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Silk Dreams, Troubled Road (UK Edition)
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Silk Dreams, Troubled Road (UK Edition)
by Jonny Bealby

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In Islamabad, Jonny loses the woman of his dreams. Then he meets Sarah and together they search for the Heavenly Horses that will carry them along the Old Silk Road. This is a breathtaking travelogue and an intriguing illustration of human relationships...
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A Wayfarer in the Dolomites
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A Wayfarer in the Dolomites
by S. H. Hamer

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A WAYFARER IN THE DOLOMITES THE DREI ZINNKN TO EDITION THE following, pages do not purport to be a guide-book to the Dolomites, but rather the record of a tour taken in those regions by the writer and an artist friend some years ago, together with some...
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Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers
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Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers
by Sara Nickles

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Bargain Books are non-returnable. Love. Freedom. Adventure. Tequila. The charms of Mexico are as diverse as the writers drawn to its sunny climate and exotic landscape. "Escape to Mexico" collects the work of twenty great authors who have found...
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Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays
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Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays
by Charles Kingsley

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Work by Charles Kingsley, a prolific English novelist and author whose main power lay in his descriptive faculties. Kingsley wrote poetry and political articles, as well as several volumes of sermons....
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Gleanings by the Way
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Gleanings by the Way
by John Clark

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An Episcopal clergyman travels through America, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West, and offers a treatise on the Mormons while in northern NY/Ohio....
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The Students of Asia
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The Students of Asia
by G. Sherwood Eddy

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THE STUDENTS OF ASIA BY G. SHERWOOD EDDY, M. A. AUTHOR or THK NEW ERA IN ASIA, INDIA AWAKENING, ETC. WITH FOREWORD BY THE HON. SIR ARTHUR LAWLLY G. C. b. L, G. C. I. B., K. C. M. G. LA I, r pi nR OT MADRAS LONDON --5. i THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY...
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The Tramp at Home
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The Tramp at Home
by Lee Meriwether

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1889. Illustrated. Meriwether, a Special Agent of the U.S. Department of Labor, gives an account of his travels in the kingdoms of the Old World and in America studying the condition of workingmen. This volume contains not dry figures, but a few of the...
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Silk Route Adventure: on Horseback in the Heart of Asia (UK Edition)
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Silk Route Adventure: on Horseback in the Heart of Asia (UK Edition)
by Claire Burges Watson

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Rebelling against the predictability of banking life, Claire set off on her own on an eighteen-month, 6,000-kilometer horseback adventure across Central Asia. Silk Route Adventure takes you through rolling Mongolian prairie lands, monotonous Kazakh...
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The Rambler in North America
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The Rambler in North America
by Charles Latrobe

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An Australian politician travels extensively through the U.S. (with side trips to Canada and Mexico). Discusses the Native American population; American institutions; race relations; American arts and letters; manners; and so forth....
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Lyell's Travels in North America
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Lyell's Travels in North America
by Charles Lyell

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Mr. Lyell's first journeys through North America. Particular note is taken of geology, but in general Mr. Lyell considers the American character, the institutions of the cities and towns, and the like. His travels span from New England to the Mid-West....
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Travelers' Tales San Francisco: True Stories (Travelers' Tales Guides)
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Travelers' Tales San Francisco: True Stories (Travelers' Tales Guides)
by James O'reilly

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San Francisco is spoken of in the same breath as Paris, Venice, and Rome, and has earned the slogan "America's Favorite City" for its openness, dramatic beauty, cultural amenities, the diversity of its neighborhoods and population, and its icons - the...
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Never Too Old to Climb Walls
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Never Too Old to Climb Walls
by Martha Sue Todd

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"Insightful and inspiring is this account of the author's thirteen-year pilgrimage in China- amazing people stories, church celebrations, and cultural events. The author is a modern-day Lottie Moon."- Max A. Eller, Retired Navy Chaplain and...
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Greece : a Traveler's Literary Companion (97 Edition)
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Greece : a Traveler's Literary Companion (97 Edition)
by Artemis (ed.) Leontis

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Discover Greece — a country that has inspired centuries of travel — through its best modern writers. Against a superb landscape of islands, rocks, caves, villages, windmills, vineyards, cities, ports, beaches, and ruins, all bathed in the...
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Water Road: an Odyssey By Narrowboat Through England's Waterways (UK Edition)
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Water Road: an Odyssey By Narrowboat Through England's Waterways (UK Edition)
by Paul Gogarty

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The Water Road is the story of a four month circumnavigation by narrowboat of 'The Grand Cross', the name give to the inland waterway linking the Thames to the Humber, Severn and Mersey. Starting in London, Paul Gogarty follows a figure of eight through...
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Men and Things in America
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Men and Things in America
by Andrew Bell

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An Englishman travels to the Mid-Atlantic and make observations on social customs, religious observance (including commentary on the Shakers), race relations, and legal matters....
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Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet (Dodo Press)
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Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet (Dodo Press)
by William Henry Knight

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Nineteenth century travel writing in Cashmere and the Himalayas, otherwise called by Anglo-Indians "The Hills."...
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Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage
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Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage
by Richard Hakluyt

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If you seek the advice herein of such as make profession in cosmography, Ptolemy, the father of geography, and his eldest children, will answer by their maps with a negative, concluding most of the sea within the land, and making an end of the world...
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The World: Travels 1950-2000
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The World: Travels 1950-2000
by Jan Morris

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Truly the most skilled travel writer of our time, Jan Morris's keen eye and gifted language captures time and place like no other. This collection of excerpts represents her impressive half-century career as a journalist and essayist. Morris's...
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Hitchhiking Rides with the Buddha
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Hitchhiking Rides with the Buddha
by Will Ferguson

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Take a humorist from the Great White North -- one part Bob and Doug McKenzie, the other Bill Bryson -- feed him lots of sake, and set him loose hitchhiking his way through polite Japanese society. The result is one of the warmest and funniest travelogues...
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Get Sideways: The Short Guide to Navigating the Santa Ynez Valley Wine Country
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Get Sideways: The Short Guide to Navigating the Santa Ynez Valley Wine Country
by Shelly Cone

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Get Sideways is a guidebook for those wanting to follow in the footsteps of the lead characters in Fox Searchlight Pictures' release of Sideways, which follows two men on their search for wine, women and meaning through Santa Ynez Valley....
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