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Recollections of a Life of Adventure
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Recollections of a Life of Adventure
by William Stamer

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An English adventurer goes around the world. While in America, he travels around the Mid-Atlantic region, and expresses sympathy for the Southern states. A swashbucking work rather atypical of this collection....
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The Chinese Empire (1860)
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The Chinese Empire (1860)
by M. Huc

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the...
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Pictures of Travel.
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Pictures of Travel.
by Heinrich Heine

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Heinrich Heine and Christopher Johnston (editor) Heine wrote several travellogs on his journeys in Germany, Italy, England and Northern Europe. We have published the Harz Journey and Journey to Italy. In addition to these Pictures of Travel will bring...
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Two Summers in Guyenne (Dodo Press)
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Two Summers in Guyenne (Dodo Press)
by Edward Harrison Barker

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"I had left the volcanic mountains of Auvergne and had passed through Mont-Dore and La Bourboule, following the course of the Dordogne that flowed through the valley with the bounding spirits of a young mountaineer descending for the first time towards...
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Western India in 1838
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Western India in 1838
by M. R. S. Postans

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Originally published in 1839. Author: M R S. Postans Language: English Keywords: History / India / Travel Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure...
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Our Brothers and Cousins
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Our Brothers and Cousins
by John Macgregor

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An Englishman travels through the Eastern and Mid-western U.S., noting habits of religious observance and cultural differences between the American and the English....
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American Vertigo : Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville (06 Edition)
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American Vertigo : Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville (06 Edition)
by Bernard-henri Levy

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Hoping to gauge the success of America's experiment in democracy, France's leading journalist follows Tocqueville's journey across our once nascent nation to rediscover what it means to be an American. Here in opposing and quick succession, we meet...
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North Africa and the Desert - Scenes and Moods
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North Africa and the Desert - Scenes and Moods
by George E. Woodberry

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NORTH AFRICA AND THE DESERT SCENES AND MOODS BY GEORGE E. WOODBERRY NEW YORK CHABLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1914 COPYBIGHT, 1914, BT CHARLES SCRIBNEBS SONS Published April, 1914 SETH LOW LONG AIT FRIEND AND ONCE MT A STATESMAN INTERESTED IN ALL THAT PERTAINS TO...
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Roads: Driving America's Greatest Highways
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Roads: Driving America's Greatest Highways
by Larry Mcmurtry

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As he crisscrosses America -- driving in search of the present, the past, and himself -- Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation's great trails and the culture that has developed around them. Ever since he was a boy growing up in Texas...
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Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
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Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
by Morgan Spurlock

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Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and director Morgan Spurlock, who volunteered his body as a guinea pig for the fast food industry in the hit documentary Super Size Me, now sets his sights even higher in Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? Spurlock...
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Notions of the Americans
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Notions of the Americans
by James Fenimore Cooper

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Cooper's detailed study was intended for English audiences as a defense against their wide-ranging criticisms. Subjects covered: political systems; manners; landscapes; religion; slavery; the state of arts and letters. Several states are mentioned and...
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Cuba Is a State of Mind (the Spiritual Traveler, Vol I)
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Cuba Is a State of Mind (the Spiritual Traveler, Vol I)
by P. W. Long

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The Spiritual Traveler series provides a new type of travel writing that allows the reader to experience the consciousness of a nation. It gives future travelers to Cuba another perspective to consider. (Foreign Travel)...
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Hall's Travels in Canada
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Hall's Travels in Canada
by Francis Hall

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A lieutenant in the British army travels through North America. Much is offered on American political matters and matters of character, as well as the usual commentary on landscape etc....
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Tears, Fear and Adventure
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Tears, Fear and Adventure
by James Michael Dorsey

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From an adventurer who has been there and done it all comes this collection of first-person, short stories spanning 30 years of exotic travel from the jungles of Asia to kayaking with whales....
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Cleopatra's Needle: Two Wheels By the Water To Cairo (UK Edition)
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Cleopatra's Needle: Two Wheels By the Water To Cairo (UK Edition)
by Anne Mustoe

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Beginning on a blustery April morning at Cleopatra’s Needle on the Thames Embankment in London, Anne Mustoe set out on another of her phenomenal lone cycle rides – this time to the Needle's original site at Heliopolis in Egypt. She set...
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Riding in the Shadows of Saints: A Woman's Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail
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Riding in the Shadows of Saints: A Woman's Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail
by Jana Richman

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Searching for Faith, Family, and Inner Peace on the Back of a Motorcycle Between 1846 and 1866, about 50,000 Mormons traveled the Mormon trail, burying more than 6,000 of the faithful along the way. Four generations ago, seven of Jana Richman’s...
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Picador Book of Journeys (UK Edition)
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Picador Book of Journeys (UK Edition)
by Robyn Davidson

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This anthology challenges what is defined as travel writing, as it is arranged as a journey, but not chronologically. It includes Flaubert in Egypt, Elizabeth David in the Mediterranean, and writers and discoverers such as Chekhov, Darwin, Doris Lessing,...
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Finding Lily: A Memoir
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Finding Lily: A Memoir
by Richards Clewes

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Part travelogue, part contemplation, "Finding Lily" is a rich visual record in words and illustrated postcards (mailed by the author to himself along the way) describing the events and people who guide his journey through four continents and diverse...
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Samurai William
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Samurai William
by Giles Milton

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Paperback edition of this account of the adventures of the Englishman who opened the gateway to the mysterious kingdom of Japan in the early seventeenth century. Having sailed to the east in 1598, William Adams was taken with the barbaric splendour of...
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Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas (UK Edition)
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Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas (UK Edition)
by Paul Theroux

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The "Old Patagonian Express" was the last train Paul Theroux took in his journey from Boston to Patagonia. This is the story of his journey, a journey of contrasts in people, in temperature, in scenery, in altitude, and in attitude....
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