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Ponds of Kalambayi : an African Sojourn (90 Edition)
by Mike Tidwell  Publisher Comments Lovers of fine travel- and adventure-writing will welcome this first paperback edition of Mike Tidwell's richly acclaimed The Ponds of Kalambayi. Tidwell had no clue what awaited him when he headed off to the remote corners of Zaire as a fresh-faced...
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In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
by Tahir Shah Publisher Comments Tahir Shah’s The Caliph’s House, describing his first year in Casablanca, was hailed by critics and compared to such travel classics as A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun. Now Shah takes us deeper into the heart of this exotic and...
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Arabian Sands
by Wilfred Thesiger Publisher Comments In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Thesiger set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels. His now-classic account is invaluable to understanding the...
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Dear Exile: The Story of a Friendship Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean (Vintage Departures)
by Hilary Liftin 
Publisher Comments A funny and moving story told through the letters of two women nurturing a friendship as they are separated by distance, experience, and time. <BR>Close friends and former college roommates, Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery promised to write when...
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Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure
by Stuart Stevens Publisher Comments Malaria Dreams is a tale of high adventure across Africa, recounted with the wit and humor that delighted readers of Night Train to Turkistan, Stuart Stevens' highly praised first book. "A rollicking, off-beat African odyssey".--Publishers Weekly....
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Travels in West Africa (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
by Mary Kingsley Publisher Comments Drawn from a list of the 100 best adventure books of all times compiled by a panel of experts, the Adventure Classics have been selected for their adrenaline quotient and their status as classics of the adventure genre. All the tides for the series...
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Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths
by Bruce Feiler
Publisher Comments In this timely, provocative, and uplifting journey, the bestselling author of Walking the Bible searches for the man at the heart of the world's three monotheistic religions -- and today's deadliest conflicts. At a moment when the world is asking, “...
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Turkish Embassy Letters
by Mary Wortle Montagu Publisher Comments Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was described by a contemporary as "one of the most extraordinary shining characters in the world." Her letters, collected here, tell of her travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed...
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The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
by Rory Stewart Publisher Comments Stewart chronicles his 11 months of negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure in an impoverished region of southern Iraq....
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So Many Enemies So Little Time an Ame
by Elinor Burkett Publisher Comments At a time when Americans are so riveted by questions about their place in a newly hostile world that they are swearing off air travel, Elinor Burkett does not just take a trip; she takes a headlong dive into enemy territories, crisscrossing back and...
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The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
by Tahir Shah Publisher Comments By turns hilarious and harrowing, this work by an acclaimed English travel writer is the story of his family's move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore converge--and nothing...
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In an Antique Land
by Amitav Ghosh Publisher Comments The cover proclaims IAAL "History in the guise of a traveller's tale," and the multi-generic book moves back and forth between Ghosh's experience living in small villages and towns in the Nile Delta and his reconstruction of a Jewish trader and his slave'...
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Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey
by Alison Wearing Publisher Comments With a love of travel, Alison Wearing invites us to journey with her to Iran--a country that few Westerners have a chance to see. Traveling with a male friend, in the guise of a couple on their honeymoon, Wearing set out on her own at every available...
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This Heated Place: Encounters in the Promised Land
by Deborah Campbell Publisher Comments A freelance writer who once lived in Israel delivers a compelling account of travel in war-torn Israel, with personal insights into the region's complex, bloody struggles....
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Misadventure in the Middle East: Travels as Tramp, Artist & Spy
by Henry Hemming Publisher Comments An extraordinary and highly original account of one man's amazing journey. A young British artist spends a year traveling thoughout the Middle East, from the drug-fuelled ski slopes of Iran via secret beaches, palaces, police cells, nightclubs, torture...
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In Search of Nomads: An Anglo-American Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin
by John Ure Publisher Comments For centuries, settled peoples have contemplated nomads with fascination and envy, or with disdain and fear. Both Americans and the British have had an obsession with nomadic peoples, stemming from their own wanderlust and admiration for the unfettered...
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African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan
by Edward Hoagland Publisher Comments Open this book and enter into a richly detailed landscape and an exotic society. Follow Hoagland's travels, from equatorial mountain forests to the Sahara desert; from small Sudanese towns in the south and west to short stays in the capital, Khartoum...
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Dancing with the Witchdoctor: One Woman's Stories of Mystery and Adventure in Africa
by Kelly James About the Author Kelly James is an international investigator. She also gives seminars on international business culture and, when time allows, lectures to third world university women on the international job market. Aside from English, James also speaks Swahili, Zulu...
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Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey
by Alison Wearing Publisher Comments The beautifully written travel memoir of a Western woman's journey in Iran In the tradition of Nothing to Declare, Honeymoon in Purdah is a book of sketches gathered over the course of one woman's journey in Iran. Through her, we meet the ordinary and...
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Eothen
by A W Kinglake Publisher Comments Victorian travel classic describing a Grand Tour through Eastern Europe to Turkey. "One of the most original, graceful and creative of all travel books" Jan Morris....
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