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Sun After Dark : Flights Into the Foreign (04 Edition)
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Sun After Dark : Flights Into the Foreign (04 Edition)
by Pico Iyer

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One of the best travel writers now at work in the English language brings back the sights and sounds from a dozen different frontiers. A cryptic encounter in the perfumed darkness of Bali; a tour of a Bolivian prison, conducted by an enterprising inmate;...
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Reflections on a Marine Venus
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Reflections on a Marine Venus
by Lawrence Durrell

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This work explores the Greek island of Rhodes, evoking the sunshine landscape and blue skies of the Aegean....
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Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel
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Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel
by Lisa Alpine

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Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel is an anthology from a remarkable writers' group. The WWW - a gathering of twelve women - travel the globe, returning as often as they can to share their tales of adventure. Through these pages you will journey...
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Mexico, a Love Story: Women Write about the Mexican Experience
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Mexico, a Love Story: Women Write about the Mexican Experience
by Camille (edt) Cusumano

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Mexico has long cast a spell over its neighbor — and alter ego — to the north. Americans share its history, exalt its food, and honor its artistic luminaries. They cross the border in droves, heading to warm waters, busy city centers, open...
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Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
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Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
by Rosemary Mahoney

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Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely...
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Adrift : Seventy - Six Days Lost At Sea (99 Edition)
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Adrift : Seventy - Six Days Lost At Sea (99 Edition)
by Steven Callahan

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'Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift...
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Fried Eggs with Chopsticks: One Woman's Hilarious Adventure Into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own
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Fried Eggs with Chopsticks: One Woman's Hilarious Adventure Into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own
by Polly Evans

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Polly Evans’s itinerary for China was simple: travel by luxurious high-speed train and long-distance bus, glide along the Grand Canal and hike up scenic mountains. Instead, the linguistically impaired adventurer found herself on a primitive sleeper-...
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Danger Stalks the Land: Alaskan Tales of Death and Survival
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Danger Stalks the Land: Alaskan Tales of Death and Survival
by Larry Kaniut

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Alaska is like no other state and few countries; men experience greater risk in her arms. This one-of-a-kind anthology captures the spine tingling adventures of daring men and women who venture into Alaska's vast wilderness and look death in the eye...
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Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
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Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
by Ilya Ilf

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In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of...
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Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted
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Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted
by Annie Hawes

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In 1983, a pale Annie Hawes and her equally pale sister leave England for the sun-drenched olive groves of a small Italian town in Liguria. With fantasies of handsome tanned men and swimming in the sea urging them on, they are hired to work for ten weeks...
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If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska
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If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska
by Heather Lende

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Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air — and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace, and funerals are community affairs...
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One Special Summer
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One Special Summer
by Jacqueline Bouvier

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In 1951 sisters Lee and Jacqueline Bouvier (18 and 22 years old) travelled in Europe and recorded their experiences in notes, letters, and drawings, which were assembled and published in 1974. Privy to both mundane and extraordinary experiences...
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The Best Women's Travel Writing: True Stories from Around the World (Best Women's Travel Writing)
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The Best Women's Travel Writing: True Stories from Around the World (Best Women's Travel Writing)
by Lucy (edt) Mccauley

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Women have been writing about their travels for generations, putting a uniquely feminine slant on life on the road and the people and places they encounter along the way. The third entry in Travelers’ Tales acclaimed annual series, The Best Women's...
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Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
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Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
by Paul Theroux

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Paul Theroux invites you to join him on the journey of a lifetime, in the grand romanttic tradition, by train across Euope, through the vast underbelly of Asia and in the heart of Russia, and then up to China. Here is China by rail, as seen and heard...
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The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland
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The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland
by Barbara Sjoholm

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Barbara Sjoholm's moving travel narrative takes readers on a personal journey through the icy landscape of Lapland. A frequent traveler to Northern Europe, Barbara Sjoholm set off one winter to explore a region that had long intrigued her. Sjoholm...
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American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads
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American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads
by Pascale Le Draoulec

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Crossing class and color lines, and spanning the nation (Montana has its huckleberry, Pennsylvania its shoofly, and Mississippi its sweet potato), pie -- real, homemade pie -- has meaning for all of us. But in today's treadmill, take-out world -- our...
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Long Way Down
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Long Way Down
by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman

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Following the phenomenal success of Long Way Round, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are back with a brand new adventure - this time riding the Long Way Down. From the northern most point of Scotland at John O'Groats to the Southern Most tip of Africa...
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Travels
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Travels
by Michael Crichton

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Dork Whore: My Travels Through Asia as a Twenty-Year-Old Pseudo-Virgin
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Dork Whore: My Travels Through Asia as a Twenty-Year-Old Pseudo-Virgin
by Iris Bahr

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Fresh out of the Israeli Army, twenty-year-old Iris Bahr decides to follow the footsteps of many before her and backpack through Asia. Only unlike the average traveler, she has more in mind than just seeing the sights: she is on a desperate mission to...
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River Town : Two Years on the Yangtze (01 Edition)
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River Town : Two Years on the Yangtze (01 Edition)
by Peter Hessler

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In the heart of China's Sichuan province, tucked away amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this vast and ever-evolving country, Fuling is shifting gears and heading down a...
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