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Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915.

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Both an addition to the Stendhalian canon and a pioneering work of the travel-writing genre, Travels in the South of France provides an illuminating perspective on this popular region and the phenomenon of tourism in general.

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In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, and tormented by his infatuation with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman. His response was to embark on journeys through Cevennes and America where he wrote 'Travels

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Collected here for the first time, a hugely entertaining selection of Michael Frayn's classic travel writing - including pieces on Germany, Cuba, Israel, Japan and Russia.

D.H. Lawrence's first travel book and an important insight into the roots of his literary genius.

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Brand-new translation of one of Dostoevsky's most important early works, fully annotated.

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The autobiography of the Duke of Pirajno, who worked for eighteen years as a doctor in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somaliland.

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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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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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Evliya Celebi was the Orhan Pamuk of the 17th century, the Pepys of the Ottoman world - a diligent, adventurous and honest recorder with a puckish wit and humour. He is in the pantheon of the great travel-writers of the world, though virtually unknown to western readers. This title discusses Evliya.

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Birds of Passage

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This story has waited 200 years to be told. The journals of Lady Henrietta Clive take us on a double journey, across war-torn southern India and into the troubled minds of three ancestors of aristocratic women in the last decade of the 18th Century.

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

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Guy Kennaway's novel about Jamaican life and culture is set in the fictional village of Angel Beach. It is an affectionate and hilarious description of a small community where everyone knows everyone's business, poverty is a way of life and dreams of escape trickle through fingers.

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Tells the (almost) true story of author's rollicking adventures across the United States. This book follows many of his early adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver, prospecting, real estate speculation, a journey to the kingdom of Hawaii, and his beginnings as a writer.

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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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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.