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Firecracker Land - Pictures of the Chinese World for Younger Reader
by Florence Ayscough  Publisher Comments FIRECRACKER Pictures of the Chinese for Younger Readers By FLORENCE AYSCOUGH With Illustrations by LUCILLE DOUGLASS THE JUNIOR LITERARY GUILD AND HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANT NEW YOItK MCMXXXII XTP THE YANGTZE KIANG COPYRIGHT, 1932, BY FLORENCE AYSCOUGH ALL...
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Hesperos
by Matilda Houstoun Synopsis A well-born Englishwoman travels in America, starting in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states and heading south and west from there. American social dynamic primary interest, with interest in race relations. Vol. 2 of...
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A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller
by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself — and her readers — in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places....
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The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire
by Tom Zoellner Publisher Comments An American Library Association Notable Book When he proposed to his girlfriend, Tom Zoellner gave what is expected of every American man--a diamond engagement ring. But when the relationship broke apart, he was left with a used diamond that...
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Year in Japan
by Kate Williamson Publisher Comments The Land of the Rising Sun is shining brightly across the American cultural landscape. Recent films such as Lost in Translation and Memoirs of a Geisha seem to have made everyone an expert on Japan, even if they've never been there. But the only way for...
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Dickens on France: Fiction, Journalism and Travel
by John (edt) Edmondson Synopsis "Charles Dickens, Francais naturalise, et Citoyen de Paris." This is how Dickens signed a letter from France to his friend John Forster in 1847. Behind the joke lay a fascination for French life and culture and a sense of affinity with the country that...
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Angela the Upside-Down Girl: And Other Domestic Travels
by Emily Hiestand Synopsis A childhood shaped by her zestful aunt Nan Dean of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; a girlhood spent in Oak Ridge ("Atom City"), Tennessee; a journey north to a seedy seaside town where a stripper named Angela the Upside-Down Girl is her first neighbor--these...
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Notes on New York
by Frank W. Green Synopsis A diary originally published in the Wakefield (KS?) Herald. Cranky observations on liquor laws, dining habits, and service. The trip west is mostly done by train, with less commentary on places gone than service on the train. P. 84: "Nature seems to have...
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Flagg's the Far West
by Edmund Flagg Synopsis Flagg was a native of Maine who ran newspapers in the Mid-West. His background in law and commerce would indicate a reason for the interest in the West, which at the time this journal was written, was a source of tremendous potential....
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Mexican Days (06 Edition)
by Cohan Publisher Comments Tony Cohan’s On Mexican Time, his chronicle of discovering a new life in the small Mexican mountain town of San Miguel de Allende, has beguiled readers and become a travel classic. Now, in Mexican Days, point of arrival becomes point of departure...
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Notes of a Tour in America
by Stephen Davis Synopsis An Irishman working for the Baptist church travels through New England, with most of his stops being opportunities to preach; many observations on local religious observence, with detailed statistics; also significant discussion of slavery....
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Men and Manners in America
by Thomas Hamilton Synopsis The Scottish writer offers his perspective on America and its inhabitants. Apparently unapproving of a country lacking a royal family, he finds the Americans somewhat distressing but interesting. vol. 2 of...
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Tixier's Travels on the Osage Prairies
by John Francis Mcdermott Publisher Comments AMERICAN EXPLORATION AND TRAVEL Tixiers Travels On the Osage Prairies Di I-ROM lilt. IV M ID TI Majatyta Head Chief of the Osage TIXIERS Trauda on the. Osagc Prairies EDITED BY JOHN FRANCIS McDERMOTT TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY ALBERT J. SALVAN...
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Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park (Crown Journeys Series)
by Tim Cahill Publisher Comments “Let’s get lost together . . . ” Lost in My Own Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of his—and America’s—favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world’s first national park. Cahill has...
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Following the Equator (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
by Mark Twain Publisher Comments How I did loath that journey around the world--except the sea-part & India.- Mark Twain, letter to W. D. Howells, 4/2/1899 Following The Equator is an account of Mark Twain's round-the-world lecture tour of 1895/96. The book opens in Paris, from which...
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Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere: A Memoir
by John Nathan Publisher Comments John Nathan arrived in Tokyo in 1961 fresh out of Harvard College, bringing with him no practical experience, no more than two connections, no prospects, and little else to recommend him but stoic, unflappable pluck. Japan at that time was still in the...
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The Tuscan Year
by Elizabeth Romer Publisher Comments The Tuscan Year recounts the daily life and food preparation of a family living on a farm in Tuscany. Elizabeth Romer chronicles each season’s activities month by month: curing prosciutto and making salame in January, planting and cheesemaking in...
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Round the World in Strange Company
by Nicholas Everitt Synopsis An Englishman (and lawyer?) travels to the United States....
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The Fire Never Dies: One Man's Raucous Romp Down the Road of Food, Passion, and Adventure (Travelers' Tales Footsteps)
by Richard Sterling Publisher Comments In these wide-ranging tales from a life on the road, Vietnam vet and “adventure eater” Richard Sterling takes the reader deep into the heart of cultures, from Asia to Africa to North America. Whether breaking bread with a murderer in the Baja...
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Hesperos
by Matilda Houstoun Synopsis A well-born Englishwoman travels in America, starting in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states and heading south and west from there. American social dynamic primary interest, with interest in race relations. Vol. 2 of...
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