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Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico
by Ronald Wright  Publisher Comments The Maya created one of the world's most brilliant civilizations, famous for its art, astronomy, and deep fascination with the mystery of time. Despite collapse in the ninth century, Spanish invasion in the sixteenth, and civil war in the twentieth...
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Seven Words for Wind: Essays and Field Notes from Alaska's Pribilof Islands
by Sumner Macleish Publisher Comments Far off the coast of mainland Alaska lie the remote Pribilof Islands—a fiercely isolated wilderness surrounded by a wild, rich sea. The largest island, St. Paul, is just fourteen miles long and eight wide; despite its small size and relative self...
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African Laughter: Four Visits To Zimbabwe (UK Edition)
by Doris Lessing Synopsis In this portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland, the author recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992. The visits constitute a journey to the heart of a country whose history, landscape, people and spirit are evoked in this book....
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Rivers' Tale : a Year on the Mekong (02 Edition)
by Edward A. Gargan Publisher Comments From Tibet to Vietnam, from windswept plateaus to the South China Sea, the Mekong flows for three thousand miles, snaking its way through Southeast Asia. Long fascinated with this part of the world, former New York Times correspondent Edward Gargan...
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Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto
by Victoria Abbott Riccardi Publisher Comments Two years out of college and with a degree from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Victoria Riccardi left a boyfriend, a rent-controlled New York City apartment, and a plum job in advertising to move to Kyoto to study kaiseki, the exquisitely refined form of...
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An African in Greenland (New York Review Books Classics)
by Tete Mich Kpomassie Publisher Comments Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland — and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed...
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Looking for Class: Days and Nights at Oxford and Cambridge
by Bruce Feiler Publisher Comments An irresistible, entertaining peek into the privileged realm of Wordsworth and Wodehouse, Chelsea Clinton and Hugh Grant, Looking for Classoffers a hilarious account of one man's year at Oxford and Cambridge -- the garden parties and formal balls, the...
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Neither Here Nor There:: Travels in Europe
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies -- in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. Twenty years later he decided to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth. The result is...
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Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route Into Spain
by Jack Hitt Publisher Comments When Jack Hitt set out to walk the 500 miles from France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, he submitted to the rigorous traditions of Europe's oldest form of packaged tour, a pilgrimage that has been walked by millions in the history of Christendom. Off...
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The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea
by Kevin Patterson 
Publisher Comments Wise, funny and beautifully written, The Water in Between is an inspiring-and cautionary-tale for anyone who has ever wanted to escape into another life. A stint in the army and a broken heart lead Kevin Patterson, who has never sailed before, to buy a...
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Incognito Street: How Travel Made Me a Writer
by Barbara Sjoholm Publisher Comments Barbara Sjoholm arrived in London in the winter of 1970 at the age of twenty. Like countless young Americans in that tumultuous time, she wanted to leave a country at war and explore Europe; a small inheritance from her grandmother gave her the...
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Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration
by F Fernandez Armesto Publisher Comments "A brilliant and readable book...a rich study of humankind's restless spirit."—Candice Millard, New York Times Book Review Greeted with coast-to-coast acclaim on publication, Fernández-Armesto's ambitious history of world exploration sets a new...
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The Hebridean Traveller
by Denis Rixson Synopsis For centuries the Highlands and Islands of Scotland were regarded as culturally as well as physically distinct. Highlanders had a bad reputation, or suffered from a bad press, depending on perspective. This imaginative and stimulating book explores the...
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C'est La Folie (UK Edition)
by Michael Wright Publisher Comments In 2004, Michael Wright turned his back on Blighty to begin a new life as the owner of a delapidated 15th century farmhouse called 'La Folie.' This is a comic memoir about a clinically social bloke rejecting the world of parties and attempting to learn...
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Hotel Babylon
by Imoge Edwards Jones Synopsis A luxury-hotel manager reveals what goes on behind closed doors in this "Kitchen Confidential" of the hotel industry....
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101 Countries: Discovering the World Through Fast Travel
by P J Parmar Synopsis With an inability to sit still, a knack for handling uncomfortable travel, and a mission to see most of the world with as little time and money as possible, the author embarks on a whirlwind tour of five continents. His style of travel often incurs...
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Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of American (Ameri)CA
by Ivan Doig Publisher Comments The author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through the diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, a settler of the region. Doig fuses parts of the Swan diaries with his own journal....
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Death in a Lonely Land
by Peter Hathaway Capstick Publisher Comments Following the smashing success of Last Horizons (SMP, 1989), Peter Capstick now presents a second volume of pieces culled from such magazines as Outdoor Life, NRA's American Hunter, Guns & Ammo, and Petersen's Hunting. The articles showcase a...
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Whose Panties Are These?: More Misadventures from Funny Women on the Road (Travelers' Tales)
by Jennifer L Leo Publisher Comments The best travel stories often hatch when things go completely wrong, and this second title in a series of women's travel humor capitalizes on that phenomenon with more sidesplitting stories of female misadventure around the world. Readers laugh, cry, and...
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Something to Declare: Essays on France and French Culture
by Julian Barnes Synopsis Barnes' long and passionate relationship with La Belle France began 40 years ago, and in these essays on the country and its culture, he combines a lively appreciation, a seemingly infinite sphere of reference, and prose as stylish as classic haute...
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