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The Granta Book of Travel
by Ian Jack  Publisher Comments Appealing to both those who like to travel and those who just like to read about travel, this book features entries about various locations in part memoir, part reportage and part good old-fashioned story. Many of the world's best writers are featured in...
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Edith Whartons Travel Writing
by Sarah Bird Wright Publisher Comments The first book-length critical analysis of its kind, this work is an engaging study of Wharton's travel writing as the embodiment of her connoisseurship....
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A House in Corfu: A Family's Sojourn in Greece
by Emma Tennant Publisher Comments This book is the story of Emma Tennant's parent's house, Rovinia, set above the bay in Corfu where legend has it Ulysses was shipwrecked and found by Nausicaa, daughter of King Alcinous. It is also the story of people like Maria, a miraculous cook and...
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Voyager's Tales
by Richard Hakluyt Synopsis But, notwithstanding, the king weighed not his said promise, and as an infidel that hath not the fear of God before his eyes, nor regard of his word, albeit he was a king, he caused the said Sonnings to pay the custom to the uttermost penny; and...
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You Can't Get There from Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World
by Gayle Forman Publisher Comments In this exploration of globalization, a journalist interweaves eight stories, revealing how diverse lives are being inextricably altered by the ever-shrinking world that everyone shares....
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Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
by John Lewis Burckhardt Synopsis The name of Rafa is still preserved near a well in the desert at six hours march to the southward of Gaza where among many remains of of ancient buildings two erect granite columns are supposed by the natives to mark the division between Africa and Asia....
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Song for My Fathers (06 Edition)
by Sancton Publisher Comments Former Time Paris Bureau Chief and bestselling author Tom Sancton returns to the New Orleans of his youth and the music that shaped and guided his life. Song for my Fathers is the story of a young white boy driven by a consuming passion to learn the...
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Spanish Steps (UK Edition)
by Tim Moore Publisher Comments Subtitled, "One Man & His Ass On The Pilgrim Way To Santiago". A ludicrous, heart-warming and inspirational story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn't really want to....
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I Should Have Gone Home
by Roger (edt) Rapoport Publisher Comments Meet the Chicagoan who wins $1.25 million in Vegas, is comped to a $5,000-a-night suite and makes a buddy pick up the tab. Ride along with a mother driving through an East Coast blizzard with her kids to spend an unmerry Christmas with her grinchy sister....
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Innocents Abroad and Roughing It (Library of America)
by Mark Twain Publisher Comments The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of...
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A Family Year Abroad: How to Live Outside the Borders
by Chris Westphal Publisher Comments We live in a continually changing global society where it is essential to become educated about life outside our own borders. Chris Westphal, his wife, and their two bright school-aged children decided to move to Prague, Czech Republic, to broaden their...
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I'll Be Damned If I'll Die in Oakland: A Sort of Travel Memoir
by Al Martinez Publisher Comments In I'll Be Damned if I'll Die in Oakland, popular Los Angeles Times columnist and world traveler Al Martinez takes us on a funny, crazy, surprising, and sometimes poignant ride around the globe with his wife, the ebullient Cinelli, and then with his...
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My Lemon Orchard
by Susan Hanf Publisher Comments Susan Hanf was dumped by her boyfriend, clobbered by the flu, and fired from her job all in one week. When the phrase, When life hands you lemons . passed through her mind, she skipped right over making lemonade and planted a whole lemon orchard. Susan...
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Redwood: The Story Behind the Scenery
by Richard A. Rasp Publisher Comments The very best in brilliant full-color photography in a large format book, with accurate, readable, interpretive text on the natural scene and the human history of national parks and monuments throughout the country...
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Recollections of Europe
by James Fenimore Cooper Synopsis Just after he published the work now considered his masterpiece, the epic 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans, the popular American writer JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851) decamped for Europe, where he would live and travel for several years. Here, in...
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Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic (04 Edition)
by Kinky Friedman Publisher Comments Kinky Friedman, the original Texas Jewboy, takes us on a rollicking, rock-and-rolling tour of his favorite city: Austin. Maybe you want to know which restaurant President Bush rates as his favorite Austin burger joint. Or maybe you want a glimpse of...
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The Discovery of the Source of the Nile
by John Hanning Speke Publisher Comments An account of an historic but controversial...
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Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran (UK Edition)
by Jason Elliot Publisher Comments Literary travel writing at its best: brimming with history, anecdote and provocative analysis....
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Three Visits to America
by Emily Faithfull Publisher Comments The owner of a woman-operated printing business in 19th-century England, Faithful made three trips to America to survey the scene of women's rights, to speak, and to report. This book is her perspective of what was going on in the United States....
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The Road Warrior a Dying Breed
by James Heath Publisher Comments The author was born and raised in a small town just outside of Chicago. Where he lived until joining the Navy in 1969. He preformed his military obligation of 4 years, which included a trip to the sunny beaches of Viet Nam. He has been riding over 37...
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