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Loeb Classical Library #093: Description of Greece: Volume I. Books 1-2 (Attica and Corinth)
by Pausanias  Publisher Comments Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the 2nd century CE, about 120-180, who travelled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt and North Africa, but also in Greece and in Italy, including Rome. He left a description of...
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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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Pint-Sized Ireland: In Search of the Perfect Guinness
by Evan Mchugh Publisher Comments One man’s tour of Ireland on tap; a rollicking travelogue in the tradition of Round Ireland with a Fridge and McCarthy’s Bar. “Regret” is the word that best describes Evan McHugh’s first taste of Guinness. For an...
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Murder or Mutiny: An Adventure Story
by Pamela Stephenson Publisher Comments As family legend has it, "Salty" Sam Stephenson, Pamela Stephenson's great, great grandfather, was the owner and captain of the sailing ship Rosalie and in the 1820's, he was abandoned by his crew and never heard from again. A chance encounter with the...
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In the Catskills - Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
by John Burroughs Publisher Comments IN THE CATSKILLS, SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF JOHN BURROUGHS - 1894 - CONTENTS - INTRODUCTION I. TEE SNOW-WALKERS 11. A WHITE DAY AND A RED FOX 111. PHASF O F FARM L IFE N. IN THE HWCE S V. Bm s-N an VI. THE HEART OF THE SOUTHEBN CATSKILIB W. S...
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Magical Sites: Women Travelers in 19th Century Latin America
by Marjorie Agosin Publisher Comments This intriguing group of travel journals reveals the voices of women who traveled in Latin America during the nineteenth century. From French nuns who left their homelands to establish convents in Latin America to well-bred English women who accompanied...
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Going Dutch in Beijing: How to Behave Properly When Far Away from Home
by Mark Mccrum Publisher Comments What to do and what not to do when traveling almost anywhere—an entertainment for the armchair or the intrepid traveler Why shouldn’t you offer to pay for your share of the meal in China? Or use the thumbs-up sign to mean “that...
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On Horseback in Hawaii
by Isabella Lucy Bird Publisher Comments When the intrepid Isabella Bird landed in Hawaii in 1873, she discovered the islanders rode - everywhere - and the clergyman's daughter soon joined them. Having never ridden astride because of the English cultural taboo, Isabella was reluctant to cast...
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A Room with a View
by M. Forster E. M. Forster Synopsis This 1908 novel is about a young woman in the repressed society of Edwardian England. The setting is both Italy and England. Two cousins travel to Italy. Their hotel rooms have no view and they change rooms with two other gentlemen. Sounds harmless, but...
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The Gentle Art of Tramping
by Graham Stephen Graham Publisher Comments THE GENTLE ART OF TRAMPING -ROBERT HOLDEN - 1927. - My secrct's in the zaind and open sUy, There is no longt ary Timt-to losi; The world is young tuith laughtcr-u)c can fy Among thc inprisoned bours as we choos e The rushing minutesp ause; an unusedD ay...
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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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On a Hoof and a Prayer: Exploring Argentina at a Gallop
by Polly Evans Publisher Comments The stampeding true story of one woman’s journey from timorous equestrian novice to wildly whooping cowgirl—a madcap ride through Argentina that will fascinate horse lovers, travelers, and armchair adventurers alike. As a girl, Polly Evans...
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Jungle in the Clouds
by V. Hagen Publisher Comments J17NGL IN THE Victor Wolfgang v. Hagen, F. Z. S. DUELL, SLOAN AND PEARCE NEW YORK 1940, V. 43ST riffbts reserved including tike rifffe to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form first edition To RAYMOND STADELMAN Who First Suggested the...
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Eastward To Tartary : Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus (01 Edition)
by Robert D. Kaplan Publisher Comments Eastward to Tartary," Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. <BR>Kaplan takes...
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Domestic Manners of the Americans
by Fanny Trollope Publisher Comments A characterful personal survey of American society by Anthony Trollope's...
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Mentioned in Dispatches: The Travel Essays of an Expatriate American
by Matthew Mills Stevenson Publisher Comments In these essays, Stevenson, with wit and insight, describes crossing Poland by bicycle, the countries of former Yugoslavia, visiting the battlefields of Okinawa, and Albania's brave new world (?the province of pyramid schemes and stolen cars?). He...
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Travellers in Egypt
by Paul Starkey Publisher Comments The urge of 19th-century travelers to write down and record their experiences of Egypt has provided material of great interest and value. This large and varied collection of accounts will appeal not only to the specialist investigating the European...
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Footprints of Famous Americans in Paris
by John Joseph Conway Publisher Comments FOOTPRINTS OF FAMOUS AMERICANS IN PARIS BY JOHN JOSEPH CONWAY, M. A. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MRS. JOHN LANE AND 32 ILLUSTRATIONS UN ON JOHN LANK TUB HODLET HEAD NEW YORK JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMXO . r. i -m TO MY MFIM, ONC PRIKND COLONEL HENRY WATTERSON...
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Certain Somewhere Writers on the Place
by Robert Wilson Publisher Comments A Certain Somewhere collects thirty essays originally published in Preservation magazine. Writers were asked to describe a place that is significant to them, to decipher what makes it mysterious and meaningful, and to examine the nature of attachment to...
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