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Fire Escape Is Locked for Your Safety
by Molly Baier
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Rich in local color, this is a journey through the former Soviet Union. It is also a journey through the hearts and minds of ordinary Russians, Ukrainians, and their neighbors, as they scratch out a meager living, help one another through difficulties... ( read more)
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Backtracking: By Foot, Canoe, and Subaru Along the Lewis and Clark Trail
by Benjamin Long
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With a spirit of exploration long unseen, Ben Long and his wife, Karen Nichols, quit their jobs, sold their house, and set out to follow in the footsteps of Meriweather Lewis and William Clark. Their trek reveals what wilderness remains in the Rocky... ( read more)
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A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean
by Melinda Blanchard
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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... ( read more)
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Postcards from France
by Megan Mcneill Libby
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In this charming, heartwarming, and sage real-life account of her yearlong adventure, a high school junior records her experiences as an exchange student in France. Reading "Postcards from France" is like getting a letter from a friend. Told through the... ( read more)
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The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold
by Gretel Ehrlich
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This book was written out of Gretel Ehrlich’s love for winter–for remote and cold places, for the ways winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul–and also out of the fear that our “democracy of... ( read more)
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I Have Seen the World Begin
by Carsten Jensen
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Fusing social commentary and history with vibrant descriptions of people and places, Jensen brilliantly evokes the sights, sounds, and smells of these venerable civilizations. 3 maps.... ( read more)
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The Best American Travel Writing (Best American Travel Writing)
by Frances Mayes
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The Best American Travel Writing 2002 is edited by Frances Mayes, the author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany and the master of "running away to live in the place of one's dreams" (Los Angeles Times). Giving new life to armchair travel for 2002... ( read more)
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Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood
by Orville Schell
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In 1953, a young Orville Schell happened upon a copy of Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrer's classic account of living in Tibet during the second world war. He was hooked: "Harrer's book offered a fabulous escapist tale of an isolated, ancient... ( read more)
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Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica (Modern Library)
by Sara Wheeler
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It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their... ( read more)
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In the Merde for Love
by Stephen Clarke
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The sequel to the international bestseller A Year in the Merde continues the hilarious saga of Paul West’s misadventures in l’amour (this title was originally published as Merde, Actually in the UK). The latest episode in Stephen Clarke’... ( read more)
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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
by Geoff Dyer
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One of Dave's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here.... ( read more)
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Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country
by Joe Queenan
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One semitropical Fourth of July, Joe Queenan's English wife suggested that the family might like a chicken vindaloo in lieu of the customary barbecue. It was this pitiless act of gastronomic cultural oppression, coupled with dread of the fearsome... ( read more)
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The Atlas of North American Exploration: From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole
by William Goetzmann
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Routes of explores Ponce de Leon, Henry Hudson, Hernando de Soto, Lewis and Clark, and dozens more are charted, showing the sites of encounters with native inhabitants or rival colonial powers, shipwrecks and uprisings, settlements and trading posts, and... ( read more)
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Tibetan Rescue: The Extraordinary Quest to Save the Sacred Art Treasures of Tibet
by Pamela Logan
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Logan, who founded the nonprofit Kham Aid Foundation to support
conservation of the murals of Tibet's Pewar Monastery, provides a
firsthand look at Tibetan culture and the fate of their Buddhist
monasteries under Chinese Communist rule. Maps, color... ( read more)
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Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman's Travel Odyssey (Travelers' Tales Footsteps)
by Laurie Gough
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This feisty, sexy, energetic tale of a young woman's solo journey through Fiji, Bali, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Morocco offers the best of memoir and travel narrative combined. Gough chronicles her encounters with both humor and wisdom as she covers the... ( read more)
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Death and the Sun: A Matador's Season in the Heart of Spain
by Edward Lewine
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In the tradition of Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, Edward Lewine presents an inspired account of bullfighting culture in modern-day Spain. Lewine brilliantly captures the romance and machismo associated with the art of bullfighting, as well as the... ( read more)
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There and Back Again: In the Footsteps of J.R.R. Tolkien
by Mathew Lyons
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Like many adolescents, Mathew Lyons was obsessed by J.R.R. Tolkien's novels. But as an adult, he lost interest. Until, that is, he became a parent and began to explore Tolkien's world all over again. Only this time he discovered something different from... ( read more)
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Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark (Modern Library)
by Jane F Geniesse
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Freya Stark — traveler, explorer, Arabist, and woman of letters — began the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize her — and would catapult her into public life for the next sixty years — in 1927. And with the publication of... ( read more)
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California Dreaming: A Smooth-Running, Low Mileage, Best-Priced American Adventure
by Lawrence Donegan
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Lured by a six-figure salary in Silicon Valley and fond memories of his low-rent North American rock 'n' roll tour, U.K. journalist, bass player, and adventure seeker Lawrence Donegan lands in California to pursue the American dream. Somewhere along the... ( read more)
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Last Trout in Venice: How I Drank the Water in the Grand Canal and Lived to Do Other Foolish Things Around the World (Travelers' Tales Footsteps)
by Doug Lansky
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Describing foolish activities in atypical places is Lansky's goal, as he rents a car in the worst driving city in the world, dons a rubber jumpsuit to party at Berlin's Kit Kat Klub and discovers the world's worst wedgie during sumo wrestling lessons in... ( read more)
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