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The Students of Asia
by G. Sherwood Eddy  Publisher Comments THE STUDENTS OF ASIA BY G. SHERWOOD EDDY, M. A. AUTHOR or THK NEW ERA IN ASIA, INDIA AWAKENING, ETC. WITH FOREWORD BY THE HON. SIR ARTHUR LAWLLY G. C. b. L, G. C. I. B., K. C. M. G. LA I, r pi nR OT MADRAS LONDON --5. i THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY...
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French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew
by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments Peter Mayle, francophile phenomenon and author of A Year in Provence, brings another delightful (and delicious) account of the good life, this time exploring the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France. The French celebrate food and drink more...
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The Tramp at Home
by Lee Meriwether Synopsis 1889. Illustrated. Meriwether, a Special Agent of the U.S. Department of Labor, gives an account of his travels in the kingdoms of the Old World and in America studying the condition of workingmen. This volume contains not dry figures, but a few of the...
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Silk Route Adventure: on Horseback in the Heart of Asia (UK Edition)
by Claire Burges Watson Publisher Comments Rebelling against the predictability of banking life, Claire set off on her own on an eighteen-month, 6,000-kilometer horseback adventure across Central Asia. Silk Route Adventure takes you through rolling Mongolian prairie lands, monotonous Kazakh...
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The Rambler in North America
by Charles Latrobe Synopsis An Australian politician travels extensively through the U.S. (with side trips to Canada and Mexico). Discusses the Native American population; American institutions; race relations; American arts and letters; manners; and so forth. vol. 2 of...
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Lyell's Travels in North America
by Charles Lyell Synopsis Mr. Lyell's first journeys through North America. Particular note is taken of geology, but in general Mr. Lyell considers the American character, the institutions of the cities and towns, and the like. His travels span from New England to the Mid-West...
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A Load of Bull: An Englishman's Adventures in Madrid
by Tim Parfitt Publisher Comments In the late 1980s, Tim Parfitt talked his way into a job at Condé Nast in London and, from there, into a six-week stint in Madrid to help launch Spanish Vogue. But six weeks soon turned into nine years, and helping out transformed into running...
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Never Too Old to Climb Walls
by Martha Sue Todd Synopsis Insightful and inspiring is this account of the author's thirteen-year pilgrimage in China- amazing people stories, church celebrations, and cultural events. The author is a modern-day Lottie Moon.- Max A. Eller, Retired Navy Chaplain and...
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Traveler's Literary Companion #0005: A Greece: A Traveler's Literary Companion
by Artemis Leontis Publisher Comments Discover Greece — a country that has inspired centuries of travel — through its best modern writers. Against a superb landscape of islands, rocks, caves, villages, windmills, vineyards, cities, ports, beaches, and ruins, all bathed in the...
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Water Road: an Odyssey By Narrowboat Through England's Waterways (UK Edition)
by Paul Gogarty Publisher Comments The Water Road is the story of a four month circumnavigation by narrowboat of 'The Grand Cross', the name give to the inland waterway linking the Thames to the Humber, Severn and Mersey. Starting in London, Paul Gogarty follows a figure of eight through...
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Men and Things in America
by Andrew Bell Synopsis An Englishman travels to the Mid-Atlantic and make observations on social customs, religious observance (including commentary on the Shakers), race relations, and legal matters....
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Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet (Dodo Press)
by William Henry Knight Synopsis Nineteenth century travel writing in Cashmere and the Himalayas, otherwise called by Anglo-Indians The Hills....
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Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage
by Richard Hakluyt Synopsis If you seek the advice herein of such as make profession in cosmography, Ptolemy, the father of geography, and his eldest children, will answer by their maps with a negative, concluding most of the sea within the land, and making an end of the world...
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Hitchhiking Rides with the Buddha
by Will Ferguson Publisher Comments Take a humorist from the Great White North — one part Bob and Doug McKenzie, the other Bill Bryson — feed him lots of sake, and set him loose hitchhiking his way through polite Japanese society. The result is one of the warmest and funniest...
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Get Sideways: The Short Guide to Navigating the Santa Ynez Valley Wine Country
by Shelly Cone Synopsis Get Sideways is a guidebook for those wanting to follow in the footsteps of the lead characters in Fox Searchlight Pictures' release of Sideways, which follows two men on their search for wine, women and meaning through Santa Ynez Valley....
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A Vagabond in New York,
by Oliver Madox Hueffer Publisher Comments A VAGABOND IN NEW YORK My favorite pitch is the ring of bunctob lounil the toimtnin opposite the General Post Office. EHRWARTEND For to admire and for to see, For to beold this world so wide It never done no good to me, But I cant stop it if I tried...
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Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals : Adventures in Love and Danger (03 Edition)
by Wendy Dale 
Publisher Comments From salsa dancing in a rum-induced haze and struggling to exercise in Colombia (“the guerillas were using the track again today”), to crossing international borders unconventionally and dodging bombs in Lebanon (“the good news was that...
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A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants
by Jaed Coffin Publisher Comments Six years ago at the age of twenty-one, Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, a half-Thai American man, left New England's privileged Middlebury College to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in his mother's native village of Panomsarakram--thus fulfilling a familial...
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Tremenheere's Notes on Public Subjects
by Hugh Tremenheere Synopsis An organized survey on the public works of the United States, discussing education, transportation, water supplies and sewage systems, the election process, and the press....
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The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile and Explorations of the Nile Sources
by Samuel White Baker Synopsis The quantity of ivory in camp was so large that we required 700 porters to carry both tusks and provisions, for the five days' march through uninhabited country. Kamrasi came to see us before we parted; he had provided the requisite porters. We were to...
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