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Voyage en Am
by Chateaubriand  Publisher Comments Je n'ai rien à dire de particulier sur le Voyage en Amérique qu'on va lire ; le récit en est tiré, comme le sujet des Natchez, du manuscrit original des Natchez mêmes : ce Voyage porte en soi son commentaire et son histoire. Mes différents...
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Perf Anly Comm Networks Sys
by Piet Van Mieghem Publisher Comments This rigorous and self-contained book describes mathematical and, in particular, stochastic methods to assess the performance of networked systems. It consists of three parts. The first part is a review on probability theory. Part two covers the...
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The Albert N'Yanza
by Samuel W. Baker Publisher Comments 'In the history of the Nile there was a void: its Sources were a mystery. The Ancients devoted much attention to this problem; but in vain. The Emperor Nero sent an expedition under the command of two centurions, as described by Seneca. Even Roman energy...
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Cruise of the Snark, The
by Jack London Publisher Comments Inspired by Slocum's 'Sailing Around the World Alone,' London built a 45' schooner called the Snark, with the intent of sailing the world with his wife and crew. This book is always insightful, and often hilarious....
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Coming into the Country
by John McPhee Publisher Comments This is the story of Alaska and the Alaskans. Written with a vividness and clarity which shifts scenes frequently, and yet manages to tie the work into a rewarding whole, McPhee segues from the wilderness to life in urban Alaska to the remote bush...
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Holy Cow
by Sarah MacDonald Publisher Comments In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India—and for love—she...
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Voyage en Italie - Voyage au Mont-Blanc
by Chateaubriand Publisher Comments (M. Joubert, frre an de l'avocat gnral la cour de cassation, homme d'un esprit rare, d'une me suprieure et bienveillante, d'un commerce sr et charmant, d'un talent qui lui aurait donn une rputation mrite, s'il n'avait voulu cacher sa vie; homme ravi trop...
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Journal Of An Overland Expedition In Australia
by Ludwig Leichhardt Publisher Comments I observed on the ridges an Acacia, a small tree, from thirty to forty feet high, and from six to nine inches in diameter, and easily distinguished by its peculiar rough frizzled bark, similar to that of the Casuarina found at the ranges of the Robinson....
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Saunterings
by Charles Dudley Warner Publisher Comments I wonder if it is the Channel? Almost everything is laid to the Channel: it has no friends. The sailors call it the nastiest bit of water in the world. All travelers anathematize it. I have now crossed it three times in different places, by long routes...
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Coming into the Country
by John McPhee Publisher Comments An unforgettable account of Alaska and...
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A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean
by Melinda Blanchard Publisher Comments This is the true story of a trip to the beach that never ends. It's about a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise -- and discover that even paradise has its pitfalls. It's a story filled with...
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Equinoctial Regions of America V1
by Alexander Von Humboldt Publisher Comments Subtitled: Humboldt's Personal Narrative Volume 1. Personal Narrative Of Travels To The Equinoctial Regions Of America During The Years 1799-1804....
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The Roof Of France
by Matilda Betham-Edwards Publisher Comments Here and there are patches of potatoes, buckwheat and rye, the yellow and green breaking the gray surface of the rocky waste; not a habitation, not a living creature, is in sight. Before us and around stretch desert upon desert of bare limestone, the...
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Salon.Com's Wanderlust: Real-Life Tales of Adventures and Romance
by Don George Publisher Comments Simon Winchester in Romania Isabel Allende in the Amazon Pico Iyer in Bali Bill Barich in Italy Sallie Tisdale in Japan Carlos Fuentes in Zurich Po Bronson in the Caribbean and thirty-four more scintillating and sizzling tales of serendipity and...
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The Stops Along the Way
by Rachel Franco Publisher Comments How many times have you arrived in a foreign country, faced with the unknown, backpack in tow, and thought, "What the heck am I doing here?" Author Rachel Franco asked herself that very question when she left her Canadian prairie hometown and arrived in...
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In Troubador Land
by S. Baring-Gould Publisher Comments From Trets I went on by train to Gardanne, watching the evening lights die upon the silver-grey precipices of Mont Victoire. At Gardanne I had to change, and kick my heels for two hours. Gardanne is a picturesque little town, built on a hill round a...
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A Visit To The Monastery Of La Trappe In 1817
by W. D. Fellowes Publisher Comments A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 With Notes Taken During a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the Environs of Paris....
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The Land Of Midian Vol 1
by Richard Burton Publisher Comments Unwilling, however, to risk the safety of the gunboat, where nothing was to be expected beyond what we had seen at El-'Akabah, I resolved, after waiting half an hour, not to land. The Sambuk received a cargo of quarrymen and sacks, in order to ship at...
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Getting Stoned with Savages
by J. Maarten Troost Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals, the laugh-out-loud true story of his years on the islands of Vanuatu and Fiji, among cannibals, volcanoes . . . and the world’s best narcotics. With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten...
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The Backbone of the World
by Clifford Frank Publisher Comments In recent years, Los Angeles Times writer and editor Frank Clifford has journeyed along the Continental Divide, the hemispheric watershed that spans North America from the alkali badlands of southernmost New Mexico to the roof of the Rockies in Montana...
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