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The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile (Vintage Departures)
by Patrick Symmes  Synopsis From the author of "Chasing Che," here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite...
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert 
Powells.com Staff Pick Not long after her thirtieth birthday, on the heels of an ugly divorce, Elizabeth Gilbert traveled for a year, to Italy, India, and finally Indonesia. In Italy she wanted to explore the art of pleasure (pasta, wine, handsome men speaking a beautiful...
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No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice
by Judith Martin Publisher Comments "Add No Vulgar Hotel to the list of books you must read before you come to Venice."—Donna Leon This is the definitive book for managing an incurable passion for a decaying, water-logged village. Whether you already have a raging case of Venetophilia...
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China Road: A Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power
by Rob Gifford Publisher Comments Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The...
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The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
by Edmund White Publisher Comments “One has the impression, reading The Flâneur, of having fallen into the hands of a highly distractible, somewhat eccentric poet and professor who is determined to show you a Paris you wouldn’t otherwise see…Edmund White tells such...
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A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures...
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Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America
by Andrew Ferguson Publisher Comments Abraham Lincoln was our greatest president and perhaps the most influential American who ever lived. But what is his place in our country today? In Land of Lincoln, Andrew Ferguson packs his bags and embarks on a journey to the heart of contemporary...
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Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, & Professional Hedonism
by Thomas Kohnstamm Publisher Comments For those who think that travel guidebooks are the gospel truth. The waitress suggests that I come back after she closes down the restaurant, around midnight. We end up having sex in a chair and then on one of the tables in the back corner. I pen a...
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
by Bill Bryson
Publisher Comments The master humorist and bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods now guides us on an affectionate, hysterically funny tour of America's most outrageous absurdities. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the...
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In Siberia
by Colin Thubron Publisher Comments Chapter One Hauntings The ice-fields are crossed for ever by a man in chains. In the farther distance, perhaps, a herd of reindeer drifts, or a hunter makes a shadow on the snow. But that is all. Siberia: it fills one twelfth of the land-mass of the...
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Encounters with the Middle East: True Stories of People and Culture That Help You Understand the Region
by Nesreen Khashan And Jim Bowman Publisher Comments Encounters with the Middle East collects 30 rich, engaging travel stories that capture uplifting scenes from everyday life and deliver sensitive, bittersweet renderings of people and landscapes often shaken by conflict. This book, with black and white...
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Stingray Bit My Nipple!: True Stories from Real Travelers
by Erik Torkells Publisher Comments "One of the things I love most about our 'True Stories' section (and by extension, this book) is that readers are so willing to laugh at themselves--they send in what are sometimes very embarrassing stories, because we all know that that's life...
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Bad Lands (Travel Literature)
by Tony Wheeler Publisher Comments "You guys really are the axis of evil," our guide splutters over his stein of beer in the Pyongyang duck restaurant. "You're always leaning out of the windows and taking photographs when I tell you not to." In an age of plastic knives on planes, Tony...
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Seven Years in Tibet
by Heinrich Harrer Synopsis "Seven Years in Tibet" is the extraordinary true story of how a young Austrian adventurer became tutor and friend to the Dalai Lama. This timeless story illuminates Eastern culture, as well as the childhood of His Holiness and the current plight of...
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Almost French
by Sarah Turnbull
Publisher Comments A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor. Sarah Turnbullas stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and FrA(c)dA(c...
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My Family & Other Animals
by Gerald Durrell Synopsis Soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where Gerald Durrell lived as a boy with his "family and other animals, " this book evocatively chronicles his five-year sojourn on the Greek island. With hilarious yet endearing portraits of his eccentric family and...
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Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World
by Paul Bowles Publisher Comments Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blueis an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant...
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Travels with Barley: The Quest for the Perfect Beer Joint
by Ken Wells Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journal writer Ken Wells set out on America's mighty River of Beer (aka the Mississippi) in a quest for his own Oz: the mythical Perfect Beer Joint. Along the way he samples great beer with the Heartland's...
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Boat Who Wouldn't Float
by Farley Mowat Publisher Comments Happy Adventure was a schooner with one fatal flaw. It leaked like a sieve. So why would anyone repeatedly expose himself and his friends to the elements of the North Atlantic in a treacherous, stubborn...
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Desert Queen
by Janet Wallach
Publisher Comments Turning her back on her privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate curiosity, journeyed the world and became fascinated with all things Arab. Traveling the length and breadth of the Arab region, armed with a love...
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