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Kwa Heri Means Goodbye: Memories of Kenya 1957-1959
by Dorothy Stephens  Synopsis In 1953, when Dorothy Stephens and her husband lived in married student housing at the University of Michigan, she envisioned a safe, conventional life ahead. She never imagined living in Kenya toward the end of the Mau Mau uprising, plunged into an...
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Three Years in North America
by James Stuart Synopsis An English lawyer travels to the United States, moving widely up and down the East Coast from New England to the Carolinas, discussing current events, agricultural matters, slavery, and so on.vol. 2 of...
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The Viceroy of Ouidah
by Bruce Chatwin Synopsis In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune. His plans exceed his dreams, and soon he is the Viceroy of Ouidah...
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Alberta
by Robert Kroetsch Synopsis Robert Kroetsch captures the beauty of this province in this endearing documentation of his Alberta experience--from the dinosaur digs in the Badlands to the Calgary Stampede to the site of Big Bear's prophetic vision of kd lang's hometown....
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Out-Of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit
by Henry Van Dyke Publisher Comments If what you read here makes you wish to go to the Holy Land, I shall be glad; and if you go in the right way, you surely will not be disappointed. But there are two things in this book which I would not have you miss. The first is the new conviction...
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Cook's Tour (UK Edition)
by Anthony Bourdain Synopsis In this text, Anthony Bourdain sets off to eat his way around the world. But this is no conventional culinary tour. Bourdain heads out to Saigon where he eats the still-beating heart of a live cobra, and travels deep into landmined Khmer Rouge territory...
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Notes by the Way in a Sailor's Life (Dodo Press)
by Arthur E. Knights Synopsis In diary form, Captain Knights memoirs of his travels in Hong Kong, India and the far east in the late nineteenth-century....
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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
by William Makepeace Thackeray Synopsis From this scene we rushed off somewhat discomposed to make a breakfast off red mullets and grapes, melons, pomegranates, and Smyrna wine, at a dirty little comfortable inn, to which we were recommended: and from the windows of which we had a fine...
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The Road to Wildcat
by Eleanor De La Vergne Risley Synopsis "The Road to Wildcat recounts the travels in North Alabama in the mid-1920s of Eleanor Risley (suffering from diabetes), her asthmatic husband, Pierre, their dog, John, and a Chinese wheelbarrow named Sisyphus that held their travel goods. Advised to...
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A Visit to America
by A. G. Macdonell Publisher Comments A VISIT TO AMERICA CHAPTER ONE Approaching Manhattan up by the long-stretching island. quot WALT WHITMAN. THE voyage was uneventful. My main impressions of it were the width of the Atlantic, which I had never before crossed, the number of references made...
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Seeing Europe with Famous Authors: Volume VIII - Italy, Sicily, and Greece-Part Two
by Francis W. Halsey Publisher Comments It was our fortune to come into Greece by night, with a splendid moon shining upon the summer sea. The varied outlines of Sunium, on the one side, and Fgina on the other, were very clear, but in the deep shadows there was mystery enough to feed the...
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Bruce Chatwin
by Nichola Shakespeare Publisher Comments "Unimprovable (and unstoppably readable)" --Pico Iyer, Time "Moving and elegant...A superb portrayal of the restless and randy travel writer brings us as close to his hidden heart as we're likely to get." --Salon.com "Shakespeare's engrossing bio does...
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Slowly Down the Ganges (98 Edition)
by Eric Newby Publisher Comments On his forty-fourth birthday Eric Newby, a self-confessed river lover, sets out on a 1200-mile journey down the Ganges River from Hardwar to the Bay of Bengal, accompanied by his wife Wanda. Things do not start smoothly as they run aground 63 times in...
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Hulme's Journal
by Thomas Hulme Synopsis An Englishman travels from the East Coast into the Mid-West....
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Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador (UK Edition)
by John Gimlette Publisher Comments An extraordinary journey across the magnificent, delinquent coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. John Gimlette's journey across this harsh and awesome landscape, the eastern extreme of the Americas, broadly mirrors that of Dr Eliot Curwen, his great...
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The Best American Travel Writing 2005 (Best American Travel Writing)
by Kincaid Publisher Comments The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in...
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A Frenchman in America
by Max O'rell Synopsis Mr. O'Rell's good-humored and clever observations offer today's reader a refreshing image of America, based on the author's experiences while on an extensive book tour. Mr. O'Rell even offers a spry and entertaining essay on Texas, and why he chose not...
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Hollywood the Hard Way: A Cowboy's Journey
by Patti Dickinson Publisher Comments A fifteen-hundred-mile horseback ride to win a bet, to prove a point, to honor tradition? It sounds like a tale straight out of the Wild West: a man, a horse, a grueling ride halfway across the country. The bet is between Jimmy Wakely, Hollywood singing...
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Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands Vol 2
by Harriet Beecher Stowe Synopsis Letters from a tour of England, France, Switzerland and Germany...
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Nights in London
by Thomas Burke Publisher Comments NIGHTS IN LONDON BY THOMAS BURKE Author of Umehouse Nights. NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1918 8Y TH SAME AUTHOR LIMEHOUSE NIGHTS TALES or CHINATOWN TWINKLETOES, TO MY MOTHER WHO STILL ENJOYS A NIGHT IN TOWN NOTE These chapters on London life deal...
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