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Enjoy riveting tales by world-renowned writers about one of the most fascinating regions on Earth. One author witnesses an ancient sky burial; another works as an extra on a Chinese movie set; another visits Potala Palace, the home of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Illustrations.

(Paperback)

These essays by renowned travel writers explore the many lures of Tuscany--its rolling hills, sunny climate, friendly people, and superb food and wine. Illustrations.

(Hardback)

Here is a travel book with a difference: ten chronological chapters from a year of wandering, from the Pacific Northwest to Tuscany and back again to the trout-laden streams of California.

(Paperback)

Here is a travel book with a difference: ten chronological chapters from a year of wandering, from the Pacific Northwest to Tuscany and back again to the trout-laden streams of California.

(Paperback, New edition)

Park's two journeys to Africa, in 1795 and 1805, provided Europeans with their first reliable descriptions of that continent's interior. A vivid recollection and the most readable of all the classics of African exploration.

(Paperback, New edition)

A witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues and narrow escapes of Gellhorn, one of America's most important war correspondents and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.

(Hardback)

This children's museum guide is intended as a book that grows alongside the children, as it offers the reader stories and riddles with graded levels of difficulty to captivate them.

(Hardback)

This suberb book features exquisite photographs of the Museum Victoria's most treasured objects, and as well as fascinating insights into each by curators, collection staff and eminent Australians

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

This updated field guide, organized by leaf type and attachment, features full-color photographs and information to help readers identify Pennsylvania trees.

(Hardback, 6th Revised edition)

This hiking guide describes 600 miles of trails and cross-country routes, while spotlighting 55 of the best day hikes and backpack trips in the Trinity Alps and beyond.

(Paperback, 6th Revised edition)

This hiking guide describes 600 miles of trails and cross-country routes, while spotlighting 55 of the best day hikes and backpack trips in the Trinity Alps and beyond.

(Paperback)

In the tradition of such international travelers as Paul Theroux, Pico Iyer, and Ryszard Kapuscinski, and with insight reminiscent of John Berger and Joan Didion, Lingis shares both the private revelations and the universal connections he acquires on his exotic journeys.

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(Hardback)

Tsukiji was one of the world's most dynamic fish markets. Beall captures that dynamism in photographs chronicling Tsukiji's final years.

(Paperback)

Acclaimed war photographer Voeten documents the underground netherworld of the homeless tunnel-dwellers in Manhattan.

(Paperback)

The Turkish Coast from Izmir to Antalya is an area of natural drama, rich in the ruins of antiquity. This book offers accounts ranging from the archaeological discovery, or the route march of Alexander's army, to the pleasures of the hammam and Turkish cooking.

(Paperback, 2nd ed.)

The observations of a 16th-century Habsburg ambassador to Constantinople.

(Paperback)

Two middle-aged ladies, one Penelope Chetworth, the other her 12-year old mare La Marquesa, explored the high sierra north of Granada in 1961. This title brings together the best in their Spanish hosts, informed by personal fascination for horses, religion and Spain.

(Paperback)

This classic travel book details Isabella Bird's 1878 trip, where she set out alone to explore the interior of Japan--a rarity not only because of Bird's gender but because the country was virtually unknown to Westerners. The Japan she describes is not the sentimental world of Madame Butterfly but a vibrant land of real people with a complex culture and hard scrabble lives. Illustrations.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

A vivid journey to the shore of the Sahara, where intense personal stories intersect with climate change and global politics.

(Paperback)

In mid-life Jane Carswell leaves her seemingly tranquil New Zealand life, her family and friends, to teach English in Chongqing, China. Her journey into the unknown epitomises the ache so many of us feel in our own lives for new challenges and personal understandings.

(Paperback)

See the United States as You Never Have Before: Brick by Brick!

(Hardback)