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Ask Arthur Frommer
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Arthur Frommer |
"Arthur Frommer is still dispensing practical advice to travelers." -USA Today "Written in Frommer's trademark light and conversational tone , [Ask Arthur Frommer] covers more than 800 topics, from… |
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The Lost Girls
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Jennifer Baggett |
Jen, Holly, and Amanda are at a crossroads. They're feeling the pressure to hit certain milestones—scoring a big promotion, finding a soul mate, having 2.2 kids—before they reach their early thirties… |
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Journeys
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Samuel F. Pickering |
Essays describing meanderings that range from author's backyard to Canada and Australia, from the remnant of a salt water farm to fly-specked dinners, from running half-marathons to dozing through a … |
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Living with cannibals and other women's adventures
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Michele B. Slung |
Inspiring, sometimes tragic, often humorous tales of adventurous women from the 18th century to the 21st century. Selected from National Geographic's archives, this colorful group portrait pairs fema… |
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A Russian Paints America The Travels Of Pavel P Svinin 18111813
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Pavel P. Svin'in |
"Pavel Petrovich Svin'in (1787/88-1839) was a painter, diplomat, and journalist who spent two years as part of the first Russian diplomatic mission to the United States. Soon after returning to Russi… |
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Naked and marooned
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Ed Stafford |
"What do you do after you walk the Amazon? Ed Stafford-adventurer extraordinaire and Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River-likes a challenge. Casting about for an ad… |
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Travel
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John Freeman,Steffi Klenz |
Hari Kunzru travels to Chernobyl, Detroit, and Japan to investigate the phenomenon of disaster tourism. Policeman-turned-detective-turned-writer A Yi describes life as a provincial gumshoe in China. … |
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Alaska blues
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Joe Upton |
Narrative description of fishing in the Inside Passage of British Columbia and Alaska. |
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Here and there in Mexico
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Mary Ashley Townsend |
"Mary Ashley Townsend was a novelist, newspaper columnist, and poet laureate of New Orleans who made several trips to Mexico with her daughter Cora during the last two decades of the 19th century. To… |
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Envisioning the worst
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Linda Evi Merians |
"This book investigates how the early-modern English came to envision "Hottentots" as humanity's most base and beastly people.".
"The descriptions of Africa's southern-most people that appear in tra… |
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Other routes
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Tabish Khair |
Includes primary source material. |
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Ask Arthur Frommer & travel better, cheaper, smarter
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Arthur Frommer |
A condensed encyclopedia of smart travel. It answers nearly every major question, discusses every major issue, covers every step of travel, reduces every travel expenditure, and shows you how to get… |
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The joys of travel
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Thomas Swick |
"In The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them, veteran travel writer Thomas Swick reflects on what he has identified as "the seven joys of travel": anticipation, movement, break from routi… |
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The best women's travel writing
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Lavinia Spalding |
xxi, 303 pages ; 21 cm |
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Queen of the road
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Doreen Orion |
A pampered Long Island princess hits the road in a converted bus with her wilderness-loving husband, travels the country for one year, and brings it all hilariously to life in this offbeat and romant… |
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Journeys outward, journeys inward
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Penelope Stuart Bourk,Bolton Anthony |
"The essays, poems, and visual art in this volume are the works of 24 "later-life" travelers and offer intimate witness to their transformative journeys as they encounter other lands, other cultures,… |
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The Best American Travel Writing 2000
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Bill Bryson,Dave Eggers,Jason Wilson,Jason Wilson |
Short Stories: Author
Boat Camp: William Booth
Lions and Tigers and Bears: Bill Buford
This Teeming Ark: Tim Cahill
The Toughest Trucker In The World: Tom Clynes
Hitchhiker's Cuba: Dave Eggers
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Riding Toward Everywhere
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William T. Vollmann |
Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence. He has investigated the causes and symptoms of humanity's obsession with violence (… |
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Beyond the Last Village
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Alan Rabinowitz |
"This book is about exploration, danger, and discovery in a remote area of the planet where the greatest necessity is salt, where people plow the earth using themselves as the beasts of burden, and w… |
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The southern gates of Arabia
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Freya Stark |
A travel writing work |
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