The Book Sense Travel Literature Bestseller List

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Based on sales from hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense across the U.S., for the eight-week period ending June 19, 2005.

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.

Assassination Vacation
Sarah Vowell, S&S, $21, 0743260031

3.

Skeletons on the Zahara
Dean King, Back Bay, $14.95, 0316159352

4.

Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier
Alexandra Fuller, Penguin, $15, 0143035010

5.

A Year in the Merde
Stephen Clarke, Bloomsbury, $22.95, 1582345910

6.

A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $14.95, 0767902521

7.

Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman
Alice Steinbach, Random House, $13.95, 0812973607

8.

One Man's Wilderness
Sam Keith, Richard Proenneke, Alaska Northwest, $14.95, 0882405136

9.

Almost French
Sarah Turnbull, Gotham, $13, 1592400825

10.

Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks
Bill McKibben, Crown, $16, 0609610732

11.

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $13.95, 0385494785

12.

The Motorcycle Diaries (Movie Tie-In)
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Ocean, $14.95, 1920888101

13.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig, Perennial, $13, 0060958324

14.

Inside a Paris Quartier
Diane Johnson, National Geographic, $20, 0792272668

15.

Off Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets, and Gatemouth's Gator
Michael Perry, Perennial, $13.95, 0060755504

16.

Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
Linda Lawrence Hunt, Anchor, $14, 1400079934

17.

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
Laurence Gonzales, Norton, $14.95, 0393326152

18.

In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $14.95, 0767903862

19.

Dark Star Safari
Paul Theroux, Mariner, $15, 0618446877

20.

Italy Out of Hand: A Capricious Tour
Barbara Hodgson, Chronicle, $19.95, 0811831469

21.

Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
Alice Steinbach, Random House, $14.95, 0375758453

22.

Cork Boat: A True Story of the Unlikeliest Boat Ever Built
John Pollack, Anchor, $13.95, 1400034906

23.

Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes, Broadway, $15, 0767916069

24.

A Thousand Days in Tuscany
Marlena De Blasi, Algonquin, $23.95, 1565123921

25.

The Risks of Sunbathing Topless: And Other Funny Stories from the Road
Kate Chynoweth (Ed.), Seal Press, $15.95, 1580051413