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Here, Lewis brilliantly dissects the Sicilian Mafia, past and present, combining history, sociology, suspense, horror, and superb travel writing. Among others, meets an eighty-year old priest who led his monks on escapades of murder and extortion.

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Nicolas Bouvier was an image merchant and photographer as well as a writer. This book is accompanied by several of his images of Japan. It is a distillation of his lifelong quest for Japan and his travels.

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Now back in print, the atmospheric 1957 novel that explores the mezzogiorno, the noonday culture of southern Italy. The Law is an experience I will not easily forget. -V.S. Naipaul

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Brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world.

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Crackles with poker-faced wit and stylistic brilliance The light lash of Lewis's humour and his sniffer-dog's nose for the oddball remain undiminished. - The Guardian

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Martha was the youngest of sixteen, handpicked reporters who filed accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelt's White House.

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If you want to know about writing, about how to make others share the horror and intensity of an experience, try the first piece in this collection, Justice at Night

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Describes the author's various journeys by air, by bicycle and on foot into the remote and mountainous Lantang region on the border of Tibet.

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The author has travelled up the Indus to Lahore and to the Khanates of Afghanistan and Central Asia in the 1830s, spying on behalf of the British Government in what was to become known as the Great Game. This title provides an account his travels.

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The author buys an elephant named Tara and rides her over six hundred miles across India to the Sonepur Mela, the world's oldest elephant market. From Bhim, a drink-racked mahout, Shand learned to ride and care for her. From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned Indian ways. And with Tara, his new companion, he fell in love.

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Traveler Dervla Murphy recalls her unconventional first thirty years of life, including her bicycle trek from Dunkirk to India.

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The autobiography of the Duke of Pirajno, who worked for eighteen years as a doctor in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somaliland.

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Bombed and cut-off from normal contact with rest of the world, life in Gaza is beset with structural, medical and mental health problems, yet it is also bursting with political engagement and underwritten by an intense enjoyment of family life. In this title, the author develops an acute eye for the way in which isolation has shaped this society.

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For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, and under threat of 'disappearance' he helped families of the missing, attended guerilla conference, and took tea with torturers.

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Doreen Ingrams and her husband were the first Europeans ever to live in the Hadhramaut, an extraordinary, isolated region of southern Arabia. Married to an Arabic-speaking British official, she arrived by boat, and during their ten-year residency travelled throughout the region by camel and donkey. This book tells her story.

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Selected travel writing from Norman Lewis, which makes you laugh, but also brings home the world's hurt in glorious understatement.

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Set primarily on a plantation called Arcadia, overlooking the sea and a distant Cuba from on high, the author alternates between the acceptable pursuits of a Victorian gentlewoman - sewing, social visits, riding - and trying to find a more meaningful role for herself in this man's world.

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A new edition of a 1953 classic that captures the very essence Marrakesh and its people.

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Dilys Powell s love affair with Greece and the Greeks began on a sunbaked archaeological dig in 1931. Joining her husband, the archaeologist Humfry Payne, on the remote peninsula of Perachora, she came to know the villagers who laboured on the site, camping beside them year after year, for months at a time.

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Medieval Andalucia is known as a land of regrets, the place of the Moorish King's last sigh, where travelers sense the destruction of mosque of Cordoba and feel emptiness of the Alhambra's domes. This collection of poetry fills those halls with life, a desire for love and enchantments of wine, laughter, moonlit picnics, and bare flesh.