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Rio de Janeiro: Carnival Under Fire
by Ruy Castro  Publisher Comments Vibrant portrait of life in Rio - exploring it's history and people. Full of extraordinary stories about cannibals, slaves, beach life, carnivals, football and music. A lively personal reflection....
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Mistress Alice Jocelyn, Her Letters - In the Which Be Set Forth an English Mayde's Voyage to the Province of Maine and What Did Befall Her There
by Clara Emma Cheney Publisher Comments 1903 - TO ALL THE DWELLERS AT BLACK POINT, AND IN PECULIAR, MY HUSBAND. BLACK POINT, In the Province of Maine, The Twentieth day o f August, Anno Domini, 1642. - HER LETTERS - PHILIPPA a After my duty and my Uncles presented to yourself these will inform...
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Madame Dread: A Tale of Love, Vodou, and Civil Strife in Haiti
by Kathie Klareich Publisher Comments Kathie Klarreich, a white Jewish girl from the West Coast, arrived in Haiti as a naove twenty-something in the late 1980s. There she worked for a fair trade organization. Weeks became months, and months became years, as Klarreich, despite the spiraling...
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A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean
by Melinda Blanchard Publisher Comments This is the true story of a trip to the beach that never ends. It's about a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise -- and discover that even paradise has its pitfalls. It's a story filled with...
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Journeys
by Jan Morris Publisher Comments Superbly written articles about cities as different as Las Vegas and Stockholm, about journeys across Europe and China, and about "romantic re-visits" to such historic sites as the Acropolis and the Taj Mahal....
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Kingdom of Adventure - Everest
by James Ramsey Ullman Publisher Comments KINGDOM OF ADVENTURE EVEREST A chronicle of mans assault on the earths highest mountain narrated by the participants and with an accompanying text by James Ramsey Ullman - Contents l. The High Road Introduction page i 2. The Unknown Discovery and...
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Irresistible Italy: A Journey of the Senses
by Bill Rowe Publisher Comments Irresistible Italy takes you on a fun 'journey of the senses' in this beautifully designed book. Packed with full colour photographs, mouthwatering recipes, anecdotes and travel stories, it will delight both the new and seasond Italophile. With over 50...
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Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia
by Chris Stewart Synopsis Written by the first drummer for the rock group Genesis, "Driving Over Lemons" is a wonderfully written account--and a number-one bestseller in England--of a family making a life and home in remote but enchanting southern Spain. Photos throughout....
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Unfurling the Heart
by Susea Mcgearhart Publisher Comments McGearhart weaves a tale of a woman enchanted with love, a man obsessed with adventure, and how love's persuasion makes dreams come true....
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Station Amusements in New Zealand (Dodo Press)
by Lady Mary Anne Barker Publisher Comments A sequel to Station Life in New Zealand, first published in 1873....
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Headhunting in the Solomon Islands: Around the Coral Sea
by Caroline Mytinger Publisher Comments Carolyn Mytiner, an artist and amateur anthropologist, set off in the late 1930s with her friend to paint indigenous people in the Solomon Islands....
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Fever Trees of Borneo (UK Edition)
by Mark Eveleigh Publisher Comments The story of how two Englishmen crossed the remotest heights of Central Borneo in search of the Punan tribe, Borneo's last remaining independent jungle dwellers. Using trails no western eye had seen before, they ventured to try and make contact with 'the...
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The Spirit of Mediterranean Places (Marlboro Travel)
by Michel Butor Publisher Comments This book gathers French writer Michel Butor's essays on his travel in the Mediterranean. Included are pieces on Cordova, Istanbul, Salonica, Delphi, Crete, and northern Italy, as well as an extended essay on Egypt--where, when he was 24, Butor spent a...
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Incaland - A Story of Adventure in the Interior of Peru and the Closing Chapters of the War with Chile
by Claude H. Wetmore Synopsis INCALAND, A Story of Adventure in the Interior of Peru AND THE CLOSING CHAPTERS OF THE WAR WITH CHILE -- Preface. SINCE the years of the Chile-Peruvian, War - 1879-1883 -a great change has come over the land where the Incas once held power...
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Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain (Sightline Books)
by Michele Morano Publisher Comments In the thirteen personal essays in "Grammar Lessons," Michele Morano connects the rules of grammar to the stories we tell to help us understand our worlds. Living and traveling in Spain during a year of teaching English to university students, she...
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Mead's Travels in North America
by Whitman Mead Publisher Comments An Englishman travels along the Eastern seaboard, his notes emphasizing the Carolinas and Niagara region....
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River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny
by Jeffrey Tayler Publisher Comments One of today's most intrepid writers chronicles a deadly trek through the legendary region that gave birth to the gulag and gave Siberia its outsize reputation for perilous isolation. In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles...
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Saddled At Sea (UK Edition)
by Josie Dew Publisher Comments What should have been a straightforward five-week journey, crossing two oceans, passing through the Panama canal, and taking in the islands of the South Pacific en route, turns into an epic journey of rough seas, clashing personalities, and crises in the...
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Glamorganshire
by Joseph Henry Wade 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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Greeting to America
by Bertha Bulow-wendhausen Publisher Comments A German educator travels to the U.S. and meets with fellow educators and makes observations on children in America, educational systems, and race relations....
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