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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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Botswana Time
by Will Randall Publisher Comments Both an endearing personal story and a travel book about a little-known but highly successful country. From the author of "Indian Summer" which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and sold 20,000 copies....
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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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The Lost Kingdoms of Africa: Through Muslim Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat and Camel
by Jeffrey Tayler Publisher Comments Jeffrey Taylor travels 2,500 miles across the Sahel by truck, taxi, bus and boat to present a personal account of one of the continent's least-known regions - that of Muslim Africa....
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Dangerous Beauty: Life and Death in Africa: True Stories from a Safari Guide
by Mark Ross Publisher Comments Ross is one of the most seasoned and skilled safari guides at work in Africa today, and he writes here about his close-hand encounters with danger and natural beauty in Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Uganda. 8-page photo insert....
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Secrets of the Sands: The Revelations of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis
by Harry Thurston Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-383) and index....
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Lonely Planet Kingdom of the Film Stars: Journey Into Jordan
by Annie Caulfield 
Publisher Comments Annie Caulfield's honest and humorous account of her relationship with a Bedouin man unravels some western myths about Jordan and the Arab world....
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The Ponds of Kalambayi
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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House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood
by Adina Hoffman Publisher Comments An American woman and her husband move to Jerusalem and discover the many faces of community, exile, and history. By focusing on the day-to-day rhythms of her close-knit neighborhood, Hoffman offers a refreshingly honest portrait of a place that is often...
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Damascus: Taste of a City (Armchair Traveler)
by Fadel And Schami Publisher Comments Seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling and hearing - if you join Rafiq Shami andhis sister Marie Fadel on a stroll through their native Damascus, you will discoverthis Queen of the Orient with all your senses....
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Expats: Travels in Arabia, from Tripoli to Teheran
by Christopher Dickey Publisher Comments Award-winning Newsweek reporter Christopher Dickey offers an interesting look at the Arab world as seen through the eyes of some the western expatriates--lost colonels and aging explorers, oilmen, sea captains, even retired spies--lingering in the Middle...
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Africa on Six Wheels: A Semester on Safari
by Betty Levitov Publisher Comments < div> & #8220; I think I get it, & #8221; Betty Levitov& #8217; s youngest student said, sitting on a porch in Harare, Zimbabwe. & #8220; You& #8217; ve had a potentially fatal disease, and faced death, and now you& #8217...
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The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream
by Christina Lamb Publisher Comments A bestseller in Britain, The Africa House vividly details the life of an English officer and gentleman and his remarkable house and colony in deepest Africa. In the ides of the British Empire, Stewart Gore Browne built himself a feudal paradise in...
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Wanderings in West Africa
by Richard Burton Publisher Comments Great Victorian scholar-adventurer recounts long journey to British diplomatic post at Fernando Po, expeditions to African mainland. Invaluable descriptions of African tribal rituals concerning birth, marriage, death, fetishism, more. 1 illustration, 1...
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Blue Nile: Ethiopia's River of Magic and Mystery
by Virginia Morell Publisher Comments Sacred, mysterious, powerful, the Blue Nile has carved a deep channel through human history. From its source in the wild Ethiopian highlands, this river passes through some of the most untamed country on Earth as it rushes toward its desert rendezvous...
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The Liquid Continent, Volume I: Alexandria, a Mediterranean Trilogy (Armchair Traveler)
by Nicholas Woodsworth Publisher Comments The moment Nicholas Woodsworth arrives in Alexandria, he senses an intimacy, a garrulous warmth, and near tribal sociability that is shared by all the others on this sea. In lyrical prose, he uncovers what it is about these cities that look out over the...
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Looking for Lovedu: Days and Nights in Africa
by Ann Jones Publisher Comments The acclaimed adventure writer Ann Jones tells the story of her overland journey, with the British photographer Kevin Muggleton, from one end of Africa to the other. Their purpose: to reach the southernmost tip of the continent and find the Lovedu people,...
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Abraham (P.S.)
by Bruce S. Feiler Publisher Comments Both immediate and timeless, Abraham tells the powerful story of one man's search for the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, andIslam. Traveling through war zones, braving violence at religious sites, andseeking out faith leaders, Bruce Feiler...
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Travels in the White Man's Grave: Memoirs from West and Central Africa
by Donald Macintosh Publisher Comments At the beginning of the 1950s, the interior of West and Central Africa was still known to most of the outside world as the "White Man's Grave," and consisted of vast expanses of mysterious and threatening primeval forest. When Donald MacIntosh, 23-year...
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Neither East Nor West: One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran
by Christiane Bird Publisher Comments Here is the Islamic Republic of Iran today, in all its beauty, ferocity, and contradiction -- from the modern bustling capital of Tehran to the medieval holy city of Qom. A fusion of eloquent travelogue, historical inquiry, unforgettable portraits of...
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