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2000 Miles on Foot - Walks Through Great Britian and France
by E. W. Fox  Synopsis Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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Letters from America: Travels in the USA and Canada (Modern Voices)
by Rupert Brooke Publisher Comments In May 1913, Rupert Brooke embarked on a year-long expedition of North America, visiting the United States, Canada, and finally the South Seas. He sent his impressions home in a series of letters, written for publication in the "Westminster Gazette...
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The Road to Santiago (National Geographic Directions)
by Kathryn Harrison Publisher Comments A mesmerizing story of her 200-mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. 25,000 first printing....
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Remember Greece
by Dilys Powell Publisher Comments DILYS REMEMBER GREECE HASTINGS HOUSE PUBLISHERS NEW YORK ToP . I hesitate, now, to address you by name even in this impersonal letter. Today 9 as I read that jour country is to be occupied by the Italians whom she drove contemptuously from her soil a...
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The Mountains of California
by Muir John Muir Publisher Comments John Muir (April 21, 1838 - December 24, 1914) was one of the earliest modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and wild life, especially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, were read by...
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Three Years in Tibet
by Ekai Kawaguchi Synopsis This is Ekai Kawaguchi's account of his legendary solo trip, in 1899, through a Tibet long hostile to outside visitors. Disguised as a Chinese doctor or a native Tibetan, this Japanese monk managed to traverse the entire length of Tibet - a feat of...
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Incidents of Travel in Central Amer Volume 2
by John Stephens Publisher Comments Volume 2 of two-volume work. Almost single-handed discovery of Maya culture; exploration of ruined cities, monuments, temples; customs of Indians. Total in set: 115 drawings.<BR>...
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Sahara (UK Edition)
by Michael Palin Publisher Comments Paperback edition of last autumn's bestseller which saw Palin return to the form of "Around The World In 80 Days" and "Pole To Pole". Fully illustrated with 180 colour photos....
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Journey To Mauritius (UK Edition)
by Bernardin De Saint Pierre Synopsis Structured into a series of letters, Bernardin's survey of Mauritius includes a detailed description of the island's geography, and flora and fauna. Describing the closed nature of colonial society, he also provides a chilling picture of the cruelties of...
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Mays of Ventadorn (National Geographic Directions)
by W S Merwin 
Publisher Comments Featuring works by some of the world's most prominent and highly regarded literary figures, Directions captures the spirit of travel and of place, bringing fresh perspective and renewed excitement to the art of travel writing....
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Bill Bryson the Complete Notes (UK Edition)
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments An omnibus edition of the perennial bestsellers, "Notes from a Small Island", which Bryson wrote before returning to America, and "Notes from a Big Country", a collection of his articles on life across the pond (in case you didn't already know!)...
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Travels in Some Parts of North America
by Robert Sutcliff Publisher Comments An Englishman travels through America, observing American culture and ways, including race relations, matters relating to farming/agriculture; and other matters relating to local life....
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Voyage Round the World - Vol I
by James Holman Publisher Comments VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, TRAVEL S AFRICA, ASIA, AUSTRALASIA, AMERICA, FROM MDCCCXXVH TO MDCCCXXXH, BY JAMES HOLM AN, R. N. IMl. S. Man love knottinlgi and thf tawn of truth Mtm wclroiw touch M nItr it ujltng fi ye t Than all thf blandihlimpnts of Mnintl...
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Far-Away Places Lessons in Exile
by Howard R. Wolf Synopsis The essays in this collection could be called a cultural autobiography. At the time when the first of them was written, America was still looking primarily at the U.S.S.R. as the world power which might set the world ablaze. Then, after the collapse of...
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Momentum Is Your Friend: The Metal Cowboy and His Pint-Size Posse Take on America
by Joe Kurmaskie Publisher Comments Most people bring their inner child on an epic adventure. Joe Metal Cowboy Kurmaskie actually took his two kids along. For a 4,000-mile bicycle ride across America, Joe's seven-year-old son, Quinn, rides a tagalong bike attached to his dad's; and behind...
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From John O'Groat's to Land's End (Part II) (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
by John Naylor Publisher Comments It was a big undertaking, especially as we had resolved not to journey by the shortest route, but to walk from one great object of interest to another, and to see and learn as much as possible of the country we passed through on our way. We were to walk...
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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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Pheasant Jungles
by William Beebe Publisher Comments PHEASANT JUNGLES BY WILLIAM BEEBE DIRECTOR OF TROPICAL RESEARCH OF THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ILLUSTRATED BLUE RIBBON BOOKS, INC. New Yorl City The Dramatic Chief of Sin-Ma-How Pointing out the best stalking ground for the rare pheasants which live...
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The Women's Travel Writing: True Stories from Around the World (Women's Travel Writing)
by Lucy Mccauley Publisher Comments These tales are thematically eclectic and cover spiritual growth, hilarity and misadventure, romance, solo journeys, service to humanity, family travel, and exotic cuisine, all told from a woman's perspective....
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Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides
by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments In 1937, Adam Nicolson's father answered a newspaper ad--"Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides, 600 acres. . . . Puffins and seals. Apply."--and thus found the Shiants. With a name meaning "holy or enchanted islands," the Shiants for millennia...
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