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Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators: More Stories about Real Florida (Florida History and Culture)
by Jeff Klinkenberg  Publisher Comments Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators provides a welcome opportunity for readers to discover the character--and characters--of "real" Florida. In this compilation, drawn in part from his award-winning columns, Klinkenberg celebrates some of...
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On Bullfighting
by Kennedy 
Publisher Comments An Anchor Books Original One day, on the brink of despair and contemplating her own mortality, novelist A. L. Kennedy is offered an assignment she can’t refuse–an opportunity to travel to Spain and cover a sport that represents the ultimate...
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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
by Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-361) and index....
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The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Provence
by Martin Gayford Synopsis This chronicle of the two months in 1888 when Paul Gauguin shared a house in France with Vincent Van Gogh describes not only how these two hallowed artists painted and exchanged ideas, but also the texture of their everyday lives. Illustrated....
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Wanderlust: A History of Walking
by Rebecca Solnit
Publisher Comments Drawing together many histories — of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores — Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking...
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The Olive Harvest
by Carol Drinkwater Publisher Comments The stars shimmer like spilled handfuls of glitter. The day is beginning to rise with a faint mist. As I turn my head, ghostly halos, auras of light, appear and disappear....The silence is truly awesome. Not a bird, not a whisper of wind, not a breath of...
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Shadow of the Silk Road
by Colin Thubron
Powells.com Staff Pick Colin Thubron's Shadow of the Silk Road is a beautiful, important book; part travel writing, part sociology, part history, and part politics, it is hard to pin down to any one genre. But the book's warmth and genuine love for humanity and our...
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It's a Jungle Up There: More Tales from the Treetops
by Margaret D Lowman Publisher Comments Drawn to the mysteries of tropical rain forests and fascinated by life in the treetops, Meg Lowman has pursued a life of scientific exploration while raising her two sons, Edward and James Burgess. This book recounts their family adventures in remote...
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Miles from Nowhere
by Barbara Savage
Publisher Comments This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000 miles global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Miles From Nowhere is an adventure not to be missed...
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The Clumsiest People in Europe: Or, Mrs. Mortimer's Bad-Tempered Guide to the Victorian World
by Todd Pruzan Publisher Comments “A hoot, even if you do feel guilty for laughing.”—Entertainment Weekly Caustic, cranky, and inadvertently hilarious, the bestselling Victorian author Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer rarely left the house—but that didn’t stop her...
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Far Appalachia: Following the New River North
by Noah Adams Publisher Comments With his sharp eye and gentle wit, Noah Adams doesn't just tell stories, he lets them unfold quietly, powerfully, and eloquently. Now the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered and bestselling author of Piano Lessons takes us on a river journey...
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The Summer of My Greek Taverna: A Memoir
by Tom Stone Publisher Comments The story of a man in love with a place, a woman, and a dream. Tom Stone went to Greece one summer to write a novel -- and stayed twenty-two years. On Patmos, he fell in love with Danielle, a beautiful French painter. His novel completed and sold, he...
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Going Back to Bisbee
by Richard Shelton Synopsis One of America's most distinguished poets now shares his fascination with a distinctive corner of our country. Richard Shelton first came to southeastern Arizona in the 1950s as a soldier stationed at Fort Huachuca. He soon fell in love with the region...
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Plane Insanity: A Flight Attendant's Tales of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet
by Elliott Hester Publisher Comments Make sure your seatbacks and tray tables are in their full upright and locked position for these shocking, bizarre, hilarious, and outrageous stories of airplane travel. You're belted into a middle seat with burly businessmen on either side. It's...
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A Time to Keep Silence
by Patrick Leigh Fermor Synopsis While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, During World War II, he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete...
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Lonely Planet Code Green: Trips of a Lifetime That Won't Cost the Earth
by Kerry Lorimer
Publisher Comments Code Green is about discovering a more authentic travel experience. One that will challenge, change and inspire you. It's about a connection. The connection you make with places of beauty. The connection you make with people who lead very different...
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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
by Sarah Erdman
Publisher Comments The village of Nambonkaha in the Ivory Coast is a place where electricity hasn’t yet arrived, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women pounding corn fills the morning air like a drumbeat. As Sarah Erdman enters the...
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The Last Season (P.S.)
by Eric Blehm Publisher Comments Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada—mountains as perilous...
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Following the Bloom: Across America with the Migratory Beekeepers
by Douglas Whynott Synopsis Twelve months on the road with America's last cowboys: the migratory beekeepers. In this absorbing work of literary journalism, Douglas Whynott introduces us to the world of migratory beekeeping, a world composed of clandestine state-border crossings...
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The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic (Vintage)
by Melanie Mcgrath Publisher Comments In 1932, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from their flourishing home on the Hudson Bay to the barren, arctic landscape of Ellesmere Island, the most northerly landmass on the planet. Among this group was Josephie Flaherty...
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