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Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa
by Thomas Bass  Publisher Comments Originally published in 1990, this book tells of Thomas Bass's two-year journey across Africa, from Timbuktu to the Zambezi River, during which he spent most of his time in the company of scientists. In the course of his travels, he met a Cambridge...
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The Road to Oxiana
by Robert Byron Publisher Comments In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. Throughout, he kept a thoroughly...
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Welcome to the Bethlehem Star Hotel: An Account of Life in Palestine with Descriptions of People, Places and Incidents
by Ben Granby Publisher Comments Ben Granby, frustrated American food service worker, takes a multifarious, back roads ramble through the combat zone of Israel/Palestine, circa 2002. His motivation? To throw himself headlong into other people's problems....
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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium
by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments In 587 AD, 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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Sir Richard Burton's Travels in Arabia and Africa : Four Lectures From a Huntington Library Manuscript (05 Edition)
by Richard Burton Publisher Comments Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890)--explorer, linguist, anthropologist--was one of the most fascinating figures of the Victorian era. In 1866, while serving as British consul in Brazil, he presented four lectures on the highlights of his travels in Arabia...
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African Silences
by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous...
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Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert
by Willia Langewiesche 
Publisher Comments The world's vastest and most forbidding desert is revealed in all its cruelty and wonder in this masterpiece of contemporary travel writing by the author of Cutting for Sign. William Langewiesche crossed the Sahara from Algiers to Dakar, determined to...
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Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika
by Giles Foden Publisher Comments From the Whitbread Award-winning author of The Last King of Scotland comes the true story that inspired the classic film The African Queen. When the First World War breaks out, the British navy is committed to engaging the enemy wherever there is...
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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
by Bruce Feiler
Publisher Comments One part adventure story, one part archaeological detective work, one part spiritual exploration, Walking the Biblevividly recounts an inspiring personal odyssey -- by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel -- through the greatest stories ever told. Feeling a...
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The Unveiling of Timbuctoo: The Astounding Adventures of Caillie
by Galbraith Welch Publisher Comments This is the remarkable story of Rene Caillie, a young Frenchman, who in 1828 became the first European to reach the unknown, sacred city of Timbuctoo and escape alive. His is one of the most extraordinary adventures ever undertaken. But his journey was...
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When Elephants Fly: One Woman's Journey from Wall Street to Zululand
by Carol Batrus Publisher Comments After graduating from MIT and working in the health care field, Carol Batrus changed directions and got her MBA at Columbia and went to work for a prestigious New York investment bank. Still unsatisfied, she eventually gave it all up, cut the tether to...
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The Afghan Amulet: Travels from the Hindu Kush
by Sheila Paine Publisher Comments Intrigued by an exquisite and mysterious amulet on an antique dress from Kohistan, 'land of mountains' in Pakistan, Sheila Paine began an epic quest that took her from the peaks of the Himalaya to the shores of Greece. In this, the first part of her...
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Eastward To Tartary : Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus (01 Edition)
by Robert D. Kaplan Publisher Comments Eastward to Tartary," Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. <BR>Kaplan takes...
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Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Through Africa
by Ann Jones Publisher Comments Renowned feminist and intrepid travel journalist Ann Jones tells the story of her journey from one end of Africa to the other in search of the legendary Lovedu, a tribe ruled by a great rain-making queen and dedicated to the "feminine" ideals of...
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Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold
by Michael Benanav Publisher Comments Benanav became one of the few Westerners to ever join the Caravan of White Gold. Following his amused guide, Benanav lived for weeks among the camel drivers, marching 18 hours a day for nearly a thousand miles through sandstorms and searing heat to the...
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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
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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The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel
by Linda Grant Publisher Comments From the highly acclaimed writer, "The People On The Street" is an attempt to try and understand the Israeli situation, from the eye of the novelist....
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Cairo: The Mother of the World
by Herbert L Smith Synopsis Cairo: The Mother of the World explores the heart of a city that most tourists never see-an affectionate, humorous close-up of the aggregation that is Cairo, as well as an adventure among the streets, tombs, houses, and monuments that are the city...
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Somebody's Heart Is Burning : Woman Wanderer in Africa (03 Edition)
by Tanya Shaffer Publisher Comments From seasoned storyteller and award-winning performance artist Shaffer comes a uniquely insightful account of a year spent in Africa, relating the challenges of cultural difference with self-deprecating irony and clear-eyed compassion....
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Traveling Through Egypt: From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century
by Deborah Manley Publisher Comments Egypt is one of the two wings of the world, and the excellences of which it can boast are countless. Its metropolis is the dome of Islam, its river the most splendid of rivers.-al-Muqaddasi, c. 1000To travelers, Egypt is a place of dreams: a country...
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