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Looking for a Ship
by John Mcphee  Publisher Comments This is an extraordinary tale of life aboard what may be one of the last American merchant ships. As the story begins, Andy Chase, who holds a license as a second mate is looking for a ship. In less than ten years, the United States Merchant Marine has...
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Green Hills of Africa (Scribner Classic)
by Ernest Hemingway Publisher Comments "There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from...
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Italian Hours
by Henry James Synopsis James collected these essays of Italian travel in the first years of the 20th century. Here James casts the light of other years upon a familiar yet exotic place; and while many details have faded or changed beyond recognition, James tells readers things...
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Kakemono - A Sketch Book of Post-War Japan
by Honor Tracy Publisher Comments KAKEMONO A Sketch Book, of Post-War Japan By Honor Tracy COWARD-McCANN, Inc. NEW YORK FOREWORD i CAME TO YOKOHAMA one bleak February afternoon, in gathering twilight, under a persistent drizzle of rain. Since we had sailed out of San Francisco a...
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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
by Clarence King Synopsis This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional...
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Off the Map: The Most Amazing Sights on Earth as Seen by Satellite
by James Turnbull Publisher Comments This book brings you the hole-in-the wall gems that you'd never stumble onto on your own, but which the cameras did. Just as you thought the world had been fully explored: here are the most amazing sights on planet earth that no guidebook takes you near....
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Bayou Farewell : Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast (03 Edition)
by Mike Tidwell 
Publisher Comments Mike Tidwell knew nothing of the disappearing bayou country when he first visited the Cajun coast of Louisiana, but the evidence was all around him: the skeletons of oak trees killed by the salinity of the groundwater, whole cemeteries sinking into...
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Escape from the Antarctic
by Ernest Shackleton Synopsis Inspired by Penguins innovative Great Ideas series, our new Great Journeys series presents the most incredible tours, voyages, treks, expeditions, and travels ever writtenfrom Isabella Birds exaltation in the dangers of grizzlies, rattlesnakes, and...
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Your United States - Impressions of a First Visit
by Arnold Bennett Publisher Comments U IK. A . A IMPRESSIONS OF A FIRST VISIT i BY ARNOLD BENNETT ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK CRAIG 1 HARPER BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON MCMXII Ijljj YA See page 28 THE GLORY OF FIFTH AVENUE INSPIRES EVEN THOSE ON FOOT CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. THE FIRST...
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The Scot Abroad
by John Hill Burton Publisher Comments BY JOHN-HILL BURTON D-C L JK L-LD AUTHOR OF X HISTORY OF SCOTLAND THE BOOK tUJNTCI VHE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE ETC WILLIAM BLACKWOOD SONS EDINBURGH tt LONDON S MDCCCC ADVERTISEMENT. THE growth of this volume is similar to that of its predecessor, The Book...
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Travelers' Tales Nepal (Travelers' Tales Guides)
by Rajendra Khadka Publisher Comments Nepal is renowned for its temples, shrines, palaces, amazing mountains and jungles, and colorful festivals. Ever since it began admitting tourists in the early 1950s, its remarkable blend of cultures, traditions, and languages has stirred the longings...
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A Little Tour in France
by Henry James Synopsis The Chateau de Blois is one of the most beautiful and elaborate of all the old royal residences of this part of France, and I suppose it should have all the honors of my description. As you cross its threshold, you step straight into the brilliant...
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RV Tourist: Tips, Tools, and Stories
by Elsi Dodge Publisher Comments RV Tourist: Tips, Tools, and Stories is your one-volume resource for RV travel, whether you're experienced, a beginner, or just dreaming about using an RV. When you've finished RV Tourist, you will be smiling, because the book is enjoyable reading. You...
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The Seasons of Rome: A Journal
by Paul Hofmann Publisher Comments Delving into the daily life of a city that is in so many ways larger than life, Paul Hofmann steers us beyond the tourist board, revealing a fetish for Vatican gossip, the idiosyncrasies of the gattare (cat women who care for the city's stray cats), and...
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Aama in America: A Pilgrimage of the Heart
by Broughton Coburn Synopsis Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny Nepalese village, befriended the author when he was a Peace Corps worker in 1974. In 1988, on a trip prescribed by village priests as a way for the 84-year-old woman to earn merit by making a...
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Antarctica: Both Heaven and Hell
by Reinhold Messner Synopsis Detailed account of Reinhold Messner's and Arved Fuchs' 1,800-mile, 92-day journey on foot across Antarctica....
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The Story of the Other Wise Man
by Henry Van Dyke Synopsis 1895. American clergyman, educator, and author, Van Dyke explains the origins of the story of the Fourth Wise Man as having arrived suddenly and without labor. One night he saw him distinctly, moving through the shadows in a little circle of light. His...
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Around the World in Farty Haze
by Simon Fawkes Publisher Comments Nineteen-year-old Simon Fawkes suffers from a spasmodic wind problem as he hauls his fat bulk through this hilarious account of a journey through the Americas. From seedy San Francisco sex clubs through stomach upsets in Mexico, uncontrollable flatulence...
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Schlepping Through the Alps (05 Edition)
by Apple Synopsis Hans Breuer, Austria's only wandering shepherd, is also a Yiddish folksinger. He walks the Alps, shepherd's stick in hand, singing lullabies to his 625 sheep. Sometimes he even gives concerts in historically anti-Semitic towns, showing slides of the...
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The Uprising of a Great People
by Agenor Gasparin Synopsis A French count's commentaries on America at the birth of the Civil War. While he has obviously examined different parts of the U.S. at length, his book is not really an account of his travels, and speaks of the country not in specifics but in broad...
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