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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
by Bruce Feiler
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One part adventure story, one part archaeological detective work, one part spiritual exploration, Walking the Bible vividly recounts an inspiring personal odyssey -- by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel -- through the greatest stories ever told. Feeling a... ( read more)
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Traveling Light: A Year of Wandering, from California and England to Tuscany and Back Again
by Bill Barich
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Here is a travel book with a difference: ten chronological chapters from a year of wandering, from the Pacific Northwest to Tuscany and back again to the trout-laden streams of California. Join Barich as he travels the globe, from the trout streams of... ( read more)
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When Elephants Fly: One Woman's Journey from Wall Street to Zululand
by Carol Batrus
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After graduating from MIT and working in the health care field, Carol Batrus changed directions and got her MBA at Columbia and went to work for a prestigious New York investment bank. Still unsatisfied, she eventually gave it all up, cut the tether to... ( read more)
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Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
by Michael Palin
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Drawing on the research for his bestselling novel "Hemingway's Chair, " Palin pens this travelogue and insightful literary biography of Hemingway, following in his footsteps from Northern Michigan to Paris, Cuba, and elsewhere. A companion to a three... ( read more)
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The Hotel on the Roof of the World
by Alec Le Sueur
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A hilarious Fawlty Towers style account of five years managing marketing for the Holiday Inn, Lhasa, Tibet. International bestseller by the only foreigner since the days of Heinrich Harrer to spend so long in Tibet.... ( read more)
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Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy
by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
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"The name Parma signifies a small Roman shield, and during fifteen years in Italy with her husband, a Parma native, the author of this richly absorbing book has experienced the city as an outsider and as a captive. Part autobiography and part travelogue..... ( read more)
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Mantras & Misdemeanours: An Accidental Love Story
by Vanessa Walker
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Nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas, McLeod Ganj is a place of quiet beauty and surprising contradiction, where monks wear the latest Nike trainers, the government consults an ancient oracle for important matters, and locals wholeheartedly believe... ( read more)
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Women of the Four Winds
by Elizabeth Fagg Olds
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Annie Smith Peck attempted seven times to climb Peru's highest mountain; Delia Akeley hunted big game in Africa; Marguerite Harrison spied in Russia for America; Louise Arner Boyd led expeditions to perilous East Greenland. Precursors of the modern Jane... ( read more)
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Stalins Nose Across the Face of Europe
by Rory Maclean
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Rory MacLean's uncle and aunt lived in a rambling house filled with animals in Potsdam. The author visited them as he passed through Berlin and when he told his aunt of his intention to travel along the line of the old Iron Curtain, she decided to... ( read more)
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Chasing Che a Freewheeling Adventure
by Patrick Symmes
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The book gives an insight into the moulding of the great Latin American hero and paints a portrait of a continent whose dreams of utopia give birth not only to freedom fighters but also tyrants. But above all it is the story of a journey on the open road,... ( read more)
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The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam (Adventura Books)
by Dana Sachs
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This perceptive and intensely personal account explores adapting to life in acountry so long off-limits to Americans.... ( read more)
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Imperial Footprints: Henry Morton Stanley's African Journeys
by James L Newman
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Reevaluates the extraordinary exploits of one of history??'s most controversial... ( read more)
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The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers
by Eric Hansen
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Eric Hansen is an intrepid traveler with an appreciation for the odd and unusual: he will go anywhere, try anything. Through it all he manages to capture the most revealing conversations and the most transporting moments — all of which he relates in... ( read more)
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Don Quixote's Delusions: Travels in Castilian Spain
by Miranda France
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Miranda France is a travel writer-cum-literary critic with an unsparingly truthful and delightfully absurd voice. "She has a wonderfully quick and vivid eye for convincing detail," said Christopher House in The Spectator. Her new book tells us about... ( read more)
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The Taste of Dreams: An Obsession with Russia and Caviar
by Vanora Bennett
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The Taste of Dreams is both a quest for the romantic Russia of the author’s dreams, and a tale of amazement as she discovers and gets caught up in the new, anarchic Russia emerging from its Soviet constraints. At its heart is the story of caviar... ( read more)
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Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold
by Michael Benanav
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Benanav became one of the few Westerners to ever join the Caravan of White Gold. Following his amused guide, Benanav lived for weeks among the camel drivers, marching 18 hours a day for nearly a thousand miles through sandstorms and searing heat to the... ( read more)
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I & Claudius
by Clare De Vries
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Clare de Vries fulfills her dream of traveling the States when she decides to quit London with her ailing, beloved cat, Claudius, for a final fling (he wouldn't be allowed back into the UK without a six-month quarantine, so they decide to spend his final... ( read more)
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Like a Sponge Thrown Into Water: Francis Lieber's European Travel Journal of 1844-1845
by Francis Lieber
Book News Annotation
German-born scholar Francis Lieber (1798-1872) lived and taught for
two decades in the U.S., and is known as the country's first
political scientist as well as founder of the . In this text, Lieber documents a sabbatical taken in
Europe from 1844-45... ( read more)
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Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East (Marlboro Travel)
by Alexander Kinglake
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In the autumn of 1834, Alexander William Kinglake and a friend, John Savile--recently back from a trip to Russia, Persia, and India--set out for Turkey and the Levant. The two young men went by way of Berlin, Prague, and Vienna to Semlin, where, having... ( read more)
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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (Dover Books on Travel, Adventure)
by Mark Twain
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Fascinating humorous account of 1897 voyage to Hawaii, Australia, India, New Zealand, etc. Ironic, bemused reports on peoples, customs, climate, flora and fauna, politics, much more. 197 illustrations.... ( read more)
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