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Voyage By Dhow (UK Edition)
by Norman Lewis  Synopsis This collection of essays is the result of a lifetime - over 60 years - spent travelling. From the Russian Steppes, via the Yemen, to Naples, Paraguay and beyond, Norman Lewis has yet to find a place not worth visiting....
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Misadventure in the Middle East: Travels as Tramp, Artist & Spy
by Henry Hemming Publisher Comments An extraordinary and highly original account of one man's amazing journey. A young British artist spends a year traveling thoughout the Middle East, from the drug-fuelled ski slopes of Iran via secret beaches, palaces, police cells, nightclubs, torture...
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As Told at the Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure (Explorers Club Classics)
by George Plimpton Publisher Comments Celebrating its centennial anniversary in 2004, today The Explorers Club is an international society dedicated to the advancement of field research, scientific exploration and the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore. This volume...
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The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal
by Vicki Croke Publisher Comments Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret...
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The Best American Travel Writing 2002 (Best American Travel Writing)
by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments 'The Best American Travel Writing 2002 is edited by Frances Mayes, the author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany and the master of "running away to live in the place of one's dreams" (Los Angeles Times). Giving new life to armchair...
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Burnaby's Travels
by Andrew Burnaby Synopsis The English clergyman examines the middle section of America as it is being developed, paying especial attention to the flora and fauna and Native Americans in addition to the expected commentary on American religious observance....
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University of Illinois
by Allan Nevins Publisher Comments ILLW BY ALLAN NEVINS 1917 PREFACE THE fact that this volume constitutes the first history of the University of Illinois ever written has largely determined its character and scope. It seemed neces sary to the writer to throw a much greater emphasis upon...
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African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan
by Edward Hoagland Publisher Comments Open this book and enter into a richly detailed landscape and an exotic society. Follow Hoagland's travels, from equatorial mountain forests to the Sahara desert; from small Sudanese towns in the south and west to short stays in the capital, Khartoum...
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Pagan Holiday: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists
by Tony Perrottet Synopsis This inspired travel narrative, tracing a Mediterranean itinerary modeled on that of the world's first tourists, is also a witty discussion of ancient Roman history and culture, as contrasted to our own....
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Inca Kola: a Traveller's Tale of Peru (UK Edition)
by Matthew Parris Synopsis An account of Parris's fourth trip to Peru, on a bizarre holiday which takes him among riots, peasants, prostitutes and bandits. He and his three companions seem to head into trouble, and he describes their adventures....
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Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure
by Elaine Lee Publisher Comments Finally, a travel book for the sisters! A rich collection of fifty-two stories covering the globe. Includes work by Maya Angelou, Evelyn C. White, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Gwendolyn Brooks, Colleen J. McElroy, and Jill Nelson. Also, sister-to-sister...
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Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador (Vintage Departures)
by John Gimlette Publisher Comments Newfoundland is one of the most intriguing places in North America, a land of breathtaking but cruel beauty, populated by some of the saltiest, oddest characters you’ll ever find. In Theatre of Fish, John Gimlette vividly describes the dense...
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Our Missions in India 1834-1824
by E. M. Wherry Publisher Comments Our Missions in India 18341924 By Rev. E. M. Wherry, M. A., D. D. Author of the Comprehensive Commentary on the Quran Islam in India and the Far East Islam the Religion of the Turk The Sinless Prophet of Islam For Forty-Six Years a Missionary of the...
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Destination Nowhere
by Roger Green Publisher Comments Very few people have not interrupted a motorway journey to use the amenities of a service station. The author of this work, however, is not just passing through. His mission is to create a contemporary record in diary form of everyday life at a motorway...
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A Pictorial Guide To the Lakeland Fells
by A. Wainwright Synopsis A. Wainwright's legendary Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells have been bestsellers for the past 50 years. Now, for the first time, the Wainwright Estate has approved a sensitive program of revision and updating. Each volume of the Pic- torial Guides...
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Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole (Dodo Pre
by Sir W. E. Parry Publisher Comments Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855) was an English Rear- Admiral and Arctic explorer. Parry was born in Bath. He was educated at King Edward's School, Bath. At the age of thirteen he joined the flag-ship of Admiral Cornwallis in the Channel fleet as a...
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The Art of Rough Travel: From the Peculiar to the Practical Advice from a 19th Century Explorer
by Francis Galton Publisher Comments "Carrion is not noxious to starving men." This is one of the countless potentially useful bits of information contained within Sir Francis Galton's fascinating but unwieldy (366 pages) The Art of Travel. First published in 1855, the book became a bible...
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Intercities (Topographics)
by Stefan Hertmans Publisher Comments "Forgetting is a strange power, because it makes memory possible. That is why all architecture from the past is something like the music of space, which surrounds us and sends us images that we have constantly to interpret."In Intercities, Stefan...
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Cloud Forest (UK Edition)
by Peter Matthiessen Synopsis Peter Matthiessen recounts the story of a South American journey that took him from the Sargasso Sea to the jungles of Amazonia, from the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in the Andes to the bleak rocks of Tierra del Fuego and the winds and vast skies of...
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Explorers House: National Geographic and the World It Made
by Robert M Poole Publisher Comments For over one hundred years, National Geographic has brought the world and all thats in it to millions of people worldwide. Through its unparalleled research, exploration, publications, and photography, the organization and its magazine have, in many ways,...
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