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No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice
by Judith Martin and Eric Denker  Publisher Comments The definitive manual for the hopeless Venetophile. Love of Venice can strike anyone, not just romantic wusses. Among the toughies with serious cases were Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, Ezra Pound, and Ernest Hemingway. Symptoms include: Wishing that...
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Italian Neighbors
by Tim Parks Publisher Comments In this deliciously seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks celebrates ten...
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Round Ireland with a Fridge
by Tony Hawks Publisher Comments Have you ever made a drunken ben? Worse, still, have you eveer tried to win one? In attempting to hitchhike round Ireland wich a fridge, Tony Hawks did both, and his foolhardiness led him to one of the best experiences of his life. Joined by his trusty...
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The World Is a Kitchen: True Stories of Cooking Your Way Through Culture
by Michele Anna (edt) Jordan Publisher Comments Divided into five world regions, The World Is a Kitchen explores the gastronomic side of travel. These true tales by noted writers cover everything from learning how to make coconut bread in an outdoor kitchen in Polynesia, to teaching Japanese...
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The Ride of Our Lives
by Mike Leonard Publisher Comments The Ride of Our Lives is the humorous yet deeply moving account of NBC journalist Mike Leonard’s cross-country odyssey with his eccentric parents, three grown children, and a daughter-in-law. Full of ups and downs, laughs and tears, the month-long...
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The Handsomest Man in Cuba: An Escapade
by Lynette Chiang Publisher Comments An engaging, witty account of the people, customs, food, and culture of Cuba framed by a fascinating approach to travel. With only a folding bicycle and a towable suitcase, Australian Lynette Chiang spent three months touring Cuba, eshewing tourist...
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La Vie En Rose: A Very French Adventure Continues
by Jamie Ivey Publisher Comments In Jamie Ivey's delightful sequel to Extremely Pale Rosé, he attempts what seems the impossible—running a successful rosé bar in France. French friends laugh heartily and say it’s the silliest idea they’ve ever heard! Why, the...
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Fabled Shore - From the Pyrenees to Portugal
by Rose Macaulay Publisher Comments Reproduced ieith permission from Arcktw Mas PALACIO DEL MARQUES DE DOS AQUAS, VALENCIA FROM THE PYRENEES TO PORTUGAL BY ROSE MACAULAY HAMISH HAMILTON LONDON First published in Great Britain, April 1949 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. Second Impression, May ip p...
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Running with Reindeer: Encounters in Russian Lapland
by Roger Took Publisher Comments Russian Lapland, a region of amazing contrasts. Here lies the last true wilderness of Europe, a rich and pristine ecosystem teeming with bird and animal life. But here too lie the dark, satanic mills of the former Soviet Union and the rotting remnants of...
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Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
by Rosemary Mahoney Synopsis Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely...
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Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books
by Ted Bishop Publisher Comments "Part travelogue, part ode to his bike and part literary criticism...a memoir infused with joie de vivre."—Publishers Weekly In this "joyful book" (Booklist), archive diver and Ducati enthusiast Ted Bishop takes readers on an epic trip from Edmonton...
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
by Robert Pirsig Publisher Comments Plot Summary A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, the book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self...
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Venice: Tales of the City
by Michelle Lovric Publisher Comments Elusive and fantastical, Venice is a many-layered confection of history. The writers here have captured what is most important to them in pieces ranging from the city's foundation up to the present time. The voices, entirely diverse, are both...
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Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend
by Christopher Ross Publisher Comments On November 25, 1970, the world renowned Japanese writer Yukio Mishima committed seppuku with his own antique sword. Mishima’s spectacular suicide has been called many things: a hankering for heroism; a beautiful, perverse drama; a political...
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Almost Heaven Travels Through the Backwo
by Martin Fletcher Publisher Comments After seven years as Washington correspondent of The Times, Martin Fletcher set off to explore the raw and untamed land far from cities and national parks. This is his account of a journey which took him to places few tourists would ever visit, to...
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Lost Continent Travels in Small Town Ame
by Bill Bryson Synopsis An account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town. Instead he finds a continent that is doubly lost: lost to itself because it is blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; and lost to him because he...
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Travelers' Tales India: True Stories
by James O'reilly Publisher Comments New edition....
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Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier
by Hampton Sides Publisher Comments Harley-Davidson bikers...Grand Canyon river rats...Mormon archaeologists...Spelling bee prodigies... For more than fifteen years, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that...
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Los Angeles (National Geographic Directions)
by A. M. Homes Publisher Comments The City of Angels— possibly the most surreal place in the United States— is a unique amalgam of past and present, tradition and revolution, dreamscape and reality. Whether in history books or on the silver screen, the Los Angeles landscape has...
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A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler
by Jason Roberts 
Publisher Comments He was known simply as The Blind Traveler — a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon and helped chart the Australian outback. His...
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