A moving account of the dying Orthodox and Armenian Christian communities in the Middle East. See my review.
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 | Travels with a Donkey (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy used from: $2.13 Stevenson plods through the Cevennes mountains of southern France. Funny, beautiful, and sobering.
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 | Old Calabria (Marlboro Travel) by Norman Douglas
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $4.96 |
 | By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy (Marlboro Travel) by George Gissing
Buy new: $17.00 / Used from: $1.13 The narrative of an 1897 trip to impoverished Calabria, the "heel" of Italy. . .
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 | A Sweet and Glorious Land: Revisiting the Ionian Sea by John Keahey
Buy used from: $0.01 . . . and 100 years later, John Keahey retraces Gissing's footsteps.
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 | The Spirit of Mediterranean Places (Marlboro Travel) by Michael Butor
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $1.77 Written by a Frenchman in the 1950s -- that's ambiance.
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 | Italian Journeys (Marlboro Travel) by W.D. Howells
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $3.71 By the "dean" of turn-of-the-century American literature.
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 | On the Shores of the Mediterranean by Eric Newby
Buy used from: $0.25 A grand tour of ancient ruins and other great places all over the Mediteranean. Massive.
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 | The Accursed Mountains: Journeys in Albania by Robert Carver
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $6.00 You won't put it down.
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 | Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East (Marlboro Travel) by Alexander William Kinglake
Buy new: $21.00 / Used from: $4.00 Churchill said he learned to write from Kinglake. Check out this riot of a book about his travels in the Balkans and the Middle East.
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 | The Olive Grove: Travels in Greece by Katherine Kizilos
Buy used from: $0.88 |
 | Greece: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.75 |
 | In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale by Amitav Ghosh
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.23 |
 | Description of Egypt: Notes and Views in Egypt and Nubia by Edward William Lane
Buy new: $33.82 / Used from: $19.99 |
 | In a Desert Land: Photographs of Israel, Egypt, and Jordan by Neil Folberg
Buy new: $38.56 / Used from: $4.44 |
 | Travels of Ali Bey: In Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey, Between the Years 1803 and 1807 (Folios Archive Library) by Ali Bey
Buy new: $34.27 / Used from: $36.82 |
 | Last Trout in Venice: The Far-Flung Escapades of an Accidental Adventurer by Doug Lansky
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Venice and the Grand Tour by Professor Bruce Redford
Buy used from: $40.49 |
 | Pictures from Italy (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $3.97 |
| Luce nella solitudine: Viaggio e crisi di Newman in Sicilia, 1833 (Studi e richerche) (Italian Edition)
John Henry Newman's conversion to Catholicism began during a month spent in the mountains of Sicily in 1833.
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 | Spanish Lessons: Beginning a New Life in Spain by Derek Lambert
Buy new: $16.24 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Turkish Embassy Letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.85 Mary Wortley Montagu was a English aristocrat who visited Turkey in the first years of the 18th century.
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