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With inspirational travel and adventures tales by such notable women as Gretel Ehrlich, Helen Thayer, and Mary Morris, this award-winning collection spans generations with stories about the rewards of taking risks and making dreams a reality. Illustrations. Maps.

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This collection of stories toasts the warmth and wonders of the wine world as essayists offer tantalizing tales of wine, travel, and friendship across the globe. Illustrations.

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A novel of international intrigue, pork-crazed termites, and motherhood. An irreverently hilarious novel about a bumbling cabal of international terrorists scheming to destroy America by smuggling nuclear matzo balls into the Port of Miamionly to utterly bungle their "can't fail" mission and wind up with a "taste" of their own WMD.

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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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Having fled New York and all he knows in fear for his life, Billy Gogan enlists in the U.S. Army on the eve of the Mexican-American War. Amidst the bloodshed, he is sent on a mission with the Texas Rangers, which ends in a tragic war crime. Billys latest adventure leaves him on a lonely rooftop as the battle rages about him.

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Having fled New York and all he knows in fear for his life, Billy Gogan enlists in the U.S. Army on the eve of the Mexican-American War. Amidst the bloodshed, he is sent on a mission with the Texas Rangers, which ends in a tragic war crime. Billys latest adventure leaves him on a lonely rooftop as the battle rages about him.

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Life is harsh in mid-19th-century New York, where 15-year-old orphaned Irish immigrant Billy Gogan lands to make his way in the Five Points, the city's greatest slum. He learns about political corruption, love, and the ephemeral nature of being as he faces forces much stronger than himself. His pluck and wits keep him a step ahead of disaster while he chases his dreams.

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What's it like to be there "Travelers' Tales" gives the best possible answer through the true stories of other travelers. Following the recent publication of Jan Morris's final book, here is her very first. Fresh from her success reporting on the first Everest ascent in 1953, she spent a year journeying by car, train, ship, and aircraft across the United States.

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"Where the crew eats, sleep, wars, and parties: one crazy year working on cruise ships"--Cover.

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From the safety of a deep leather chair, these stories of danger and survival from around the world will get your adrenaline flowing. From mountain ice to jungle rot, from bombed-out villages and urban ghettos to wild animals and depraved humans, the authors struggle with life, death and their very sanity on their travels.

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In this book, you'll discover how travel restores, revitalises, and reveals family. These are stories about exploring family history, about better understanding immediate family, about becoming a new family.

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Features travel essays, poetry and photographs, which capture the Spirit of the Canal du Midi. This anthology takes the reader through a tour of the area. In "Matters of Trust," the writer hands her bag over to a stranger and gets something else in return.

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In "Food, " the world is revealed through the medium of cuisine. Join top writers on culinary quests of all kinds: dine with locals in Casablanca on a determined pilgrimage for an authentic meal; encounter a mysterious prankster in a garden in the South of France; and go crabbing under the stars on a romantic night in the Caribbean.

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In eighteen hilarious accounts, prize-winning humorist Scott Carpenter lifts the curtain on what passes for normal in Europes most glorious capital, measuring it by the yardstick of the American Midwest.

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Offering a collection of essays, this work provides advice on various aspects of gardening, from design to habitat gardening, dealing with pests to improving the soil.

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Offers advice on traveling with and without children, including the creation of meaningful memories, staying healthy on the road, mothering in other cultures, and traveling while pregnant.

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Women's relationships with food are passionate and obsessive, embracing and comforting, complex and frustrating. This sampling of stories - by some of the writers in and out of the food and travel fields - journeys to the heart of these age-old relationships, taking readers from the kitchens of contemporary America to the far reaches of the globe.

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The author offers a culinary tour of the world's most exotic foods, taking readers on a journey that will cover the wide territory stretching between the most expensive restaurants in Europe to villages in the Phillipines where poeple eat congealed blood from wooden bowls. Original.