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Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure
by Dave Gorman  Publisher Comments Gripped by his obsession with Googlewacking, Gorman traveled the world to meet the unlikeliest cast of eccentrics and trace the sources of these arcane conjunctions. The result is this riotously funny memoir....
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Wild Yosemite: Personal Accounts of Adventure, Discovery, and Nature
by Susan Neider Publisher Comments This beautiful literary collection explores the spectacular natural features of Yosemite through the eyes of some of the most extraordinarily talented writers. In 1851, Lafayette Bunnell chronicled his travels with the Mariposa Battalion, the first non...
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Love & War in the Apennines (Travel Literature)
by Publisher Comments Eric Newby escapes throug a hospital window to become a POW on the run in Italy in 1943. With the Nazis moving in from the north and no certain way back to England, his situation appear grim. But with the help of local farmers and villagers, who risk...
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Up the Amazon and Over the Andes
by Violet Cressy-marcks Synopsis Violet Cressy-Marcks was fearless when faced with physical threats. She had already been trekking from Cape to Cairo and had sleighed across the icy fields to Murmansk before going to the rivers and swamps of South America in 1929. In the Amazon she was...
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Canoe Traveling: Log of a Cruise on the Baltic and Practical Hints on Building and Fitting Canoes
by Warington Baden-powell Synopsis 1871. The author exhorts the virtues of travel by canoe, describes the history of canoes and recounts his own paddling adventures. He also discusses the particulars of the various methods of construction and fittings of canoes....
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Sean & David's Long Drive (Lonely Planet Journeys)
by Sean Condon Publisher Comments Sean Condon is young, urban and a connoisseur of hair wax. He can't drive, and he doesn't really travel well. So when Sean and his friend David set out to explore Australia in a duck-egg blue 1966 Ford Falcon, the result is a decidedly offbeat look at...
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Portrait of the Gulf Stream: In Praise of Currents (Armchair Traveler)
by Erik Orsenna Publisher Comments ???I am not a scientist, ??? confesses ??rik Orsenna, ???I am a rover. A rover with a special weakness for the sort of trivial questions that leave not only parents but even experts fumbling around for an answer: Why is the night dark? Why does water wet?...
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Cities of Southern Italy and Sicily
by Augustus J. C. Hare Publisher Comments CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. BETWEEN ROME AND NAPLES l6 CHAPTER III. NAPLES NAPOLI ... 65 CHAPTER IV. EXCURSIONS WEST OF NAPLES. . . . . . .152 CHAPTER V. EXCURSIONS EAST OF NAPLES IQ2 CHAPTER VI. NOLA, AVELLINO, AND BENEVENTUM 247 CHAPTER VII. IN...
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Borderline
by William Dicey Publisher Comments Readers are taken on a fascinating journey down the Orange River in South Africa in this travelogue that interweaves historical detail from the places the author visits with the history of South Africa as a whole. Augmented with the author's own...
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A Journey in Time - Peruvian Pageant
by Blair Niles Publisher Comments A JOURNEY IN TIME PERUVIAN KAMT By BLAIR HILES Author of Merit Paluiu, Day of Immense Suit, etc, Pbotqgnpbic fllustratfoitf ty Rokrt Niks, Jr, PUBLISHERS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY YORK Thr ItHlrK Affectionately dedicated to ROMA LVMAH NILES CONTENTS...
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The Last Grain Race (Travel Literature)
by Publisher Comments In 1938, and eighteen year-old boy signed on for the round trip from Europe to Australia in the last commercial sailing fleet to make that formidable journey. The four-masted barque Moshulu ended up as a dockside restaurant in Philadelphia; the young...
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Hold the Enlightenment: More Travel, Less Bliss
by Tim Cahill Publisher Comments In Hold the Enlightenment, America's favorite and funniest adventure writer returns with his most entertaining collection of essays yet, as he travels the globe and faces down challenges that are animal, topographical-- and human. Hold the Enlightenment...
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Between Whiles
by Helen Hunt Jackson Publisher Comments CONTENTS. PAGE THE INN OF THE GOLDEN PEAR 7 THE MYSTERY OF WILHELM RUTTER . . . 116 LITTLE BEL S SUPPLEMENT 177 THE CAPTAIN OF THE quotHEATHER BELLquot . 220 DANDY STEVE 269 THE PRINCE S LITTLE SWEETHEART.... 292 M15814 BETWEEN WHILES. THE INN OF THE...
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Our India
by Minoo Masani Publisher Comments OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AMEN HOUSE, LONDON, B. G. 4 EDINBURGH GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE CAPETOWN BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS HUMPHREY MUJPORD PUBLISHER TO THE 1 UNIVERSITY First published, October 1940 PRINTED IN TIMES NEW ROMAN TYPE BY P. KNIGHT AT...
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Trust (04 Edition)
by Alphonso Lingis Synopsis Trust is inherent in travel. We ask a stranger for directions, or for a ride. We live among people whose language, culture, and motivations we don't understand. Trust binds us to another with an intoxicating energy; it is brave, giddy, joyous, and...
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Mandalay and Other Cities of the Past in Burma
by V. C. Scott Oconner Synopsis Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the...
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In Pastures New
by George Ade Publisher Comments IN PASTURES NEW - 1895 - CONTENTS -- In London CHAPTER 1. GETTINGA CQUAINTE W D I TH THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE a a . . a a a a a 11. A LJFE O N THE OCEA W N AVE, W ITH MODERN VARIATIONS a a r a 111. WITH MR. PEASLE I Y N DARKEST L ONDON IV. How IT FEEL T S O...
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Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and Journey to the Ends of the Earth
by Dan Glick Publisher Comments A suddenly single father — and nationally known environmental reporter — takes his children on a world tour of some of the world's rare and endangered life forms while reckoning with loss, change, and the challenges of parenting in this frank...
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Our Hawaii
by Charmian Kittredge London Publisher Comments OUR HAWAII BY CHARMIAN KITTREDGE LONDON MRS. JACK LONDON AUTHOR OF THE LOG OF THE SNABK PATTEN COMPANY, LTD. HONOLULU, HAWAII COPYRIGHT, BY CHARMIAN K. LONDON. Set up and etectrotyped. Published December, NortaooB ht s J. 8. Gushing C o. - B. irwirk it...
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Mi Romeria
by Emilia Pardo Bazan Publisher Comments Este libro contiene las descripciones, escritas en el momento y lugar en que sucedieron, de pasajes claves de la peregrinacion de la autora desde Madrid a la Ciudad Eterna, Roma, con motivo del Jubileo sacerdotal del Papa Leon XIII en diciembre de 1887...
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