The Book Sense Travel Literature Bestseller List

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Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S. for the four-week period ending June 20, 2004.

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

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The Book Sense Travel Literature Bestseller List
1. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die
Patricia Schultz, Workman, $18.95, 0761104844
2. The Art of Travel
Alain de Botton, Vintage, $13, 0375725342
3. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $14.95, 0767902521
4. Dark Star Safari: Overland From Cairo to Cape Town
Paul Theroux, Mariner, $15, 0618446877
5. My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
Isabel Allende, Perennial, $13.95, 0060545674
6. Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
Frances Mayes, Broadway, $15, 0767916069
7. Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure
Sarah MacDonald, Broadway, $12.95, 0767915747
8. The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
J. Maarten Troost, Broadway, $12.95, 0767915305
9. Rounding the Horn: Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries, and Naked Natives
Dallas Murphy, Basic, $25.95, 0465047599
10. In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $14.95, 0767903862
11. Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
Alice Steinbach, Random House, $14.95, 0375758453
12. A Tale of Two Valleys: Wine, Wealth and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma
Alan Deutschman, Broadway, $14.95, 0767907043
13. Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
Linda Lawrence Hunt, Univ. of Idaho, $16.95, 0893012629
14. Window Seat: Reading the Landscape From Above
Gregory Dicum, Chronicle, $14.95, 0811840867
15. Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park
Tim Cahill, Crown, $16, 140004622X
16. Notes From a Small Island
Bill Bryson, Perennial, $14, 0380727501
17. Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto
Victoria Abbott Riccardi, John Shields, Broadway, $12.95, 076790852X
18. Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write From the Road
Jennifer L. Leo (Ed.), Travelers' Tales, $14.95, 1885211929
19. Walking the Bible
Bruce Feiler, Harper, $14.95, 0380807319
20. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
Bill Bryson, Perennial, $14, 0060920084
21. Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
Geoff Dyer, Vintage, $13, 1400031672
22. The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West
David Haward Bain, Viking, $27.95, 0670033081
23. Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
Rita Golden Gelman, Three Rivers, $14, 0609809547
24. A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle, Vintage, $12, 0679731148
25. Barcelona the Great Enchantress
Robert Hughes, National Geographic, $20, 079226794X