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In 'Five Cities' ('Be ehir'), Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar focuses on cities significant in Anatolian history and his own emotional life. Part history, part autobiography, a part poetic meditation on time and memory,

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A follow-up book to "On Rue Tatin", in which Susan Loomis shares more stories of how she, her husband and two children settled into life in a small French town. Here they learned about their neighbours and how to be accepted as inhabitants of the town.

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Based on a holiday from hell that the author once experienced in Thailand and Burma, this work tells the story of how he got ripped off by cunning gangsters in Bangkok. After this nightmarish experience, he travels to Burma to meet some friends and ends up trapped in a rebel training camp under fire from the military.

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The tale of a series of journeys through Albania in the period between Communism and anarchy before it was again closed to Western travellers.

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Tales of derring-do from adventurer extraordinaire Robert Pelton Young. Weaving together dispatches of mayhem in such exotic locales as Africa, the Philippines, and Borneo, "The Adventurist" spans six continents and four decades of hard living. Photos.

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An overview of the Alaskan Taiga with descriptions of the ecology, the National Parks in the region, personal reflections on the authors travels there, and tips for planning your own excursion. Loaded with stunning pictures, the reader can't help but appreciate the complexity and beauty of a unique part of our country.

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Originally published in 1976 in Portuguese as O turista aprendiz by Duas Cidades, Sao Paulo.

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What is it about Germany and the travel book that puts them seemingly at odds This book offers a traveler's tale of Germany while testing the limits of the travel narrative as a literary form.

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What drew Annie Taylor and Alexandra David-Neal to Tibet, when it was still cut off from the world and so hostile to foreigners, and particularly female ones, that they had to wear male Tibetan dress for protection This and other accounts of travel are included in this book.

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Tells the hilarious true story of Australian journalist Tim Elliot's misadventures in Bolivia while working for the Bolivian Times newspaper in a country renowned for cocaine, corruption and poverty. From romantic heartbreak to riots, Tim's adventures were hell to live through, but funny to read.

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A remarkable, multifaceted story made up of journal accounts, memories, conversations and personal experience, The Bronski House is a paean to Poland, a landmark in travel writing, and a family history tied together by the unique experience of returning from exile.

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This tells of foreign correspondent Christopher Kremmer's, fascinating and timely account of over a decade spent living, travelling, and reporting from Asia, and the Middle East. During this time he formed an obsession with carpets and the 'perfect rug' - an obsession that saw him trace the threads of carpet making throughout the East.

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Philip Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with it over twenty years ago.

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Why should San Francisco eaters limit their choices to the same old locales found in most restaurant guides For those intrepid food fans with an appetite for new, great-tasting dining experiences, this hands-on guide to hidden culinary treasures will be a tasty morsel indeed.

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Alphabetically organized and thoroughly cross-referenced entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth in North and South America.

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A revised and updated edition of Philip Marsdens classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres.