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	1,000 Places to See Before You Die • Patricia Schultz • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A tantalizing collection of destinations, each nicely described with essential travel details. (TVL23, $19.95)
	Birds of Chile • Alvaro Jaramillo • FIELD GUIDE • A compact, comprehensive guide to 473 species in the Princeton Field Guide series, featuring range maps and designed for easy field reference. (CHI50, $29.95)
	Dark Star Safari, Overland from Cairo to Cape Town • Paul Theroux • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Theroux sets his sights on Africa in his latest travelogue, a rough journey the length of the continent. (AFR131, $15.95)
	Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes • Edith Grossman • LITERATURE • The 400-year-old landmark novel (the most famous work in Spanish literature), in a sparkling new translation that aims for uninflected, accessible prose, dumping the mock-chivalry of earlier translations. (SPN211, $16.95)
	Feeding a Yen, Savoring Local Specialties from Kansas City to Cuzco • Calvin Trillin • FOOD • A captivating, enthusiastic collection of essays on the subjects of food, life and local specialties. This slim book includes Trillin's priceless riff on bagels as bait to lure his daughters home from the West Coast, his quest for the best ceviche with Douglas Rodriguez, and 11 other ramblings. (WLD40, $13.95)
	Krakatoa, The Day the World Exploded: August 27,1883 • Simon Winchester • NATURAL HISTORY • A masterful portrait of the island, centered around the dramatic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. A lucid explanation of the volcanology, human drama and ecology of Krakatoa. (INS93, $13.95)
	Monster of God: The Man Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind • David Quammen • NATURAL HISTORY • In search of lions in India's Gir forest, Australia's formidable saltwater crocodiles, Romania's brown bears and tigers in the Russian Far East. (BST84, $15.95)
	Nine Hills to Nambonkaha, Two Years in the Heart of an African Village • Sarah Erdman • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An affectionate insightful account of two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cote d'Ivoire. (WAF72, $14.00)
	The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America • David Sibley • FIELD GUIDE • A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird with status, habitat, range, voice and identifying marks. (USE262, $19.95)
	The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America • David Sibley • FIELD GUIDE • A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird. (USW418, $19.95)
	Stone Voices, The Search for Scotland • Neal Ascherson • HISTORY • Ascherson writes with verve and insight on the centuries-old impulse toward nationhood in Scotland in this absorbing portrait, interweaving history with archaeology, myth and his own interviews and travels. (SCT66, $14.00)
	The Towers of Trebizond • Rose MacAulay • Jan Morris • LITERATURE • Known for her sparkling humor, Macaulay's minor masterpiece follows an eccentric party of Brits who set off for Turkey to establish a mission. The novel was first published in 1956. (TKY15, $14.95)
	The World, Life and Travel 1950-2000 • Jan Morris • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A compilation of eyewitness reports, meditations and adventures by prose stylist, journalist, traveler, man and woman, Jan Morris. The selections, chosen by Morris, offer a good dose of the author's insight, perspective and scintillating prose. (TVL29, $16.95)

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