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The Road Within" is a book of transformation, of lessons learned, maps drawn and burned, and spiritual blessings bestowed by travel. This book takes readers on a worldwide quest to discover the Garden of Paradise in the human heart, feel the power of the jungle in Venezuela, and get swept up in a transcendent dance of dervishes in Cairo.

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Abruptly expelled from his farm in Ecuador at the age of sixty-two, Moritz Thomsen indulges in that saddest of pleasures - travel - taking a trip to Brazil and ultimately a journey up the great Amazon River by boat.

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The narrator arrives in his 117th rented room at the end of an epic journey, abandoned by his lover, almost broke, and certainly feverish. A razor sharp chronicle of experience that grew out of a seven-month stay in Sri Lanka.

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Ten years of the best travel stories of the year from the Solas Awards bring readers along for journeys that are inspiring, uplifting, and, very often, transformative, all powerful and moving testaments to the richness of our world, its cultures, people, and places.

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Chronicling the author's 10,000-mile "Great Lakes Circle Tour," this travel memoir seeks to answer a burning question: Is there a Great Lakes culture, and if so, what is it

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Composed in 1298, this book describes Marco Polo's travels across the entire continent of Asia. It guides readers through a realm of pygmies, exotic plants and beasts, fine silks, spices, legends, ornate palaces and cannibalism. In a magisterial geographical sweep, it traces Polo's epic journey to the farthest reaches of Asia.

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Crossing all geographical and spiritual boundaries, writers such as Sogyal Rinpoche, Edward Abbey, Pico Iyer, Mary Morris, and Barbara Kingsolver tell touching, and often surprising, stories of their brushes with death.

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Set over 40 years against the backdrop of the most romantic story-filled villa in Crete, The Villa Ariadne is the tale of three of the most charismatic British Hellenophiles since Lord Byron

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Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from their adventures to their parents' hotel on the mountain, where they are caught up in a scandalous relations with an African official and an English botanist. Meanwhile, a heartbroken woman tries to escape the memory of her son's death on a doomed holiday by the sea.

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Essays on the American West

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Written by one of its survivors, this book tells the moving and dramatic story of the disastrous Scott expedition.

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An account of the author's life and experiences in Morocco.

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Captures the bizarre experiences of well-known writers whose travels have taken a detour. Stories in this collection include Nigel Barley escorting a monkey to the movies in Cameroon, Dave Barry vainly trying to learn more Japanese than how to order a beer, Donna Marazzo bravely attempting to use a high-tech Italian toilet, and more.

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Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring through the Lowlands and Highlands of Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Inchkenneth and Iona. Here, they paint a picture of a society which was still almost unknown to the Europe of the Enlightenment.

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Although Timbuktu exists, there is a common belief that it is, in fact...

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Down on his luck in old age, Horn recounts his wild youth as an ivory trader in central Africa, journeying into jungles, navigating treacherous rivers, freeing slaves, and meeting Cecil Rhodes, the founder of Rhodesia. This is the stuff of legends.