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In Patagonia (UK Edition)
by Bruce Chatwin  Publisher Comments “The book that redefined travel writing.”–Guardian In Patagonia is a quest or a Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile. Bruce Chatwin travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and, in the course of his travels...
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The Best American Travel Writing 2003 (Best American Travel Writing)
by Ian Frazier Publisher Comments Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundred of periodicals, then selects between fifty and...
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Yukon Alone: The World's Toughest Adventure Race
by John Balzar Publisher Comments The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race is one of the most challenging sporting events in the world. Every February, a handful of hardy souls spends over two weeks racing sleds pulled by fourteen dogs over 1,023 miles of frozen rivers, icy mountain...
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The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo Synopsis It was perhaps the first book to achieve best-seller status before the invention of the printing press-it was certainly the most controversial. Did Venetian trader and explorer MARCO POLO (1254-1324) actually reach the court of Kublai Khan, serve the...
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The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader
by Lawrence Durrell Publisher Comments Many readers know Lawrence Durrell as the famed author of the lush and sensuous Alexandria Quartet. However, this wonderful book contains the best of Durrell's incomparable travel writing. It is collected here for the first time in a single volume and...
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The Seven Hills of Rome: A Geological Tour of the Eternal City
by Grant Heiken Synopsis From humble beginnings, Rome became perhaps the greatest intercontinental power in the world. Why did this historic city become so much more influential than its neighbor, nearby Latium, which was peopled by more or less the same stock? Over the years...
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Seeing Europe with Famous Authors: Volume X - Russia, Scandinavia, and the Southeast
by Francis W. Halsey Publisher Comments You might believe yourself, at sight of this Muscovite architecture, in some chimerical Asiatic city-you could easily take the cathedrals for mosques, the belfries for minarets; but the rational fagade of the new palace would bring you back to the very...
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It Might Have Been Worse; A Motor Trip from Coast to Coast
by Beatrice Larned Massey Publisher Comments IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE A MOTOR TRIP FROM COAST TO COAST - 1920 - CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THESTART 11. NEW YORK TO PITTSBURGH 111. OHIO AND DETOURS IV. ON TO CHICAGO V. THROUGH THE DAIRY COUNTRY PAGE i 6 20, 30 39 VI. CLOTHES, LUGGAGE, AND THE CAR 43 VII...
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Cities of Southern Italy and Sicily (1875)
by Augustus J. C. Hare Publisher Comments CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. BETWEEN ROME AND NAPLES l6 CHAPTER III. NAPLES NAPOLI ... 65 CHAPTER IV. EXCURSIONS WEST OF NAPLES. . . . . . .152 CHAPTER V. EXCURSIONS EAST OF NAPLES IQ2 CHAPTER VI. NOLA, AVELLINO, AND BENEVENTUM 247 CHAPTER VII. IN...
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Mexico in Mind: An Anthology (Vintage Departures)
by Maria Finn Publisher Comments Two centuries of writers drawn to Mexico—from D. H. Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, and Tennessee Williams to Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, and Sandra Cisneros This scintillating literary travel guide gathers the work of great writers...
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Very New Orleans: A Celebration of History, Culture, and Cajun Country Charm
by Diana Hollingsworth Gessler Publisher Comments The exquisite antebellum mansions of the Garden District. Giant oaks stretching across boulevards and back in time to before the Civil War. The decadence of Bourbon Street. The vibrant sounds of jazz, blues, and Cajun music coming from every doorway or...
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Mark Twain on Travel (On)
by Terry Mort Publisher Comments Experience the character of America, both the grimy and the golden, through the restless words of one of literature's most beloved authors....
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Walks in Rome - Vol I
by Augustus J. C. Hare Publisher Comments CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. INTRODUCTORY. PAGE THE ARRIVAL IN ROME I CHAPTER I. DULL-USEFUL INFORMATION 26 CHAPTER II. THE CORSO AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD 35 CHAPTER III. THE CAPITOLINE Il6 CHAPTER IV. THE FORUMS AND THE COLISEUM 172 CHAPTER V. THE...
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Hokkaido Highway Blues (UK Edition)
by Will Ferguson Synopsis This work recounts Will Ferguson's journey through Japan, as he hitch-hikes and follows the path of the cherry blossom or "sakura" moving from one coast to the other....
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The Backwoods of Canada
by Catharine Parr Traill Synopsis A series of letters describing the challenges of travel to and settlement in Canada...
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The Liquid Continent, Volume I: Alexandria, a Mediterranean Trilogy (Armchair Traveler)
by Nicholas Woodsworth Publisher Comments The moment Nicholas Woodsworth arrives in Alexandria, he senses an intimacy, a garrulous warmth, and near tribal sociability that is shared by all the others on this sea. In lyrical prose, he uncovers what it is about these cities that look out over the...
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The Adventurist: My Life in Dangerous Places
by Robert Y Pelton Publisher Comments The Adventurist is one man's story, a story that will change the way you think about travel, survival, where you have been, and where you are going. Enter the world of Robert Young Pelton (if you dare), adventurer extraordinaire, author of Come Back...
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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the East China Sea. Connecting China's heartland cities with the volatile coastal giant, Shanghai...
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Godley's Letters from America
by John Godley Synopsis A Dubliner travels through the U.S, exploring American manners, law, slavery, religious observation, and the like in a few New England states and in the Mid-Atlantic. Vol. 1 of...
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Three Visits to Madagascar During the Years 1853 to 1856
by Reverend William Ellis Synopsis Including a Journey to the Capital; with Notices of the Natural History of the Country and of the Present Civilization of the People. Illustrated by Woodcuts from Photographs....
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