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The Magnetic North
Notes from the Arctic Circle

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title More than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth...
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Everything but the Squeal
Eating the Whole Hog in Northern Spain

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
John Barlow, self-confessed glutton, found himself in a tricky situation: living in one of the most meat-loving places on earth, married to a vegetarian. ...
  
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Temptations of the West
How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A vivid, often surprising account of South Asia today by the author of An End to Suffering In his new book, Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and...
  
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The Naked Tourist
In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall

North Point Press
From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east—and of the tour itself Sick of...
  
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Fast Company
A Memoir of Life, Love, and Motorcycles in Italy

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
It’s the thick of the mid-1990s boom, and David M. Gross is racking up billable hours for a Manhattan corporate law firm and thinking that there must be more...
  
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Apple's America
The Discriminating Traveler's Guide to 40 Great Cities

North Point Press
Unpretentious, sophisticated, and always appetizing advice from a celebrated authority For more than thirty years, R. W. Apple Jr. roamed the United States...
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Gone to New York
Adventures in the City

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, a city more downtown than up, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord...
  
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Some Remarkable Men
Further Memoirs

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
With his critically acclaimed acute eye, James Lord has created another series of inimitably spirited, witty, profoundly moving portraits. Haunting,...
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The Tuscan Year
Life and Food in an Italian Valley

North Point Press
The Tuscan Year recounts the daily life and food preparation of Elizabeth Romer's family in a valley between Umbria and Tuscany. She chronicles each season's...
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A Small Place

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This expansive essay shows us -- in a delighfully Swiftian mode -- what we have not yet seen of Antigua, the small island in the British West Indies where...