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Searching for the Holy Grail: My Travels in Western Europe
by Brian Walters  Publisher Comments In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, young English elites often spent years traveling around Europe to broaden their horizons in an experience known as the Grand Tour. In his book "Searching for the Holy Grail," Brian Walters combines romance...
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La Belle Saison: Living Off the Land in Rural France
by Patricia Atkinson Publisher Comments In this sequel to her international bestseller, "The Ripening Sun", Patricia Atkinson limns a way of life centered on the seasons, the food, and the wine of the glorious French countryside. When Patricia Atkinson first moved to France, her intention was...
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Cuming's Tour to the Western Country
by Fortescue Cuming Publisher Comments A man travels through the Mid-West and deep South following what seems to be a convoluted route....
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My River Home: A Journey from the Gulf War to the Gulf of Mexico
by Marcus Eriksen Publisher Comments A classic American story of a young man's return from war and his search for peace—while rafting the entire length of the Mississippi River. One August day, veteran Marcus Eriksen set off on a journey down the entire length of the great...
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Travels in Some Parts of North America, 1804-1806
by Robert Sutcliff Publisher Comments An Englishman travels through America, observing American culture and ways, including race relations, matters relating to farming/agriculture; and other matters relating to local life....
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Catching Fireflies (UK Edition)
by Tony Rocca Publisher Comments In the bestselling tradition of Under the Tuscan Sun and Driving Over Lemons. Following an extended bout of hard city life, Tony Rocca and his wife, Mira, decided that some of the really important things in life were missing — good food, plenty of...
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Islanders: Real Life on the Maine Islands
by Virginia L. Thorndike Publisher Comments Virginia Thorndike, Maine's own version of Studs Terkel, traveled to all the Maine coast islands that still maintain a year-round population and persuaded the islanders to talk openly about their lives. The result is a compulsively readable, unvarnished,...
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Cuba: The Land of Miracles: A Journey Through Modern Cuba
by Stephen Smith Publisher Comments Cubans describe their nation as "The Land of Miracles," in ironic tribute to the privations of life in a Communist country. Stephen Smith went to live there, and his search for the real Cuba become, inevitably, a search for Fidel Castro. Before meeting...
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Through the Caucasus to the Volga
by Fridtjof Nansen Publisher Comments FRIDTJOF NANSEN ... TOP-. THROUGH THE CAUCASUS TO THE VOLGA Translated by G. G. WHEELER ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK W W NORTON COMPANY, ING Publishers From a sketch made at Geneva, 1929 PREFACE The journey described in this book was made in the summer of 19255...
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900 Miles on the Butterfield Trail
by A. C. Greene Publisher Comments Short as the life of the Southern Overland Mail turned out to be (1858 to 1861), the saga of the Butterfield Trail remains a high point in the westward movement. A. C. Greene offers a history and guide to retrace that historic and romantic Trail, which...
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In the Country of Jesus
by Matilde Serao Publisher Comments IN THE COUNTRY OF JESUS - CONTENTS - PART I-TOWARDS SYRIA. 1. OS THE SEA . g 11. TIE SILE . . 22 111. C. AIRO . 25 IV. TIIE PYRAJIID . S . 29 V. SORIA SORIA . . 34 PART I-THE VOW FULFILLED. PART 1 11.---J CRUSALEII JERUSALEM F. THE CITY . 67 II. THE...
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Manana, Manana: One Mallorcan Summer (UK Edition)
by Peter Kerr Publisher Comments A follow-up to "Snowball Oranges", telling how Peter Kerr and his family continued their initiation into Spanish life, and detailing various misadventures with and without new acquaintances....
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A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure
by Marlena De Blasi Publisher Comments They had met and married on perilously short acquaintance, she an American chef and food writer, he a Venetian banker. Now they were taking another audacious leap, unstitching their ties with exquisite Venice to live in a roughly renovated stable in...
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Man Bites Log: Unlikely Stories from a City Guy in the Woods
by Max Alexander Publisher Comments The unlikely stories in this book are the musings of a Hollywood/New York player who decided to pack it in and head for the simple life in rural Maine....
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My Malawi Journal
by Bea Buckley Synopsis My Malawi Journal is a travelogue in which the writer narrates her rich experiences of Malawi, a small landlocked country in east central Africa. As a Peace Corps volunteer, the author lives with her adopted village family and gains first-hand knowledge...
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The Angry Island: Hunting the English
by A. A. Gill Publisher Comments Selecting fifteen destinations as likely to yield clues to the character of the English, A.A. Gill travels the kingdom in pursuit of his own notion that beneath the picture-postcard vision of warm beer, village cricket and tolerance lurks a combative...
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An Inland Voyage
by Robert Louis Stevenson Publisher Comments Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - To equip so small a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion...
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American Notes for General Circulation
by Charles Dickens Publisher Comments Charles Dickens entered the world of travel writing with his 1850 work, American Notes for General Circulation. Dickens' travels were part of the trend of European writers, such as Alexis de Tocqueville and Harriet Martineau, who came to America to...
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At Sea in the City: New York from the Water's Edge
by William Kornblum Publisher Comments New York is a city of few boundaries, a city of well-known streets and blocks that ramble on and on, into our literature, dreams, and nightmares. We know the city by the byways that split it, streets like Broadway and Madison and Flatbush and Delancey...
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Eating Up Italy: Voyages on a Vespa
by Matthew Fort Publisher Comments Fort examines Italy through its food and the people who produce it. He discovers a land where regional differences are still alive and uncovers the rich connection between history, tradition, and cuisine. The enticing sum of these parts--the food...
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