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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.

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Eothen, which means `news from the east started out as a few notes scribbled on the back of a map, to amuse a friend who wanted some advice for his own youthful `year off travels, but it became one of the most influential, witty and idiosyncratic of travel books.

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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.

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A young artist's letters home to her parents paint a vivid picture of her travels through India, Nepal, and Tibet.

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Fifth in their series on travelling, this collection of hilarious tales from the road, or the side of the road, chronicles missed planes, dreadful faux pas, and misadventures of every kind experienced by people who are bold enough to travel and brave enough to share their stories of failure.

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The name "Geronimo" came to Corine Sombrun insistently in a trance during her apprenticeship to a Mongolian shaman. That message and the need to understand its meaning brought her to the home of the legendary Apache leader's great-grandson, Harlyn Geronimo, himself a medicine man on the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico.

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For anyone at a crossroads, contemplating a temporary or permanent career break, this affectionate travel romp is essential reading. Journeying coast-to-coast across the US with Steward might just remind you that, despite the post-Trump hysteria, there are many decent Americans out there.

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Tells the story of a love affair between Sarah, a young British woman of adventurous spirit, and Jungli, an impoverished, opium-addicted Sikh temple servant.