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A gorgeous, layered portrait of a city and its people.

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From the author of "The Roads to Sata", this book tells the story of an odyssey to the vanishing heart of Japan.

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An irreverent and critically acclaimed account of a journey around Nigeria, a country which 'gets fewer voluntary visitors than the moon', by the daughter of Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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A wonderful antidote to rose-tinted travel writing.

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Rahns personal diary from his travels as occult investigator for the Third Reich.

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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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Acclaimed author Erdrich continues her award-winning series about a 19th-century Ojibwe family with this fifth installment, which tells the story of Omakayas' son, Makoons, and directly follows the events in "Chickadee." Illustrations.

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It explains clearly all the references in the book, and shows in detail with new maps the routes described from Venice to Beijing, from Beijing to Burma, and from Beijing to south-east China.

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Peter Millar embarks upon the train journey of a life time, travelling through this still exotic, diverse and challenging North African country, struggling to maintain its unique blend of tradition and tolerance in the turbulent winds of the Arab Spring.

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A collection of essays from New York Times columnist Reggie Nadelson, profiling and celebrating the (largely family-owned) institutionsrestaurants, bookstores, museumsthat make up the heart and soul of New York City.

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The course of the Meander is so famously indirect that the river's name has come to signify digression. In this title, at every twist and turn of the author's journey, from the Meander's source in the uplands of Central Turkey to its mouth on the Aegean Sea, he illuminates his account with a wealth of cultural, historical and personal asides.

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As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis and wrote a number of sketches in his trademark witty, observational style, which made him one of the best-selling travel writers of his age. First ever translation into English.

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Provides the history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966. In explaining how modern Damascus is rooted in immemorial layers of culture and tradition, the author explores the historical, artistic, social and religious inheritance of the Damascenes.

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An epic voyage along the Mississippi River by canoe, and an unforgettable American adventure. A John Murray Journey.

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A fascinating and wide-ranging anthology, vividly evoking the life of the city in the voices of both visitors and residents through the centuries

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"One woman's quest to learn Mandarin in Beijing, Arabic in Beirut, and Spanish in Mexico, with her young family along for the ride"--

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Provides accounts of coming to New York by more than fifty remarkable people who have called the city home. This title presents impressionistic history of New York since the Great Depression.

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Ten years ago, Janine Marsh decided to leave her corporate life behind to fix up a run-down barn in northern France. This is the true story of her rollercoaster ride from her early struggles and homesickness through personal tragedy, to her attempts to become self-sufficient, with her sharp observations on the very different way of life in France.

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Discover the Queen of Crime's own Scotland in this remarkable and uniquely personal journey

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Extreme adventurer Ed Stafford isnt sure, but hes about to find out as he pushes himself to the limit in this gripping and inspirational test of human survival.

For sixty days, with only his explorers instinct and a video camera to record his experiences, Ed faces the ultimate feat of physical and mental endurance.

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When they retired, Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrow boat across the Channel and down to the Mediterranean, together with their whippet Jim. They took advice from experts, who said they would die, together with their whippet Jim. Aliens, vandals, and the walking dead all stand between three innocents and their goal.

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Takes readers on a dangerous, surprising and entertaining journey as a thousand miles of the little-known South-East Seaboard unfold at six miles an hour - the golden marshes of the Carolinas, the incomparable cities of Charleston and Savannah, and the lost arcadias of Georgia and Florida.

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At seventy-five, the author and Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing, including starting a business and becoming athletes and running a literary society. Lately they had become boating adventurers and he a bestselling writer. But in their Midlands canal town in November, life was looking dull and short on surprises.