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Call a Bomb a Rifle: A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to
by Edward Gray  Publisher Comments From comical misunderstandings and hilarious mishaps to the sheer terror of a near-death experience, these are the true-life global adventures and keen observations of one American traveler. During his forty years of international travel, Edward Gray...
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South of the Northeast Kingdom
by David Mamet Publisher Comments Compared to some of its New England neighbors, Vermont has seemed to long-time resident David Mamet a place of intrinsic energy and progressiveness, love and commonality. It has lived up to the old story that settlers came up the Connecticut River and...
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The Atlantic & Pacific Ship-Railway Across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in Mexico
by Elmer L. Corthell Publisher Comments THE ATLANTIC PACIFIC SHIP-RAILWAY ACROSS THE ISTHMUS OF TEHUANTEPEC, IN MEXICO, Considered Commercially, Politically Constructively. BY ELMER L, CORTHELL, Chief Engineer. JANUARY. 1886. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE. The constant and undiminished Importance...
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Travels of Sir John Mandeville%
by E. C. (edt) Coleman Publisher Comments The world of Sir John Mandeville was bounded by fantasy, superstition, and dread. For most Europeans, knowledge of other countries was limited to tales brought back by the few people that had travelled beyond their borders. In the England of the 14th...
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Traveling Souls Contemporary Pilgrimag
by Brian Bouldrey Publisher Comments from the Foreword by Pico Iver Reading the wonderfully varied and unexpected stories assembled here, I was struck by how much the notion of pilgrimage today has to do with retrieving a sense of purpose (and simplicity, and constancy); with putting...
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The Slave Route: From Africa to America
by Harry Holcroft Publisher Comments Of all institutions, common to all societies throughout human history, slavery is the only constant. It would not be wildly inaccurate to suggest that well over 90% of all humanity has been subjected to slavery of some description. In one form or another,...
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A Second Visit
by Charles Lyell Synopsis The noted Scotsman travels again through the U.S., examining the development of the country. Traveling extensively up and down the East Coast, he considers culture, politics, slavery, education and more. vol. 1 of...
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Understanding Italy
by John Burroughs Publisher Comments UNDERSTANDING ITALY PREFACE It would seem to be a queer mood that would impel any one to write another book about a country of which the last word appears to have been uttered long ago. But is the last word ever spoken about a grow ing and changing...
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Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria
by William Landsborough Synopsis The search for two missing explorers in the Northern Territories of...
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Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers
by Peter Raby Review Raby delights in detailing the many hardships these explorers endured--from predatory anacondas to hostile Tibetan tribesman--but never loses sight of their large achievements: the extent to which they changed our views of nature, of the interdependence...
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Travels in America 100 Years Ago: Being Notes and Reminiscences
by Thomas Twining 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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Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail: Can a Punk Rock Legend Find What Monty Python Couldn't?
by Christopher Dawes Publisher Comments Christopher Dawes lives in a quiet English village. His neighbor is Rat Scabies, former drummer with the Damned, best noted for setting his drums on fire while still playing them at a live concert. Life with Rat as a neighbor isn't run-of-the-mill, but...
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Travellers in Spain: An Illustrated Anthology
by David Mitchell Synopsis Impressions of four centuries of foreign travellers in Spain. Outrageous, adoring, insulting, libellous, passionate, hilarious, thoughtful, bigoted eloquent remarks....
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Rip-Raps
by William Furniss Synopsis American lawyer and man of letters describes two trips through the U.S. taken twenty years apart, observing New England and the Mid-Atlantic regions, mostly, later traveling into the South and Midwest....
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Up the Orinoco and Down the Magdalena
by H. J. Mozans Publisher Comments POLL O WING THE CONQ UISTADOTfES UP THE ORINOCO AND DOWN THE MAGDALENA BY H. J. MOZANS, A. M., Ph. D. ILLUSTRATED NKW YORK AND LONDON IX APPI. KTON AND COMPANY 1910 TO MY GKNIAL COMIACJNON DR VOYAGE BRAVE LOYAL c. FOREWORD The following pages contain the...
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A Second Visit To the United States of North America V1 (1849)
by Charles Lyell Synopsis The noted Scotsman travels again through the U.S., examining the development of the country. Traveling extensively up and down the East Coast, he considers culture, politics, slavery, education and more. vol. 1 of...
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The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall
by Lawrence Osborne Publisher Comments From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east—and of the tour itself Sick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore...
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Sunny Memories in Foreign Lands: Volume 1
by Harriet Stowe Beecher Publisher Comments If there be characters and scenes that that seem drawn with too bright a pencil, the reader will consider that, after all, there are many worse sins than a disposition to think and speak well of one's neighbors. Following the remarkable success of Uncle...
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An Emigrant's Five Years
by William Hancock Synopsis A travelogue describing the U.S. from an emigrant's perspective rather than a tourist's, discussing practical matters, mostly in the Midwest....
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Here, There and Everywhere
by Lord Frederick Hamilton Synopsis Early 20th century travelogue from the British Lord and politician....
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