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Irons in the Fire
by John Mcphee  Publisher Comments This acclaimed collection of essays begins with the title essay and a trip to Nevada, where, in the company of a brand inspector, John McPhee discovers that cattle rustling is not just history....
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Persian Expedition (49 Edition)
by Xenophon Synopsis An account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - "The Ten Thousand" - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne. The text remains one of the finest we have of the Greeks confronting a "barbarian" world....
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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings (Vintage Departures)
by Jonathan Raban From Powells.com "I had a boat, most of a spring and summer, a cargo of books, and the kind of dream of self-enrichment that spurs everyone who sails north from Seattle," explains Jonathan Raban at the outset of his journey along the Inside Passage from...
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
by Janet Wallach Publisher Comments Turning away from the privileged world of the "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell (1868—1926) explored, mapped, and excavated the world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in...
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Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
by Amy Irvine Publisher Comments Trespass is the story of one woman's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utah's red-rock country after her father's suicide, only to...
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
by Dean King 
Synopsis - A crucial, forgotten chapter of American history--immortalized in a survivor's firsthand account that became one of the bestselling books in 19th-century America and influenced Abraham Lincoln's, thoughts on slavery--is brilliantly retold for a new...
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SignSpotting: Absurb & Amusing Signs from Around the World
by Doug Lansky Publisher Comments As anyone who has spent time on the road knows, you often have to depend on signs...to navigate through a town, locate your hotel, even obey the law a scary thought if you've ever come across any of the publicly posted absurdities that appear in this...
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Ciao, America!: An Italian Discovers the U.S.
by Beppe Severgnini Publisher Comments When Beppe Severgnini and his wife rented a creaky house in Georgetown they were determined to see if they could adapt to a full four seasons in a country obsessed with ice cubes, air-conditioning, recliner chairs, and, of all things, after-dinner...
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Windows of Brimnes: An American in Iceland
by Bill Holm Publisher Comments In his most ambitious book to date, poet, musician, wit, and polemicist Bill Holm repairs to his Icelandic cottage to reflect on the United States and what it might learn from the land of his ancestral roots. The book begins with a description of the...
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Things You Get for Free
by Michael Mcgirr
Publisher Comments Things You Get for Free is a travelogue rich with charm and wisdom and sparkling with its author's singular wit. As a priest, Michael McGirr decides to take his charming and inimitable mum on the honeymoon she and her late husband never got around to...
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Around the World in 80 Dates
by Jennifer Cox Publisher Comments Sorry, Dorothy — sometimes your heart's desire isn't in your own backyard. Head of PR and spokesperson for Lonely Planet travel guides, Jennifer Cox has explored the most remote regions, toured the most exotic terrains, and bonded with people the...
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There & Then: The Travel Writings of James Salter
by James Salter
Publisher Comments This collection offers two dozen essays and sketches about one of the passions of Salter's life—travel—a subject beloved by writers across the centuries. Over twenty years of skiing, hiking, climbing from Colorado to Japan to the Tyrol, from...
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
by Suketu Mehta Publisher Comments A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dancer...
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The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
by Pico Iyer From Powells.com "Suddenly, the flames were curling seventy feet above my living room," The Global Soul begins. The author's house burns down, and next thing we know we're caroming from island to city to jungle, culture-hopping the globe, dizzy in the blur of it all....
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Upstream: Sons, Fathers, and Rivers
by Robin Carey Synopsis This compelling memoir about the author's kayaking journey with his son...
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Bicycling Beyond the Divide: Two Journeys Into the West (Outdoor Lives)
by Daryl Farmer Publisher Comments On a journey begun twenty years earlier, Daryl Farmer, a twenty-year-old two-time college dropout, did what lost men have so often done in this country: he headed west. Twenty years later and seventy pounds heavier, with the yellowing journals from that...
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A Walk Across America
by Peter Jenkins Publisher Comments Chapter OneTalkin' by a Wood Stove “ Stop right there, son. You ain't goin' nowhere in this blizzard. Now sit down!” The huge man blocked the narrow door of the snow-covered country store. I had just thawed out from the heat of the wood stove...
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Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson
Publisher Comments "Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it." After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson-bestsellingauthor of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to returnto...
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Vanishing Cornwall
by Daphne Du Maurier Publisher Comments "There was a smell in the air of tar and rope and rusted chain, a smell of tidal water. Down harbour, around the point, was the open sea. Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known. Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to...
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Blood River: a Journey To Africa's Broken Heart (UK Edition)
by Tim Butcher Review “Tim Butcher deserves a medal for this crazy feat. I marvel at his courage and his empathy.”Thomas...
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