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Never Too Old to Climb Walls
by Martha Sue Todd  Publisher Comments Rats invading her bedroom, fireworks exploding at funerals, and delectable baby mice soup served to the author were not her expectations when she signed the necessary forms to go to China as an English teacher through the Amity Foundation. Nor did she...
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Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment #41: Water from Stone: The Story of Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve
by Jeffrey Greene Synopsis Award-winning author Jeffrey Greene provides a portrait, by turns lyrical and provocative, of J. David Bamberger's unlikely transformation from first, a vacuum cleaner salesman, then to co-founder and CEO of Church's Fried Chicken, to an internationally...
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Travels of Marco Polo Volume 2
by Marco Polo Publisher Comments Volume 1 of 2-volume set. One of the greatest books of all time — a vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals,...
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Around the World in 80 Treasures
by Dan Cruickshank Synopsis One of Britain's leading authorities on historic architecture takes readers on a tour of mankind's greatest monuments in this companion volume to the BBC television series. Documenting his extraordinary four and a half month journey to eighty historic...
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Ant Egg Soup: the Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos
by Natacha Du Pont De Bie Publisher Comments Natacha Du Pont De Bie is no ordinary tourist. She'll trek for hours or even days in search of a good lunch. Ant Egg Soup is the result of her adventures in Laos, the stories of the people she met, the places she visited and, of course, the amazing food...
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Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road (Traveler)
by Stuart Stevens Synopsis The first account of travel in Chinese Turkistan, closed to foreigners since 1949, shows a world where bureaucratic hazards often loom larger than geographical ones....
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America by River and Rail: Or Notes by the Way on the New World and Its People (1856)
by William Ferguson Publisher Comments Originally published in 1856, William Ferguson's America by River and Rail, or Notes by the Way on the New World and its People is a diary of his impressions of his travels along the East Coast, out to the states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan,...
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V.S. Naipaul: Second Edition
by Bruce Alvin King Publisher Comments This revised and updated introduction to the novels and non-fiction of V.S. Naipaul will be of interest to students, specialists and general readers. Chronological chapters examine the structure, significance and development of Naipaul's writing, setting...
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Seven Grass Huts - An Engineer's Wife in Central and South America
by Cecile Hulse Matschat Synopsis SEVEN GRASS HUTS An Engineers Wife in Central-and-South America by CECILE HULSE MATSCHAT MEXICAN PLANTS GARDEN CALENDAR GARDEN PRIMERS ANNUALS AND PERENNIALS SHRUBS AND TREES BULBS AND HOUSE PLANTS PLANNING THE HOME GROUNDS HOW TO MAKE A GARDEN SUWANNEE...
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One Summer in Hawaii
by Helen Mather Publisher Comments ONE IN HA IV A II BY HELEN MATHER NEW YORK CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY 104 106 FOURTH AVENUE COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY HELEN MATHER. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. WHILE spending the winter of 1889 and 1890 in Southern California and San Francisco, I was repeatedly...
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Lands of New World Neighbors
by Hans Christian Adamson Publisher Comments HANS CHRISTIAN ADAMSON LANDS OF NEW WORLD NEIGHBORS New York WhlttUsey House London McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, ING. LANDS OF NEW WORLD NEIGHBORS Copyright 1941, by the McGRAW-HiLL BOOK COMPANY, ING. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may...
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Spain - Body and Soul (Armchair Traveller)
by H M Van Den Brink Synopsis A cross between a travel journal and a cookbook with both lively cultural descriptions and recipes...
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Are We There Yet?: Rach and Jules Take to the Open Road
by Rachael Weiss Publisher Comments Warm, engaging, and funny, this armchair travel guide follows two 30-something singles, Rachael and Julie, on a rowdy road trip in pursuit of happiness in a world dominated by couples. From bike excursions to impress a cute tour guide to adventures in a...
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Journal of a Lady of Quality : Being the Narrative of a Journey From Scotland To the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 To 1776 (05 Edition)
by Janet Schaw Publisher Comments Alexander and Janet Schaw, Scottish siblings, began a journey in 1774 that would take them from Edinburgh to the Caribbean Islands and then to America. Part of the early wave of Scottish colonization, the pair visited family and friends who had already...
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Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage (Dodo Press)
by Richard Hakluyt Synopsis If you seek the advice herein of such as make profession in cosmography, Ptolemy, the father of geography, and his eldest children, will answer by their maps with a negative, concluding most of the sea within the land, and making an end of the world...
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Selkirks Island
by Diana Souhani Synopsis The story of Alexander Selkirk, a pirate who sailed the South Seas on looting expeditions for gold and treasure. Eventually, he marooned himself on an island off the coast of Chile and spent years in solitude there before being rescued. His exploits...
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Under the Tuscan Sun
by Frances Mayes Synopsis The story of Frances Mayes' experiences of buying and restoring an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. Captures the essence of the Tuscan way of life as Peter Mayle did for Provence. Frances Mayes is a food and travel writer and the...
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From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam: Travels in Transcaucasia and Northern Persia for Historic and Literary Research
by A. V. Williams Jackson Synopsis Jackson gives an account of his travels in 1907 and 1908, from Constantinople, along the shores of the Black Sea and the Caspian, across Northern Persia, and into Russian Asia. Special attention is given to photos (more than 250)....
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Pattie's Personal Narrative
by James Ohio Pattie Synopsis An American explores the Southwestern U.S., starting in St. Louis, MO. Considerable drama: members of his team die; there's conflict with Native Americans; and Pattie himself is wounded by arrow....
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Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women's Travel Writing
by Sidonie Smith Synopsis As technological advances increased the ease, speed, and reach of transportation, more and more women took to the air, to the road and the rail, and headed for points elsewhere. As they mastered new modes of mobility and then narrated their journeys...
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