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China is an enormous country, rife with cultural complexity and differing social experiences. Literature offers a way to understand this great nation's social and human concerns, as seen in this collection of Chinese short fiction.

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What's it like to be there "Travelers' Tales" gives the best possible answer through the true stories of other travelers. Following the recent publication of Jan Morris's final book, here is her very first. Fresh from her success reporting on the first Everest ascent in 1953, she spent a year journeying by car, train, ship, and aircraft across the United States.

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A female Travels with Charley that takes us through the soul of the American West into the vast unknown of the human heart

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Ronald Wright has created the best travel book about Peru, for he has immersed himself in the music and language, as well as the history, politics and monuments of the indigenous Andean cultures of South America, in a way that no other travel writer has yet managed.

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Originally published: Duluth, MN: Pfeifer-Hamilton Publishers, c1990.

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Mongolia is a vast country located between Siberia and China, and little-known to outsiders. As Mongolia had long been under Soviet rule, it was inaccessible to Westerners. That was until 1990, when Stephen J. Bodio began planning his trip. As a boy, Bodio was always fascinated with nature.

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A life-changing journey intertwining high romance, gastronomy, and an unsurpassable joie de vivre for readers of Julie and Julia and My Paris Kitchen.

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No land on earth has been so long observed as Egypt, which was attracting travelers back in the days of Herodotus and Julius Caesar. This book includes descriptions about a myth from a papyrus next to Naguib Mahfouz's account of Alexandria, and Florence Nightingale describing Abu Simbel side by side with Ahdaf Soueif's description of Sinai.

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Paris has long been a storied center of art and culture, and of romance, but in the 1920s its magnetism was especially irresistible. Suitable for travelers, Francophiles and the curious, this book is a work of immense erudition spiced with anecdotes and gossip.

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In this book, you'll discover how travel restores, revitalises, and reveals family. These are stories about exploring family history, about better understanding immediate family, about becoming a new family.

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"If Outside magazine had been around during the first turn of the century, Fridtjof Nansen would have been its No. 1 cover boy."--The Chicago Sun-Times In September of 1893, Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen and crew manned the schooner Fram, intending to drift, frozen in the Arctic pack-ice, to the North Pole.

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In eighteen hilarious accounts, prize-winning humorist Scott Carpenter lifts the curtain on what passes for normal in Europes most glorious capital, measuring it by the yardstick of the American Midwest.

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More than a dozen essays covering one man's journey across four continents as he reflects on the pleasures of the wandering life

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All of the color, gaiety, and charm of Burma springs to life with this master story-teller, despite the fact that at the time of his visit much of the country was controlled by insurgents.

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Bestselling author Bill Arnott has done it again -- he's gone "viking"! -- voyaging around the world by foot, bus, train, boat, and a couple of questionable planes.

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A celebration of Argentina that chronicles the rise and fall of the British colony in the 20's and 30's through the imaginative biography of one of its charismatic representatives - a hard-drinking, womanising, emigre Scotsman, who cut his way through the bars and brothels of the city whilst trading with farmers upcountry.

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Originally published: Duluth, MN: Pfeifer-Hamilton, c1991.