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Doreen Ingrams and her husband were the first Europeans ever to live in the Hadhramaut, an extraordinary, isolated region of southern Arabia. Married to an Arabic-speaking British official, she arrived by boat, and during their ten-year residency travelled throughout the region by camel and donkey. This book tells her story.

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Finding herself at a crossroads and in need of a change from her job and domestic responsibilities, Helen Moat set herself the challenge of a lifetime: she got on her bike and embarked on an epic cycle ride across Europe, all the way to Istanbul, accompanied by her eighteen-year-old son.

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With a sometimes alarming lack of modesty, in the manner of a David Sedaris or Bill Bryson, Dina Bennett shares fresh observations and personal revelations that other travel authors prefer to ignore.

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Wit, wisdom, and revelations from sixty years of life on the road.

Driving one highway after another at sunrise, winding through the mountainside, hearing the call to rise of the roosters, or simply exchanging "fishing stories" with the other guys at the truck stops. Like that one about the trucker who stopped along the highway an

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Selected travel writing from Norman Lewis, which makes you laugh, but also brings home the world's hurt in glorious understatement.

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In the late summer of 1839, Thoreau and his older brother John made a two-week boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's death in 1842, Thoreau began to prepare a memorial account of their excursion. This is the story of a river journey depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth.

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Filled with inspiring tales of travel written by women who have traversed the Asian continent, this exciting collection of stories takes readers bathing with elephants in India, teaching English in Laos, and dancing with the spirit of Genghis Khan in Mongolia. Original.

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A Woman's Europe is a collection of inspiring and entertaining true stories by women about their travels throughout the Continent. Europe also has an irresistibly romantic appeal. It's a place of old-world elegance, with centuries of history, rich art and architecture.

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Spanning the emotional and physical globe and cutting a wide swathe of sensibilities, these stories conduce and cajole readers to hit the road, to discover what's out there in the world beyond them, and to ultimately discover themselves. Writers include Frances Mayes, Anne Lamott, and Ann Jones.

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Spanning the globe and covering a wide range of religions and cultures, these stories of personal transformation and self-discovery by women include contributions from Anne Lamott, Maya Angelou, Linda Ellerbee, Kim Cernin, Natalie Goldberg, and many others. Original.

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With inspirational travel and adventures tales by such notable women as Gretel Ehrlich, Helen Thayer, and Mary Morris, this award-winning collection spans generations with stories about the rewards of taking risks and making dreams a reality. Illustrations. Maps.

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Set primarily on a plantation called Arcadia, overlooking the sea and a distant Cuba from on high, the author alternates between the acceptable pursuits of a Victorian gentlewoman - sewing, social visits, riding - and trying to find a more meaningful role for herself in this man's world.

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A new edition of a 1953 classic that captures the very essence Marrakesh and its people.

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Dilys Powell s love affair with Greece and the Greeks began on a sunbaked archaeological dig in 1931. Joining her husband, the archaeologist Humfry Payne, on the remote peninsula of Perachora, she came to know the villagers who laboured on the site, camping beside them year after year, for months at a time.

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The author in his early fifties and already with a dozen acclaimed books under his belt, decided to have, instead of a mid-life crisis, a mid-life adventure. With a pencil and notebook, he set out to explore and write about one of the last truly wild territories on the face of the earth: Alaska. This book is about the author's adventures.

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Along the Betwa documents the lives of people living in the drought-prone region of Bundelkhand, touching upon themes related to water scarcity, climate change, agrarian distress, and caste and gender inequalities.

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A companion to the literature of Australia, this book takes the reader on a journey through the continent in 25 stories, ranging from the colonial period to contemporary Australia. The stories evoke the outback, the gum trees, kangaroos and dingoes, and the streets of Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.

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BABOONS FOR LUNCH And Other Sordid Adventures is a rollicking collection of travel stories by an explorer who has spent two decades visiting the most remote tribal societies on earth. It is adventure travel, storytelling, literature, and humor, from the worlds most remote corners as an intrepid city dweller encounters ancient peoples for the first time.