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The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
by Joanna Kavenna  Publisher Comments A legend, a land once seen and then lost forever, Thule was a place beyond the edge of the maps, a mystery for thousands of years. And to the Nazis, Thule was an icy Eden, birthplace of Nordic purity. In this exquisitely written narrative, Joanna Kavenna...
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Pilgrimages
by Richard Barber Publisher Comments Pilgrimage, the journey to a distant sacred goal, is found in all the great religions of the world. It is a journey both outwards to hallowed places and inwards to spiritual improvement; it can express penance for past evils, or the search for future...
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From Liverpool to St. Louis
by Newman Hall Synopsis An English pastor recounts travels through the East and Midwest, cutting himself off abruptly to focus on his true interest, Christianity and religion in America....
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From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam, Travels in Transcaucasia and Northern Persia from H
by A. V. Williams Jackson Synopsis Jackson gives an account of his travels in 1907 and 1908, from Constantinople, along the shores of the Black Sea and the Caspian, across Northern Persia, and into Russian Asia. More than 250 photos....
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Pilgrim's Inn
by Elizabeth Goudge Publisher Comments PILGRIMS INN PILGRIMS INN Elizabeth Qoudge PILGRIMS AW The HERB of GRACE Coward -, Tor A C. J FOR VERONICA Theres rue for you and heres some for me we may call it herb of grace o 3 Sundays. O you must wear your rue with a difference. Hamlet PILGRIMS INN...
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Travels in American Iraq
by John Martinkus Synopsis For this riveting portrait of a city on the brink of civil war, one of Australia's most intrepid journalists spent eight weeks in and around Baghdad. Here, he takes readers into the heart of the political and religious struggles surrounding the hand-over...
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Another Fool in the Balkans: In the Footsteps of Rebecca West
by Tony White Publisher Comments Lead title in Cadogan's new travel literature 'in the footsteps' series, launching in 2004. There is renewed and vigorous interest in travel to the countries of the former Yugoslavia and in Rebecca West, whose seminal travelogue 'Black Lamb and Grey...
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Eighty-Eight Days in America
by Esor Synopsis Unknown character travels from England to North America, starting his rambles in Canada and heading south into New England....
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Encyclopedia of Travel Literature
by Christopher K. Brown Book News Annotation Brown (English literature, Zayed U., Abu Dhabi) explains that this volume is not a travel guide or anthology of trip journals and voyage accounts. From Adams, Douglas" (of fame) to "Young, Arthur" (an 18th-19th century English travel writer...
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slate States
by Law Olmsted Frederick Law Olmsted Publisher Comments The chief design of the author in writing this book has been, to describe what was most interesting, amusing, and instructive to himself, during the first three of fourteen months' travelling in our Slave States; using the later experience to correct the...
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People of the Deer (05 Edition)
by Mowat Publisher Comments In 1886, the Ihalmiut people of northern Canada numbered seven thousand; by 1946, when Farley Mowat began his two-year stay in the Arctic, the population had fallen to just forty. With them, he observed for the first time the phenomenon that would...
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Lake of the Sky the (Dodo Press)
by George Wharton James Synopsis Large Format for easy reading. Travelogue, detailing the features and sights of Lake Tahoe in the high Sierras of California and Nevada, USA....
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The Marsh Arabs
by Wilfred Thesiger Synopsis During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraqalong before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam HusseinaWilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire, and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Traveling from...
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Beasts, Men and Gods
by Ferdinand Ossendowski Synopsis Dr. Ossendowski was a man of long and diverse experience as a scientist and writer with a training for careful observation which should put the stamp of accuracy and reliability on this chronicle. Only the extraordinary events of these extraordinary...
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Travels With Alice (99 Edition)
by Calvin Trillin Publisher Comments This delightful book collects Calvin Trillin's accounts of his trips to Europe with his wife, Alice, and their two daughters. In Taormina, Sicily, they cheerfully disagree with Mrs. Tweedie's 1904 assertion that the beautiful town "is being spoilt," and...
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Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer
by Richard Holmes Synopsis Richard Holmes knew he had become a true biographer the day his bank bounced a check that he had inadvertently dated 1772. Because for the acclaimed chronicler of Shelly and Coleridge, biography is a physical pursuit, an ardent and arduous retracing of...
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The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall
by Lawrence Osborne Publisher Comments Sick of producing the picturesque bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself by taking a six-month journey down the so-called “Asian Highway”—a swath...
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Under Other Flags
by William Jennings Bryan Synopsis 1905. Travels, Lectures, Speeches. William Jennings Bryan, who is sometimes known as the Boy Orator of the Platte, is a native of Illinois. He served as the Congressman from Nebraska, was a three-time presidential candidate and later became Secretary of...
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Across Western Waves
by Arthur Giles Synopsis A Scotsman (?) travels in the U.S., mostly in the Mid-Atlantic but with jaunts Southward and in the Mid-West....
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The Culture of Ancient Egypt
by John A. Wilson Publisher Comments The story of Egypt is the story of history itself--the endless rise and fall, the life and death and life again of the eternal human effort to endure, enjoy, and understand the mystery of our universe. Emerging from the ancient mists of time, Egypt met...
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