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The Singing Line: Tracking the Australian Adventures of My Intrepid Victorian Ancestors The Singing Line: Tracking the Australian Adventures of My Intrepid Victorian Ancestors
by Alice Thomson

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A charming true-life romantic adventure about a pair of young British couples--one hundred fifty years apart--braving the exotic rigors of the Australian Outback The Singing Line is a wondrous narrative that combines the historical adventure of Longitude... (read more)

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The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria
by Marlena De Blasi

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Touching and humorous, Marlena de Blasi's account of moving with her husband, Fernando, to Orvieto, the largest city in Italy's Umbria, is a story that will appeal to anyone who delights in travel and shares the fantasy of beginning a new life in a very... (read more)

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Macao (Topographics) Macao (Topographics)
by Philippe Pons

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A former Portuguese-administered enclave on the Chinese coast, Macao became a meeting point of cultures drawn from many parts of the world. A flourishing trade turned it into a rich warehouse, where more goods were traded than anywhere else. But Macao... (read more)

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Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places
by Joseph Barbato

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From Thomas McGuane on Idaho's Snake River to Louise Erdrich on the tallgrass prairies of her native North Dakota to Carl Hiaasen combing the imperiled fishing grounds of the Florida Keys, some of the country's finest writers celebrate the geography that... (read more)

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Manana, Manana: One Mallorcan Summer Manana, Manana: One Mallorcan Summer
by Peter Kerr

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Having battled and succumbed to the manana pace of rural Majorca in his best-selling Snowball Oranges: A Winter's Tale on a Spanish Isle, spring sees Peter Kerr and family relaxing into a supposedly simpler way of life, growing oranges on their little... (read more)

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Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
by Zora Neale Hurston

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Chapter OneThe Rooster's Nest Jamaica, British West Indies, has something else besides its mountains of majesty and its quick, green valleys. Jamaica has its moments when the land, as in St. Mary's, thrusts out its sensuous bosom to the sea. Jamaica has... (read more)

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Columbus Then and Now: A Life Reexamined Columbus Then and Now: A Life Reexamined
by Miles H Davidson

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The author traces the events of Columbus's life in chronological order, drawing on manuscripts, diaries, private correspondence, court and naval records, and shipping logs to provide a historically credible portrait. He uses sources never before... (read more)

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Panther Soup: Travels Through Europe in War and Peace Panther Soup: Travels Through Europe in War and Peace
by John Gimlette

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In 2004, John Gimlette set off across Europe, following in the footsteps of one of the greatest armies ever assembled: the United States forces of 1944–45. His guide (emotionally if not geographically) was Putnam Flint, an eighty-six-year-... (read more)

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Merde Actually Uk Edition Merde Actually Uk Edition
by Stephen Clarke

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A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions: What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French nudist beaches? And is it really polite to sleep with your... (read more)

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A Vagabond in the Caucasus: With Some Notes on His Experiences Among the Russians A Vagabond in the Caucasus: With Some Notes on His Experiences Among the Russians
by Stephen Graham

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Stephen Graham's "A Vagabond in the Caucasus" is a supremely unique take on travel through Russia and the Caucasus. Graham takes to the road in a modest fashion, with a bag and his camera at his side. As he arrives in Moscow not long after the Russian... (read more)

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From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years on Assignment for National Geographic From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years on Assignment for National Geographic
by Thomas Y Canby

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National Geographic has been called a window on the world and a passport to adventure. Each month an estimated forty million people in 190 countries open its pages and are transported to exotic realms that delight the eye and mind. Such widespread renown... (read more)

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The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane and Discovery The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane and Discovery
by Martin Dugard

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The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus's final, and perhaps greatest, journey to the New World. The final voyage of Christopher Columbus was by far his most dangerous, unexpected, exhilarating, and consequential. It was, as Pulitzer Prize... (read more)

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Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
by Rosemary Mahoney

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Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Despite the extreme conditions, her informed curiosity about the world, her... (read more)

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Stranger on a Train Stranger on a Train
by Jenny Diski

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The book about America de Tocqueville might have written had he spent some time in the nation’s smoking sections Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails taking her... (read more)

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Home by Another Way: Notes from the Caribbean Home by Another Way: Notes from the Caribbean
by Robert Benson

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A lovely Caribbean island and its people awaken in author Robert Benson a sense of place and home. The islanders’ warmth and welcome prompt a new understanding of ideas of beauty, community and spiritual belonging. “We live in a world where... (read more)

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Rite of Passage: Tales of Backpacking 'Round Europe (Lonely Planet Journeys) Rite of Passage: Tales of Backpacking 'Round Europe (Lonely Planet Journeys)
by Lisa Johnson

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From the company that kick-started the trend, a funny, touching and mad collection of first-time European backpacking experiences that bring new life to a well-told tale.... (read more)

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A Way to See the World: From Texas to Transylvania with a Maverick Traveler A Way to See the World: From Texas to Transylvania with a Maverick Traveler
by Thomas Swick

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The stories collected here take readers to a hobo convention in Iowa; Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama; the last leg of the Oregon Trail; a tennis tournament in Miami; and one of the final baseball games played at Chicago's old Comiskey Park. Keeping with... (read more)

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Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents
by Marty Essen

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Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents follows Marty and Deb Essen on a three-and-a-half-year-long adventure to some of the wildest places on all seven continents. The American couple began crisscrossing the globe with the simple... (read more)

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Venice: Tales of the City Venice: Tales of the City
by Michelle Lovric

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Elusive and fantastical, Venice is a many-layered confection of history. The writers here have captured what is most important to them in pieces ranging from the city's foundation up to the present time. The voices, entirely diverse, are both... (read more)

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Sandstorms: Days and Nights in Arabia Sandstorms: Days and Nights in Arabia
by Peter Theroux

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In this provocative and incisive memoir, Peter Theroux reveals the Middle East only as a true insider can. Stationed as a journalist in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for most of his seven years in the region, Theroux explodes the romantic images of Arabia, but... (read more)

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