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Playing with Water
by J Hamilton Paterson  Publisher Comments A wonderful inner journey in the outer light and color of a remote coast, uncommonly well written.--Peter...
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Chasing the Monk's Shadow
by Mishi Saran Publisher Comments In the seventh century AD, the Chinese monk Xuanzang set off on an epic journey to India to study Buddhist philosophy from the Indian masters. Traveling along the Silk Road, braving brigands and blizzards, Xuanzang finally reached India, where his...
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Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
by Robert D Kaplan Publisher Comments At its peak, the Ottoman empire stretched from Hungary to the Gulf of Aden to the Caspian Sea. Informed by a lifetime of travel and exploration, Eastward to Tartary takes you on a spellbinding journey into the heart of that still-unsettled region, a...
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Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman's Last Journey
by Ralph Leighton Publisher Comments As a stamp-collecting boy always fascinated by remote places, Nobel Prize?winning physicist Richard Feynman was particularly taken by the diamond-shaped stamps from a place called Tannu Tuva deep within Outer Mongolia. He hoped, someday, to travel there....
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River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny
by Jeffrey Tayler Publisher Comments One of today's most intrepid writers chronicles a deadly trek through the legendary region that gave birth to the gulag and gave Siberia its outsize reputation for perilous isolation. In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles...
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The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama, and the First British Expedition to Tibet
by Kate Teltscher Publisher Comments In this narrative, Teltscher traces two extraordinary journeys across some of the harshest and highest terrain in the world: the first British mission to Tibet and the Panchen Lama's state visit to China to mark the emperor's 70th birthday....
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Naked Spirits: A Journey into Occupied Tibet
by Adrian Abbotts Publisher Comments Smuggled in illegally by Chinese truck drivers, Adrian Abbotts and his wife set out to discover the true Tibet and bring to the world's attention the plight of a unique culture. The result is a moving account of the history, culture and traditions of...
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Wrong About Japan
by Peter Carey 
Powells.com Staff Pick Here's the cure for the otaku blues! In his latest work, two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey recounts his anime- and manga-inspired trip to Japan with his son, Charley. Throughout the book we tag along with Carey as he navigates not only Japanese...
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Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
by Tom Bissell
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-370) and index....
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Yak butter & black tea :a journey into forbidden China
by Wade Brackenbury Publisher Comments Wade Brackenbury wanted an adventure, and he got the journey of a lifetime. Along with a charismatic photographer named Pascal, Wade went seeking the Drung people, a dwindling minority in the vast empire of China, said to live in an obsure valley in...
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Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia
by Mark Jenkins Publisher Comments With this brilliant account of his journey—at once edge-of-your-seat exciting and literary—Mark Jenkins established himself as the master of adventure/travel writing. In 1989 he and six companions—two Americans...
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Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist (Concord Library)
by Gretel Ehrlich Synopsis Gretel Ehrlich's path leads her to Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces in western China to climb Emei Shan, one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains. For Ehrlich, a practicing Buddhist, the climb is both a spiritual pilgrimage and a troubling encounter...
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Light Garden of the Angel King
by Peter Levi Publisher Comments In 1970, Peter Levi—classical scholar, archaeologist, and poet—set off with Bruce Chatwin in search of the classical heritage of Afghanistan. Greek conquerors, Buddhist monks, Moghul emperors, doomed British soldiers—all have traveled...
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Monkfish Memoirs #1: Sleeping in Caves: A Sixties Himalayan Memoir
by Marilyn Stablein Publisher Comments "The author's eye is wide open, and her writing is fresh, funny, and exhilarating."-Peter Matthiessen "Marilyn Stablein's wry voice tells how it was, calmly and clearly, unadorned. . . . whether on the ground with sadhus and chapatis or in the sky with...
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Espresso with the Headhunters - A journey through the jungles of Borneo
by John, Wassner Publisher Comments The indigenous people of Borneo use blowpipes and poisoned darts. They wear 'pan handle' haircuts, live in communal dwellings and some tribes have mastered the art of making themselves 'invisible' in the jungle. But above all, they have a reputation as...
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Danzigers Travels
by Nick Danziger Publisher Comments This account describes the author's adventures during an 18-month journey "beyond forbidden frontiers" in Asia. With minimal equipment and disguised as an itinerant Muslim, he hitch-hiked and walked through southern Turkey, and the Iran of the Ayatollahs,...
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Chasing the Mountain of Light: Across India on the Trail of the Koh-I-Noor Diamond
by Kevin Rushby Publisher Comments The Koh-i-Noor diamond, the Mountain of Light, the world's largest diamond was found in India, traveled from Golconda to the Mughal palaces in the north. Fought over, cursed and occasionally lost, it finally reached the sikhs in the Punjab, only to be...
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Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River
by Colin Angus Publisher Comments From the Yenisey’s headwaters in the wild heart of central Asia to its mouth on the Arctic Ocean, Colin Angus and his fellow adventurers travel 5,500 kilometres of one of the world’s most dangerous rivers through remotest Mongolia and Siberia,...
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The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam (Adventura Books)
by Dana Sachs Publisher Comments This perceptive and intensely personal account explores adapting to life in acountry so long off-limits to Americans....
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River Road to China: The Search for the Sources of the Mekong, 1866-73
by Milton Osborne Publisher Comments In 1866, six Frenchmen set out on a dangerous mission to seek a trade route up the Mekong. During the two years that followed, they would journey through more than four thousand miles of unmapped territory, from the tropical heat of the swamps of Vietnam...
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