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Ancient Egypt: Its Culture and History
by J E Manchip White  Publisher Comments This fascinating account of ancient Egypt presents predynastic civilization through Ptolemies: social and political structure, daily life, international relations, religion and cult of the dead, arts and crafts, science and medicine, sacred writing, and...
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Kayaking Alone: Nine Hundred Miles from Idaho's Mountains to the Pacific Ocean (Outdoor Lives)
by Mike Barenti Publisher Comments The Columbia and its tributaries are rivers of conflict. Amid pitched battles over the economy, the environment, and breaching dams on the lower Snake River, the salmon that have always quickened these rivers are disappearing. On a warm day in late May...
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The Clumsiest People in Europe: Or, Mrs. Mortimer's Bad-Tempered Guide to the Victorian World
by Todd Pruzan Publisher Comments A caustic, cranky, and inadvertently hilarious look at foreign countries and their customs by a Victorian woman who rarely left the house. No matter who your ancestors were, and where they had the misfortune of living, Victorian children's book writer...
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The Valleys of the Assassins: And Other Persian Travels (Modern Library)
by Freya Stark Publisher Comments Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled between...
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The White Masai: My Exotic Tale of Love and Adventure
by Corinne Hofmann Publisher Comments The runaway international bestseller is now an American must-read for lovers of adventure, travel writing, and romance. Corinne Hofmann tells how she falls in love with an African warrior while on holiday in Kenya. After overcoming severe obstacles, she...
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Morocco: In the Labyrinth of Dreams and Bazaars (Armchair Traveller)
by Walter M Weiss Synopsis Come travel the breadth and depth of Morocco's social and geographical contrasts...
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Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story from Deep Africa to the Heart of Paris
by Michael Allin 
Publisher Comments It was the Age of Enlightenment. And in Paris, a gentle, wide-eyed stranger was all the rage. In 1826, a twelve-foot giraffe, captured in the Sudan, shipped down the Nile, carried across the Mediterranean in a ship's hold, was now walking across...
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Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman Publisher Comments It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor — actor and self-confessed bike nut — noticed that it was possible to ride all the way round the world, with just one short hop across...
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Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place
by Will Self Publisher Comments For those interested in the connection between people and place, the best of the decade long collaboration between literary brat packer Will Self and gonzo illustrator Ralph Steadman. Opening with a dazzling new 20,000-word essay on walking from...
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Necessity of Ruins
by J. B. Jackson Synopsis Jackson discussed the evolution of the development, use, and perception of landscape--the space around us in the most general sense. The title chapter examines the proliferation of historic parks and monuments and argues that American culture demands a...
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Sailing My Shoe to Timbuktu: A Woman's Adventurous Search for Family, Spirit, and Love
by Joyce Thompson Publisher Comments “ Reading Joyce Thompson, like sitting on a hillside with a friend, tracing story in rock and sun, surprised when darkness comes.”...
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Savage Shore: Life and Death with Nicaragua's Last Shark Hunters
by Edward Marriott Publisher Comments Nicaragua's Atlantic coast is home to the most dangerous of fish, the bull shark, a lethal predator with a fearsome appetite and the only shark that swims in inland waters. Braving Nicaragua's hurricane-torn wilderness of mangrove swamps, Edward Marriott...
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Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran
by Jason Elliot Publisher Comments Filling a long-neglected gap in the travel writing of the region, Mirrors of the Unseen is a rare and timely portrait of the nation descended from the world's earliest superpower: Iran. Animated by the same spirit of exploration as its acclaimed...
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Gift of Travel the Best of Travelers
by Larry Habegger Publisher Comments The Gift of Travel: The Best of Travelers' Tales brings together the editors' favorite stories from their award-winning books in celebration of Travelers' Tales' fifth year of publishing. These stories from all over the world, reveal in simple and...
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
by Suketu Mehta Publisher Comments A brilliantly illuminating portrait of Bombay and its people — a book as vast, diverse, and rich in experience, incident, and sensation as the city itself — from an award-winning Indian-American fiction writer and journalist. A native of...
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A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey
by Leila Ahmed Synopsis In a language that vividly evokes the lush summers of Cairo and the stark beauty of the Arabian desert, Ahmed tells a moving tale of her Egyptian childhood growing up in a rich tradition of Islamic women and describes how she eventually came to terms...
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A Traveller in Rome
by H. V. Morton Publisher Comments H.V. Morton's evocative account of his days in 1950s Rome—the fabled era of La Dolce Vita—remains an indispensable guide to what makes the Eternal City eternal. In his characteristic anecdotal style, Morton leads the reader on a well-informed...
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One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-The-World Journey with Our Children (Travelers' Tales Footsteps)
by David Elliot Cohen and Devyani Kamdar
Publisher Comments A year off from work. A meandering, serendipitous journey around the globe with the people you love most. No mortgage, no car payments, no pressure. Though it sounds like an impossible dream for most people, one day David Cohen and his family decide to...
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Dinner of Herbs
by Carla Grissmann Synopsis This travelogue is based on the author's remarkable experiences in remote Anatolia in the 1960s, when she spent the better part of a year living with a local peasant family. The book also includes striking descriptions and photographs of the cave...
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Playing Off the Rail : a Pool Hustler's Journey (96 Edition)
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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