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Walkabout Year: Twelve Months in Australia
by Samuel F. Pickering  Book News Annotation Pickering (English, U. of Connecticut), on his family's year in Western Australia. A good travel yarn. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Beyond Fear: A Harrowing Journey Across New Guinea Through Rivers, Swamps, Jungle, and the Most Remote Mountains in the World
by Joel P Kramer Publisher Comments The inspiring story of two men crossing the world's most remote terrain....
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America by River and Rail
by William Ferguson Publisher Comments Originally published in 1856, William Ferguson's America by River and Rail, or Notes by the Way on the New World and its People is a diary of his impressions of his travels along the East Coast, out to the states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan,...
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Courting the Diamond Sow: A Whitewater Expedition on Tibet's Forbidden River
by Wickliffe Walker Publisher Comments It has been called the Everest of the whitewater world. However, unlike Everest, the Tsangpo River in Tibet has yet to be explored and charted. No other place in the world possesses more drama than the magnificent series of gorges that house the Tsangpo....
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Red Moon and High Summer (UK Edition)
by Herbert J. Kaufmann Publisher Comments This is the story of the young bard Mid-e-Mid. famed throughout the vast grazing lands of his Tuareg tribe for his mellifluous voice and quick-witted lyrics. A coming-of-age novel, it follows Mid-e-Mid in his bid to find his own route to manhood in true...
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A Traveller on Horseback in Eastern Turkey and Iran
by Christina Dodwell Publisher Comments In the late 1980s, famous British explorer Christina Dodwell moves from a Greek Easter into a chilly Eastern Turkish spring, not improved for the cold and hungry traveller by the fairly strict observance of Ramadan. Retreating east, she visits the buried...
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Bimini
by David T Warner Publisher Comments David Warner first arrived on Bimini in his youth. Captivated by the island's quirky natives and their relaxed culture, Warner has been returning frequently ever since. Rather than write a travel guide, in his new book Warner recreates the excitement and...
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Love in Provence: Romantic Adventures in the South of France
by Yvone Lenard Publisher Comments Love is different in Provence, as Yvone Lenard discovers when she chaperones 50 red-blooded American college students for a year in Aix-en-Provence. As Resident Director Lenard has her hands full, but her sense of humor prevails and she forms...
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Motorcycling Stories
by Piet Boonstra Publisher Comments This book includes stories of seven trips to Alaska. two into mexico, Two long tours inside the USA and one each to newfoundland and Labrador. He traveled alone on most trips. Abridge versions of several stories in this book appeared in the American...
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Greenwich: Its History, Antiquities, Improvements, and Public Buildings
by Henry S. Richardson Synopsis Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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Looking for Chengdu: A Woman's Adventures in China (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)
by Hill Gates Synopsis For decades, anthropologist Hill Gates had waited for an opportunity to get to know the citizens of China as she had done in Taiwan -- face to face, over an extended period of time. At last in the late 1980s she set out on an excursion to Sichuan...
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Algren at Sea: Notes from a Sea Diary & Algren at Sea-The Travel Writings
by Nelson Algren Publisher Comments This collection of Nelson Algren's travel writings documents his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. Notes from a Sea Diaryoffers one of the most remarkable...
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Through South America's Southland
by Reverend J. A. Zahm Publisher Comments tmrmrwa THK THROUGH SOUTH AMERICAS SOUTHLAND WITtt AN AMOUNT OF THE ROOSEVELT MIRNTWW KXPKMTWN TO MUTtt AMERICA tV THE HEVKRKND, T. A. ZAITM, O. S. C., PH. D. H, Jf, M03CANS or w ti WWI H ANn IM WN TB MAODALKNA, ALOICU AHDWl A WO WH TttJI AMA K M t 4UMHT...
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Magellan's Voyage (69 Edition)
by Antonio Pigafetta Publisher Comments Remarkable firsthand account by one of the few survivors of Magellan's epochal journey (1519-1522). Remarkably detailed record of new lands, flora and fauna, shipboard life, etc. Introduction. 28 halftones. Map....
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Unvisited Places of Old Europe
by Robert Shackleton Publisher Comments UN VISITED PLACES OF OLD EUROPE S, ROBERT SHACKLETON Author of The Quest of the Colonial, Etc. Illustrations by WALTER HALE AND RALPH L. BOYER -- V, . r- r-js C A P N E Y NN PH P I U L B A L D I E S L H P I H N I G A 1914 Contents PAGE I. THE BEGINNING...
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Serpent in Paradise
by Dea Birkett Publisher Comments Lost in the surf of the South Pacific lies a speck of volcanic rock. Home to thirty-eight islanders — descendants of the Bounty mutineers — Pitcairn has no cars, no crime, no doctor, and no regular contact with the outside world. For two...
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Mission to Moscow
by Joseph E. Davies Publisher Comments MISSION TO MOSG OW BT JOSEPH E. DAVIES UNITED ST X ES AMBASSADOR TO THE SOVIET UNION FROM 1936 TO 1938 A record of confidential dispatches to the State Department, official and personal correspondence, current diary and journal entries, including notes...
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Dark Star Safari: Overland From Cairo To Cape Town (UK Edition)
by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments An account of Paul Theroux's ultimate "safari", from Cairo to Capetown. 35,000 copies sold in hardback. Undoubtedly one of the biggest travel books of the year. A journey of discovery and rediscovery which sets Theroux's experience of the dark continent...
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A Visit to the United States in 1841
by Joseph Sturge Publisher Comments For obvious reasons, the abolition of slavery in the United States is the most prominent topic in my narrative; but I have freely interspersed observations on other subjects of interest and importance, as they came under consideration.... -from the...
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Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
by Rita Golden Gelman Publisher Comments There's more than one way to do life. In a small cemetery deep in the jungle of Borneo, two men climb into a freshly dug hole and retrieve the bones of a long-dead grandmother. An American guest joins the procession from the cemetery to the...
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