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Title: 1,000 Places to See Before You Die
Author: Patricia Schultz
It's a traveler's life list, a guide, an inspiration, a memory book. Open it to check out where you've been, and where you should go next. What to see and what to do and what to show the kids. Where to eat and where to stay. And how to change your life.

Title: 100 Things to Do Before You Die
Author: Neil Teplica
Here is the best science has to offer: 100 activities guaranteed to fill you with wonder, handpicked by the editors of New Scientist magazine. So if you have always wanted to contact E.T., spend the night in a rain forest, have your poo rolled away by a dung beetle or touch a moon rock, this is the book for you. Discover what famous scientists including astronomer Patrick Moore, Darwinists, Matt Ridley and Richard Dawkins, Susan Greenfield, Sir Roger Penrose and robot guru Rodney Brooks want to do before they die. Don't panic if life seems too short. There is also advice on what to do after you die. Donate your corpse to a body farm, have your ashes scattered on the moon or turned into diamonds. Each entry tells you all you need to know to fill your days with new experiences.

Title: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Author: Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail ) is a 1998 book by travel writer Bill Bryson describing his attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail with his childhood friend Stephen Katz (later revealed as a pseudonym for Matt Angerer). The book is written in a humorous style, interspersed with more serious discussions of matters relating to the trail's history, sociology, ecology, flora and fauna.

Title: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
Author: Dave Barry
Describes the dark side of tourism with such comical precision that you'll wonder why you ever bother to leave the safety of your living room. For my money, nobody has ever produced a better snapshot of the Baggage Carousel.

Title: Down Under
Author: Bill Bryson
Down Under is a 2000 travelogue book about Australia written by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson. It was also published as Walk About, which included Down Under and another of Bryson's books, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, in one volume. In the United States it was published entitled In a Sunburned Country.

Title: Into the Wild
Author: Jon Krakauer
The purpose of Jon Krakauer’s book is to address the matter of young Christopher McCandless and his odd seclusion from society and a lifestyle that was all most people could ask for. Coming from a well to do background in the Washington D.C. area, McCandless always had privileges that few can claim. McCandless was just entering society, having graduated from Emory University, with more than $25,000 in savings and a family that loved him. The question of why he would completely break contact with all that he knew, give away everything he owned, and disappear to the Alaskan wilderness as a homeless man for two years drives Krakauer’s work.

Title: Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Last Stand takes readers from the tallgrass prairies of Kansas to the Arctic tundra of Alaska to the deserts of the Southwest and bears passionate witness to our last wildernesses, reminding us why they must be preserved.

Title: Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
Author: Bill Bryson
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe is a 1991 travelogue by American writer Bill Bryson. It documents the author's tours of Europe, juxtaposing a trip he took in college in the 1970s with a trip taken twenty years later with..

Title: Notes from a Small Island
Author: Bill Bryson
Notes from a Small Island is a travel book by Bill Bryson. It was written when the author was due to move back to his native United States but decided to take one final trip around Great Britain, which had been his home for over twenty years. Bryson covers all corners of the island observing and talking to people from

Title: The Innocents Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
The travel literature chronicles Twain's pleasure cruise on board the chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of religious pilgrims.

Title: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
Author: Bill Bryson
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America is a book by travel writer Bill Bryson, chronicling his 13,978 mile trip around the United States in the autumn of 1987 and spring 1988. This is the first of Bryson's travel books.

Title: Travel Team
Author: Mike Lupica
Twelve-year-old Danny Walker may be the smallest kid on the basketball court--but don't tell him that. Because no one plays with more heart or court sense. But none of that matters when he is cut from his local travel team, the very same team his father led to national prominence as a boy.
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