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In the Hoofprints of Marco Polo - A Ride from Srinagar to Peking in 1905
by Major Clarence Dalrymple Bruce  Publisher Comments "In the Hoofprints of Marco Polo" is that rare kind of book, one that reads as freshly today as it did the day Bruce set pen to paper in 1905. Its pages are full of brave men and braver horses, wild mountains and picturesque tribesmen. Amply illustrated...
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Men and Manners in America
by Thomas Hamilton Publisher Comments The Scottish writer offers his perspective on America and its inhabitants. Apparently unapproving of a country lacking a royal family, he finds the Americans somewhat distressing but interesting....
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The Malay Archipelago Vol I
by Alfred Russell Wallace Synopsis From 1854 to 1862 Russel traveled through the Malay, Singapore, and Indonesia. The book begins with a summary of Wallace's travels and the specimens he collected. Wallace describes the geography of the area including the volcanoes. The remainder of the...
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In Search of Robinson Crusoe
by Tim Serverin Publisher Comments Insightful travel writing, riveting narrative history, and clever scholarly discoveries make this a remarkably rich and varied book. Tim Severin has once again demonstrated a superb ability to bring together literature and adventure in an engrossing...
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Playing Off the Rail
by David Mccumber Publisher Comments At the age of 17, David McCumber was stricken with "road fever" that irresistible call to the itinerant life of a professional gambler. Twenty-two years later, he got the chance to follow that dream-not as a player but as the "stakehorse"...
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America
by James Buckingham Publisher Comments A member of Parliament records his travels and offers data; a very detailed account of travel New England and New York....
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Fly Fishing the Great Western Rivers
by Ralph Kylloe Publisher Comments Esteemed author, rustic design expert, and passionate fisherman Ralph Kylloe presents grand fishing adventures from wild and remote rivers across the Western United States-from the extraordinary Tsiu River in Alaska's Lost Coast region to majestic Smith...
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Travels in the United States of America
by William Priest Publisher Comments A musician offers an account of his travels through the Mid-Atlantic and New England. He offers commentary on Native American contact, social life, and hunting game and fishing (a passion of his)....
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Trader Horn: A Young Man's Astounding Adventures in 19th-Century Equatorial Africa (Travelers' Tales Classics)
by Alfred Aloysius Horn Publisher Comments This is the stuff of legends — the true story of the life of Trader Horn. Down on his luck in old age, Horn recounts his wild youth as an ivory trader in central Africa, journeying into jungles teaming with buffalo, gorillas, and man-eating...
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Custom of the Sea: the True Story That Changed British Law (UK Edition)
by Neil Hanson Synopsis This is the story of the case that outlawed forever a practice followed since man first put to sea in boats - the custom of the sea - that of drawing straws to survive by eating one of the members of a shipwrecked party....
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We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light
by John Baxter Publisher Comments "We'll always have Paris," Humphrey Bogart reminds Ingrid Bergman in their bittersweet parting at the end of Casablanca, and undoubtedly those words resonate for lovers everywhere. Indeed for many people, Paris is not just a place; it is an intoxicating...
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Travels in America and Italy
by Francois-rene Chateaubriand Publisher Comments Originally published in 1828, Francois Rene de Chateaubriand's 2-volume Travels in America and Italy is an important literary travel narrative written by a leading (some would say founding) figure of French Romanticism. Chateaubriand traveled to America...
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Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile
by Arthur Jerome Eddy Publisher Comments The first automobiling book published in America. This is an account by a Flint, Michigan-born Chicago-based attorney and art collector who headed east on a 2000 mile trip. Passing through and by famous American landmarks, offering a unique picture of...
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America During and After the War
by Robert Ferguson Publisher Comments An Englishman travels extensively through the United States, taking copious notes on the Civil War, race relations in different regions, and discussing the histories of various political figures....
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Saddle in the Sky - The Lone Star State
by J. H. Plenn Publisher Comments SADDLE IN THE SKY THE THE LONE STAR STATS by J. H. Plenn ILLUSTRATED BY AGNES LIHENBERG MUENCH THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS INDIANAPOLIS NEW YORK THE OLD CHISHOLM TRAIL Goin back to town to draw my money, Goin back home to see my honey, With my...
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Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
by James Fenimore Cooper Publisher Comments Well! exclaimed $25, "this is the first ball I have been at that I was not thought good enough to have a place in the quadrille. You see all the canaille are in the hands of their owners, while we, the elite of pocket- handkerchiefs, are left here in a...
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Mexican Trails - A Record of Travel in Mexico 1904-1907
by Stanton Davis Kirkham Publisher Comments A Record of Travel in Mexico, 1904-07, and a Glimpse at the Life of the Mexican Indian By Author of The Philosophy of Self-Help, Where Dwells the Soul Serene, The Ministry of Beauty, etc. Illustrated from Original JP holographs by the Author G. P. Potaam...
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China: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Traveler's Literary Companions)
by Kirk A. (edt) Denton Publisher Comments China is an enormous country, rife with cultural complexity and differing social experiences. Literature offers a way to understand this great nation's social, cultural, and human concerns. This collection presents Chinese short fiction that evokes the...
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Traveling with Athena: A Blind Man's Odyssey Through Italy and Greece
by Daniel Pukstas Publisher Comments "Traveling with Athena celebrates the odyssey of a humorous blind professor and his courageous wife as they explore numerous archeological sites in Italy and Greece.<P>Told in a witty and often poignant way, this tale also raises the possibility of...
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Something To Declare
by Julian Barnes Synopsis A collection of essays on France from Julian Barnes. Written over a 20 year period, the topics Barnes covers range from landscape to literature, food to flaubert, film and song to the Tour de France....
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