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"National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford".

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After months of following one-size-fits-all advice for a fifty-seven-year-old widow, Linda Crill is still miserable, until she makes a rebellious spur-of-the-moment decision: she trades her corporate suits for motorcycle leathers and commits herself to a 2,500-mile road trip down America's Pacific Northwest coast on a Harley.

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Travels in Thailand and Burma in 1968, learning about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism.

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Sun, sea and gorgeous sailors--the route to happiness, surely After an early-mid-life-crisis, Emma leaves her highly stressed, fast-paced life as a journalist on the Independent for a sailing adventure and finds that it is possible to find fulfillment--and love--on your own terms.

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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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Photographer and adventurer Jocelyn Burt travels through the South-West, the Great Southern and Goldfields, the Murchison, the Pilbara, the deserts, and the Kimberley regions of WA. She visits Perth, the Pinnacles and Wave Rock, as well as less well-known spots like Walpole, Millstream and Geikie Gorge.

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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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In the spring of 2005, Ian Klaus, a 26-year-old Rhodes Scholar, travelled eight hours from Turkey, via a broken-down taxi and armed convoy, to reach Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in Iraqi Kurdistan. Elvis is Titanic is the poignant, funny, and eye-opening story of the semester he spent there teaching US history.