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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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The Ridiculous Race

Holt Paperbacks
The most absurd, hilarious, and ridiculous travelogue ever told, by two hit-TV comedy writers who raced each other around the world—for bragging rights and a...
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The River Queen
A Memoir

Picador
In the fall of 2005 acclaimed writer Mary Morris set off down the Mississippi River in a battered old houseboat called The River Queen, with two river rats...
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Going Dutch in Beijing
How to Behave Properly When Far Away from Home

Henry Holt and Co.
What to do and what not to do when traveling almost anywhere—an entertainment for the armchair or the intrepid traveler Why shouldn’t you offer to pay for...
  
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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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The Unheard
A Memoir of Deafness and Africa

Holt Paperbacks
A young man’s quest to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving world leads to a remarkable sojourn in a remote African village that pulsates with beauty and...
  
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The Fellowship of Ghosts
Travels in the Land of Midnight Sun

Picador
From the author of The Ice Soldier, comes a real-life adventure among the fjords and icy mountains of Norway. Certain geographies speak to people. We are...
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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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Queenan Country
A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country

Picador
One semitropical Fourth of July, Joe Queenan's English wife suggested that the family might like a chicken vindaloo in lieu of the customary barbecue. It was...
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Pariswalks, Sixth Edition

Holt Paperbacks
The perfect walking guide to Paris and its history, now in a thoroughly updated sixth edition Full of architectural detail, unique advice, and historical...

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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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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha
Two Years in the Heart of an African Village

Picador
The village of Nambonkaha in the Ivory Coast is a place where electricity hasn’t yet arrived, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok...
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The Enduring Shore
A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket

A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book
Even before the Pilgrims landed in 1620, Cape Cod and its islands promised paradise to visitors, both native and European. In Paul Schneider's sure hands, the...
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The River at the Center of the World, Revised
A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time

Picador
Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the...
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Mississippi Solo
A River Quest

Holt Paperbacks
Since the publication of his first book, Mississippi Solo, Eddy L. Harris has been praised for his travel writing. In this exciting reissue of his classic...