Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy
 Amazon.com Review: At first blush, the subtitle of intrepid traveler Eric Hansen's floral account might seem, well, hyperbolic. After taking this whirlwind tour of the hidden world of rare orchid collectors, the reader will find the words well chosen. [... more]
$23.00
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Roads from the Ashes: An Odyssey in Real Life on the ...
The BEST things in life aren't things!: Megan Edwards is the true Phoenix risen from the ashes - NOT just her unusual vehicle. I was at the meeting she attended just two days after the fire. She'd lost everything, yet even then she knew that it was a [... more]
$14.95
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Apples
An engaging read, the commonplace made almost sacred: Browning's journeys through the world of apples are exhaustive, lyric and compelling. If you like NPR, or the old New Yorker, you'll love this book on the fruit of English Yeoman, Thomas Jefferson, [... more]
$21.00
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Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy
Amazon.com Review: At first blush, the subtitle of intrepid traveler Eric Hansen's floral account might seem, well, hyperbolic. After taking this whirlwind tour of the hidden world of rare orchid collectors, the reader will find the words well chosen. [... more]
$13.95
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French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France
Amazon.com Review: A few years back, escaping the sound and fury of New York, Richard Goodman moved to a small southern French farming town he calls by the alias St. Sebastian de Caisson, everything about which "suggests the uneventful, and the [... more]
$13.00
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Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
Little More Than Sensationalist Fiction: I read this book when I was actually in Borneo where I spent over a year, visiting many of the places described in the book. I found it plainly ridiculous! The real Borneo is nothing like the mystical " [... more]
$13.95
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On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town
Amazon.com Review: It has been said that food defines a culture. For the French, food is an integral part of their coveted tradition, and Susan Herrmann Loomis's new book On Rue Tatin embraces both. As a young, recent American college graduate, Loomis [... more]
$24.00
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At Home in France
Ann Barry obituary - from the New York Times: Ann Barry, Editor And Writer, 53 (NYT) 245 words Published: February 19, 1996 Ann Barry, who pursued a freelance writing career while working as an editor at The New York Times and at The New Yorker, died of [... more]
$19.00
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Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian ...
Amazon.com Review: Fed up with cold, foggy London and the high cost of real estate, Annie Hawes is persuaded by her sister Lucy to travel to Italy and graft roses for the winter. The sisters arrive in rural Liguria with some formal Italian, no knowledge [... more]
$25.00
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Chicken Soup for the Traveler's Soul: Stories of ...
Chicken Soup for the Travellers Soul is a winner: This is a wonderful addition to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. One of my favorite stories is A Visit With My Parents. It is about a Peace Corps Volunteer living in the Philippines. The parents of [... more]
$12.95
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A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time
J.B. Jackson's Sense of Place, Time and Profundity: J.B. Jackson's reflections drawn from his many years' work in landscape architecture make a wonderful read for any interested in the burgeoning category of 'place' studies. Free of postmodernese yet [... more]
$20.00
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An Italian Affair
romantic places, not a romantic lover: This book was great for me because the author wrote loving, detailed descriptions of the places she went, the food she ate, and the people she met. Her husband, who she thought was the love of her life, left her [... more]
$13.95
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