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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (UK Edition)
by Jan Morris  Publisher Comments Jan Morris describes how Trieste, which she first visited at the end of the Second World War, is like a reflection of her own life: full of hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories. 18 b/w illus. "A poignant and enchanting evocation of a life" PD...
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Quicksands: A Memoir
by Sybille Bedford Publisher Comments - Her first new book in over 10 years. Bedford is back with what will surely (she says) be her last, and the moving culmination of a story that began in 1956 (when Legacy pubbed in the UK).<BR>- Acclaim, acclaim, and acclaim. Sybille Bedford is...
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Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
by Samuel Johnson Synopsis Samuel Johnson was a well known literary figure in England. Johnson was an author, lexicographer, biographer and critic. Johnson has been quoted more than any other English author with the exception of Shakespeare. Much of Johnson's fame is attributed to...
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Henry Irving's Impressions of America: Narrated in a Series of Sketches, Chronicles and Conversations
by Joseph Hatton Publisher Comments 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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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Penguin Classics)
by Henry David Thoreau Publisher Comments A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, an account of a boat trip Thoreau took in 1839, is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Alternating between observation and reflection, Thoreau interweaves day-by-day...
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What Is America?
by Edward Alsworth Ross Publisher Comments WHAT IS AMERICA TO MY FRIEND THOMAS NIXON CARVER CHAMPION AND SAMPLE OF VIRILE, STURDY AMERICANISM THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED FOEEWOBD Our society is developing as the Fathers neither foresaw nor intended. Its path is de termined chiefly by the instincts of...
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Literary Trips 2: Following in the Footsteps of Fame
by Victoria Brooks Publisher Comments Sir Arthur C. Clarke kicks off a second exotic feast of literary adventure that transports both the reader (vicariously) and the traveler (via practical guide) around the world. Twenty-four tales again raise the bar for the very best in travel writing...
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Pictures from Holland Drawn with Pen and Pencil (1887)
by Richard Lovett Publisher Comments PICTURES FROM HOLLAND Brawn with Ipen anb pencil RICHARD LOVETT, M. A. AUTHOR OF NORWEGIAN PICTURES, ETC. A MAP AXD Ot E HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE ILLUSTRATION NEW YORK T. NELSON AND SONS LONDON THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY 56 PATERNOSTER Row AND 164...
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In Africa; Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
by John T. Mccutcheon Publisher Comments CONTENTS IN ACTION THE TRAP. DEATH THE CALL. IN THE CORN GLORY . PLANES WOUNDED. IN ACTION. IN ACTION. THE regiment had been lying in T position for some hours since the early dawn, waiting. It had not been allowed to construct proper shelter-trenches...
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Fragments of Grace: My Search for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia
by Pamela Constable Publisher Comments For four and a half years, Pamela Constable, a veteran foreign correspondent and award-winning author, has traveled through South Asia on assignment for the Washington Post. Following religious conflicts, political crises, and natural disasters, she also...
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Italian Hours
by Henry James Publisher Comments 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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Escape from the Antarctic
by Ernest Shackleton Publisher Comments This beautifully packaged volume captures, in the words of veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, his excruciating and inspiring expedition to Antarctica aboard the "Endurance."...
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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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A Taste for Adventure: A Culinary Odyssey Around the World (Adventura)
by Anik See Publisher Comments One of the most accessible entrees into another culture is its food — a lesson Anik See has learned well. In A Taste for Adventure, See describes in loving detail her gastronomic forays into Iran, Indonesia, Turkey, and nine other countries. On...
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Signspotting 2
by Doug Lansky Publisher Comments Whatever adventure youre after, let this next collection of signs from around the globe continue to guide, confuse, and amuse! A follow-up to the bestseller "Signspotting."...
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Facing the Frozen Ocean: One Man's Dream To Lead a Team Across the Treacherous North Atlantic (UK Edition)
by Bear Grylls Publisher Comments Subtitled, "One Man's Dream To Lead A Team Across The Treacherous North Atlantic". "Grylls is certainly proof that the age of great explorers has not completely passed us by" "Scotsman"...
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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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