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The Tangier Diaries, 1962-1979
by John Hopkins  Publisher Comments Every page drips with memories, writes William Burroughs about this collection of Hopkins' diaries covering two decades of a life lived as an ex-patriot. Hopkins was one of the most influential writers living in Tangier at the time; including, among...
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Abraham a Journey To the Heart of Three
by Bruce Feiler Publisher Comments IntroductionHome They start walking just after dawn. They stream through the streets, begin climbing the hills, and drop a few coins in the outstretched palms of the poor. They leave their houses, their lives, their neighbors, and come by themselves or...
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Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik: One Woman's Solo Misadventures Across Africa
by Marie Javins Publisher Comments "Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik" is a spirited African adventure of a solo woman traveler whose overland excursion across the continent includes challenges, inevitable mishaps, and more than a few debacles. <BR>Author and world traveler Marie Javins is...
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From the Holy Mountain : a Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (97 Edition)
by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments In 587 a.d., two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed...
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Sahara
by Michael Palin Publisher Comments As the journey unfolds, the Sahara reveals not the emptiness of endless sand dunes, but a huge and diverse range of cultures and landscapes and a long history of civilization, trade, commerce and conquest stretching from the time of the ancient Egyptians...
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Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land
by John Lloyd Stephens Publisher Comments Great 19th-century travel classic by discoverer of Mayan ruins. Recounts author's year-long journey through the Middle East, with detailed observations of the Pyramids, temple of Karnak, red-rock city of Petra, along with charming accounts of a Turkish...
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Among Muslims
by Kathleen Jamie Publisher Comments An account of the author's travels in the border regions of Pakistan. Formerly titled "The Golden Peak" and shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Award, this edition has a new preface and afterword. B/w photo section dividers....
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Valleys of Assassins and Other Persian Travels ((Rev)01 Edition)
by Freya Stark Publisher Comments Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled between...
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Travels with Fortune - An African Adventure
by Christina Dodwell Synopsis This is the amazing tale of Christina Dodwell's first adventure: a three-year journey through Africa. Recounted with modesty and good humour, it is a story of great tenacity and incredible courage. Christina travelled by horse, camel, on foot, hitching...
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage Volume 2
by Richard Burton Publisher Comments Volume 2 of classic work. Posing as a wandering dervish, Burton gained admittance to the holy Kaabah and to the tomb of the prophet at Medina and participated in all the rituals of the Hadj (pilgrimage). A treasury of material on Arab life, beliefs...
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In the Shadow of the Mosque: Tales of Saudi Arabia
by Jura Macle Sherwood Publisher Comments Nothing prepared me, a middle-aged American housewife, for life or for my culturally shocking, mind-broadening experiences in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I was fifty-one when, in 1984, I accompanied my husband to Saudi Arabia. Islam dictated the rules...
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Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier
by Joel Hafvenstein Publisher Comments A GOOD IDEA GONE TERRIBLY WRONG. “We’re getting out, mate.” Charles’s composure was belied by the taut lines in his face and the two Afghan guards flanking him, their rifles unslung and ready. “Get your things...
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Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood
by Carolyn Slaughter Publisher Comments What happened to me affected all of us — my mother, my father, my sisters, and me: we all fell apart under the horror of it, and we all tried to pretend that there was no horror. Before the Knife is an unforgettable story — a transcendent...
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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses (P.S.)
by Bruce Feiler Publisher Comments Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible describes one man's epic odyssey—by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel—through the greatest stories ever told. From crossing the Red Sea to climbing Mt. Sinai to touching the...
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Turkish Reflections
by Mary Lee Settle Publisher Comments After a twenty-year absence, Mary Lee Settle returns to the land she calls the happiest home she has ever known. A land of intersecting continents, cultures, and contradictions, Turkey beckons her on a cross-country journey, in search of the country's...
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Morocco: In the Labyrinth of Dreams and Bazaars (Armchair Traveller)
by Walter M Weiss Publisher Comments Come travel the breadth and depth of Morocco's social and geographical...
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Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey Into the Heart of Darkness
by Jeffrey Tayler 
Publisher Comments On an unforgettable journey of discovery, Facing the Congo transports readers into the lush jungles and crocodile-infested waters of sub-Saharan Africa. Climbing the river on a barge teeming with merchants, deckhands, prostitutes, mothers, spiritual...
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East Along the Equator: A Journey Up the Congo and Into Zaire (Traveler / Atlantic Monthly Press)
by Helen Winternitz Publisher Comments In this brilliant mix of political journalism and travel writing, Helen Winternitz and fellow journalist Timothy Phelps witness what few Westerners have: life in the ecologically rich but financially impoverished American-backed dictatorship of Zaire...
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One Day My Sister Disappeared: A Memoir
by Christine Orban Publisher Comments “No one will ever be like you. Who could be like a sister?” One Day My Sister Disappeared is Christine Orban’s deeply affecting meditation on family, grief, and identity. In spare and tender prose, Orban reflects on the death of her...
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Mango Elephants in the Sun
by Susana Herrera Publisher Comments This collection of reminiscences by a young Peace Corps volunteer who lived in Northern Cameroon evokes the colorful and exuberant soul of Africa itself. Blending travelogue and spiritual memoir, Susana Herrera eloquently demonstrates how reaching...
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