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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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The Wild Goose Chronicles
by Trent Harris Synopsis It was 1992 and everybody was against me so I got up really early and placed a call to the U.S. embassy in Bamako, the capital of Mali.... I told Scott ( was going to Timbuktu. He asked me if he could have my TV set if I didn't come back. I said yes...
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Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient
by Barbara Hodgson Publisher Comments When Lady Mary Wortley Montagu visited the baths in Turkey in 1717 she was so tightly corseted that Turkish women were convinced her husband had locked her into some devious machine. Montagu's account of her journey helped bring the region into the...
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To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger
by Mark Jenkins Publisher Comments For nearly eight years as the monthly columnist for Outside magazine, and in his award-winning books, Mark Jenkins has held fans spellbound with his riveting accounts of expeditions to remote parts of the globe. In To Timbuktu...
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Sandstorms: Days and Nights in Arabia
by Peter Theroux Publisher Comments In this provocative and incisive memoir, Peter Theroux reveals the Middle East only as a true insider can. Stationed as a journalist in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for most of his seven years in the region, Theroux explodes the romantic images of Arabia, but...
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Meeting the Invisible Man
by Toby Green Publisher Comments Toby Green weaves a mystical narrative of lore and tradition as he searches for, and finds, the secret power of invisibility. Exploring the extraordinarily vibrant spiritual world which underlies the surface of West Africa, this book examines the...
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A Passion for Egypt: Arthur Weigall, Tutankhamun and the 'Curse of the Pharaohs'
by Julie Hankey Publisher Comments This compelling biography of Arthur Weigall, the British Egyptologist and Chief Inspector of Antiquities, chronicles his involvement with the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb under Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon. Weigall came into conflict with Carter...
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Encounters with the Middle East: True Stories of People and Culture That Help You Understand the Region
by Nesreen Khashan Publisher Comments "Encounters with the Middle East" collects 30 rich, engaging travel stories that capture uplifting scenes from everyday life and deliver sensitive, bittersweet renderings of people and landscapes often shaken by conflict. This book, with black and white...
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Freya Stark in Southern Arabia
by Malise Ruthven Publisher Comments The magnificent canyons of Wadi Hadhramaut inspired Freya Stark to produce some of her best photographs. Dame Freya's particular empathy with local people resulted in charming pictures of people she worked or travelled with, and the homes and costumes of...
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My Malawi Journal
by Bea Buckley Synopsis My Malawi Journal is a travelogue in which the writer narrates her rich experiences of Malawi, a small landlocked country in east central Africa. As a Peace Corps volunteer, the author lives with her adopted village family and gains first-hand knowledge...
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Zaatar Days, Henna Nights: Adventures, Dreams, and Destinations Across the Middle East
by Maliha Masood Publisher Comments When twenty-eight-year-old Maliha Masood, a burned-out dot-commer from Seattle, bought a one-way ticket to adventure and rejuvenation, she found it in the most unlikely of places: the Middle East. With an infectious love of adventure, a zany sense of...
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered Teh Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to th
by Edward Rice Publisher Comments A New York Times best seller when it was first published, Rice's biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff of legend. Rice retraces Burton's steps as the first European...
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Where God Was Born: A Daring Adventure Through the Bible's Greatest Stories (P.S.)
by Bruce Feiler Publisher Comments At a time when America debates its values and the world braces for religious war, Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers Walking the Bible and Abraham, travels ten thousand miles through the heart of the Middle East—Israel, Iraq...
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Baghdad Sketches
by Freya Stark Publisher Comments In the fall of 1928, Freya Stark, a thirty-five-year-old Englishwoman, set out on her first journey to the Middle East. Bolstered by a command of Arabic, a fair knowledge of Farsi, and an irrepressible drive that would characterize her more than five...
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Traveller on Horseback: In Eastern Turkey & Iran
by Christina Dodwell Book News Annotation Dodwell is a seasoned traveller and writer. This is her trip by bus through Iran to Pakistan, back to Turkey and, by horse, on a loop in NE Turkey. A lively adventure and observation in a wild and historic region. Deserves an index. Color photos...
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Passage to Egypt: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordon
by Katherine Frank Book News Annotation Gordon was a member of Victorian London's literary circle including Dickens, Thackery, and Tennyson when she was forced by ill health to travel to the dry climate of Egypt. There she embraced the culture and people of Egypt and used her experiences to...
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Through Iran in Disguise
by Sarah Hobson Publisher Comments In 1970, at the age of 19, Sarah Hobson decided to explore Iran. In order to travel safely alone in remote areas, she dressed as a boy. This disguise gave her entree to a world still closed to women....
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The Lost River: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Transformation on Wild Water
by Richard Bangs Publisher Comments As compelling as Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, this harrowing story of river rafting examines the high risk and high adventure at the heart of modern-day explorations. In the early 1970s, in a quest to run the last unexplored rivers of Africa, two...
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The Name of Things
by Susan Brind Morrow Publisher Comments A striking, original memoir of the archaeology of language praised as "an etymological wonderment" (William Safire) and "simply and eloquently -- magic"....
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African Embrace
by L Dalton Casto Synopsis African Embrace is a true story that reads like a novel. As a business and economic development consultant who assisted the Ghanaian government with major political policy, L. Dalton Casto lived through coups in the wake of the reign of Ghana's President...
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