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From Heaven Lake : Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (83 Edition)
by Vikram Seth  Publisher Comments After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story of his remarkable journey and his encounters with nomadic Muslims...
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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
by Jan Morris Publisher Comments Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as a touchstone for her interests...
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Little Money Street: In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France (Vintage Departures)
by Fernanda Eberstadt Publisher Comments In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France — a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she found a jealously guarded culture, a...
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The Indochina Chronicles: Travels in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam
by Phil Karber Synopsis From old Viet Cong guerrillas to the new tycoons of Saigon, from hookers and highwaymen to bartenders and ambassadors, Phil Karber has met them all--and had a drink with most. Nobody knows the red states of Indochina better than Phil Karber. This book is...
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Pint-Sized Ireland: In Search of the Perfect Guinness
by Evan Mchugh Publisher Comments One man’s tour of Ireland on tap; a rollicking travelogue in the tradition of Round Ireland with a Fridge and McCarthy’s Bar. “Regret” is the word that best describes Evan McHugh’s first taste of Guinness. For an...
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Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea (Vintage Departures)
by Eric Hansen 
Publisher Comments In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky...
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Going Dutch in Beijing: How to Behave Properly When Far Away from Home
by Mark Mccrum Publisher Comments What to do and what not to do when traveling almost anywhere—an entertainment for the armchair or the intrepid traveler Why shouldn’t you offer to pay for your share of the meal in China? Or use the thumbs-up sign to mean “that...
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Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far-East (Vintage Departures)
by Pico Iyer Publisher Comments Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East....
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Cross Country
by Robert Sullivan Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Rats, a personal and national history of one of America's favorite pastimes: driving across the country. The cross-country trip is the trip that often whizzes past us on our way to quaint back roads and scenic parks; it'...
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The Lawless Roads (Penguin Classics)
by Graham Greene Synopsis Now with a new introduction by David Rieff, "The Lawless Roads" is the result of Graham Greenes expedition to Mexico in the late 1930s to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. His journey took...
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Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago
by Tim Moore Publisher Comments "'A donkey?' blurted my family as one. For a moment it didn't seem they'd ever be able to list all the reasons that made this so entertainingly ludicrous....Yes, I'd never ridden a donkey on a beach or petted one at a city farm, never even pinned a...
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Paris and Elsewhere: Selected Writings (New York Review Books Classics)
by Richard Cobb Synopsis Perhaps no one loves France as much as the English--at least some of the English--and Richard Cobb, the incomparable Oxford historian of the French Revolution, was a passionate admirer of the country, a connoisseur of the low dive and the flophouse, as...
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12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time: A Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe
by Mark Jacobson Publisher Comments At the end of the previous millennium, noted journalist Mark Jacobson and his wife, Nancy, decided they couldn't take another moment of watching their three children get any stupider. They decided that Rae (sixteen), Rosalie (twelve), and Billy (nine...
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The Golden Horde: From the Himalaya to the Mediterranean
by Sheila Paine Publisher Comments In The Afghan Amulet, Sheila Paine told the story of her extraordinary search for a mysterious amulet, a journey that had taken her from the Hindu Kush to Bulgaria. Here, her quest continues. Starting in the forbidden valley of Palas in Pakistan, she...
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Trailer Travel: A Visual History of Mobile America
by Phil Noyes and Bryan Burkhart and Allison Arieff Publisher Comments Trailer Travel showcases the rich visual history of America?s enduring fascination with life on the road. Beautifully reproduced color and black-and-white images culled from public archives and the private collections of passionate trailerites vividly...
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Love in Provence: Romantic Adventures in the South of France
by Yvone Lenard Synopsis Love is different in Provence, as Yvone Lenard discovers when she chaperones 50 red-blooded American college students for a year in Aix-en-Provence. As Resident Director Lenard has her hands full, but her sense of humor prevails and she forms...
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Walking the Bible a Journey By Land Thro
by Bruce Feiler Synopsis Is the Bible just an abstraction or a real living entity? This volume aims to answer this question. Part adventure story, part archaeological detective work, part spiritual exploration, this is the account of a perilous 10,000 mile journey across the...
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The Road That Has No End
by Tim Travis Publisher Comments Authors Tim and Cyndie Travis accomplish the unthinkable, in an unprecedented worldwide cycling adventure. Their clever story explores the depths of humanity, as they expose themselves to life's perils on roads less traveled. This story is written as it...
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Living with Cannibals and Other Women's Adventures
by Michele Slung Synopsis From the Victorian-era world travels of Isabella Bird Bishop to the space flight endurance record set by astronaut Shannon Lucid, the awe-inspiring accounts in Living with Cannibals and Other Women's Adventures illuminate the rich history, and history in...
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Mississippi Solo : a Memoir (88 Edition)
by Eddy L. Harris Publisher Comments Since the publication of his first book, Mississippi Solo, Eddy L. Harris has been praised for his travel writing. In this exciting reissue of his classic travelogue, readers will come to treasure the rich insightful prose that is as textured as the...
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