Wish You Weren't Here!: The Black Cat Anthology of Travel Humor
by Cecil Kuhne


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An anthology of some of the best writing on the worst of travel, this collection brings together 21 fantastic pieces that span the centuries as well as the continents and reminds readers why its good to be home.... (read more)

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The Road to Santiago (National Geographic Directions)
by Kathryn Harrison


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A mesmerizing story of her 200-mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. 25,000 first printing.... (read more)

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The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall
by Lawrence Osborne


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A travelogue into that heart of darkness known as the Western mind, this volume is the most mordant and ambitious work to date from the author of "The Accidental Connoisseur," praised by "The New York Times Book Review" as "smart, generous, perceptive... (read more)

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Selkirks Island
by Diana Souhani


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The story of Alexander Selkirk, a pirate who sailed the South Seas on looting expeditions for gold and treasure. Eventually, he marooned himself on an island off the coast of Chile and spent years in solitude there before being rescued. His exploits... (read more)

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Traveling Through Egypt: From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century
by Deborah Manley


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Egypt is one of the two wings of the world, and the excellences of which it can boast are countless. Its metropolis is the dome of Islam, its river the most splendid of rivers.-al-Muqaddasi, c. 1000To travelers, Egypt is a place of dreams: a country... (read more)

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Travels in the East
by Donald Richie


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Donald Richie's newest collection of travel essays explores all the corners of Asia and slightly beyond as it sweeps through Egypt, India, Bhutan, Mongolia, China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Borneo, Thailand, Yap, and Japan. Richie is an observer and... (read more)

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The Voyage of the Vizcaina: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus's Last Ship
by Klaus Brinkbaumer


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Lying in only twenty-five feet of water in a small gulf off the coast of Panama, a shipwrecked vessel managed to escape detection for centuries before it was discovered in the mid-1990s. In 2002, Klaus Brinkba umer and Clemens Ho ges, journalists with... (read more)

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A Gift from Brittany: A Memoir of Love and Loss in the French Countryside
by Marjorie Price


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In this enchanting European version of A Year by the Sea, an artist recalls her liberating sojourn in France during the sixtiesand the friendship that transformed her life. Marjorie was a young woman from Chicago in the 1960s who shocked her family and... (read more)

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Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide
by Karen Elizab Gordon


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Unleash your senses in a strangely illuminated City of Light. Amid the Paris you know and love unheard-of-temptations abound. If your visit to the Cafe Conjugal ends in a spat (though it's strictly against their rules), you can make up at the luscious... (read more)

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Seasons on Harris: A Year in Scotland's Outer Hebrides
by David Yeadon


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The Outer Hebrides of Scotland epitomize the evocative beauty and remoteness of island life. The most dramatic of all the Hebrides is Harris, a tiny island formed from the oldest rocks on earth, a breathtaking landscape of soaring mountains, wild... (read more)

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


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In the second volume of his travelogue trilogy The Liquid Continent Nicholas Woodsworth journeys to Venice. On the train, outside Alexandria's main station a young fellow traveller challenged him: 'You say you like old places. I think maybe you like... (read more)

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Cairo: The Mother of the World
by Herbert L Smith


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Cairo: The Mother of the World explores the heart of a city that most tourists never see-an affectionate, humorous close-up of the aggregation that is Cairo, as well as an adventure among the streets, tombs, houses, and monuments that are the city... (read more)

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The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall
by Lawrence Osborne


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A travelogue into that heart of darkness known as the Western mind, this volume is the most mordant and ambitious work to date from the author of "The Accidental Connoisseur," praised by "The New York Times Book Review" as "smart, generous, perceptive... (read more)

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The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Discovery
by Martin Dugard


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Columbus' fourth voyage is a saga of shipwreck, mutiny, discovery, and political treachery, yet his quest to find a passage to the Orient drove him onward in the face of peril.... (read more)

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Venice: Tales of the City
by Michelle Lovric


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Elusive and fantastical, Venice is a many-layered confection of history. The writers here have captured what is most important to them in pieces ranging from the city's foundation up to the present time. The voices, entirely diverse, are both... (read more)

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Meeting the Invisible Man
by Toby Green


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Toby Green weaves a mystical narrative of lore and tradition as he searches for, and finds, the secret power of invisibility. Exploring the extraordinarily vibrant spiritual world which underlies the surface of West Africa, this book examines the... (read more)

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101 Countries: Discovering the World Through Fast Travel
by P J Parmar


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With an inability to sit still, a knack for handling uncomfortable travel, and a mission to see most of the world with as little time and money as possible, the author embarks on a whirlwind tour of five continents. His style of travel often incurs... (read more)

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Way Out There: The Best of Explore
by James Little


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Outdoor adventure has inspired some of the most exciting literary nonfiction of recent years, and "Explore" has published exemplary models of the genre: Ian Brown on backcountry bonding in the Rockies, Adam Killick on surviving a hurricane at sea, and J.... (read more)

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