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Italy, a Love Story: Women Write about the Italian Experience
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Italy, a Love Story: Women Write about the Italian Experience
by Camille Cusumano

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Legendary for fabulous food, persistent men, and a lyrical language, Italy has inspired many great love affairs—with the country itself. From the notorious occupants and cuisine of Sicily, to the ancient marvels of Rome, to the couture of Milan...
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Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan
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Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan
by Lafcadio Hearn

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In 1889 Westerner PATRICK LAFCADIO HEARN (1850-1904)-bohemian, newspaper writer, restless traveler-arrived in Japan on a journalistic assignment, and he fell so in love with the nation and its people that he never left. This 1910 collection of essays...
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Here Be Yaks: Travels in Far West Tibet
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Here Be Yaks: Travels in Far West Tibet
by Manosi Lahiri

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Here Be Yaks chronicles the adventures of a group ofordinary people on an extraordinary journey to one of the most isolated corners of Tibet. From Lhasa they travel ever upwards along the ancient Tasam Highway, stoppingat ancient stage posts and battling...
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The Desert and the Sown
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The Desert and the Sown
by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

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Passionate about Arabia, then an inhospitable land of nomadic and warring tribes under Turkish control, Bell wrote this account of her extraordinary 1905 trip across the Syrian Desert from Jericho to Antioch....
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Spain in Mind: An Anthology (Vintage Departures Original)
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Spain in Mind: An Anthology (Vintage Departures Original)
by Alice Lecces Powers

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This spellbinding literary travel guide gathers poetry, nonfiction, and fiction about Spain by forty English and American writers. Here are letters and memoirs from Lord Byron, Edith Wharton, and Henry James; a poem about Picasso by E. E. Cummings; and a...
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In and Around the Grand Canyon
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In and Around the Grand Canyon
by George Wharton James

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GRAN THE GRAND CANTON OF THE COLORADO RIPER IN ARIZONA h GEORGE WHARTON JAMES WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS - LITTLE, BROWN, A . NOD Y .- . . M D C C C, JOHN WKSLEY POWELL SCHOLAR, WARRIOR, SCIENTIST, GENTLEMAN, FRIEND R FOR FOURTI KN VHARS OF THI u, s...
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Peeps at Many Lands - Belgium
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Peeps at Many Lands - Belgium
by George W. T. Omond

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PEEPS AT MANY LANDS BELGIUM BY GEORGE W. T. OMOND ILLUSTRATED BY AMEDfiE FORESTIER LONDON ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK 1909 A PEASANT WOMAN OF THE ARDENNES, CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE SANDS OPPOSITE ENGLAND .... I II. INLAND THE FLEMISH PLAIN 5 III...
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Travel in the Ancient World
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Travel in the Ancient World
by Lionel Casson

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The only book of its kind in any language, Travel in the Ancient World offers a lively, comprehensive history of ancient travel, from the first Egyptian voyages recorded in Old Kingdom inscriptions through Greek and Roman times to the Christian...
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Many-coloured Land (UK Edition)
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Many-coloured Land (UK Edition)
by C.j. Koch

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As Christopher Koch tours modern day Ireland he glimpses signs of tradition amongst the variegated landscape and, with his yearning for meaning, is reminded at every turn of the political and literary figures who have shaped its history....
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Kerala: Holiday in the Garden of the Gods
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Kerala: Holiday in the Garden of the Gods
by Edda Neumann-adrian

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The blissful pleasure of Ayurveda treatments, quiet coves and endless beaches?these are just a few of the attractions of Kerala, an oasis of relaxation in India's magical south. Kerala takes you on a journey to 15 top destinations, dedicating a double...
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Tales of the Road: Essays on a Half Century of Travel
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Tales of the Road: Essays on a Half Century of Travel
by Jerry R. Davis

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Tales of the Road is a collection of delightful travel vignettes. The author describes many odd, strange and curious events which befell him as he was visiting different places in the world over the past fifty years. Its pages are filled with unusual and...
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An Irish Experience
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An Irish Experience
by Howard G. Franklin

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"Chronicles the author's three-week journey through the Emerald Isle in 2001, where he was when the terror attacks of 9/11 occurred. Weaves humor and Irish history, literature, and culture with his travels around the country, relating the author's own...
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True Brits: A Tour of Great Britain in All Its Bog-Snorkelling, Shin-Kicking, and Cheese-Rolling Glory
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True Brits: A Tour of Great Britain in All Its Bog-Snorkelling, Shin-Kicking, and Cheese-Rolling Glory
by J R Daeschner

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"Best described as Bill Bryson meets Tony Hawks" ("The Observer") "True Brits" is the hilarious account of the antics and utterly strange traditions of 21st-century Britain....
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A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1
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A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1
by James Cook

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First Volume of the 1772 account which includes Captain Furneaux's narrative of his proceedings in the adventure during the separation of the ships....
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North of Fifty-Three
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North of Fifty-Three
by Rex Beach

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1925. Rex Beach was well on his way to becoming a lawyer when he was hit by Gold Rush Fever and left for the Klondike to strike it rich. He never found gold, but his travels had sparked his imagination and he began to write. His tales of adventures...
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Tales of the Savoy: Stories from a Glasgow Cafe
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Tales of the Savoy: Stories from a Glasgow Cafe
by Joe Pieri

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One of Glasgow's best-known restaurateurs, Joe Pieri ran a cafe in the Cowcaddens district which attracted the lowlife by day, was cleared for theatre-goers in the early evening and then serviced prostitutes and villains late at night. Here, he recounts...
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Travels of an Iconoclast
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Travels of an Iconoclast
by Harve E. Rawson Ph. D.

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Travel is eye-opening, educational, and sometimes mind blowing! At best, travel experiences question everything you thought was sacred; challenges many facts you thought represented truth; makes you self-examine many of your personal values, and...
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Taking a Line for a Walk: 1100 Miles on Foot, Le Havre to Rome
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Taking a Line for a Walk: 1100 Miles on Foot, Le Havre to Rome
by Christopher Lambert

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Chirs Lambert decided to walk solo across Europe from Le Havre, France to Rome, Italy. He drew a blue line across a map of Europe and seventy one walking days and 1,100 miles later, with a small rucksack he arrived in the Eternal City. A sketchbook and...
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The American in Holland: Sentimental Rambles in the Eleven Provinces of the Netherlands
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The American in Holland: Sentimental Rambles in the Eleven Provinces of the Netherlands
by William Elliot Griffis

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To really know and appreciate a country, you must explore it far and wide-not just the tourist spots. That's what William Elliot Griffis believed. After becoming enamored of the Netherlands and its people and history, he endeavored to explore every...
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In Morocco
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In Morocco
by Edith Wharton

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We passed through a gate and were confronted by other ramparts. Then we entered an outskirt of dusty red lanes bordered by clay hovels with draped figures slinking by like ghosts. After that more walls, more gates, more endlessly winding lanes, more...
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