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Land's End
A Walk in Provincetown

Picador
"Cunningham’s short book is a haunting, beautiful piece of work. . . . A magnificent work of art." —The Washington Post "Easily read on a plane-and-ferry...
  
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Hidden Gardens of Paris
A Guide to the Parks, Squares, and Woodlands of the City of Light

St. Martin's Griffin
For the seasoned Parisian traveller or the novice looking to get off the beaten track Cahill provides a roadmap to parts of the city most visitors will never...
  
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I Never Knew That About London

Thomas Dunne Books
Discover hundreds of fascinating facts about London in this enthralling miscellany Travelling through the villages and districts that make up the world’s...
  
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Brazil on the Rise
The Story of a Country Transformed

Palgrave Macmillan
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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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Falling for Icarus
A Journey among the Cretans

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
On a windy spring morning in an ancient Cretan village, Rory MacLean fell to earth. His mother had died a few months earlier and a single obsession had risen...
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The Flying Carpet
Adventures in a Biplane from Timbuktu to Everest and Beyond

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Thirsting for a new adventure and announcing that “an adventure not in the air is obsolete,” Richard Halliburton hired pioneer aviator Moye Stephens in 1931...
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The Lycian Shore
The Freya Stark Collection

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Lycia, on the southwestern coast of Turkey, is an ancient land steeped in mystery, myth, and legend. Figured prominently throughout history and literature,...
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The Glorious Adventure
Through the Mediterranean in the Wake of Odysseus

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
It was perhaps inevitable that Richard Halliburton, the romantic, imaginative wanderer, would follow in the footsteps of another legendary traveler--Odysseus....
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Tuscan Cities
Travels through the Heart of Old Italy

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
For William Dean Howells, American Consul to Venice for four years, Italy was the country that fashioned his prose and fostered his love of travel. One winter,...

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High Line
The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky

FSG Originals
How two New Yorkers led the transformation of a derelict elevated railway into a grand—and beloved—open space The High Line, a new park atop an ele-vated...
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The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago
The Complete Cultural Handbook

St. Martin's Griffin
The road across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela in the northwest was one of the three major Christian pilgrimage routes during the Middle Ages,...
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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
Right down America’s Main Street it rolled, pausing at each town along the way, then moving on, carrying travelers in search of adventure, romance, or that...
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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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Marching Powder
A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail

St. Martin's Griffin
An account of life inside one of the strangest and most notorious prisons in the world, San Pedro in Bolivia.
  
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Seeking Sicily
A Cultural Journey Through Myth and Reality in the Heart of the Mediterranean

Thomas Dunne Books
“Keahey’s exploration of this misunderstood island offers a much-needed look at a much-maligned land.”—Paul Paolicelli, author of Under the Southern...
  
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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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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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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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Running Away to Home
Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters

St. Martin's Press
A middle class, Midwestern family in search of meaning uproot themselves and move to their ancestral village in Croatia “We can look at this in two ways,” Jim...
  
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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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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...