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Travels With My Briefcase
by Peter Biddlecombe  Publisher Comments In Travels with My Briefcase, Peter Biddlecombe introduces us to the world of the business traveller, stumbling across the humorous and the bizarre in the most unexpected places, and generally proving that you don't have to be a student, aesthete, or one-...
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My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere
by Susan Orlean 
Publisher Comments Susan Orlean has been called "a national treasure" by The Washington Post and “a kind of latter-day Tocqueville” by The New York Times Book Review. In addition to having written classic articles for The New Yorker, she was played, with some...
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Pagan Spain (P.S.)
by Richard Wright Publisher Comments A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with Pagan Spain, originally published in 1957. The Spain he visited in the mid-twentieth century was not the romantic locale of song and...
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Speaking of the Turks
by Mufaty-zade K. Zia Bey Publisher Comments SPEAKING OF THE TURKS CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. HOMECOMING 3 II. SUMMER MONTHS,16 III. ERENKEUY 29 IV. MODERN TURKISH WOMEN 47 V. LIFE ON THE BOSPHORUS 67 VI. STAMBOUL 87 VII. BUSINESS IN CONSTANTINOPLE 107 VIII. A STAMBOUL NIGHT 127 IX. A NIGHT IN PERA...
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A Woman's Journey Round the World
by Ida Pfeiffer Publisher Comments An unabridged translation from the...
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Nights in London
by Thomas Burke Publisher Comments NIGHTS IN LONDON BY THOMAS BURKE Author of Umehouse Nights. NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1918 8Y TH SAME AUTHOR LIMEHOUSE NIGHTS TALES or CHINATOWN TWINKLETOES, TO MY MOTHER WHO STILL ENJOYS A NIGHT IN TOWN NOTE These chapters on London life deal...
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Full Circle
by Michael Palin Publisher Comments The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the world's surface and around it lives one-third of the world's population. Its 70 million square miles of water spill onto the shores of a richly contrasting assortment of countries. Some are global giants —...
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Small World: A Microcosmic Journey
by Brad Herzog Publisher Comments Join author Brad Herzog as he marvels at a castle in Versailles, visits a guru in Calcutta, discovers a descendant of King David in Jerusalem, and more -- all without leaving the United States. Small World is acclaimed travel writer Brad Herzog's unique...
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
by John Steinbeck
Powells.com Staff Pick Wanderlust is a pervasive, seemingly incurable "virus of restlessness." Not contagious in any clinical sense, you either have it or you don't. John Steinbeck did, in spades. As the 1960s commenced, Steinbeck, according to his oldest son, sensed his...
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Che's Chevrolet, Fidel's Oldsmobile: On the Road in Cuba
by Richard Schweid Publisher Comments Schweid blends the history of cars, trucks, and buses in Cuba with stories from his own experience there. The rich narrative, accompanied by 52 b&w historic photos and an 8-page color insert of photos by Cuban photographer Adalberto Roque, presents a...
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The Prairie Traveler
by Randolph Barnes Marcy Synopsis I remember, upon one occasion, as I was riding with a Delaware upon the prairies, we crossed the trail of a large party of Indians traveling with lodges. The tracks appeared to me quite fresh, and I remarked to the Indian that we must be near the party. "...
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As a Chinaman Saw Us
by Henry Gratton Synopsis Compared, in the Preface by Henry Pearson Gratton, to Mrs. Trollope's The Domestic Manners of the American's, this work is applauded for its caustic and] amusing treatment of America and Americans. Selected from a series of letters written to a friend in...
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Among the Isles of Shoals (Revisiting New England)
by Celia L. Thaxter Synopsis An enduring classic of New England literature....
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Seven Year Hitch a Family Odyssey
by David R Grant Synopsis Of all the attempts to circumnavigate the globe, the tale of the Grant family's epic seven year journey by horse-drawn caravan must be one of the most extraordinary. This is a look at family life in a pressure cooker environment, and an account of how...
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French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French
by Harriet Welty Rochefort Publisher Comments Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the wise perspective of one who has spent more than twenty years living among the French. From a small town in Iowa to the City of Light, Harriet has done what so many...
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Goa and the Blue Mountains or Six Months of Sick Leave
by Richard Francis Burton Synopsis Sir Richard's first book, orginally published in 1851. The story of the British officer's trip down the Indian coast....
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American Notes for General Circulation (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens Publisher Comments Charles Dickens was the most famous of many travelers of his time who journeyed to America, curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination. His frank, often humorous descriptions in his 1842 account cover...
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Around the World in 80 Treasures
by Dan Cruickshank Publisher Comments A grand world tour—in a new, smaller size! One of Britain’s leading authorities on historic architecture takes readers on an incredible visit to mankind’s finest monuments in this companion volume to the BBC television series...
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30 Days in the South Pacific: True Stories of Escape to Paradise
by Sean O'reilly Et Al Publisher Comments Few in the Western world can resist the lure of pristine beaches, endless coral reefs, and blazing tropical suns. As the world shrinks and troubles of various sorts have struck some of the more distant destinations, the islands of the South Pacific...
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Land of the High Flags: Afghanistan When the Going Was Good
by Rosanne Klass Publisher Comments A memoir of lost Afghanistan. When the going was good, a young American woman traveled to the then-remote country of Afghanistan. A classic memoir in the tradition of Rebecca West, Rosanne Klass's Land of the High Flags is an insightful account of the...
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