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The Magnetic North
Notes from the Arctic Circle

North Point Press
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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The Naked Tourist
In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall

North Point Press
Sick of producing the picturesque bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism...
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The Dark Heart of Italy

North Point Press
In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very...
  
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Stolen Figs
And Other Adventures in Calabria

North Point Press
Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy -- a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scorching...
  
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Rowing to Latitude
Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge

North Point Press
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug...
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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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Travels with Alice

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
This delightful book collects Calvin Trillin's accounts of his trips to Europe with his wife, Alice, and their two daughters. In Taormina, Sicily, they...
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The Yellow Wind

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
With a new introduction by the author. The Israeli novelist David Grossman's impassioned account of what he observed on the West Bank in early 1987--not...
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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...
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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 a family living on a farm in Tuscany. Elizabeth Romer chronicles each season’s activities...