What Color Is Your Jockstrap?: Funny Men and Women Write from the Road
by Jennifer L. Leo


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Nothing is too ridiculous on the road, and as these men and women generously share without shame or undue embarrassment, they prove again and again that a sense of humor is the one tool no traveler should be without.... (read more)

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Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to the Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail
by Karsten Heuer


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Walking the Big Wild is the story of Karsten Heuer's extraordinary 18-month journey of hiking, skiing, and paddling across 2,100 miles of mountains, forests, and rivers from Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming to the Canadian Yukon. Accompanied by... (read more)

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My Attainment of the Pole
by Frederick A Cook


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The subzero temperatures were only one of the dangers explorer Frederick Cook (1865–1940) faced in his attempts to reach the North Pole. During his extraordinary and harrowing journey, he fought off arctic wolves and polar bears, lived through ice... (read more)

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The Lost Kingdoms of Africa: Through Muslim Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat and Camel
by Jeffrey Tayler


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Jeffrey Taylor travels 2,500 miles across the Sahel by truck, taxi, bus and boat to present a personal account of one of the continent's least-known regions - that of Muslim Africa.... (read more)

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The Men in My Country (Sightline Books)
by Marilyn Abildskov


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In the early 1990s, at the watershed age of thirty, Marilyn Abildskov decided she needed to start over. She accepted an offer to move from Utah to Matsumoto, Japan, to teach English to junior high school students. "All I knew is that I had to get away... (read more)

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My Paris (Lannan Selection)
by Gail Scott


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Disillusioned by an inability to reconcile present day commercialism and imperialism, a woman assembles a journal of present, past and philosophy.... (read more)

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Accidental Enlightenment: The Extraordinary Travels of a Modern-Day Gulliver
by Stephen Banick


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Part travel guide, part illuminating how-to manual for a more fulfilling, connected life, Accidental Enlightenment is an absorbing look into the adventures and insights of Stephen Banick, an inveterate wanderer, observer, and chronicler of the world at... (read more)

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Tibetan Rescue: The Extraordinary Quest to Save the Sacred Art Treasures of Tibet
by Pamela Logan


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Logan, who founded the nonprofit Kham Aid Foundation to support conservation of the murals of Tibet's Pewar Monastery, provides a firsthand look at Tibetan culture and the fate of their Buddhist monasteries under Chinese Communist rule. Maps, color... (read more)

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The Liquid Continent, Volume I: Alexandria, a Mediterranean Trilogy (Armchair Traveler)
by Nicholas Woodsworth


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The moment Nicholas Woodsworth arrives in Alexandria, he senses an intimacy, a garrulous warmth, and near tribal sociability that is shared by all the others on this sea. In lyrical prose, he uncovers what it is about these cities that look out over the... (read more)

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Voyage Discovery V2
by Robert Falcon Scott


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This publication reproduces in facsimile the rare, lavishly illustrated deluxe edition. Robert F. Scott is best known for his failed, fatal efforts to be the first to reach the South Pole, but his initial Antarctic expedition aboard the Discovery from... (read more)

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Voyages That Changed the World
by Peter Aughton


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Dramatically told, often in the words of the voyagers themselves, and beautifully illustrated with maps, portraits and historic illustrations, these are the gripping stories of how a handful of sailors, adventures, pirates and mavericks shaped the course... (read more)

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A Traveller in Rome
by H. V. Morton


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H.V. Morton's evocative account of his days in 1950s Rome—the fabled era of La Dolce Vita—remains an indispensable guide to what makes the Eternal City eternal. In his characteristic anecdotal style, Morton leads the reader on a well-informed... (read more)

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Secrets of the Sands: The Revelations of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis
by Harry Thurston


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Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-383) and index.... (read more)

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The South Pole: A Historical Reader (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
by Anthony Brandt


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The race to reach the south pole is one of the most extraordinary stories in human history. In the early 20th century the pole represented one of the last unexplored places on Earth-and thus, for a certain breed of men, one of the most irresistible... (read more)

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A Traveller's Companion to Madrid (Traveller's Companion To...)
by Hugh Thomas


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This anthology of eyewitness accounts--in diaries, letters, memoirs and novels--ranges across five centuries and reveals Madrid's history.... (read more)

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The Reader's Companion to Alaska
by Alan Ryan


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The Alaskan frontier is revealed at its most inspiring and unforgiving, through the eyes of its awe-struck visitors. An enraptured John Muir first glimpses Glacier Bay; Jon Krakauer marvels at the sight of a grizzly's footprints in the snow; Erma Bombeck... (read more)

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Prince Henry 'The Navigator': A Life
by Peter Russell


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This enthralling bio of the legendary 15th century Portuguese prince examines the full range of his activities as an imperialist and as a maritime, cartographical, and navigational pioneer. Russell shows his innovations set in motion changes that altered... (read more)

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American Places: A Writer's Pilgrimage to 16 of This Country's Most Visited and Cherished Sites
by William Zinsser


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"This inspiring guide includes places everyone means to go to some day, all described with the usual clarity of the author of On Writing Well."-The New York Times "A fascinating take on the search for memory'and how certain places have come to symbolize... (read more)

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