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Shadow of the Silk Road (UK Edition)
by Colin Thubron  Publisher Comments To be travelling the Silk Road is to be travelling the history of the world: tracing the passage not just of trade and armies, but also of ideas, religions and inventions. Thubron's chosen route passes through China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan...
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North to Katahdin: What Hikers Seek on the Trail
by Eric Pinder Publisher Comments Are the urbanites trekking trails with cell phones, synthetic fabrics, and GPS units having remotely the same experience that Thoreau did in 1846? Pinder's interviews with these hikers create a vivid portrait of the communion with nature they seek, and...
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The Innocents Abroad: Or the New Pilgrims' Progress
by Mark Twain Publisher Comments Innocents Abroad began as a series of travel letters written by Mark Twain mainly for the Alta California, a San Francisco paper that sponsored his participation in the trip to Europe and the Holy Land in 1867 aboard the steamship Quaker City. On the...
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Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume Two
by Isabella Lucy Bird Publisher Comments Courageous, stoic, and resourceful, Isabella Bird, a clergyman's middle-aged daughter had already survived so many mounted adventures that the Times of London had dubbed her "the boldest of travellers." The story she weaves in "Journeys in Persia and...
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America and the American Church
by Henry Caswall Publisher Comments An Englishman who emigrated to the U.S. as a young man but then returned to England as an adult, he came back to America in the 1860s, where he remained until his death. This particular title focuses on the American Episcopalian church and its...
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Travels in America and Italy
by Francois-rene Chateaubriand Publisher Comments Originally published in 1828, Francois Rene de Chateaubriand's 2-volume Travels in America and Italy is an important literary travel narrative written by a leading (some would say founding) figure of French Romanticism. Chateaubriand traveled to America...
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African Laughter: Four Visits To Zimbabwe (UK Edition)
by Doris Lessing Synopsis In this portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland, the author recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992. The visits constitute a journey to the heart of a country whose history, landscape, people and spirit are evoked in this book....
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Twilight in Italy
by D. H. Lawrence Publisher Comments The imperial road to Italy goes from Munich across the Tyrol, through Innsbruck and Bozen to Verona, over the mountains. Here the great processions passed as the emperors went South, or came home again from rosy Italy to their own Germany. And how much...
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Sunrise with Seamonsters
by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments The journeys of Paul Theroux take place not only in exotic, unexpected places of the world but in the thoughts, reading, and emotions of the writer himself. A gathering of people, places, and ideas in fifty glittering pieces of gold....
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Strange Stories of Alaska and the Yukon
by Ed Ferrell 
Publisher Comments From the Far North come startling accounts of the extraordinary and the unexplained: mammoths frozen whole in a glacier, a tropical valley deep in the Arctic. This is the mysterious side of Alaska that you'll never find in history books....
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Letters of a Traveler or Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America
by William Cullen Bryant Publisher Comments 1869. The letters composing this volume were written at various times, during the last sixteen years, and during journeys made in different countries. They contain, however, no regular account of any tour or journey made by the writer, but are merely...
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Midnight in Sicily
by Peter Robb Publisher Comments From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily. South of mainland Italy lies the island of Sicily, home to an ancient culture that — with its stark landscapes, glorious coastlines, and extraordinary treasure troves of art...
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The Crescent and the Cross or Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel
by Eliot Warburton Publisher Comments 1852. Two Volumes in One. Bartholomew Elliott George Warburton, British traveler and novelist, typically known as Eliot Warburton, gave up his practice as a barrister for travel and literature. He became a hit with his first book, The Crescent and the...
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Oxford
by Andrew Lang Publisher Comments The gardens of Wadham College on a bright morning in early spring are a scene in which the memory of old Oxford pleasantly lingers, and is easily revived. The great cedars throw their secular shadow on the ancient turf, the chapel forms a beautiful...
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The Reader's Companion to Alaska
by Alan Ryan Publisher Comments The Alaskan frontier is revealed at its most inspiring and unforgiving, through the eyes of its awe-struck visitors. An enraptured John Muir first glimpses Glacier Bay; Jon Krakauer marvels at the sight of a grizzly's footprints in the snow; Erma Bombeck...
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Riding High
by Ted Simon Publisher Comments Riding High is packed with untold episodes from the Jupiter journey - his confrontations with a murderous military in Chile, his farcical arrest in India, bizarre customs in Thailand and Malaysia, his hilarious entanglements with a bottle of bad Dubonnet...
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The Best American Travel Writing 2004 (Best American Travel Writing)
by Pico Iyer Publisher Comments A celebration of adventure and curiosity, this compilation transports readersfrom Patagonia to the Ivory Coast to small-town Vermont....
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Slow Winter (UK Edition)
by Alex Hickman Publisher Comments Haunted by his late father's thirst for adventure Alex persuaded his local paper that it needed a Balkan correspondent. Talking his way into besieged Sarajevo, he watched as the city's fragile ceasefire fell apart. A series of chance encounters took him...
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The Viking Age: the Early History Manners and Customs of the Ancestors of the English Speaking Nations V2
by Paul B. Du Chaillu Publisher Comments Illustrated From The Antiquities Discovered In Mounds, Cairns And Bogs, As Well As From The Ancient Sagas And Eddas....
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In Siberia Uk Edition
by Colin Thubron Publisher Comments Bestselling travel writer explores Siberia travelling by truck, bus and boat and compares the post Soviet Union to his previous visit in the early 80s where he travelled in an old Morris Minor. "This is a truly outstanding book" "Observer"...
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