Beyond the House of the False Lama: Travels with Monks, Nomads, and Outlaws
by George Crane


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Beyond the House of the Lama, now in paperback, traces Crane's adventures as a writer, wanderer, and anarchic but still failing student of Zen. It begins in 1996 at the edge of the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia, where he and his teacher and friend, Zen... (read more)

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The Art of Rough Travel: From the Peculiar to the Practical Advice from a 19th Century Explorer
by Francis Galton


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"Carrion is not noxious to starving men." This is one of the countless potentially useful bits of information contained within Sir Francis Galton's fascinating but unwieldy (366 pages) The Art of Travel. First published in 1855, the book became a bible... (read more)

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Virago Book of Women Travellers
by Mary Morris


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This collection of women's travel writing from the last three hundred years includes Willa Cather's essay on Lavandou, Florence as seen by Mary McCarthy and Barbara Gurzzuti Harrison's writing about the spiritual village of San Gimignano. Here is the... (read more)

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Time and Tide: A Walk Through Nantucket (Crown Journeys)
by Frank Conroy


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Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This book, part travel diary, part... (read more)

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Jaguars and Electric Eels
by Alexan Von Humboldt


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A great and innovative thinker, the young Humboldt went on his epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe. This part of his matchless narrative of adventure and scientific research focuses on his time in... (read more)

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Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (Crown Journeys)
by Alex Kotlowitz


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For Kotlowitz, Chicago is the perfect perch from which to peer into America's heart. This is not so much a tour of a place as a tour of its people, a chronicle of its soul and lifeblood.... (read more)

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Frozen Oceans: The Floating World of Pack Ice
by David N Thomas


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Life abounds in and around the planet's ice caps and science has learned a great deal about it and the role pack ice plays in the world's ecology. This book is the first exploration of the topic for lay people and is abundantly illustrated.... (read more)

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Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers
by Ruth Padel


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Poet, writer, and descendant of Charles Darwin, Ruth Padel set out to visit a tropical jungle and wildlife sanctuary in India — and her visit turned into a remarkable two-year journey through eleven countries in search of that most elusive and most... (read more)

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Return Passages: Great American Travel Writing, 1780-1910
by Larzer Ziff


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In this arresting book, Larzer Ziff traces the history of distinctively American travel writing through the stories of five great representatives. John Ledyard (1752-1789) sailed with Captain Cook, walked across the Russian empire, and attempted to find... (read more)

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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... (read more)

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The Slave Route: From Africa to America
by Harry Holcroft


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Of all institutions, common to all societies throughout human history, slavery is the only constant. It would not be wildly inaccurate to suggest that well over 90% of all humanity has been subjected to slavery of some description. In one form or another,... (read more)

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Window Seat Europe: Reading the Landscape from the Air
by Gregory Dicum


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Flying on the wing of the North American edition's success, Window Seat: Europe decodes the sights to be seen on any flight across Europe. Broken down by region, this unusual guide features over 60 aerial photographs; a fold-out map of Europe showing... (read more)

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Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer
by Bill Gifford


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For decades after his death in 1789, John Ledyard was celebrated as the greatest explorer America had ever produced. A veteran of Captain Cook's final voyage, he walked across nearly all of Russia and suggested to his friend Thomas Jefferson that... (read more)

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Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics (Vintage Departures)
by Alexander Frater


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A vibrant, witty, and captivating account of a lifetime's worth of travel in the tropics, from one of the most celebrated travel writers working today. Tales from the Torrid Zone is a diverting, loose-limbed tour of the Earth's hot zones ("The2New York... (read more)

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Patagonia: Notes from the Field
by Nora Gallagher


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The people who use Patagonia gear have explored the furthest extremities of wildness from the icy waters of the Labrador Sea to the baking hot, vertical granite of El Capitan. Patagonia: Notes from the Field delivers an intense glimpse of those front... (read more)

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As the Romans Do: An American Family's Italian Odyssey
by Alan Epstein


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Rome is a great place to visit -- but imagine the delights of living there. Long in love with the Eternal City, Alan Epstein has been reveling in life as a resident since 1995. In "As the Romans Do, he reveals the city and its people in all their facets... (read more)

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Travels in the White Man's Grave: Memoirs from West and Central Africa
by Donald Macintosh


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At the beginning of the 1950s, the interior of West and Central Africa was still known to most of the outside world as the "White Man's Grave," and consisted of vast expanses of mysterious and threatening primeval forest. When Donald MacIntosh, 23-year... (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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