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The Wandering Lake
Into the Heart of Asia

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
The lake of Lop Nur, the "Heart of the heart of Asia," is one of the world’s strangest phenomena. Situated in the wild Chinese province of Xinjiang, Lop Nur -...
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Kipling Abroad
Traffics and Discoveries from Burma to Brazil

I.B. Tauris
Rudyard Kipling's genius for evoking the sights, sounds, and atmosphere of a place was crystallised in his fiction, in which he introduced Victorian and later...
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Strolling Through Istanbul
The Classic Guide to the City

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Available for the first time since its original publication thirty-seven years ago, this classic guide to Istanbul by Hilary Sumner-Boyd and John Freely is...
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How the World Makes Love
. . . And What It Taught a Jilted Groom

St. Martin's Griffin
When it comes to love, some people need a world of help… When you’ve been dumped at the altar and forced to share a series of honeymoon suites with your...
  
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Buying a Piece of Paris
The Home of My Dreams in the City of Lights

St. Martin's Griffin
Buying a Piece of Paris is a charming and witty love song to the most beautiful city in the world. Paris has seduced many admirers, but for Ellie Nielsen it’s...
  
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Traveling the Incense Route
From Arabia to the Levant in the Footsteps of the Magi

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Carrying frankincense and myrrh, spices from India, gold and exotic African animal skins, the Incense Route was the lifeblood of the countries through which it...
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To Peking
A Forgotten Journey from Moscow to Manchuria

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
When in 1934 at the age of twenty-seven, Peter Fleming set out for the Far East, his ultimate goal was to return from China to India overland - a journey he...
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Twelve Days in Persia
Across the Mountains with the Bakhtiari Tribe

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
A year after Vita Sackville-West first travelled to Iran - a journey described in the classic Passenger to Teheran - she returned to the land that had so...
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The Silk Road
Ten Thousand Miles through Central Asia

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Linking East and West, Asia with Europe, the Silk Road was once the most important trading route in the world. A conduit for the exchange of prized silks,...
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A Voyage Long and Strange
On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America

Picador
W hat happened in North America between Columbus's sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620? On a visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he...

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McCarthy's Bar
A Journey of Discovery In Ireland

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Despite the many exotic places Pete McCarthy has visited, he finds that nowhere else can match the particular magic of Ireland, his mother’s homeland. ...
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A Small Place

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If...
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Smile When You're Lying
Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer

Holt Paperbacks
From Bangkok to Bogotá, a hilarious behind-the-brochures tour of picture-perfect locales, dangerous destinations, and overrated hellholes from a guy who knows...
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Route 66, 75th Anniversary Edition
The Mother Road

St. Martin's Griffin
America's Main Street is celebration, Michael Wallis hit the road again, revisiting people and places that made the Mother Road on American icon, and...
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Route 66
Traveler's Guide and Roadside Companion

St. Martin's Griffin
Fully revised and expanded New stories-more details -Nearly 30 feet of strip maps -350 towns and attractions -More highway...
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Let's Go Puerto Rico 3rd Edition

Let's Go Publications
Packed with travel information, including listings, deals, and insider tips: CANDID LISTINGS of hundreds of places to eat, sleep, drink, and feel like a local....
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Let's Go Ireland 13th Edition

Let's Go Publications
Packed with travel information, including listings, deals, and insider tips: CANDID LISTINGS of hundreds of place to eat, sleep, drink, and feel like a local....
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Die Happy
499 Things Every Guy's Gotta Do While He Still Can

St. Martin's Griffin
Attention, guys of America: It’s time to get off the couch, turn off the PlayStation, and set down your beer (just kidding—never set down your beer). Your days...
  
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Round Ireland with a Fridge

St. Martin's Griffin
Have you ever made a drunken ben? Worse, still, have you eveer tried to win one? In attempting to hitchhike round Ireland wich a fridge, Tony Hawks did both,...
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Blue Latitudes
Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

Picador
Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before Two centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers on a wild ride across...
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Let's Go 2009 Europe

Let's Go Publications
Packed with travel information, including more listings, deals, and insider tips: • CANDID LISTINGS of hundreds of places to eat, sleep, drink, and feel...
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Looking for Alaska

St. Martin's Griffin
More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation. His memoir of...
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The Devil's Teeth
A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

Holt Paperbacks
A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators-and the strange...
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Coming into the Country

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive...