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Did Marco Polo Go to China?
by Frances Wood  Publisher Comments We all “know” that Marco Polo went to China, served Ghengis Khan for many years, and returned to Italy with the recipes for pasta and ice cream. But Frances Wood, head of the Chinese Department at the British Library, argues that Marco Polo...
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Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine
by Omer Bartov Publisher Comments In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the...
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Lonely Planet a Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Lonely Planet Journeys)
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Publisher Comments The view was colossal. Below us on every side mountains surged away it seemed forever; we looked down on glaciers and snow-covered peaks that perhaps no one has ever seen before, except from the air.' Feeling restless in the world of London's high...
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The Guynd: A Scottish Journal
by Belinda Rathbone Publisher Comments "Rathbone nails down a little bit of the Scottish soul in all its stark splendor."—New York Times Book Review This memoir offers an American woman's uniquely privileged view into the pastoral Scotland of today. By turns funny, heartwarming, and...
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The Clouded Leopard: A Book of Travels
by Wade Davis Publisher Comments For many years and through many of the world’s most remote regions, Wade Davis has traveled in search of the rare places where cultural diversity survives, untainted by the influences of globalization and modernization. The Clouded Leopard brings...
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Mexican Days: Journeys Into the Heart of Mexico
by Tony 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 as...
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The Oblivion Seekers: And Other Writings
by Isabelle Eberhardt Publisher Comments Stories and journal notes by an extraordinary young woman-adventurer and traveler, Arabic scholar, Sufi mystic and adept of the Djillala cult. Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was an explorer who lived and traveled extensively throughout North Africa. She...
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Delaying the Real World
by Colleen Kinder Publisher Comments Congratulations - you've finished school. But if you're not sure you're ready to settle down into an office environment, Delaying the Real World is chock-full of creative ideas and practical information that will help you craft your own life-changing...
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Music in Every Room: Around the World in a Bad Mood (Traveler)
by John Krich Publisher Comments John Krich’s Music in Every Room depicts the disappointments and corruptions of modern travel. “This quirky, querulous and oddly appealing travelogue” (The Boston Globe) charts Krich’s journey across Asia with his irascible...
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Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
by Bruce Feiler Publisher Comments “ A charming and incisive close-up of the most important part of the Japanese miracle- the making of a Japanese.”...
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The Art of Travel
by Alain de Botton Publisher Comments Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on...
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Race To Dakar
by Charley Boorman Publisher Comments In January 2006, 230 people raced in trucks, cars, and motorbikes from Lisbon to Dakar in the 28th annual Dakar rally, the most challenging race in existence. After his celebrated trip round the world with Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman was keen for...
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
by Simon Winchester
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-310)....
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Red Sky in Mourning: The True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
by Tami Oldha Ashcraft Publisher Comments Now available in paperback, a true-life adventure story with everything: page-turning suspense, remarkable acts of courage, wrenching despair, and a triumphant, life-affirming ending Red Sky in Mourning is the story of Tami Oldham Ashcraft's 41-day...
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Travels with Charley in Search of America (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by John Steinbeck Publisher Comments In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. A picaresque tale, this chronicle of their trip meanders through scenic backroads and speeds along anonymous superhighways, moving from small towns to...
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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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Old Calabria (Marlboro Travel)
by Norman Douglas Synopsis First published in 1915, Old Calabria is one of the most comprehensive and exciting accounts of adventure travel in this century. Captivated by the cheerfully pagan quality of the mezzogiorno, as he understood it, Douglas plunged into Calabria, the...
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Provence
by Lawrence Durrell Synopsis Before Peter Mayle there was Lawrence Durrell, who for more than 30 years made Provence his home. In this, his last book, he distills the affection and understanding of half a lifetime, describing the rich culture and giving breath to the history that...
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Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
by Linda Lawrence Hunt Publisher Comments In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to win the wager and save her...
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Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India (UK Edition)
by William Dalrymple Synopsis A collection of essays which resulted from the author's travels around India. The subjects range from the guerrilla fighters, and vegetarian terrorists that he met, to his encounters with celebrities such as Imran Khan and Benazir Bhutto, and through to...
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