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This classic travel book details Isabella Bird's 1878 trip, where she set out alone to explore the interior of Japan--a rarity not only because of Bird's gender but because the country was virtually unknown to Westerners. The Japan she describes is not the sentimental world of Madame Butterfly but a vibrant land of real people with a complex culture and hard scrabble lives. Illustrations.

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A vivid journey to the shore of the Sahara, where intense personal stories intersect with climate change and global politics.

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In mid-life Jane Carswell leaves her seemingly tranquil New Zealand life, her family and friends, to teach English in Chongqing, China. Her journey into the unknown epitomises the ache so many of us feel in our own lives for new challenges and personal understandings.

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This collection of short stories set in the crown jewel of Europe--featuring works by Nobel Prize winners Elias Canetti and Elfriede Jelenek--is an excellent introduction to the exceptionally rich contemporary Austrian literature that illuminates a century of shifting forms and styles.

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"Writers reveal all in this outrageous book. A toilet squeals in India, a Dutch vibrator causes a power outage in Chicago, a Thanksgiving blow job puts a spin on the holiday in Ireland, plus police, stink-eyed bureaucrats, emergency evacuations, healers who hurt you--this is an around-the-world romp of hilarious travel disasters"--

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This is the personal journal of a young American woman, living for six months amongst the Dodoth cattle-herdsmen in Northern Uganda.

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This second title in a series of women's travel humor reveals more sidesplitting stories of female misadventure around the world. Showcasing every known type of travel blunder, botch, stumble, and bumble, these rollicking stories come from all reaches of the globe.

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This beautiful literary collection explores the spectacular natural features of Yosemite through the eyes of some of the mostextraordinarily talented writers. In 1851, Lafayette Bunnell chronicled his travels with the Mariposa Battalion, the first non-natives to visit Yosemite Valley.

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This beautiful literary collection explores the spectacular natural features of Yosemite through the eyes of some of the mostextraordinarily talented writers. In 1851, Lafayette Bunnell chronicled his travels with the Mariposa Battalion, the first non-natives to visit Yosemite Valley.

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"Originally published in France as Longue marche: A pied de la Mediterranee jusqu'en Chine par la route de la Soie. III.--Le vent des steppes by Editions Phebus, Paris"--title page verso.

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Bill Porter, a.k.a Red Pine, connects modern China to its past in a riveting journey down the Yellow River.

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Krakauer meets Vollmann and Leigh-Fermor in these mesmerizing travel essays, all rendered in an exquisite style all Kociejowskis own.

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The author skilfully evokes contemporary China and the Chinese; his delightful account is peppered with his encounters with the unexpected, including a TV crew, a snake and China's top rock star. He also takes us on a personal journey, revealing the growing sense of loneliness and bewilderment he experienced.

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Peter Hessler's account of his travels through China over the past decade. This is the story of a nation modernising at great pace, and of the lives of ordinary Chinese caught up in that modernisation. With eloquence and humour, Hessler takes us on the road less travelled, showing us a China rarely glimpsed by outsiders.

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This fascinating volume, offering a fresh perspective on the land and its people, will captivate real-life explorers and armchair travelers alike with its intriguing take on Vietnam from the sea.

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America's greatest literary naturalist takes readers on the ultimate wildlife safari: a true back-of-beyond voyage to the world's most unforgiving land, the islands off Antarctica's northern ice shelf, and to that second most remote place on earth, South Georgia Island.

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