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A riotously funny, razor-sharp indictment of America's cultural wasteland by one of its most merciless critics.

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In 1990, Kim Traill set off on her own youthful adventures in a country renowned for its bad food, dreadful weather and surly service: the Soviet Union. She would discover a Russia few tourists see, a country which is both surprising and brutal. Lively, funny and utterly readable, this is a memorable portrait of a crumbling but still mighty empire.

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Doran finds himself navigating througth the maddening labyrinth of Italian bureaucracy just to get a road paved to their house; dealing with the foibles of their neighbors and the tangled drama of the family who sold them the home; coming to accept that the Italians live with a million laws and nor rules.

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Heinrich Harrer returns to Tibet - thirty years after the visit described in his earlier book Seven Years in Tibet.

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The retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in the early months of the First World War is one of the great dramas of European history.

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Driving 15,000 miles from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a record-breaking twenty-three and a half days, Tim Cahill's Road Fever is a hilarious account of a preposterous journey, a breathtaking tour of North and South America, as well as a veritable how-to for pulling off cheeky scams to get ahead.

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Bill Bryson meets 'Gladiator' as a modern-day couple goes on the trail of Ancient Roman tourists from Italy through Greece, Turkey and Egypt in this hugely entertaining, witty travel book that brings to life the ancient world as well as providing rich insights into one of the best-travelled areas on earth.

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How to be treated like shite in 15 different countriesand still quite like it!

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Jonny Bealby was devastated when his fiancee Melanie died unexpectedly while they were travelling in Kashmir. Bittersweet, bold and beautifully told, Running with the Moon is a tale of true love and loss, of exploration, adventure and courage.

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An account of man against the sea in an open boat.

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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888), Argentine educator, statesman, and writer, self-educated after the model of Benjamin Franklin, was "not a man but a nation," in the words of Mrs. Horace Mann. Like De Tocqueville, this remarkable man visited the United States in its early years and wrote a detailed account of this new phenomenon. Full of shr

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Hired by the Japanese at the age of 27 as engineer in charge of a lighthouse project that would light the coast of Japan, Brunton embarked on a series of varied and adventurous experiences whose record is an enlightening case study of one yatoi, or hired foreign servant, in Japan.

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On the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo discover a fascinating primary source: Walter Scott's accounts of his journey to the battlefield

In the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo tourists flocked from Britain to witness the scene of the most important conflict of their generation.

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An insightful and hilarious expose of the backpacker culture. Follows the backpacker trail from Bondi to Cairns. This is an insight into backpacker culture like you've never seen it before. From Bondi to Cairns, Barry follows the infamous backpacker trails and tests his strength, sanity and his liver in a n intriguing memoir.

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A quirky, funny and quietly moving memoir that tells of a road-trip that a young American immigrant undertook with her boyfriend on a pilgrimage to Graceland, travelling across America on Greyhound buses, busking Elvis songs along the way.

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Into the hard-living world of travelling shearers in the Australian outback comes an internationally acclaimed writer, driving an old truck. He has abandoned writing for a time and found work as a cook for a team of New Zealand shearers. He is determined to find a sense of belonging. This title tells the story of that quest.

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Written by a popular Australian TV chef, Ian Parmenter. In this work, he shares his experiences, starting with culture shock as the London journalist arrives in Perth in 1971, then moving on to the discovery of his beloved weekender by the Margaret River, and gradually transforming it into a winery producing 3000 bottles of chardonnay a year.

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This is the story of a newly married couple and the year they spent in Sicily. Packed with history, culture - and plenty of misadventure - it will definitely make you laugh. It also has as much romance as an ordinary Aussie bloke can muster, and, of course, a little bit of Mafia action.

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Skyward is as much the memoir of great American explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. as it is a fascinating narrative of America's early aviation history, much of which Byrd shaped with his explorations as a naval pilot and pioneering scientist. Byrd's outsized ambition has inspired generations to dare to push technological limits in order to achieve things greater than themselves.