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Seeking help with his basketball game, Shainberg embraced Zen Buddhism in 1951 and was catapulted on a life-long spiritual journey. Alternately comic and reverential, "Ambivalent Zen" chronicles the rewards and dangers of spiritual ambition and presents a poignant reflection of the experiences faced by many Americans involved in the Zen movement.

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Anyone who is enthralled by India--or who loves fine writing--will delight in this compendium of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry written by 25 of the country's most astute observers.

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In a mixture of travel, adventure, and scholarship, historian Tudor Parfitt sets out in search of answers to a fascinating ethnological puzzle: is the Lemba tribe of Southern Africa really one of the lost tribes of Israel, descended from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba 2 maps.

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Traveling from the Natchez Trace to the cotton fields of the Delta, Walton assesses Mississippi's legacy of nostalgia, bitterness, and heartache. He weaves in the stories of his family, as well as those of slaves and Confederate generals, redneck demagogues and civil rights martyrs, writers and bluesmen, black and white. 12 photos.

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The sole American member of an expedition traveling the entire length of the Amazon River chronicles the incredible journey, from navigating deadly whitewater rapids to being captured by guerrillas.

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"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Nan A. Talese ... New York, 2006"--T.p. verso.

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Profiling the exotic kingdoms of the Himalayas, a history of the Buddhist world describes its early exploration, harmonious existence, and threat of extinction by forbidden outside influences.

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A journalist and author of China's Fate describes his personal odyssey down the Mekong River, detailing his three-thousand-mile journey from China through Tibet, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and the people, places, and experiences he encountered along the way. Reprint. 17,500 first

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When TIME magazine writer Pico Iyer set out to explore the East, what he found was: Mohawk haircuts in Bali; yuppies in Hong Kong, a local movie industry that produces not one, but five Rambo ripoffs in Bombay; and young Filipinos rendering a perfect imitation of the latest Madonna song.

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The beauty and grandeur of the American West, and the conflicts that wrack it, are brought vividly to life in this absorbing account of an epic legal struggle. O'Gara tells of the ongoing battle over water rights between impoverished tribes living on the Wind River Reservation and struggling farmers who want to divert the river to irrigate their lands.

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Two avid travelers take a beautiful and memorable look at some of the most gorgeous endangered places on the planet, from the mesmerizing ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu to the Congo Basin of Africa, where great apes roam freely.

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In this insightful and poetic reflection of the first century of human flight, Langewiesche considers how flying has altered not only how we move about the world but also how we see ourselves "in" the world. Map.

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Two centuries of writers--including Harold Brodkey, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Calvin Trillin, Michael Ondaatje, Lawrence Durrell, Edith Wharton, and others--celebrate their love of Italy in an anthology of short stories, essays, poetry, journals, letters, and novel excerpts. Origina

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From one of the oldest American communities located in New Mexico to the highest points of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, discover the beauty and wonder of the West, as the author attempts to define the area and its future. Maps.

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A collection of travelogues by distinguished women authors includes the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Vita Sackville-West, Annie Dillard, Isak Dinesen, Rebecca West, Willa Cather, Margaret Mead, and Mary McCarthy, among others.

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An anthology of essays by top literary contributors is organized into four themes including Love, Food, Being Civilized, and Tourism, and includes excerpts from such works as The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain and Paris, France by Gertrude Stein. Original. 20,000 first printing.

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The author relates her experiences on a rafting expedition down central Borneo's Boh River, which had never been fully navigated because of its treacherous rapids.

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The author describes the year she spent traveling in Africa, recounting the mixture of African and North American cultures as she survives a boat trip to Timbuktu and romance in Burkina Faso.

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Offers articles on outdoor sports, wilderness life, adventure travel, and related subjects from the pages of "Outside".

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Irreverent, poignant, and revealing, this meditation on the sweet temptation of wealth and the vainglorious quest for paradise as they exist in Aspen, Colorado, features a "cast of characters that includes such barn-size satirical targets as exclusive health clubs, over-the-hill drug dealers and movie stars and rock stars of wattages bright and dim."-- "The New Republic."