The Book Sense Travel & Adventure Literature Bestseller List

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Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the country for the four-week period ending November 14, 2004.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

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The Book Sense Travel & Adventure Literature Bestseller List
1. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die
Patricia Schultz, Workman, $18.95, 0761104844
2. Almost French
Sarah Turnbull, Gotham, $13, 1592400825
3. The Motorcycle Diaries (Movie Tie-In)
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Ocean, $14.95, 1920888101
4. A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $14.95, 0767902521
5. The Best American Travel Writing
Pico Iyer (Ed.), Houghton Mifflin, $14, 0618341269
6. The Sex Lives of Cannibals
J. Maarten Troost, Broadway, $12.95, 0767915305
7. Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
Anna Quindlen, National Geographic Society, $20, 0792265610
8. Dark Star Safari
Paul Theroux, Mariner, $15, 0618446877
9. My Kind of Place: Travel Stories From a Woman Who's Been Everywhere
Susan Orlean, Random House, $24.95, 0679462937
10. In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $14.95, 0767903862
11. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer, Anchor Books/Doubleday, $13.95, 0385494785
12. The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World
Lonely Planet (Eds.), Lonely Planet, $39.99, 1741044510
13. Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River
Peter Heller, Rodale, $24.95, 1579548725
14. Tales of a Female Nomad
Rita Golden Gelman, Three Rivers, $14, 0609809547
15. The Art of Travel
Alain de Botton, Vintage, $13, 0375725342
16. Too Much Tuscan Sun: Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide
Dario Castagno, Globe Pequot, $14.95, 0762736704
17. Touching the Void
Joe Simpson, Perennial, $12.95, 0060730552
18. Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes, Broadway, $15, 0767916069
19. Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
Alice Steinbach, Random House, $14.95, 0375758453
20. One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
Sam Keith, Richard Proenneke, Alaska Northwest, $14.95, 0882405136
21. Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write From the Road
Jennifer L. Leo (Ed.), Travelers' Tales, $14.95, 1885211929
22. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
Bill Bryson, Perennial, $14, 0060920084
23. Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure
Sarah MacDonald, Broadway, $12.95, 0767915747
24. Notes From a Small Island
Bill Bryson, Perennial, $14, 0380727501
25. My Invented Country
Isabel Allende, Perennial, $13.95, 0060545674