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The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers
by Eric Hansen  Publisher Comments Eric Hansen survives a cyclone on a boat off the Australian coast, cradles a dying man in Calcutta, and drinks mind-altering kava in Vanuatu. He helps a widower search for his wife's wedding ring amid plane-crash wreckage in Borneo and accompanies...
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Olive Farm
by Carol Drinkwater Synopsis This is actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical account of a new life in France: the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it and farming the olives; and the overcoming of the heartache in taking on a "new" French family and...
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The Accidental Explorer
by Sherry Simpson Publisher Comments In these acclaimed essays, Sherry Simpson recounts her experiences as an ordinary woman confronting the vast expanses of water and wilderness of her home state. Her adventures include a harrowing bear encounter and a near-death experience...
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Istanbul: Memories and the City
by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost man of letters, author of the acclaimed novels Snow and My Name Is Red. Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets...
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Downtown: My Manhattan
by Pete Hamill Publisher Comments - Bestselling author Pete Hamill has a broad and dedicated fan base. His most recent New York Times bestseller, Forever (LB, 2003), has nearly a quarter million copies in print, and his memoir, A Drinking Life (LB, 1995), has sold over 150,000 copies...
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An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude
by Ann Vanderhoof Publisher Comments Under the Tuscan Sun meets the wide-open sea...An Embarrassment of Mangoes is a delicious chronicle of leaving the type-A lifestyle behind — and discovering the seductive secrets of life in the Caribbean. Who hasn't fantasized about chucking the...
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Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted
by Annie Hawes Publisher Comments Chapter One Glamour, we soon spotted, was not the outstanding feature of the village of Diano San Pietro. As far as the crusty olive-farming inhabitants of this crumbling backwater were concerned, the Riviera, a mere two miles away, might as well be on...
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Desiring Italy: Women Writers Celebrate the Passions of a Country and Culture
by Susan Cahill 
Publisher Comments Under the spell of la dolce vita... For centuries Italy has been many things to many people. In this brilliant anthology and traveler's companion, twenty-eight first-rate women writers reveal why the land that is the heart and soul of European...
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Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey
by Alison Wearing Publisher Comments With a love of travel, Alison Wearing invites us to journey with her to Iran--a country that few Westerners have a chance to see. Traveling with a male friend, in the guise of a couple on their honeymoon, Wearing set out on her own at every available...
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Buttertea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya
by Britta Das About the Author Britta Das went to work in Bhutan as a physiotherapist under the auspices of VSO, the British aid organization. Buttertea at Sunrise, her first book, has been published in Britain, India, Germany, and Holland. Born in Germany, Britta now lives in Toronto,...
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An American Traveler: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Sport
by Randy Wayne White Publisher Comments An American Traveler is an eclectic, thought-provoking mix of essays with a singular, driving theme: A so-called "safe" sedentary life is as predacious as cancer. Returned more or less intact from his travels and writing from his Florida porch, Randy...
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Godley's Letters from America
by John Godley Synopsis A Dubliner travels through the U.S, exploring American manners, law, slavery, religious observation, and the like in a few New England states and in the Mid-Atlantic. Vol. 1 of...
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It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--And Real Greeks
by John Mole Synopsis With unforgettable characters coming to life on every page, this humorous story of one family's search for the Arcadian idyll speaks volumes about learning to live, laugh, and drink Ouzo together while turning a tumbledown ruin into a place to hold their...
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The Art of Controversy - 1921
by Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer Synopsis Controversial Dialectic is the art of disputing, and of disputing in such a way as to hold one's own, whether one is in the right or the wrong-per fas et nefas. A man may be objectively in the right, and nevertheless in the eyes of bystanders, and...
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Selections from Letters
by E. Howitt Synopsis An English traveler moves through the country, writing letters - often very grim -- home. Unhappy with interactions with Indians, travel costs, though appreciative of kindness of friends through the Mid-Atlantic....
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Footprints of Famous Americans in Paris (1912)
by John Joseph Conway Publisher Comments FOOTPRINTS OF FAMOUS AMERICANS IN PARIS BY JOHN JOSEPH CONWAY, M. A. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MRS. JOHN LANE AND 32 ILLUSTRATIONS UN ON JOHN LANK TUB HODLET HEAD NEW YORK JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMXO . r. i -m TO MY MFIM, ONC PRIKND COLONEL HENRY WATTERSON...
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Single-Handed Passage
by Edward C. Allcard Publisher Comments Temptress sail plan. Total sail area 600 square feet. SINGLE-HANDED PASSAGE By EDWARD C. ALLCARD W W NORTON 6-COMPANY INC New York TO K., D. 5 and C. CONTENTS 1. ENGLAND II 2. FAIR WINDS ... 20 3. ... AND FOUL 27 4. SPANISH WATERS 38 5. SPAIN 46 6...
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Journey To Portugal (UK Edition)
by Jose Saramago Synopsis Crossing his native land from northeast to southwest, Jose Saramago explores the villages and towns of Portugal and discovers what it is that binds him to his country and his people....
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The Ridiculous Race
by Steve Hely Publisher Comments The most absurd, hilarious, and ridiculous travelogue ever told, by two hit-TV comedy writers who raced each other around the world—for bragging rights and a very expensive bottle of Scotch It started as a friendly wager: two old friends from The...
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Wild Stories: The Best of Men's Journal
by Mens Journal Publisher Comments For the past decade, Men’s Journal has set the standard for travel and adventure writing by publishing the work of America’s finest authors and literary journalists. Wild Stories collects thirty-two of the best pieces to appear in the...
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