Wanderlust: A History of Walking
by Rebecca Solnit
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Drawing together many histories — of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores — Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking...
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Off the Map: The Most Amazing Sights on Earth as Seen by Satellite
by James Turnbull
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This book brings you the hole-in-the wall gems that you'd never stumble onto on your own, but which the cameras did. Just as you thought the world had been fully explored: here are the most amazing sights on planet earth that no guidebook takes you near....
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Indian Summer: A Good Man in Asia
by Will Randall
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Will Randall thought teaching in an inner-London comprehensive was a tough job. But that was nothing compared to the next assignment: saving a slum school in the Indian city of Poona. Learning as much as he is teaching, Will finds his life transformed by...
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The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Olive Oil in the South of France
by Carol Drinkwater
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When Carol Drinkwater and her fiancandeacute, Michel, are given the opportunity to purchase ten acres of an abandoned olive farm in the South of France, they find the region's splendor impossible to resist. Using their entire savings as a down payment...
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The Adventurer's Handbook: Life Lessons from History's Great Explorers
by Mick Conefrey
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What makes a good explorer? Adaptability, ambition, stamina, self-belief, doggedness, curiosity, optimism, authority, hardiness -- and fund-raising ability. <P> A powerful punch of self-help, how-to, popular history, and humor. In this celebration...
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The Oysters of Locmariaquer (P.S.)
by Eleanor Clark
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On the northwest coast of France, just around the corner from the English Channel, is the little town of Locmariaquer (pronounced "loc-maria-care"). The inhabitants of this town have a special relationship to the world, for it is their efforts that...
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The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
by Washington Irving
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Carrying orders to collect information on the geography, geology, and topography “ of the Country within the limits of the Territories belonging to the United States, between our frontier and the Pacific, ” Captain James Bonneville set...
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No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice
by Judith Martin
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Love of Venice can strike anyone, not just romantic wusses. Among the toughies with serious cases were Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, Ezra Pound, and Ernest Hemingway. There is no cure for this affliction. This is a guide to managing it. 35 illustrations....
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Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
by Morgan Spurlock
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Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and director Morgan Spurlock, who volunteered his body as a guinea pig for the fast food industry in the hit documentary Super Size Me, now sets his sights even higher in Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? Spurlock...
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Window Seat: Reading the Landscape from the Air
by Gregory Dicum
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Talk about a fresh perspective! Perched 35,000 feet in the air, Window Seat decodes the sights to be seen on any flight across North America. Broken down by region, this unusual guide features 70 aerial photographs; a fold-out map of North America...
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Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
by Bruce Feiler
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With warmth and candor, bestselling author Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in the world's most heralded school systems. Through his unique perspective, he demystifies contemporary Japanese life. Index....
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Race To Dakar
by Charley Boorman
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In January 2006, 230 people raced in trucks, cars, and motorbikes from Lisbon to Dakar in the 28th annual Dakar rally, the most challenging race in existence. After his celebrated trip round the world with Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman was keen for...
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Ice Bound
by Jerri Nielsen
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Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six-year-old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on Earth. The "Polies," as the inhabitants are...
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AA Gill Is Away
by A A Gill
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The very best of the wickedly funny and often moving travel essays by popular "London Times" columnist A.A. Gill are collected in this volume, filled with his unshakable opinions and savage attacks on some of the most controversial and sacred cows of...
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We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light
by John Baxter
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"We'll always have Paris," Humphrey Bogart reminds Ingrid Bergman in their bittersweet parting at the end of Casablanca, and undoubtedly those words resonate for lovers everywhere. Indeed for many people, Paris is not just a place; it is an intoxicating...
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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
by Jennifer Niven
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Based on the diaries of those who were rescued and those who perished, this is the chilling true story of the "Karluk's" doomed 1913 exploration of the Arctic and the heroic efforts of the ship's captain, the Ice Master, who traveled by foot through...
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Turkish Reflections
by Mary Lee Settle
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After a twenty-year absence, Mary Lee Settle returns to the land she calls the happiest home she has ever known. A land of intersecting continents, cultures, and contradictions, Turkey beckons her on a cross-country journey, in search of the country's...
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or, the True and Incredible Adventure of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
by Giles Milton
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The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago, remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of...
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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...
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A Walk Across America
by Peter Jenkins
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Chapter OneTalkin' by a Wood Stove “ Stop right there, son. You ain't goin' nowhere in this blizzard. Now sit down!” The huge man blocked the narrow door of the snow-covered country store. I had just thawed out from the heat of the wood stove...
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