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Text only from the book by photographer Eliot Porter first published by Dutton, 1981.

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A raucously funny memoir of one scrawny American's quest to become a kung fu master at China's legendary Shaolin Temple.

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The story of a journey. The author entered Burma through a border area of China closed to foreigners, crossed the Shan and Kachin States and left Burma via an area of India closed to foreigners. En route, he was detained by Communist insurgents, handed over to Kachin insurgents and arrested by the Indian Army.

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In the mid 1990s, the author and her husband were driven, forty-something professionals who were desperate for a break from their harried, deadline-dominated lives. So they left their jobs, and set sail from their home in Canada for the Caribbean. This title presents an account of this two-year midlife interlude.

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When Charles shows his friends the rowing boat he has spent the last six months building, he little realises the adventures that lie ahead. Several glasses of champagne later (it is New Year's Eve), he finds himself betting he will travel the entire length of the Seine from source to the sea in the next year and discover the true France.

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The Ramayana - the Journey of Rama - is India's best-loved book, an inspiration to school-children, monks and moviemakers, yet it is virtually unknown in the Western world.

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A tale of love, food, renovations, recipes and wine from the author of the best-selling A Thousand Days in Venice. A lush and evocative account of when Marlena moved with her beloved Fernando to the beautiful town of Orvieto, in Umbria.

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This guide is a unique resource for music lovers with a passion for travel. Europe's foremost concert halls and opera houses are presented here in a comprehensive, accessible and attractive collection.

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Mount Ararat in Turkey is where, as biblical tradition has it, Noah's Ark ran aground and God made his covenant with mankind.

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Two girls who 'just wanna have fun', hit the open road in a quest to discover the perfect 'solo gal' holiday. Warm, engaging, and bloody funny, this is also an armchair traveller's guide to finding happiness in a couples' world.

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Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, the author was renowned as America's first 'girl stunt reporter'. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism, including an expose of patient treatment at a mental asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking race around the world in emulation of Phileas Fogg. This title deals with her works.

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Aims to disentangle the intricate accumulated meanings of the iconic Australian landscape of the Blue Mountains in NSW. This illustrated work starts with the complex interplay between myth and history to produce a discussion of place and colonialism.

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Paraguay - the name conjures up everything most exotic and extreme in South America. But Paraguay, as revealed in this outstanding new travel book, is among the most beautiful and captivating countries in the world. Discover more about the unique traditions of South American culture through this fascinating piece of travel journalism.

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The essential gap year guide for everything you need to know about travelling and working in Australia..

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Luckily, his friend and walking companion Mick Webb has a complementary range of phobias, such as being confined with 54 fellow hikers, and their socks, in a refuge two miles above sea level.
Together, they step out to conquer the roof of the Pyenees, following the time honoured tradition of walking the GR10.

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Relying on atmosphere and sensation over fact and statistic, Christine Jordis has written a deeply personal, vividly impressionistic account of several journeys to the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java.

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This is travel with a mission and it takes the author deep into Laos, to the bomb craters and enigmatic stone containers of the Plain of Jars, the brooding caves and limestone peaks of Houaphan near the Lao border with Vietnam and the southern provinces bordering Cambodia.

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* A tale of high adventure in Mexico's bandit country

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Whether they're a man who loves his Heinz so much he's changed his name to Captain Beany or a kleptomaniac Vintage Radio buff, these eccentric collectors are Britain's finest and could live in no other country in the world.

Once you discover these museums and get to know their curators, Great Britain won't look quite the same again...

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Beijing has debuted as the defining city of the now and foreseeable future, and China as the ascendant global power. Beijing is the ultimate representation of China's political and cultural capital. Scocca arrived in 2004 as an American eager to see another culture, and preparations were in full swing to create a renewed city.

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In Being Indian, Pavan Varma, whom the Guardian has called 'one of the country's most perceptive writers', demolishes the myths and generalisations as he turns his sharply observant gaze on his fellow countrymen to examine what really makes Indians tick and what they have to offer the world in the 21st century.

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Offers a passionate and lyrical account of the author's continuing love affair with Italy. This title is also a memoir of a season of change, and of renewed possibility. It is spiced with recipes from the author's Tuscan kitchen. It is a celebration of the sweet life in Italy.