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The Book Sense Travel Literature Bestseller List
May 10, 2006
Based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide during the eight-week period ending May 9, 2006.
Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.
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The Book Sense Travel Literature
Bestseller List
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A Year in the World
Frances Mayes, Broadway, $26, 0767910052
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1,000 Places to See Before You Die
Patricia Schultz, Workman, $18.95, 0761104844
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Assassination Vacation
Sarah Vowell, S&S, $14, 074326004X
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A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $14.95, 0767902521
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The Reluctant Tuscan: How I Discovered My Inner Italian
Phil Doran, Gotham, $15, 1592401899
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Finding George Orwell in Burma
Emma Larkin, Penguin, $15, 0143037110
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7.
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Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
Anna Quindlen, National Geographic, $10.95, 0792242076
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8.
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig, Harper Perennial, $13.95, 0060839872
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We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light
John Baxter, Harper Perennial, $13.95, 0060832886
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10.
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Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic
Redmond O'Hanlon, Vintage, $14.95, 1400078105
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11.
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New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings From the City
Andrei Codrescu, Algonquin, $14, 1565125053
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Almost French
Sarah Turnbull, Gotham, $13, 1592400825
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $13.95, 0385494785
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14.
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A Year in Japan
Kate T. Williamson, Princeton Architectural, $19.95, 1568985401
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15.
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A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure
Marlena De Blasi, Ballantine, $13.95, 0345481097
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16.
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Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
Alice Steinbach, Random House, $14.95, 0375758453
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17.
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In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $14.95, 0767903862
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18.
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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
Bruce Feiler, Harper Perennial, $14.95, 0060838639
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One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
Sam Keith, Richard Proenneke, Alaska Northwest, $14.95, 0882405136
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20.
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Skeletons on the Zahara
Dean King, Back Bay, $14.95, 0316159352
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21.
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Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes, Broadway, $15, 0767916069
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22.
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Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
Linda Lawrence Hunt, Anchor, $14, 1400079934
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Phaic Tan: Sunstroke on a Shoestring
Santo Cilauro, et al., Chronicle, $13.95, 0811853659
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Peter Hessler, HarperCollins, $26.95, 0060826584
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25.
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Tales of a Female Nomad
Rita Golden Gelman, Three Rivers, $14, 0609809547
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