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Brazil on the Rise
The Story of a Country Transformed

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Falling for Icarus
A Journey among the Cretans

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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

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Thirsting for a new adventure and announcing that “an adventure not in the air is obsolete,” Richard Halliburton hired pioneer aviator Moye Stephens in 1931...
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Tuscan Cities
Travels through the Heart of Old Italy

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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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The Lycian Shore
The Freya Stark Collection

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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

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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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English Hours
A Portrait of a Country

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Henry James left America for England in 1876 and remained in his adopted country for the next three decades. Arriving in Liverpool, he made his way first to...
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Italian Journeys
From Venice to Naples and Beyond

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In 1861, in recognition of his service to the election campaign of the previous year, Abraham Lincoln appointed William Dean Howells consul to Venice. Howells...
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Lifting the Veil
Two Centuries of Travelers, Traders and Tourists in Egypt

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From James Bruce’s intrepid journey up the Nile to the departure of the last British troops from Suez, Lifting the Veil portrays the shifting interests, dreams...
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From Cairo to Baghdad
British Travellers in Arabia

I.B. Tauris
Until the 1880s, British travelers to Arabia were for the most part wealthy dilettantes who could fund their travels from private means. With the advent of an...

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The History of Cuba
Palgrave Essential Histories Series

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A narrative history of Cuba from prehistoric times to the present.
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The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe
Revised and Updated

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Eastern European history is a difficult subject for Westerners to understand, partly because of the region's political, ethnic, and cultural diversity. The...
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The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Balkans

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The dramatic, tumultuous, often tragic human events that erupted in the Balkan Peninsula following the collapse of communism between 1989 and 1991 have...