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Turn in the South (UK Edition)
by V.s. Naipaul  Synopsis This is a reflective journey in which V.S. Naipaul travels through the American South in the 1980s. He writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white....
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Spanish Life in Town and Country, Including Portuguese Life in Town and Country
by L. Higgin Publisher Comments Given plenty of water, and Madrid is an ideal place for flowers. Such carnations as those which are grown in the nursery gardens there are never seen elsewhere-they are a revelation in horticulture; nor are the roses any less wonderful. The bouquet with...
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Lafcadio Hearn's Japan: An Anthology of His Writings on the Country and Its People (Tuttle Classics)
by Lafcadio Hearn Publisher Comments Over one hundred years after his death, author, translator and educator Lafcadio Hearn remains one of the best-known Westerners ever to make Japan his home. His prolific writings on things Japanese helped shape Western views on Japan well into the...
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Men and Things in America
by Andrew Bell Synopsis An Englishman travels to the Mid-Atlantic and make observations on social customs, religious observance (including commentary on the Shakers), race relations, and legal matters....
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Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba
by Tom Miller Publisher Comments ”Havana knew me by my shoes”, begins Tom Miller’s lively and entertaining account of more than eight months traveling through Cuba, from coastal cities to mountain villages, from the Bay of Pigs to both sides of the fence at Guantá...
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The Vanishing Map: A Journey from L.A. to Tokyo to the Heart of Europe
by Stephen Barber Publisher Comments Stephen Barber takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from LA to Tokyo via Europe. He carries only a crumpled map in his pocket, a map which plots a horrifying past, a disappearing present and a future collapsing into banality. A virtual reality...
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Women in the Wild 2ND Edition
by Lucy Mccauley Publisher Comments Adventurous women share their tales of adventure and exploration....
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: The Firsthand Experiences of a British Woman in Outback Japan in 1878
by Isabella Lucy Bird Publisher Comments Isabella L. Bird was one of the most famous British travelers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her destinations included Canada, the United States (the Rocky Mountains), Hawaii, Japan, Korea, Persia, Kurdistan, China, and Morocco. She is...
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On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India V2
by Thomas Watters Synopsis This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional...
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Essays and English Traits
by Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson Publisher Comments Ralph Waldo Emerson was horn in Boston on May 25, 1803, the son of a prominent Unitarian minister. He was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard College, from which he graduated at eighteen. On leaving college he taught school for some time...
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America, and the Americans
by James Boardman Synopsis An Englishman travels through New York and elsewhere in the Mid-Atlantic, heading north to Canada. Boardman discusses history, politics, manners, and church-related matters....
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Under the Southern Sun
by Paul Paolicelli Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-263)....
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Finland - The New Nation
by Agnes Rothery Publisher Comments FINLANJJ THE NEW NATION BY AGNES ROTHERY NEW YORK THE VIKING PRESS 1937 EXCEPT WHERE OTHERWISE CREDITED, THE PHOTOGRAPHS IN THIS BOOK ARE BY HARRY ROGERS PRATT FIRST PUBLISHED APRIL 1936 SECOND PRINTING JUNE 1936 THIRD PRINTING DECEMBER 1937 COPYRIGHT...
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Full Circle
by Michael Palin Publisher Comments Full Circle could be subtitled Palin's Book of Wonders. As he and his television crew undertake what may be the first-ever circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim, they prove that there is an awful lot of the world Palin hasn't seen. In this, the third and...
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Being Caribou: Seven Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
by Karsten Heuer 
Synopsis What begins as a wildlife research project becomes much more as the author and his wife learn to hear the earth, pay attention to their dreams and slowly change, beyond their expectations, into being caribou....
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Where Rolls the Oregon
by Dallas Lore Sharp Synopsis 1914. With illustrations from photographs. Dallas Lore Sharp was among the most popular nature writers of his time. In addition to his books, he wrote hundreds of magazine articles for many of the popular publications of the era. In the summer of 1912...
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The Road to Somewhere
by James Dodson Publisher Comments Bestselling author James Dodson sweeps readers along on his once-in-a-lifetime trip with his young son through the great cities and eccentric byways of Europe. As Jim Dodson discovered during the summer of 2001, when he and his ten-year-old son Jack set...
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Russia Through the Stereoscope - A Journey Across the Land of the Land of the Czar from Finland to the Black Sea
by M. S. Emery Publisher Comments Through tHe Stereoscope A JOURNEY ACROSS THE LAND OF THE CZAR FROM FINLAND TO THE BLACK SEA PERSONALLY CONDUCTED BY M. S. EMERY AUTHOR OF HOW TO ENJOY PICTURES PUBLISHED BY UNDERWOOD UNDERWOOD NEW YORK LONDON OTTAWA, KAN. TORONTO, CAN. TABLE OP V...
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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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Westward the Course! the New World of Oceania
by Paul Mcguire Publisher Comments ii V i i 3 WESTWARD THE COURSE was written during 1941, finished last September, and went to press two days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Because this is a book about the southwestern Pacific, our editors naturally con sidered carefully whether...
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