 | The Power of Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions (P.S.) by Winifred Gallagher
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.00 "Why we fall in love with places"
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 | The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.95 Made me want to move back to Chicago . . . so I did
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 | Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction) by Wallace Stegner
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 How we learn to love the places where we come to rest
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 | Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan by Phillip Lopate
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $1.92 Still my favorite city in the world
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 | Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.01 People were falling in love with Tuscany long before Frances Mayes
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 | Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces by Robert Clark
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $7.96 My new favorite book about an old favorite city
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 | The World of Venice: Revised Edition by Jan Morris
Buy new: $13.68 / Used from: $2.49 It's hard not to love Venice
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 | The River at the Center of the World, Revised: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time by Simon Winchester
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.92 I never wanted to go to China until I read this book
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 | Following the Brush: An American Encounter With Classical Japanese Culture by John Elder
Buy used from: $1.20 The Japan I'd like to visit
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 | Shadow of the Silk Road (P.S.) by Colin Thubron
Buy new: $11.51 / Used from: $3.20 A part of the world I never (really) knew existed
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 | America, New Mexico by Robert Leonard Reid
Buy used from: $2.38 Beyond the veneer of Santa Fe
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 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 At least for a while, all of Savannah was in love with a book
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 | The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.88 I never thought of the treetops as a place, though the redwoods were impressive enough from the ground
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 | Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 It's worth the trip from Salt Lake City . . .
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 | Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast by Mike Tidwell
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.25 Wish I'd seen it before Katrina washed it away
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 | Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert by William Langewiesche
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.00 Langewiesche never disappoints
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 | Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest by Sy Montgomery
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $10.52 Never thought I'd want to go to the Amazon, but now . . .
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 | Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.86 I began to look at my world differently while reading this book
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 | Wanderlust: Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance
Buy new: $16.24 / Used from: $0.90 I'm glad to know so many others share my topophilia
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 | The Nature of Home: A Lexicon of Essays by Lisa Knopp
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $4.13 Makes a very convincing case for what it means to feel connected to a place (and how someone could fall in love with Nebraska)
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 | Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon by Ann Haymond Zwinger
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $0.06 Gorgeous descriptive writing, though a bit slow as a narrative
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 | Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece by Patricia Storace
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $0.01 I think I'm beginning to understand my Greek friend
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