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Searching for Paradise: A Grand Tour of the World's Unspoiled Islands
by Thurston Clarke  Publisher Comments “DELIGHTFUL . . . INQUISITIVE AND INTELLIGENT, THIS BOOK WILL TAKE YOU FAR AND OPEN YOUR EYES.” –The Seattle Times In a penetrating, brilliantly written book that weaves sociology, history, politics, personality, and ancient and popular...
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Duncan's Travels
by John Duncan Publisher Comments A Scottish traveler describes his journey, making observations on the government, slavery, social mores, manners, and so forth. The journey is limited, only touching briefly into states besides New York....
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Persia Revisited
by Thomas Edward Gordon Synopsis An account of a visit to Tehran in 1896 revealing 'evidence of progress and improvement'...
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Among the Men Who Have Written
by E. F. Harkins Publisher Comments Among the Men Who Have Written FAMOUS BOOKS SECOND SERIES by Illustrated BOSTON MDCCCCII1 Copyright, 1903, L. C. Page f Company Incorporate I All riyhtx Published Septemher, Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simondc to. Co. Boston, Mars., U. S. A...
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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
by Jan Morris Publisher Comments Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as a touchstone for her interests...
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The Accessible Guide to Florence
by Cornelia Danielson Publisher Comments One of the world's great cities, Florence is visited by over six million tourists each year, yet, despite some recent improvements in accessibility, the Cradle of the Renaissance still presents significant barriers. Imagine lunch in an outdoor caf...
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Ripening Sun: One Woman and the Creation of a Vineyard
by Patricia Atkinson Publisher Comments In 1990, Patricia Atkinson and her husband moved to the Dordogne, planning to earn their living as financial consultants, while an employee tended their small vineyard. Then disaster struck--the stock-market crashed and a debilitating illness sent her...
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Im Sattel Durch Die F]rstenhvfe Indiens
by Otto Ehlers Publisher Comments Im Juni 1890 liegt der junge deutsche Abenteurer Otto E. Ehlers mit schwerem Gallenfieber im Bett. Sein Arzt lt ihm die Wahl: Entweder nach Deutschland zurckzukehren, oder nach Kaschmir zu reisen. Man kann nur hoffen, dass der Arzt nie dieses Buch in die...
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Sowerby's Road: Adventures of a Driven Mind
by Garry Sowerby Publisher Comments Drive the Road...Join Sowerby through 25 years of motoring mania. Partying all night with a Giant and a Brain. Tying his delirious partner to his seat on a flight over the Iran-Iraq war. Trying to out-drive the clock on a race around the world. Regularly...
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Dreiser's Russian Diary (University of Pennsylvania Dreiser Edition)
by Thomas P. Riggio Publisher Comments Theodore Dreiser's Russian Diary is an extended record of the American writer's travels throughout the Soviet Union in 1927-28. Dreiser was initially invited to Moscow for a week-long observance of the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. He...
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Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris
by Michael Allin 
Publisher Comments In October 1826, a ship arrived at Marseille carrying the first giraffe ever seen in France. A royal offering from Muhammad Ali, Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, to King Charles X, she had already traveled 2,000 miles down the Nile to Alexandria, from where she...
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Words in a French Life : Lessons in Love and Language From the South of France (06 Edition)
by Kristin Espinasse Publisher Comments Based on the popular blog (French-word-a-day.com) and newsletter comes a heart-winning collection from an American woman raising two "very" French children with her French husband in Provence, and carrying on a lifelong love affair with the language....
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A New Voyage Round the World
by William Dampier Publisher Comments William Dampier was a sea captain, scientific observer, plantation manager--and a pirate. This account of his journey around the world provides an early glimpse into the life of the buccaneer in the late 17th century....
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A Scamper Through America
by T. Hudson Publisher Comments An Englishman travels with speed through the U.S., observing much of New England, but also the West Coast as it was just being settled....
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Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia
by Mark Jenkins Publisher Comments With this brilliant account of his journey—at once edge-of-your-seat exciting and literary—Mark Jenkins established himself as the master of adventure/travel writing. In 1989 he and six companions—two Americans...
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Finch's Travels in the United States
by John Finch Publisher Comments A travelogue in which the author's primary concerns are the scientific institutions and geological aspects of the U.S....
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Chasing the Red, White, and Blue
by David Cohen
Publisher Comments Using "Democracy in America "as his model, acclaimed British and South African journalist David Cohen retraces Alexis de Tocqueville's journey around the country to observe how the balance between the rich and the poor has changed over the past 150 years....
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The Indochina Chronicles: Travels in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam
by Phil Karber Synopsis From old Viet Cong guerrillas to the new tycoons of Saigon, from hookers and highwaymen to bartenders and ambassadors, Phil Karber has met them all--and had a drink with most. Nobody knows the red states of Indochina better than Phil Karber. This book is...
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Nuttall's Journal
by Thomas Nuttall Publisher Comments Thomas Nuttall was a self-educated botanist who came to the United States from Liverpool in 1808. This 1821 work is the only surviving complete journal of one of his many American scientific explorations. Covering his travels in Arkansas and what is now...
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Letters from the South and West
by Henry Knight Publisher Comments Published under the pseudonym Arthur Singleton, esq., Knight describes in letters to his brother travels through the Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions....
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