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by Ernest Shackleton  Publisher Comments Comparable to "Into Thin Air" and "Alive, " this first-hand account of the expedition which is the subject of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Arctic Expedition" is written by the leader of the fateful expedition...
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Yukon Alone: The World's Toughest Adventure Race
by John Balzar Publisher Comments In the tradition of Into the Wild, a story of daring and determination in one of nature's harshest, loneliest, and most beautiful places. The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race is among the most challenging and dangerous of all the organized...
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River Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America
by William Least Heat-Moon 
Publisher Comments 'In RIVER-HORSE, the preeminent chronicler of American back roads -- who has given us the classics BLUE HIGHWAYS and PRAIRYERTH -- recounts his singular voyage on American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly...
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Bad Trips (Vintage Departures)
by Keath Fraser Publisher Comments The entries in this collection take us to the farthest extremes of travel with tales of danger, disorientation and bemused discomfort; combines reportage, fiction and poetry representing some of the best-known writers of our time....
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Slipping Into Paradise: Why I Live in New Zealand
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Under the Tuscan Sun and "A Year in Provence, here is Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's ode to his personal paradise-his adopted home, New Zealand. After living in California, why did Masson settle- out of all the places on earth-in such a...
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Burial Brothers: From New York to Rio in a '73 Cadillac Hearse
by Simon Mayle Publisher Comments On a cold January night in New York City, Simon Mayle and his accomplice Lenny board a '73 Cadillac hearse and set off for Rio de Janeiro in the guise of traveling morticians. While cruising through the sweltering underbelly of Latin America, they...
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The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes: Notes from Nepal
by Barbara J Scot Publisher Comments The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes details Barbara Scot's experiences teaching English in Nepal. Her insights on her midwestern background, on cultural difference, on the struggles of Nepali Women, and on her role as a global citizen illuminate Scot's...
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Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East
by Gita Mehta Publisher Comments Beginning in the late '60s, hundreds of thousands of Westerners descended upon India, disciples of a cultural revolution that proclaimed that the magic and mystery missing from their lives was to be found in the East. An Indian writer who has also lived...
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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
by Sarah Erdman
Publisher Comments The village of Nambonkaha in the Ivory Coast is a place where electricity hasn’t yet arrived, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women pounding corn fills the morning air like a drumbeat. As Sarah Erdman enters the...
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My Old Man and the Sea
by David Hays Publisher Comments Some fathers and sons go fishing together. Some play ball. David Hays and Daniel Hays sailed 17,000 miles through the world's most feared and fabled waters in a little boat they built together. This is their story. Alone with nothing but the mammoth...
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As the Romans Do: An American Family's Italian Odyssey
by Alan Epstein Publisher Comments 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...
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A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey
by Leila Ahmed Publisher Comments AS SHE JOURNEYS ACROSS CULTURES, AN EGYPTIAN WOMAN STRUGGLES TO DEFINE HERSELF<P>In language that vividly evokes the lush summers of Cairo and the stark beauty of the Arabian Desert, Leila Ahmed tells the story of her life. This moving memoir...
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Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip
by Mark Mordue Publisher Comments Australian award-winning journalist Mark Mordue invites you on his world trip that ranges from a Rolling Stones concert in Istanbul to talking with mullahs and junkies in Tehran, and from a cricket match in Calcutta to an S&M bar in New York, in...
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Travels Along the Edge: 40 Ultimate Adventures for the Modern Nomad--From Crossing the Sahara to Bicycling Through Vietnam (Vintage Departures)
by David Noland Publisher Comments From crossing the Sahara to bicycling through Vietnam, David Noland details ultimate expeditions for the modern nomad, rating each trip according to its strenuousness, comfort, and required skills. Each adventure is enriched with background information...
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Our Paris: Sketches from Memory
by Edmund White Publisher Comments What happens when one of our most celebrated writers combines talents with a French artist and architect to capture life in their Parisian neighborhood? The result is a lighthearted, gently satiric portrait of the heart of Paris -- including the Marais...
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Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana
by Isadora Tattlin
Publisher Comments Isadora Tattlin is the American wife of a European energy consultant posted to Havana in the 1990s. Wisely, the witty Mrs. Tattlin began a diary the day her husband informed her of their new assignment. One of the first entries is her shopping list of...
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Music in Every Room: Around the World in a Bad Mood (Traveler)
by John Krich Publisher Comments John Krich’s Music in Every Room depicts the disappointments and corruptions of modern travel. “This quirky, querulous and oddly appealing travelogue” (The Boston Globe) charts Krich’s journey across Asia with his irascible...
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The Seasons of Rome: A Journal
by Paul Hofmann Publisher Comments Delving into the daily life of a city that is in so many ways larger than life, Paul Hofmann steers us beyond the tourist board, revealing a fetish for Vatican gossip, the idiosyncrasies of the gattare (cat women who care for the city's stray cats), and...
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Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future
by Mark Hertsgaard Publisher Comments Like many of us, Mark Hertsgaard has long worried about the declining health of our environment. But in 1991, he decided to act on his own concern and investigate the escalating crisis for himself. Traveling on his own dime, he embarked on an odyssey...
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The Olive Harvest
by Carol Drinkwater Publisher Comments The stars shimmer like spilled handfuls of glitter. The day is beginning to rise with a faint mist. As I turn my head, ghostly halos, auras of light, appear and disappear....The silence is truly awesome. Not a bird, not a whisper of wind, not a breath of...
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