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Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan
by Jamie Zeppa  
Publisher Comments In 1989, Jamie Zeppa, a naïve, well-educated twenty-three-year-old from Sault Ste. Marie, commits to a two-year teaching contract in Bhutan against the wishes of both her fiancé, Robert, and her controlling grandfather. Following orientation here and...
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Manhattan Unfurled
by Matteo Pericoli and Paul Goldberger Publisher Comments Matteo Pericoli trained as an architect in Milan and then came to work in New York in 1995. His arrival preceded by just a few days the arrival of the biggest snowstorm of the decade, and the sense of the city in its wake–especially its silence...
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World Music: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia & the Pacific
by Simon Broughton Special Offer For a limited time, buy a new copy of any of the books in Rough Guide's Popular Culture section, and get The Rough Guide to World Party CD free!...
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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
by Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher Comments For the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the men and women who long for and love the complex frailties and treacherous beauty of a world defined by ice. Greenland, the world?s largest island, 840...
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The Art of Travel
by Alain de Botton
Publisher Comments Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on...
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Baghdad Without a Map
by Tony Horwitz Publisher Comments This wild and comic tale of Middle East misadventure is "a very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region. Fearlessness is a valuable quality in a travel writer, and Mr. Horwitz...seems as intrepid as they come". (The...
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Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea (Vintage Departures)
by Eric Hansen
Publisher Comments In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky...
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
by Tony Horwitz
Powells.com Staff Pick In a highly entertaining adventure, Tony Horwitz rides the wake of Captain James Cook, recreating the history of his pioneering voyages, the stories of his island landings, and the lasting impact his contact had on the indigenous populations...
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World Music: The Rough Guide: Africa, Europe and the Middle East: An A-Z of the Music Musicians and Discs: Volume 1
by Rough Gd Publisher Comments World Music Volume 1: Africa, Europe and the Middle East has full coverage of everything from Congolese soukous to Greek rembetika, and biographies from Thomas Mapfumo to Cheb Khaled to the Afro Celt Sound System. Includes more than 80 articles from...
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Ciao, America!: An Italian Discovers the U.S.
by Beppe Severgnini Publisher Comments In his American publishing debut, the Bill Bryson of Italy spends a year in one of Washington, D.C.'s toniest neighborhoods, bargain hunting at a mattress warehouse, savoring pizza from a franchise, and trying not to drown in the shower. It wasn't...
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National Geographic Family Reference Atlas of the World (National Geographic)
by National Geographic Publisher Comments For more than 40 years, National Geographic atlases have set the standard against which all other atlases are measured. The National Geographic Family Reference Atlas of the World is no exception. At the heart of this spectacular volume are more than 450...
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From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant
by Michael S Sanders
Powells.com Staff Pick Immerse yourself in the customs and culture of Les Arques, France, a hilltop village untouched by the modern era that struggles to remain vital. Part travelogue, part exploration of French cuisine, Michael Sanders's charming book reveals the traditions...
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Midnight in Sicily
by Peter Robb
Publisher Comments In late 1995 Giulio Andreotti, seven-time prime minister of Italy and once called "the finest political mind in Europe," went on trial both for murder and for his association with the Sicilian Mafia. With hundreds of witnesses still to be called, there...
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Pole to Pole: North to South by Camel, River Raft, & Balloon
by Michael Palin Book News Annotation First published by BBC Books (New York) in 1992. The print companion to the PBS series in which former Monty Pythonian Palin visited 17 countries in 1991 and early 1992 in his trek from the north to the south pole. The almost daily account is...
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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
by Jan Morris
From Powells.com Jan Morris first visited Trieste, now part of Italy, at the end of World War II. At the time, she was a young Welsh soldier named James. She went on to become, not only a she (Morris changed genders in 1972), but one of the most distinguished...
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Literary Trips 2: Following in the Footsteps of Fame
by Victoria Brooks Publisher Comments Uncover the mysteries of Franz Kafka?s Prague. Tarry on the docks of John Steinbeck?s Cannery Row. Scurry with the street urchins of Charles Dickens?s London. Heckle a thespian at Shakespeare?s Globe Theatre. Swing a scythe with the field hands of Leo...
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8 Men and a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island
by Nick Thorpe Publisher Comments On a fateful South American bus trip, journalist Nick Thorpe overheard some fellow passengers discussing an improbable plan to sail 2,500 miles from northern Chile to Easter Island on the Viracocha -- a boat made of reeds. The crew's aim in reviving...
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Fodors Japan 16TH Edition
by Fodors
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In Patagonia
by Bruce Chatwin
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