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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The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
by Susan Casey


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A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators — and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them. Susan Casey was in her living room when she... (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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Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration
by Fergus Fleming


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Forty-five gripping accounts of some of the most amazing feats in the historyof exploration are divided between three "ages of exploration," each of whichis prefaced by a lively essay introducing key aspects of the age in question.560 pp.... (read more)

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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
by Simon Winchester


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Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the East China Sea. Connecting China's heartland cities with the volatile coastal giant, Shanghai... (read more)

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Almost French
by Sarah Turnbull




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A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor. Sarah Turnbull's stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and Frdric... (read more)

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Honeymoon With My Brother: A Memoir
by Franz Wisner




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This is the true story of Franz Wisner, a man who thought he had it all — a high profile career and the fiancée of his dreams — when suddenly, his life turned upside down. Just days before they were to be married, his fiancée... (read more)

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The Taste of Dreams: An Obsession with Russia and Caviar
by Vanora Bennett


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The Taste of Dreams is both a quest for the romantic Russia of the author’s dreams, and a tale of amazement as she discovers and gets caught up in the new, anarchic Russia emerging from its Soviet constraints. At its heart is the story of caviar... (read more)

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Amber, Furs and Cockleshells: Travels with Pilgrims and Merchants
by Anne Mustoe


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The intrepid ex-headmistress' latest lone cycle rides take her to The Amber Route, the Santa Fe Trail and the Pilgrim Way to Santiago de Compostela: three very different but equally evocative journeys rides in history and spectacular landscape. Ms Mustoe'... (read more)

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Botswana Time
by Will Randall


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Both an endearing personal story and a travel book about a little-known but highly successful country. From the author of "Indian Summer" which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and sold 20,000 copies.... (read more)

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Pasquale's Nose: Idle Days in an Italian Town
by Michael Rips


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Hailed for its quirkiness and charm, this book tells the story of a New York City lawyer who runs away to a small Etruscan village with his wife and baby and discovers a community of eccentrics who make them feel right at home.... (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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Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook
by Nicholas Thomas


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"Deep in its research, broad in its sympathies, imaginative in its reconstruction of events and thought processes and graceful in its prose style, Cook presents a winning combination of qualities."-- The New York Times Book Review Commonly regarded... (read more)

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Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park (Crown Journeys Series)
by Tim Cahill


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“Let’s get lost together . . . ” Lost in My Own Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of his—and America’s—favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world’s first national park. Cahill has... (read more)

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Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
by Anthony Doerr


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Anthony Doerr has received many awards -- from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then came the Rome Prize, one of the most prestigious awards from the American Academy of Arts and... (read more)

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An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona
by Peter Benjaminson


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Tim Parks's best seller, "Italian Neighbors", offered a sparkling, witty, and acutely observed account of an expatriate's life in a small village outside of Verona. Now in "An Italian Education", Parks continues his chronicle of adapting to Italian... (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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Stewart chronicles his 11 months of negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure in an impoverished region of southern Iraq.... (read more)

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In Siberia
by Colin Thubron


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Chapter One Hauntings The ice-fields are crossed for ever by a man in chains. In the farther distance, perhaps, a herd of reindeer drifts, or a hunter makes a shadow on the snow. But that is all. Siberia: it fills one twelfth of the land-mass of the... (read more)

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