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This collection of short stories set in the crown jewel of Europe--featuring works by Nobel Prize winners Elias Canetti and Elfriede Jelenek--is an excellent introduction to the exceptionally rich contemporary Austrian literature that illuminates a century of shifting forms and styles.

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"Writers reveal all in this outrageous book. A toilet squeals in India, a Dutch vibrator causes a power outage in Chicago, a Thanksgiving blow job puts a spin on the holiday in Ireland, plus police, stink-eyed bureaucrats, emergency evacuations, healers who hurt you--this is an around-the-world romp of hilarious travel disasters"--

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This is the personal journal of a young American woman, living for six months amongst the Dodoth cattle-herdsmen in Northern Uganda.

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This second title in a series of women's travel humor reveals more sidesplitting stories of female misadventure around the world. Showcasing every known type of travel blunder, botch, stumble, and bumble, these rollicking stories come from all reaches of the globe.

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This beautiful literary collection explores the spectacular natural features of Yosemite through the eyes of some of the mostextraordinarily talented writers. In 1851, Lafayette Bunnell chronicled his travels with the Mariposa Battalion, the first non-natives to visit Yosemite Valley.

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This beautiful literary collection explores the spectacular natural features of Yosemite through the eyes of some of the mostextraordinarily talented writers. In 1851, Lafayette Bunnell chronicled his travels with the Mariposa Battalion, the first non-natives to visit Yosemite Valley.

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"Originally published in France as Longue marche: A pied de la Mediterranee jusqu'en Chine par la route de la Soie. III.--Le vent des steppes by Editions Phebus, Paris"--title page verso.

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Bill Porter, a.k.a Red Pine, connects modern China to its past in a riveting journey down the Yellow River.

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Krakauer meets Vollmann and Leigh-Fermor in these mesmerizing travel essays, all rendered in an exquisite style all Kociejowskis own.

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The author skilfully evokes contemporary China and the Chinese; his delightful account is peppered with his encounters with the unexpected, including a TV crew, a snake and China's top rock star. He also takes us on a personal journey, revealing the growing sense of loneliness and bewilderment he experienced.

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Peter Hessler's account of his travels through China over the past decade. This is the story of a nation modernising at great pace, and of the lives of ordinary Chinese caught up in that modernisation. With eloquence and humour, Hessler takes us on the road less travelled, showing us a China rarely glimpsed by outsiders.

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This fascinating volume, offering a fresh perspective on the land and its people, will captivate real-life explorers and armchair travelers alike with its intriguing take on Vietnam from the sea.

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America's greatest literary naturalist takes readers on the ultimate wildlife safari: a true back-of-beyond voyage to the world's most unforgiving land, the islands off Antarctica's northern ice shelf, and to that second most remote place on earth, South Georgia Island.

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Clara Parkesrenowned knitter, author, and founder of knittersreview.comis back with more captivating, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny essays on her knitting and yarn-related travel adventures

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Discover the little worlds of Britain

Beyond the British shores and straight out to sea lie the most exquisite islands, just waiting to be discovered.

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See the world through the eyes of some of the most celebrated and admired people of our time in this engaging new travel book.

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Now Rupert Wright introduces you to the region's winemakers, oyster farmers, canal people and celebrated inhabitants, living and dead, including Montpellier's dynamic Mayor, Georges Freche, and local matador Juan Bautista.

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An account of life in contemporary South Africa as presented by a Peace Corps volunteer and the grandson of Jimmy Carter offers a portrait of a country struggling to recover from deep racial divisions.