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BABOONS FOR LUNCH And Other Sordid Adventures is a rollicking collection of travel stories by an explorer who has spent two decades visiting the most remote tribal societies on earth. It is adventure travel, storytelling, literature, and humor, from the worlds most remote corners as an intrepid city dweller encounters ancient peoples for the first time.

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This collection of rollicking travel tales is from a young writer "USA Today" has called "Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age." Potts documents his funniest and most hair-raising trips, from getting stranded in the Libyan desert without water to learning the secrets of Tantric sex in a dubious Indian ashram.

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These just might be the strangest stories you've ever read.

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"Told in a series of stylish, original essays, 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go is for the serious Francophile, the woman dreaming of a trip to Paris, and also for those who love crisp stories well-told." --

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Lets you discover the truth behind the glamour of cruise holidays. This book tells you where the crew lives, eats, wars, and parties.

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The unrelenting consequences of 100 years of Balkan wars force three generations of Croatian womenKatarina, Zora, Taniato flee their homelands multiple times. Eventually Tania, a successfully integrated American, journeys back to her fractured homeland with her mother to unravel the secrets of their shared past.

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Paris Lost and Found chronicles author Scott Dominic Carpenters attempt to rebuild his world after losing his wife. In his newest memoir, Carpenter invites his readers to experience Paris through a deeply personal lens filled with loss, laughter, and, finally, love.

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This 12th volume in the popular series presents the best travel writing by women for women that's been done in the past few years. Adventures range from a trip into a new neighborhood to expeditions to the far corners of the globe, always with the inner journey close at hand to give perspective and meaning. The voices are diverse, intimate, and engaging, as are the stories.

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From white-knuckle rafting rides to fishing stories to eco-essays, this collection of true stories by such writers as Barry Lopez and Gabriel Garcia Marquez explores the historical, practical, and spiritual significance of rivers.

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This riveting firsthand account follows Leonard Clark's search for the legendary lost Seven Cities of Cibola--reputedly home to mountains of gold--in a rain forest near the Peruvian Andes. His treacherous journey includes encounters with man-eating jaguars, 40-foot snakes and headhunting natives.

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The diverse tales in this book reveal the nation in all its contradictions: a place of tranquil temples and high-tech toilets, exquisite ancient inns and lurid love hotels. Gathered in this collection are pieces by several notable authors, each offering anecdotes that tell of encounters to be had or avoided.

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Each chapter of this often hilarious and sometimes poignant travelogue recounts an island-hopping, culture-clashing crisis that pits the homesick author against falling coconuts, hospitals that remove wrong organs, insects as big and dangerous as stealth bombers, garbage-bin sex, steel drum bands, and the French.

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Presents the adventures from women who have travelled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. This title enables the readers to: discover the hidden magic of Flamenco in Spain; walk the night and its terrors in Benin; travel the darker side of the Hawaiian fantasy; and, draw a map of Argentinian tango.

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Women have been writing about the world for generations. This title is the seventh in an annual series - "The Best Women's Travel Writing" - that presents adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves.

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