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Something to Declare: Essays on France and French Culture
by Julian Barnes  Publisher Comments Barnes' long and passionate relationship with La Belle France began 40 years ago, and in these essays on the country and its culture, he combines a lively appreciation, a seemingly infinite sphere of reference, and prose as stylish as classic haute...
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Even a Daughter Is Better Than Nothing
by Mykel Board Publisher Comments This is the story of how Maximum Rock'n'Roll Columnist Mykel Board spent a year teaching English at the Mongolian National University in Ulaanbaatar. From getting lost in the Gobi Desert to stirring fights in a Mongolian disco, Board teeters through the...
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Around the World With General Grant V1: a Narrative of the Visit of General U. S. Grant, Ex-president of the United States, To Various Countries in Eu
by John Russell Young Publisher Comments In Two Volumes. To Which Are Added Certain Conversations With General Grant On Questions Connected With American Politics And History....
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The Gift of Travel: Inspiring Stories from Around the World (Travelers' Tales Guides)
by Larry Habegger Publisher Comments Bringing together over two dozen of the most dazzling and moving stories from the award-winning Travelers' Tales series, this collection is based on the premise that traveling can help people reawaken to the joys, mysteries, and miracles of everyday life....
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Sir Francis Drake Revived (Dodo Press)
by Philip Nichols Publisher Comments Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral, (c. 1540 - January 27, 1596) was an English privateer, navigator, slave trader, politician and civil engineer of the Elizabethan era. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He...
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The Maine Woods
by Henry David Thoreau Publisher Comments Anxious to get out of the whale's belly, I rose early, and joined some old salts, who were smoking by a dim light on a sheltered part of the deck. We were just getting into the river. They knew all about it, of course. I was proud to find that I had...
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The Emigrant's Directory
by W. Amphlett Publisher Comments 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 "This work makes an important contribution. . . . It also introduces a fascinating young observer from Venice full of humor and curiosity about everything."--Oleg Grabar, author of "The Formation of Islamic Art"...
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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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The Wrong Way Home: London to Sydney the Hard Way
by Peter Moore Publisher Comments 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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The Art of Travel
by Alain de Botton 
Publisher Comments Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on...
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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 Publisher Comments 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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Take Me with You: A Round-The-World Journey to Invite a Stranger Home
by Brad Newsham Publisher Comments It was the dream of a euphoric young traveler awed by the crystalline silence of Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush: “Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America.” Twenty-five years later, Brad...
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Canoe Trip: Alone in the Maine Wilderness
by David K. Curran Publisher Comments 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 Publisher Comments 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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Writing Down the River: Into the Heart of the Grand Canyon
by Kathleen Jo Ryan Book News Annotation Copious, dramatic color photographs and poetic quotations illustrate these essays describing the whitewater rafting experiences of 15 prominent female writers sent down the Colorado River during the summer of 1997. 11x10". Annotation c. Book News...
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