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It's Not about the Tapas: Around Spain on Two Wheels
by Polly Evans Synopsis Fighting deadlines from a twizzly office chair and free use of the coffee machine seemed just too easy for Polly Evans, so she packed it all in and headed to Spain with her bicycle. From the thigh-burning ascents of the Pyrenees to the relentless olive...
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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
by Geoff Dyer Publisher Comments In Geoff Dyer's deft hands, what seems like an abstract idea the search for the essence of experience becomes an opportunity for storytelling: for a bracing, riotous, and addictive (to writer and reader) chronicling of anticipation and...
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Something To Declare
by Julian Barnes Synopsis A collection of essays on France from Julian Barnes. Written over a 20 year period, the topics Barnes covers range from landscape to literature, food to flaubert, film and song to the Tour de France....
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Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba
by Christopher Baker Publisher Comments National Geographic Adventure Press presents trade paper editions of four rare and extraordinary expedition accounts from writers who embody the spirit of adventure and discovery for which National Geographic is renowned. The word "adventure" is...
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The Lost Tribe: A Harrowing Passage Into New Guinea's Heart of Darkness
by Edward Marriott Publisher Comments Two years before this story begins, the Liawep were living deep in the jungle of Papua, New Guinea, long forgotten by the outside world. Numbering seventy-nine men, women, and children, the tribe worshipped a mountain, dressed in leaves, and hid when...
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Very Funny Now Change Me Back Again
by Peter Biddlecombe Publisher Comments This is the fifth in a series of dispatches from all over the world in which Peter Biddlecombe recounts his battles to survive the black magic voodoo of 5-star international travel. Former European footballers of the year open their own high...
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Caledon
by Nicola Ross Publisher Comments Whether you are a summer visitor or a fifth-generation resident, you will love this book about one of Ontario's most diverse and beautiful regions....
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Cathedrals of the Flesh: My Search for the Perfect Bath
by Alexia Brue Publisher Comments People journey to Greece for the ruins, Turkey for the Aya Sophia, and Russia for St. Basil's, but Alexia Brue travels with a different itinerary: to visit the baths. At once deeply personal and highly informative, "Cathedrals of the Flesh" is the candid...
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Are We There Yet?: Perfect Family Vacations and Other Fantasies
by Scott Haas Publisher Comments Scott Haas thought that whisking his wife and eight-week-old daughter off to Europe was a wonderful idea. After all, wasn't great food, enriching travel, and a cultured, foreign locale the perfect recipe for family bonding? But after just one week in...
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Charles Kuralt's American Moments
by Charles Kuralt Publisher Comments AMERICAN MOMENT: a small truth of the kind easily overlooked by people in a hurry. Charles Kuralt is a national treasure, a reporter and man of the world who was to many the real and true voice of America. To several generations Kuralt was the Mark...
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Stalins Nose Across the Face of Europe
by Rory Maclean Synopsis Rory MacLean's uncle and aunt lived in a rambling house filled with animals in Potsdam. The author visited them as he passed through Berlin and when he told his aunt of his intention to travel along the line of the old Iron Curtain, she decided to...
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The Taste of Dreams: An Obsession with Russia and Caviar
by Vanora Bennett Publisher Comments 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...
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Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth
by Hans Koning Publisher Comments "The book is an idea that has finally found its time."<BR>"--Publisher's Weekly" "I think your book on Christopher Columbus is important. I'm more grateful for that book than any other book I have read in a couple of years."<BR>"--Kurt...
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I & Claudius
by Clare De Vries Publisher Comments Clare de Vries fulfills her dream of traveling the States when she decides to quit London with her ailing, beloved cat, Claudius, for a final fling (he wouldn't be allowed back into the UK without a six-month quarantine, so they decide to spend his final...
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Explorers House: National Geographic and the World It Made
by Robert Poole Publisher Comments For more than one hundred years, the National Geographic Society has brought "the world and all that is in it" to millions worldwide. Through its unparallel led research, exploration, publications, and photography, the organization and its magazine have,...
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Brazilian Adventure
by Peter Fleming Publisher Comments In his famously ironic style, Peter Fleming writes in the introduction to Brazilian Adventure, "Beyond the completion of a 3,000-mile journey, mostly under amusing conditions, through a little-known part of the world, and the discovery of one new...
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Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure
by Worsley And Shackleton Publisher Comments First published in 1931, this is the legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of the HMS "Endurance." 20 illustrations....
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Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted
by Annie Hawes Publisher Comments Chapter One Glamour, we soon spotted, was not the outstanding feature of the village of Diano San Pietro. As far as the crusty olive-farming inhabitants of this crumbling backwater were concerned, the Riviera, a mere two miles away, might as well be on...
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Looking for Chengdu: A Woman's Adventures in China (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)
by Hill Gates Publisher Comments For decades, anthropologist Hill Gates had waited for an opportunity to get to know the citizens of China as she had done in Taiwan -- face to face, over an extended period of time. At last in the late 1980s she set out on an excursion to Sichuan...
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Al Dente: The Adventures of a Gastronome in Italy
by William Black Publisher Comments In Al Dente, William Black travels the length and breadth of Italy to get to the roots of Italian food. His quest for the most delicious and authentic cooking and the very finest ingredients takes him to wonderfully familiar places and hidden delights...
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