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Venice: Tales of the City
by Michelle Lovric  Publisher Comments Elusive and fantastical, Venice is a many-layered confection of history. The writers here have captured what is most important to them in pieces ranging from the city's foundation up to the present time. The voices, entirely diverse, are both...
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Fried Eggs with Chopsticks: One Woman's Hilarious Adventure Into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own
by Polly Evans Publisher Comments As a former editor at Hong Kong's largest weekly newspaper, Evans thought she knew China well. When she learned the Chinese had built enough new roads to circle the equator 16 times, she decided to take a fresh look at this vast nation....
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Along the Inca Road: A Woman's Journey Into an Ancient Empire
by Karin Muller Publisher Comments One of the engineering wonders of the world, the Inca Road was built more than five hundred years ago to link the far-flung outposts of a fabled empire -- an empire that ruled in golden splendor until the conquistadors arrived to plunder El Dorado and...
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In a New World - Or, Among the Gold-Fields of Australia
by Horatio, Jr. Alger Publisher Comments IN A NEW WORLD ANONG THE GOLD-PIBLDS OF AUSTRALIA -- CONTENTS. -- CHAPTER PAQE I. OLD F RI T I D N S J ELBOUR TE, . . 1 111. FLETCHAECIZT SS USPICIOUSLY, . . 18 IV. A TLUELY RESCTJE, . . 26 V. STARTIN F G O R THE 1In-ES, . . . 31 VI. A XIQHT ISCIDEKT, . ....
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The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures of Henrietta and Her Foreign Correspondent
by Christopher S Wren Publisher Comments Henrietta was an ordinary New York City cat until she ventured overseas with foreign correspondent Christopher S. Wren and his wife and children. Over seventeen years and tens of thousands of miles, she became a plucky, indispensable companion for the...
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Worlds Within - Reflections in the Sand
by Robin Hanbury-tenison Publisher Comments In 1982 The Sunday Times described Robin Hanbury-Tenison as the greatest explorer of the past twenty years. He made the first land crossing of South America at its widest point, led twenty-four expeditions, lived with a host of exotic tribes and was...
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The Caravan Moves on
by Irfan Orga Publisher Comments Documents the life of a nomadic tribe in the author's native Turkey, and an immersion in a world which has no sense of belonging to a nation or any world outside the tribe....
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Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend
by Christopher Ross Publisher Comments On November 25, 1970, the world renowned Japanese writer Yukio Mishima committed seppuku with his own antique sword. Mishima’s spectacular suicide has been called many things: a hankering for heroism; a beautiful, perverse drama; a political...
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Extra Virgin
by Annie Hawes Publisher Comments Having found a small house for the price of a second-hand car, Annie Hawes unexpectedly finds herself living among the olive groves of the Italian Riviera. Here, fifteen years after her brave move, she tells of her experiences living alongside the hardy...
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Tour in America in 1798, 1799, and 1800
by Richard Parkinson Publisher Comments Profoundly disappointed by his experiences in America, Richard Parkinson's Tour in America 1798, 1799, 1800, originally published in London in 1805, was expressly published to prevent emigration to America, seeking to save those who seek to make their...
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A Little Tour in America
by S. Reynolds Hole Synopsis An Anglican clergyman travels through North America paying attention to religion, politics, education, the media, and horticultural matters....
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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, Volume 2
by Mark Twain Publisher Comments Fascinating humorous account of 1897 voyage to Hawaii, Australia, India, New Zealand, etc. Ironic, bemused reports on peoples, customs, climate, flora and fauna, politics, much more. 197 illustrations....
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Points Unknown: The Greatest Adventure Writing of the Twentieth Century
by David Roberts Publisher Comments Roberts and the editors of "Outside" have gathered the most enduring adventure literature of the century into one heart-stopping volume. By turns charming and tragic, whimsical and nerve-racking, this extraordinary collection gets to the heart of why...
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Early Travels in Palestine (Dover Books on Travel, Adventure)
by Thomas (edt) Wright Publisher Comments 9 daring explorers -- from the 7th to the late 17th century -- provide invaluable insight into the historical and intellectual climate of Palestine and the Holy Land, describing not only their surroundings but also the attitudes and sentiments of the...
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Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax, by Samuel Bowles
by Samuel Bowles Publisher Comments 1865. Bowles, the Editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican recounts his travels as a journalist with Colfax across the Continental U.S. in a series of letters and supplementary papers. Partial Contents: From Massachusetts to the Missouri; From the...
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Uneasy Rider: The Interstate Way of Knowledge
by Mike Bryan Publisher Comments "Engagingly curious open-mindedness . . . an amiable deadpan worthy of Richard Ford." --Pico Iyer, Time <BR>in this offbeat and original road book, cultural observer Mike Bryan takes issue with the traditional idea that the "real" America is to be...
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Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
by Jared Cohen Publisher Comments Defying foreign government orders and interviewing terrorists face to face, a young American tours hostile lands to learn about Middle Eastern youth--and uncovers a subculture that defies every stereotype. Eight-page b&w photo insert....
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Six Months in America
by Godfrey Vigne Publisher Comments A traveler moves through America, impressed with the natural wonders and people. He describes manners and institutions (schools, laws and courts, etc.) in detail....
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Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River (Volume Two)
by William H. Keating Publisher Comments Sabin in his great work on books concerning America states: "Almost a cyclopaedia of material relating to the Indians of the explored territory. Nothing escaped the attention or record of the gentlemen who accompanied the expedition; and their statements...
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As Told at the Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure
by George Plimpton Publisher Comments Tales of exploration from the worlds most exclusive...
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