The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
by Pico Iyer




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In The Open Road, Pico Iyer gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the Dalai Lama. This is more than a history book, though. The author shares his personal day-to-day spiritual journey in a way that will speak to Westerners. It's a wonderful book; I couldn'... (read more)

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Lost Cosmonaut: Observations of an Anti-Tourist
by Daniel Kalder


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Daniel Kalder belongs to a unique group: the anti-tourists. Sworn to uphold the mysterious tenets of The Shymkent Declarations, the anti-tourist seeks out the dark, lost zones of our planet, eschewing comfort, embracing hunger and hallucinations, and... (read more)

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Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson




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"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it." After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson-bestsellingauthor of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to returnto... (read more)

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The Reluctant Tuscan: How I Discovered My Inner Italian
by Phil Doran


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A Book Sense Pick for May 2005, this is the humorous tale of how the author moveda against his will and his better judgmentato Italy with his wife, only to rediscover himself, his marriage, and the importance of getting in touch with his inner Italian... (read more)

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Around the World in a Bad Mood!: Confessions of a Flight Attendant
by Rene Foss


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A hilarious slant on the culture of airline travel -- by a flight attendant who's logged more in-flight hours than Federal Express. Around the World in a Bad Mood is a center seat on an oversold flight to laughter. And there's no one better qualified... (read more)

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The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
by Rory Stewart


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In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah,... (read more)

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Neither Here Nor There:: Travels in Europe
by Bill Bryson


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Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies -- in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. Twenty years later he decided to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth. The result is... (read more)

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The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise
by Ian Baker


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The Heart of the World recounts an extraordinary journey into one of the most inaccessible places on earth, and a pilgrimage to the heart of Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan prophecies proclaim that the greatest of beyul, or mystical sanctuaries, lies at the... (read more)

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The Illustrated Olive Farm: A Newly Written, Illustrated Companion to Her Bestselling Trilogy
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A sumptuously illustrated companion to the bestselling Olive Farm trilogy. Carol Drinkwater, whose three books—The Olive Farm, The Olive Season, and The Olive Harvest—sold more than a quarter of a million copies in the UK alone, has produced... (read more)

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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
by Bill Bryson


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Following an urge to rediscover his youth, Bill Bryson left his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that would take him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook. With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of... (read more)

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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by Tony Horwitz




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With the same sly humor and neighborly curiosity he brought to Confederates in the Attic and Blue Latitudes, in A Voyage Long and Strange Tony Horwitz roams the New World, surveying the destinations of history's foremost explorers: Leif Eiriksson... (read more)

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The Olive Harvest
by Carol Drinkwater


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The stars shimmer like spilled handfuls of glitter. The day is beginning to rise with a faint mist. As I turn my head, ghostly halos, auras of light, appear and disappear....The silence is truly awesome. Not a bird, not a whisper of wind, not a breath of... (read more)

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ADA Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
by Jennifer Niven




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Now in paperback, the gripping and inspiring tale of a woman's survival alone in the Arctic. In 1921, four men and one woman ventured deep into the Arctic. Two years later, only one returned. When 23-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed on as a... (read more)

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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
by Alexandra David-Neel


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An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David–Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city.... (read more)

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American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
by Matthew Polly




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In his adventurous and highly comical journey to martial arts' ancient home, China's Shaolin Temple, Matthew Polly tests his fortitude and manhood, picking up a great deal about Chinese culture along the way. Filled with peculiar characters, crazy moves,... (read more)

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Cest La Vie an American Woman Begins A
by Suzy Gershman


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Bestselling writer Suzy Gershman (dubbed Super Shopper Suzy by Oprah) is our answer to Peter Mayle in this heartfelt, breezy, and funny story of starting over in Paris. Suzy had always fantasized about moving to Paris with her husband, but when he dies... (read more)

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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
by Frances Mayes


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Frances Mayes entered a wondrous new world when she began restoring an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. There were unexpected treasures at every turn: faded frescos beneath the whitewash in her dining room, a vineyard under wildly... (read more)

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AA Gill Is Away
by A A Gill


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A. A. Gill is one of the most feared writers in London, noted--according to the New York Times--for his "rapier wit." Some even consider the mere assignment of a subject to Gill a hostile act. But when the notice "AA GILL IS AWAY" runs in the Sunday... (read more)

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