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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.

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First published in 1948, this book provides insights into US politics and culture. The author set out from California and travelled around the country, and his observations along the way, covering a wide range of topics, offer a portrait of American life half a century ago.

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Explores the minority people who dwell in the farthest reaches of China. This title reveals truths about China's hidden minorities and their complex position in Chinese society through discussions, including a debate with Ewenki village cadres on human rights and talks with ageing hajjis about the Chinese government's razing of their mosque.

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One of the world's most widely-read bloggers explores the beautifuland conflict-riddenfour quarters of Jerusalem's Old City

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In 1782 an enthusiastic young German landed in England. Through the fresh eyes of a foreigner, this title offers insight into what has or hasn't changed over the years. In a series of letters home he describes his amazement at the number of English people who wore spectacles, the amount they drank, and the dreadful food they ate.

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Winton Porter shares tales of the cast of characters that pass through a mountain store and hostel on the Appalachian Trail.

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Part travelogue and part adventure story, two men sailed half way round the globe with no GPS, electronics, radio or any of the mod cons we take for granted. Staggering that they did it, and staggering that it was only a few decades ago.

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Laurie Gough is the epitome of a traveller with "pluck", who doesn't shrink from the rigours, lessons, or danger of the pilgrim's road, but embraces them with enthusiasm and humour.

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This feisty, sexy, and energetic tale of a woman's solo journey through Fiji, Bali, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Morocco offers the best of memoir and travel narrative combined. Gough chronicles her encounters with both humor and wisdom as she covers the globe on her own.

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Describing foolish activities in atypical places is Lansky's goal, as he rents a car in the worst driving city in the world, dons a rubber jumpsuit to party at Berlin's Kit Kat Klub and discovers the world's worst wedgie during sumo wrestling lessons in Japan.

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Lebanon: through writers' eyes brings together the best of writing on this troubled but ancient trading nation. With enthusiasm, wit and fascinating period detail, Homer and Hester Stanhope, James Frazer and T. E. Lawrence all share their insights and experience.

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Reveals a woman of courage, humour and passion. - Kathleen Frank

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A powerful collection in which women home in on nuances of life in far-flung countries.

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All the literary essays in this collection involve love in its many guises, waiting to surprise and delight the unsuspecting traveler. The true stories encompass love, lust, and romance encountered while traveling--ranging from a tender tale of how travel kept the spark in a 50-year marriage to one woman's story of becoming engaged to a Fiji Island tribesman.

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An in-depth insight into the history of Madrid, as well as the city today.

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Features, perhaps the most fashionable, talked about, photographed city in Africa, which is home to Yves St Laurent, the Bransons and others.

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Vibrant and original memoirs of a civil servant in India from 1858 to 1893, telling of rapacious planters, improvised fifteen-gun salutes, lofty Rajas and dissolute Englishmen. Vivid and candid tales from a huge bureaucracy, in rich descriptive prose

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Cameron Dueck takes a motorcycle trip through Manitoba and Latin America in search of isolated enclaves of extreme Mennonites-and himself.