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The Emigrant's Directory
by W. Amphlett  Synopsis An Englishman travels through the Midwest with a critical eye, composing what he feels will be a useful guide, discussing modes of travel, agricultural features, and prospects....
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Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Earth
by Richard Bangs Publisher Comments Running such wild rivers as the crocodile-infested Tekaze in Ethiopia, Richard Bangs used to lived for the adrenalin, for the rush of reveling in the misery of hardship and sidestepping death around every bend. Now a respected conservationist, he still...
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The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo
by Ambrosio Bembo Publisher Comments In 1671, Ambrosio Bembo, a young nobleman bored with everyday life in Venice, decided to broaden his knowledge of the world through travel. That August he set off on a remarkable, occasionally hazardous, four-year voyage to Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and...
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Fabulous Destinations
by John Nicholls Booth Publisher Comments Fabulous Destinations BY JOHN NICHOLLS BOOTH THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEWYORK 1950 TO Edith and Barbara Anne CONTENTS 1. RESTLESS SPIRIT i 2. SQUEEZING THROUGH THE GATES OF JAPAN 4 3. THE FUKUI DEATH MARCH 10 4. ROYAL PEOPLE AND SACRED PEAKS 26 5. THE...
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Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan (UK Edition)
by Jason Elliot Synopsis An account of the author's experiences of Afghanistan and its' people, which covers recollections and anecdotes from Soviet veterans, practitioners of sufism, details of the different types of antipersonnel mine, and Alexandrian medical practice....
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The Wrong Way Home: London to Sydney the Hard Way
by Peter Moore Synopsis As an outgoing, upbeat guy who travels over some very serious ground, Peter finds the human aspect in every city: either sneaking through the Bosnian war zone with newfound friends Slaven, Koca and Damir; playing house-guest to a beautiful Iranian woman...
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North Country: A Personal Journey
by Howard Frank Mosher Publisher Comments Howard Frank Mosher embarked on a journey following America's northern border from coast to coast in search of the country's last unspoiled frontiers. What he discovered was a vast and sparsely settled territory largely ignored by the rest of the United...
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The Healing Land: The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert
by Rupert Isaacson Publisher Comments Brought up on stories and myths of the Kalahari Bushmen, Rupert Isaacson journeys to the dry vast grassland -- which stretches across South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia -- to find out the truth behind these childhood stories. Deep in the Kalahari...
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Letters from the East and from the West
by Frederick Hall Synopsis An American academic travels through New England and the Mid-West making geological observations as well as the customary comments on the developing country....
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River horse :the logbook of a boat across America
by William Least Heat-Moon 
Publisher Comments 'In RIVER-HORSE, the preeminent chronicler of American back roads -- who has given us the classics BLUE HIGHWAYS and PRAIRYERTH -- recounts his singular voyage on American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly...
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Canoe Trip: Alone in the Maine Wilderness
by David K. Curran Synopsis Each year Dave Curran travels alone by canoe into the Maine wilderness. He's paddled the Seboeis, the Allagash, and the Moose. Despite the risk of such an adventure, he prefers to go alone. It's easier to plan, and he's more focused, less distracted. An...
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In the Amazon Jungle
by Algot Lange Synopsis Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians'...
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Reflections on America Tocqueville Weber
by Claus Offe Synopsis At a time when so many cracks have emerged within the imagined community of 'the West', this important new book, by one of the leading social scientists in Europe, examines the intellectual history of comparing Europe and the United States. Claus Offe...
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Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia
by Stephen J Bodio Publisher Comments When Stephen Bodio was a young boy in the early fifties he saw an image in National Geographic which became forever etched in his mind: It was a photograph of a Kazakh nomad, dressed in a long coat and wearing a fur hat, holding a huge eagle on his fist....
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Inland Navigation on the Gangetic Rivers
by J. Johnston Publisher Comments INLAND NAVIGATION ON THE GANGETIC RIVERS BY J. JOHNSTON, I. C. S. WITH MAP SHOWING NAVIGABLE WATEKWAYS OF THE GANGETIC PLAIN. CALCUTTA THACKER, SPINK CO. 1933 LTD. FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1947 BY THACKER, SPINK qo. lQ33 LTD. THREE ESPLANADE, EAST, CALCUTTA...
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Sir Francis Drake Revived
by Philip Nichols Synopsis The next morning (29th June), we entered between Dominica and Guadaloupe, where we descried two canoes coming from a rocky island, three leagues off Dominica; which usually repair thither to fish, by reason of the great plenty thereof, which is there...
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Evidence of My Existence
by Jim Lo Scalzo Publisher Comments From a leper colony in India to an American research station on the Antarctic Peninsula, from the back rooms of the White House to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, Evidence of My Existence tells a unique and riveting story of seventeen years...
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Up the Orinoco and Down the Magdalena (1910)
by H. J. Mozans Publisher Comments POLL O WING THE CONQ UISTADOTfES UP THE ORINOCO AND DOWN THE MAGDALENA BY H. J. MOZANS, A. M., Ph. D. ILLUSTRATED NKW YORK AND LONDON IX APPI. KTON AND COMPANY 1910 TO MY GKNIAL COMIACJNON DR VOYAGE BRAVE LOYAL c. FOREWORD The following pages contain the...
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The Back of Beyond: A Search for the Soul of Ireland
by James Charles Roy Publisher Comments New in paperback. A highly personal and comic account of the author's shepherding of a group of Americans through the history and places of Ireland....
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Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey
by James Attlee Publisher Comments Isolarion takes its title from a type of fifteenth-century map that isolates an area in order to present it in detail, and that’s just what James Attlee does here for Cowley Road in Oxford. The former site of a leper hospital, a workhouse, and a...
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