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Bloodwood and Other Stories
Bloodwood and Other Stories
by Roy Kesey
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The Best American Short Stories author Roy Kesey's second story collection, Bloodwood, is another fantastic collection of stories in the Kesey tradition: reminiscent of Donald Barthelme and George Saunders. Kesey's usage of language is wonderful and... (read more)

Available February 2013
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High Latitiudes: An Arctic Journey
High Latitiudes: An Arctic Journey
by Farley Mowat
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In High Latitudes, Farley Mowat chronicles for the first time the hazardous journey he took across northern Canada in 1966. He hoped to write a book that would let northern people speak for themselves and that would expose the speciousness of the... (read more)

Available August 2012
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The Best Travel Writing, Volume 9: True Stories from Around the World (Best Travel Writing)
The Best Travel Writing, Volume 9: True Stories from Around the World (Best Travel Writing)
by James O'reilly
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The Best Travel Writing, Volume 9 is the latest in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing — from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global... (read more)

Available August 2012
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Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge (Vintage Departures)
Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge (Vintage Departures)
by John Gimlette
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Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns... (read more)

Available June 12, 2012
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Discovery Road (Eye Classics)
Discovery Road (Eye Classics)
by Andy Brown
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The inspiring story of the first people to ride mountain bikes across the vast deserts of Australia, the dangerous bushlands of Africa, and the mountains of South America Fed up and disillusioned with corporate life, Andy persuaded Tim to... (read more)

Available August 2012
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Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana: Funny Travel Stories and Strange Packing Tips
Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana: Funny Travel Stories and Strange Packing Tips
by Marcy Gordon
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Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana is the ninth book in the best-selling Travelers' Tales humor series, which began with There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled and blossomed into the now classic "underwear" women's humor series, including the... (read more)

Available May 2012
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The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 8: True Stories from Around the World (Best Women's Travel Writing)
The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 8: True Stories from Around the World (Best Women's Travel Writing)
by Lavinia Spalding
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Any woman whose passport has been stamped a few times knows the surest method of keeping her travel fire alive: by reading and telling stories from the road, passing them along like a torch in a relay race. From Travelers Tales comes The Best Womens... (read more)

Available July 2012
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Kerr's Voyages 4: Captain Cook and the Southern Hemisphere
Kerr's Voyages 4: Captain Cook and the Southern Hemisphere
by Robert Kerr
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This second set brings together voyages in the southern hemisphere and towards the Pole by James Cook as well as accounts of voyages of discovery in the southern oceans by other important figures .The accounts of Captain Cook's voyages are particularly... (read more)

Available March 19, 2013
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Fakirs, Feluccas and Femmes Fatales: Tales from an Incidental Traveller
Fakirs, Feluccas and Femmes Fatales: Tales from an Incidental Traveller
by E. T. Laing
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A unique collection of brief encounters and adventures from working in seventy countries - a kaleidoscope of landscapes, sounds, smells, politics, humor, dialogue and, above all, people.This is a warts-and-all account of the author's travels, with... (read more)

Available September 2012
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An Artist and a Writer Travel Highway 1 North
An Artist and a Writer Travel Highway 1 North
by Janice Stevens
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A unique literary and artistic guidebook to one of the worlds most amazing drives—California State Highway 1, a narrow strip of roadway etched between cliffs and the ocean that leads travelers through the states beautiful natural attractions... (read more)

Available October 2012
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The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
by Paul Theroux
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“A book to be plundered and raided.” — New York Times Book Review “A portal into a world of timeless travel literature curated by one of the greatest travel writers of our day.” — USA Today Paul Theroux celebrates... (read more)

Available July 24, 2012
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Surfari
Surfari
by Tim Baker
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In a story for anyone who has ever dreamed of an alternative to the busy, micro-scheduled existence of work, school, shopping, and housework, surf writer Tim Baker and his family grab their surfboards and hit the open road All surfers... (read more)

Available June 2012
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Best of the World: Extraordinary Travel Experiences, Breathtaking Photography, and Inspiring Ideas, with Personal Recollections by Bill B
Best of the World: Extraordinary Travel Experiences, Breathtaking Photography, and Inspiring Ideas, with Personal Recollections by Bill B
by National Geographic
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In the spirit of top-selling Journeys of a Lifetime series and National Geographic Traveler's acclaimed "Places of a Lifetime," this lavish, evocative travel gift book spans the globe to offer entrées to the world's most transformative places... (read more)

Available October 30, 2012
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Trailer Park Nation: The Glamorous Rise and Tragic Fall of the Dream of a Mobile America
Trailer Park Nation: The Glamorous Rise and Tragic Fall of the Dream of a Mobile America
by Mark Van De Walle
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Part travelogue and part cultural and literary exploration of the meaning of home and freedom in the American psyche, Trailer Park Nation: The Glamorous Rise and Tragic Fall of the Dream of a Mobile America tells the story of this country's fascinating... (read more)

Available October 2012
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Golf on the Rocks
Golf on the Rocks
by Gary Sutherland
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This is a book about golf, families, and the beauty and sometimes inhospitable landscape of the Scottish islands. When Gary's father, James, died suddenly at the age of 58, his family was knocked sideways. After the initial grief passed, they... (read more)

Available August 2012
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A Voyage to the Island of the Articoles
A Voyage to the Island of the Articoles
by Andre Maurois
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"Dangerous, charming, and funny, this elegant miniature rediscovery will delight even brilliant minds."—Simon Van Booy André Maurois' novella, published in the same year as Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa, is about a couple who... (read more)

Available August 2012
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Engineers of the Soul: The Grandiose Propaganda of Stalin's Russia
Engineers of the Soul: The Grandiose Propaganda of Stalin's Russia
by Frank Westerman
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The astounding and often comic story of writers fostering the tragic delusions of Stalinist Russia. frank Westerman draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian Revolution, as art and reality are bent to radically new purposes. Writers of... (read more)

Available July 31, 2012
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Happy Herbivore Abroad: A Travelogue and 125 Fat-Free and Low-Fat Vegan Recipes from Around the World
Happy Herbivore Abroad: A Travelogue and 125 Fat-Free and Low-Fat Vegan Recipes from Around the World
by Lindsay S. Nixon
Synopsis
In the last 10 years, Happy Herbivore chef Lindsay S. Nixon has lived in eight states, visited 43, spent a year as an expat on a Caribbean island, and traveled to more than 35 places abroad. As a celebration of Nixons vagabond lifestyle, Happy Herbivore... (read more)

Available December 2012
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The Juice: Vinous Veritas (Vintage Contemporaries)
The Juice: Vinous Veritas (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Jay Mcinerney
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This new collection by the acclaimed novelist—and, according to Salon, “the best wine writer in America”—is generous and far-reaching, deeply knowledgeable and often hilarious.          ... (read more)

Available November 13, 2012
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Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran
Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran
by Roger Housden
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Roger Housden traveled to Iran to meet with artists, writers, film makers and religious scholars who embody the long Iranian tradition of humanism, the belief in scholarship and artistry that began with the reign of Cyrus the Great. He traveled to the... (read more)

Available August 7, 2012
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