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London, United Kingdom: Eland, 1983. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A brilliantly witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues, and narrow escapes of Martha Gellhorn, one of America's most important war correspondents and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Broadway Books, 1999. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 7th Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is an account of an American who traveled to Australia and joined a tribe of aborigines on a four-month-long trek in the outback. Marlo Morgan, a health-care professional, traveled barefoot through 1,400 miles of terrain, lived as her… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 1991. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Who hasn't dreamed, on a mundane Monday or frowzy Friday, of chucking it all in and packing off to the south of France? Provençal cookbooks and guidebooks entice with provocatively fresh salads and azure skies, but is it really all Côtes-du-Rhône and fleur-de-lis?… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1999. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4th Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mayle and his wife return to Provence after a brief absence. This is the novelist's third installment of essays on the joys of living in the south of France. In Encore Provence, Mayle gives us a glimpse… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 2000. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner - in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans. In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife,… Read more about this item