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For two thousand years in China, the empires of politics and of the written word cohabited and depended on one another. This collection gathers poems about four venerable cities - Chang'an (now Xi'an), Luoyang, Beijing and Hangzhou.

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Spains greatest living novelist's essays about Morocco, Turkey, and Egypt. Goytisolo presents a hetergeneous mosaic of Islam, remembering the cultural influence of Spain's medieval and Jewish populations, in light of the Franco regime's homogeneity.

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A travel book on Croatia, which presents an abundant culture of Roman remains, Venetian and Hapsburg-era palaces.

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Ronald Wright has created the best travel book about Peru, for he has immersed himself in the music and language, as well as the history, politics and monuments of the indigenous Andean cultures of South America, in a way that no other travel writer has yet managed.

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Almost half a century after the death of Irfan Orga,author of the highly acclaimed cult memoir Portraitof a Turkish Family , his son, Ates Orga, opened an old attache case andfound a coffee-stained typescript tied up with string. DarkJourney

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Passionate Orientalism from some forty generations of poets and bards, including Shelley, Pushkin, Longfellow, Baudelaire, Richard Burton and Oscar Wilde.

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Dinner of Herbs (in 2001).

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From Oscar Wilde to Rudyard Kipling, from Jonathan Swift to WB Yeats and Samuel Beckett: the city of Dublin has enchanted and inspired some great poetry. This is a companion for a visit to the Fair City.

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No land on earth has been so long observed as Egypt, which was attracting travelers back in the days of Herodotus and Julius Caesar. This book includes descriptions about a myth from a papyrus next to Naguib Mahfouz's account of Alexandria, and Florence Nightingale describing Abu Simbel side by side with Ahdaf Soueif's description of Sinai.

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An account of three arduous journeys into the most contentious corners of Indonesia, from acclaimed travel writer Norman Lewis.

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Features patriotic works from word-smiths such as Hilaire Belloc, G K Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling and the lyrics of Gilbert and Sullivan.

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Eothen, which means `news from the east started out as a few notes scribbled on the back of a map, to amuse a friend who wanted some advice for his own youthful `year off travels, but it became one of the most influential, witty and idiosyncratic of travel books.

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Author John Hickman presents a cast of characters who are among those who visit the Galapagos Islands each year.

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Gavin Maxwell was a romantic, self-destructive adventurer, brave and handsome, with a deep sympathy for the underdog, a wonderfully curious mind and a dogged commitment to discovering the truth

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All of the color, gaiety, and charm of Burma springs to life with this master story-teller, despite the fact that at the time of his visit much of the country was controlled by insurgents.

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A celebration of Argentina that chronicles the rise and fall of the British colony in the 20's and 30's through the imaginative biography of one of its charismatic representatives - a hard-drinking, womanising, emigre Scotsman, who cut his way through the bars and brothels of the city whilst trading with farmers upcountry.

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Those who know the downs and chalk streams of Hampshire are quietly fortunate but rarely boastful. So it is fascinating to rediscover this home county, on the eastern edge of Wessex, as a place of extraordinary richness.

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Unearths scholars with bizarre sexual fantasies, eunuchs, rare manuscripts and a malicious dowager Queen, and sets them all against the backdrop of a decadent and intrigue-ridden Imperial Court.

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There are few landscapes in the western world more bewitching than the mountain glens of the Scottish Highlands and the scattered islands of the Hebrides. This book combines the sensibility of a native from the island of South Uist with the eye of a travelling scholar of architecture.

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Queen Victoria, Byron, Martha Gellhorn, King Charles I and many others reflect on their honeymoons. Humorous, acerbic, funny, erotic and charming by turn, these are tales of public marriages and the private lives they joined.

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Through a dialogue between two lovers, this book retells the history of Europe of the twenties and thirties. It weaves together disparate strands of landscape to take the reader on a journey through Spain, London, Soviet Russia, North Africa and middle Europe.

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Tells the story of a love affair between Sarah, a young British woman of adventurous spirit, and Jungli, an impoverished, opium-addicted Sikh temple servant.

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Istanbul, capital of two great empires, confluence of Asia and Europe, has called forth poetry throughout her long history, from paupers and sultans, natives and visitors alike.