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N by E
by Rockwell Kent  Publisher Comments When artist, illustrator, writer, and adventurer Rockwell Kent first published N by E in a limited edition in 1930, his account of a voyage on a 33-foot cutter from New York Harbor to the rugged shores of Greenland quickly became a collectors' item...
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Chateau and Country Life in France
by Mary King Waddington Publisher Comments My first experience of country life in France, about thirty years ago, was in a fine old chteau standing high in pretty, undulating, wooded country close to the forest of Villers-Cotterets, and overlooking the great plains of the Oise-big green fields...
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Hall's Travels in North America
by Basil Hall Synopsis A British navy officer travels extensively, from New England to the deep South and a bit into the Mid-West, offering thoughts on American manners, morals, political views and situations, and so forth. Vol. 1 of...
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A Few Perfect Hours: And Other Stories from Southeast Asia & Central Europe
by Josh Neufeld Publisher Comments Autobiographical cartoonist Josh Neufeld takes us on a dramatic tour of places as exotic and different as Thailand, the former Yugoslavia, and New York City. Highlights include Neufeld and traveling companion Sari Wilson on a volunteer expedition to an...
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Danger: True Stories of Trouble and Survival (Travelers' Tales Guides)
by James Oreilly Publisher Comments Here are 28 awe-inspiring stories of danger and survival, guaranteed to get your heart pumping. Whether trapped in an underwater cave, escaping an avalanche, fending off a thug, or surviving a storm at sea, each author faces moments of raw terror and...
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Traveller's Joy
by W. G. Waters Publisher Comments TRAVELLERS JOY An Anthology compiled by W. G. WATERS LONDON. JONATHAN CAPE 30 BEDFORD SQUARE FIRST PUBVKHED 1900 FIRST ISSUED IN THE TRAVELLERS. LIBRARY 1928 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN PREFACE THE work of the contemporary anthologist must needs differ both...
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Chicken Soup for the Traveler's Soul: Stories of Adventure, Inspiration and Insight to Celebrate the Spirit of Travel
by Jack Canfield Publisher Comments Whether your idea of travel at its finest is trekking through Europe with a backpack, a map and a foreign-language dictionary; road-tripping across America in a fully loaded RV; or cruising the Caribbean aboard a luxury liner, Chicken Soup for the...
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A Season in Red: My Great Leap Forward Into the New China
by Kirsty Needham Publisher Comments When journalist Kristy Needham heads to Beijing to work at a Chinese newspaper as a “foreign expert,” she has studied the language and the history but has no idea what life in China will really be like. As this compelling story reveals, she...
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Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles & the Legacy of Frontier Fakery
by Jim Motavalli Publisher Comments Joseph Knowles was a forty-five-year-old part-time painter, ex-Navy man, friend of the Sioux, and onetime hunting guide who stepped-nearly naked-into the woods to live off the land and his own devices. From 1913 to 1916, Knowles’s dispatches to the...
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Outposts: Journeys To the Surviving Relics of the British Empire (UK Edition)
by Simon Winchester Synopsis In 1985 Simon Winchester was struck with the idea of visiting the assorted far-flung islands which are all that remain of the British Empire. From Antarctica to the Caribbean, this is an account of his adventures....
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Equinoctial Regions of America V1
by Alexander Von Humboldt Synopsis Subtitled: Humboldt's Personal Narrative Volume 1. Personal Narrative Of Travels To The Equinoctial Regions Of America During The Years 1799-1804....
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AB-O'Th'-Yate in Yankeeland
by Benjamin Brierley Synopsis Two journeys, accounted for in different fashions, though covering much of the same ground. The first part is composed as a series of letters a Lancashire husband writes to his wife; the second part is a more straightforward description of a later...
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Island Lighthouse Inn: A Chronicle
by Jeffrey Burke Synopsis After years of Berkeley activism in the 1960s and '70s, Jeff and Judi Burke threw up their hands and drove east. They eventually restored an old inn on Isle au Haut, a harsh, barely inhabitable outcrop seven miles off the Maine coast, setting out to do...
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The Roof of France
by Matilda Betham-edwards Synopsis Here and there are patches of potatoes, buckwheat and rye, the yellow and green breaking the gray surface of the rocky waste; not a habitation, not a living creature, is in sight. Before us and around stretch desert upon desert of bare limestone, the...
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Zigzags in France and Various Essays
by E. V. Lucas Publisher Comments ZIGZAGS IN FRANCE AND VARIOUS ESSAYS BY E. V. LUCAS METHUEN CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W. C. LONDON CONTENTS ZIGZAGS IN FRANCE PACK I I The Soothing Car II The Vanne Rouge III The Fratellini . IV Albert V The Foreign French VI French Games VII Houses and...
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No man's land :a personal journey into Africa
by John Heminway Synopsis One of America's most distinguished travel writers and the PBS-TV host of hisown program presents a fascinating look at the world of white Africans today....
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A Meal Observed
by Andrew Todhunter Publisher Comments Awarded three stars by Michelin, Taillevent is one of the finest restaurants in the world. Todhunter spent several months working in its kitchen in preparation for the divine experience of eating a five-hour meal in the nineteenth-century dining room...
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Dwellers in Arcady - The Story of an Abandoned Farm
by Albert Bigelow Paine Publisher Comments DWELLERS IN ARCADY ILLUSTRATIONS Once more it was a habitation and a home . . Frontispiece quotAnd here is your house, quot said William C. Westbury Facing p. 6 Theyformed a board of appraisal. All of them knew that cellar and were intimately ac quainted...
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Letters of Transit: Adventures and Encounters from America to the Pacific Isles
by Matthew Stevenson Publisher Comments A beautifully-crafted blend of travel, history, political observation and personal experience, Letters of Transit is the distillation of the colorful journeys Matthew Stevenson has made throughout the world for over twenty years. Stevenson takes the...
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Recollections of Europe
by James Fenimore Cooper Synopsis Just after he published the work now considered his masterpiece, the epic 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans, the popular American writer JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851) decamped for Europe, where he would live and travel for several years. Here, in...
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