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The Secret Life of the Seine
by Mort Rosenblum  Publisher Comments The Secret of the Seine is a rich and quirky travelogue that guides its reader through the history and the heart of France. Mort Rosenblum, world-weary foreign correspondent, takes us aboard his 54-foot launch made of Burmese teak and brass, tied up...
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The beach :the history of paradise on earth
by Lena Lencek Publisher Comments As dazzling and seductive as the landscape it celebrates, here's the first book to tell the story of the beach -- its history, customs, spectacles, and scandals Blue-green surf, pillowy white sand, and a warm salty breeze -- when it comes to restoring...
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A traveller's history of Turkey
by Richard Stoneman Book News Annotation Published by Interlink Books, 99 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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American Notes for General Circulation
by Charles Dickens Publisher Comments The most comfortable of all the hotels of which I had any experience in the United States, and they were not a few, is Barnum's, in that city: where the English traveller will find curtains to his bed, for the first and probably the last time in America (...
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Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions
by Hsuan-tsang Publisher Comments This is an account of the travels in Central Asia and India of the seventh-century Chinese scholar-monk Xuanzang....
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Travels in the Unknown East
by John Grant Publisher Comments This book is a remarkable collection of the Author's uniquely privileged experiences in the middle east. John Grant's truly amazing adventure extends from Istanbul to Akaba, from Damascus to Alexandria. In two extensive journeys, separated by nearly...
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Himalaya (UK Edition)
by Michael Palin Publisher Comments 6 CDs....
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A Theatrical Trip for a Wager
by Horton Rhys Publisher Comments An English actor's travels through some of the United States, traveling on a bet with a theatre troupe....
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Wild Seas: Cruising on the Snark with Jack London
by Charmian Kittredge London Publisher Comments In 1907, the author Jack London set sail from San Francisco on the Snark, bound for the south seas and the islands of Melville and Stevenson. His literary legacy from the voyage, The Cruise of the Snark is one of the finest accounts of Pacific sailing...
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Chains of Heaven: an Ethiopian Romance (UK Edition)
by Philip Marsden Publisher Comments Subtitled, "An Ethiopian Romance". Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with it over twenty years ago....
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Journal of Andre Michaux
by Andre Michaux Publisher Comments French botanist explores America. His journal is overwhelmingly about botany with a very few brief social notes....
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Cathedrals of the Flesh
by Alexia Brue Publisher Comments A sensual tour of the world's great bathing cultures. People journey to Greece for the ruins, Turkey for the Haghia Sophia, and Russia for St. Basil's, but Alexia Brue travels with a different itinerary: to visit the baths. What starts off as an innocent...
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Around the world in 80 days :companion to the PBS series
by Michael Palin Publisher Comments The British actor and humorist describes his eighty-day journey around the world — by train, taxi, camel, dogsled, cargo ship, and balloon — following in the footsteps of the inimitable Phileas Fogg....
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Honey and Dust: Travels in Search of Sweetness (UK Edition)
by Piers Moore Ede Publisher Comments Ede sets out on a task to discover and taste all the honeys of the world, from the Lebanon to Sri Lanka, where he is helped by the Veddah tribesman....
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Disappearance, a Map: A Meditation on Death and Loss in the High Latitudes
by Sheila Nickerson Publisher Comments Weaving together personal experience and wilderness lore, this poetic journey through Alaska and Alaskan history is "a potent map of love and loss and how we find our way back home through the landscape of the heart" (Terry Tempest Williams)....
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Andalus: Unlocking the Secrets of Moorish Spain (UK Edition)
by Jason Webster Publisher Comments Jason Webster, one of the most exciting young travel writers today, continues his search for the essence of Spain. Following the success of "DUENDE", he now embarks on a quest for Spain's forgotten Arab legacy, and gets embroiled with many wild and...
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Annapolis: A Walk Through History
by Elizabeth B Anderson Synopsis Annapolis, a living city whose history may be read by the informed tourist in its streets and structures, is a premier attraction for visitors. Along with centuries-old streets laid out in baroque design are impressively preserved buildings, representing...
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Cruellest Journey: 600 Miles By Canoe To the Legendary City of Timbuktu (UK Edition)
by Kira Salak Publisher Comments The second thrilling travel memoir describing Salek's 600 miles by canoe down the River Niger from Old Segou to Timbuktu....
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Down Under All Over: A Love Affair with Australia
by Barbara Marie Brewster Publisher Comments Description of a magical Australia unfolds with an enthusiasm that is contagious....
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The ends of the earth :a journey at the dawn of the 21st century
by Robert Kaplan 
Powells.com Staff Pick "Robert Kaplan believes tomorrow's headlines have already been written in the Third World; the history of the next millennium is already there to see. He formed this belief while travelling through the Third World and writing The Ends of the Earth, which...
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