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Teak-wallah
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Reginald Campbell |
autobiography of young brit in the 1920's who worked as a forester in the Siam jungles and spent months on end with just himself and chinese workers. |
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Unbeaten tracks in Japan
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Isabella L. Bird |
“So genial is its spirit, so enticing its narrative.”—New Englander and Yale Review (1881). The first recorded account of Japan by a Westerner, this 1878 book captures a lifestyle that has nearly van… |
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Voices of Northern Ireland
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Carolyn Meyer |
Summary, The author relates her visit to Northern Ireland where she interviewed Protestants and Catholics and recorded their feelings growing up in a country torn apart by religious and political con… |
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Gipsy Moth circles the world
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Chichester, Francis Sir |
the first solo circumnavigation of the world with only one stop in Australia,He was knighted by the Queen for the feat. |
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Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell |
[Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, trades unionists, and socialists keen to help the Span… |
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As I walked out one midsummer morning
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Laurie Lee |
It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune. He was to live by playing the violin and by labouring on a London building site. Then, knowing one… |
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Roads
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Larry McMurtry |
As he crisscrosses America -- driving in search of the present, the past, and himself -- Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation's great trails and the culture that has developed aroun… |
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Picasso
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Pierre Daix,Jean-Louis Andral,Pablo Picasso |
In 1946, when Picasso received the offer to use one of the great rooms in the castle at Antibes as a studio, he exclaimed enthusiastically: “I'm not only going to paint, I'll decorate the museum too.… |
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Magellan
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Michael Burgan |
A biography outlining the life of Ferdinand Magellan who led an expedition and exploration to the Spice Islands by sailing west, and circumnavigating around the world. |
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Works (American Notes / Pictures from Italy)
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Charles Dickens |
American Notes was the result of the author's five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickens's travelogue includes the glitter of Boston; a Broadway swarming with hogs; a gruesome penitentiary in Philad… |
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Langs de Nijl
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Marcellus Emants |
Impressie van de Nederlandse schrijver van een reis door Egypte in het najaar van 1880. |
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The golden age is in us
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Alexander Cockburn |
This is a history, a diary, a dossier of a radical's working life and circumstances among some of the most momentous years of the century. Its pages echo with the crash of rubble, of the old regimes … |
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The trouser people
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Andrew Marshall |
Part travelogue, part history, part reportage, The Trouser People is an enormously appealing and vivid account of Sir George Scott, the unsung Victorian adventurer who hacked, bullied, and charmed hi… |
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Saga of a wayward sailor
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Tristan Jones |
Tristan Jones was one of the most acclaimed sea-faring storytellers ever. The combative Welshman was born at sea on a ship off Tristan da Cunha. He dropped out of school at 14 to work on sailing ba… |
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The incredible voyage
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Tristan Jones |
Follow the supreme adventurer Tristan Jones as he takes a solitary and intrepid six-year voyage on his small craft, The Sea Dart. Covering a distance twice the circumference of the globe, from the l… |
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Endurance
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Janice Marriott |
Describes how the men of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic Expedition survived when their ship was crushed by ice. Suggested level: primary. |
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Arctic crossing
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Jonathan Waterman |
"The Arctic - with its twenty-four-hour daylight, surprisingly curious animals and inexplicable humming noises - is a world of constant danger and limitless possibility. This unforgiving landscape is… |
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Tales of a Female Nomad
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Rita Golden Gelman |
The true story of an ordinary woman living an extraordinary existence all over the world.
“Gelman doesn’t just observe the cultures she visits, she participates in them, becoming emotionally invol… |
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Bitburg in moral and political perspective
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Geoffrey H. Hartman |
Examines the moral and political controversy surrounding President Reagan's intention to visit a cemetery in Bitburg, Germany, in 1985 during a visit commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the end… |
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The Iron Ring
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Lloyd Alexander |
Driven by his sense of "dharma," or honor, young King Tamar sets off on a perilous journey, with a significance greater than he can imagine, during which he meets talking animals, villainous and nobl… |
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