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Kon Tiki ((Rev)84 Edition)
by Thor Heyerdahl  Publisher Comments Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race...
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Italy Out of Hand: A Capricious Tour
by Barbara Hodgson Publisher Comments With its genius for art and culture, there is no country in the world as wonderfully civilized (and civilizing) as Italy. But seething below this surface is a long and shadowy history of corruption, cruelty, and the generally bizarre. For centuries it...
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Oaxaca Journal (National Geographic Directions)
by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments The best-selling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks is well know as an explorer of the human mind — a neurologist with a gift for complex, insightful portrayals of people and their conditions. However, he...
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Jewish Journeys (Armchair Traveller)
by Jeremy Leigh Synopsis Invites the contemporary reader to consider the vastness of the Jewish journey, to enjoy the reflections of those who recorded their experiences and to place themselves somewhere in the continuum....
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I should have stayed home :the worst trips of great writers
by Roger Rapoport 
Publisher Comments In this hilarious anthology 50 top travel writers, novelists and journalists, including Isabel Allende, Jan Morris, Barbara Kingsolver, Paul Theroux, Mary Morris, Dominique Lapierre, Eric Hansen, Rick Steves, Tony Wheeler and Helen Gurley Brown, tell the...
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Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table
by Linda Ellerbee Publisher Comments Laugh-out-loud funny and salt-of-the-earth wise, celebrated journalist and producer Linda Ellerbee leads us on a gastronomic journey from Italy to Afghanistan, Mexico to Massachusetts, with some very entertaining detours along the way-plus photos and...
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
by Frances Mayes Synopsis Buying a villa in the spectacular Italian countryside is a wonderful fantasy -- even if 17 rooms and a garden in need of immediate loving care are included in the asking price. Frances Mayes -- gourmet cook, widely published travel writer, and poet...
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The Best American Travel Writing 2007 (Best American Travel Writing)
by Wilson Publisher Comments Travel is not about finding something. It's about getting lost -- that is, it is about losing yourself in a place and a moment. The little things that tether you to what's familiar are gone, and you become a conduit through which the sensation of the...
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Narrow Dog to Carcassonne
by Terry Darlington Publisher Comments "We could bore ourselves to death, drink ourselves to death, or have a bit of an adventure..." It was absurd. It was foolhardy. And it was glorious. When they retired, Terry Darlington and his somewhat saner wife Monica—together with...
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Lonely Planet Lost Japan (Lonely Planet Journeys)
by Alex Kerr Synopsis Drawing on the author's personal experiences of Japan over a period of over 30 years, this book takes its readers on a backstage tour, exploring different facets of the author's involvement with the country. The Japanese edition of this book was awarded...
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On Bullfighting
by Kennedy
Publisher Comments An Anchor Books Original One day, on the brink of despair and contemplating her own mortality, novelist A. L. Kennedy is offered an assignment she can’t refuse–an opportunity to travel to Spain and cover a sport that represents the ultimate...
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La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
by Beppe Severgnini Publisher Comments You won’t need luggage for this hypothetical and hilarious trip into the hearts and minds of Beppe Severgnini’s fellow Italians. In fact, Beppe would prefer if you left behind the baggage his crafty and elegant countrymen have smuggled into...
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Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru
by Dervla Murphy Publisher Comments The eight feet referenced in the title belong to Dervla Murphy, her nine-year-old daughter, and an elegant mule, who together clambered the length of Peru, from Cajamarca near the border with Ecuador, to Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital—traveling...
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Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time (P.S.)
by Michael Perry Publisher Comments Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin, where the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the...
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A Traveller in Rome
by H. V. Morton Publisher Comments H.V. Morton's evocative account of his days in 1950s Rome—the fabled era of La Dolce Vita—remains an indispensable guide to what makes the Eternal City eternal. In his characteristic anecdotal style, Morton leads the reader on a well-informed...
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Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World
by Holly Morris Publisher Comments The creator of the PBS documentary series Adventure Divas describes her various adventures and journeys to the far corners of the globe, as well as the lives of women--politicians, artists, activists, and others--whose actions have transformed the world...
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
by Robert M Pirsig Publisher Comments One of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live . . . and a breathtaking meditation on how to...
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Minus 148 Degrees
by Art Davidson Synopsis Classic tale of dramatic near-death experiences in the harshest of conditions....
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Downtown: My Manhattan
by Pete Hamill Publisher Comments - Bestselling author Pete Hamill has a broad and dedicated fan base. His most recent New York Times bestseller, Forever (LB, 2003), has nearly a quarter million copies in print, and his memoir, A Drinking Life (LB, 1995), has sold over 150,000 copies...
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My Heart Is Africa: A Flying Adventure
by Scott Griffin Publisher Comments In 1996, Scott Griffin left his comfortable business career to work for the Flying Doctors Service, an organization that flies doctors and aid workers to remote regions throughout Africa. He tells the story of his two-year odyssey here, from his...
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