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Penguin Putnam Inc Travels with Charley in Search of America
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Penguin Putnam Inc Black Dragon River
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Snow Leopard penguin Orange Collection
Book SynopsisPart of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperbackWinner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin’s iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today.The Snow Leopard In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into t
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Oxford University Press Abroad
Book SynopsisA book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.Trade Review"This is the most interesting and insightful book that I have read on travel writing, and my students seem to agree."--Jonathan Smith, Texas A & M University"Abroad is an exemplary piece of criticism. It is immensely readable. It bristles with ideas. It disinters a regal lost masterpiece from the library stacks. It admits a whole area of writing-at last!-to its proper place in literary history."--The New York Times Book Review"What Fussell has done-brightly, wittily, with bravura display of critical methods-is to reclaim for travel writing a large measure of literary respectability."--Newsweek"[Fussell's] book is a fitting substitute for the real thing; it is a journey in time and space, offering the serendipitous pleasure of the open road."--Time"An absolutely dazzling continent of sociology, literary criticism, cultural history, biography and amusing anecdote, so borderlessly fused that we hardly realize what great intellectual distances we are covering."The New York Times"[A] witty book that bristles with outrageous assertions....Fussell obviously enjoys the act of writing about his reading, which is what makes the book so lively."--The Tribune (London)
£19.99
Oxford University Press Fossils Finches and Fuegians Darwins Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle
Trade ReviewA colorful and lively account of this history-making scientific adventure. * Kirkus Reviews *Handsomely illustrated with sketches and paintings made by Darwin and others associated with the Beagle, this is an excellent introduction to the events that led 20 years later to On the Origin of the Species. * Publishers Weekly *A comprehensive and detailed account of Charles Darwin's five- year global voyage of discovery.... Greatly enhanced by helpful maps, recent photographs, relevant illustrations, and arresting color plates. * Library Journal *There is a real need for an account like this that brings together all aspects of the Beagle voyage in chronological order, and which adds (as this does) information from the archival records that is interesting and relevant, while still letting Darwin's pleasant character and his animated appreciation of what he was seeing emerge. Scrupulously balanced, accurate, and informative, this book reads wonderfully well. * Janet Browne, author of Charles Darwin: Voyaging and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place *Altogether, Keynes has succeeded in providing a rich and even sumptuous perspective on one of the great scientific adventures shaping the modern age. This is a story to which everyone can relate * a story that portrays an amiable and industrious young man who increasingly surprises himself (and us all) by his remarkable ability to ask the right questions, and ultimately to relate the disparate facts of a humble observer to a grand and revolutionary vision of the evolution of life on earth. Keynes's fascinating account of Darwin's Wanderjahre, and the momentous consequences of this youthful adventure for the history of science, is a real winner.Frank J. Sulloway, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives *An absolutely splendid read that is at once engaging and informative, filled with the minutiae of science history not found anywhere else, as well as the biggest ideas in all of science. Evolutionary theory is one of the half dozen most important ideas in the history of western thought, and Keynes brings to light the fermentation of Darwin's vision of that dangerous idea during his five-year voyage. * Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and the author of The Borderlands of Science and In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace *
£24.22
Oxford University Press Inc The Road to Oxiana
Book SynopsisIn 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. Throughout, he kept a thoroughly captivating record of his encounters, discoveries, and frequent misadventures. His story would become a best-selling travel book throughout the English-speaking world, until the acclaim died down and it was gradually forgotten. When Paul Fussell published his own book Abroad, in 1982, he wrote that The Road to Oxiana is to the travel book what Ulysses is to the novel between the wars, and what The Waste Land is to poetry. His statements revived the public''s interest in the book, and for the first time, it was widely available in American bookstores. Now this long-overdue reprint will introduce it to a whole new generation of readers. This edition features a new introduction by Rory Stewart, best known for his book The Places In Between,Trade ReviewCertainly the wittiest book, and perhaps the wisest, to have been written in English about Iran. * Christopher de Robert Byron was born in England in 1905 into a family distantly *
£14.99
Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc) Radio ShangriLa
Book SynopsisLisa Napoli was in the grip of a crisis, dissatisfied with her life and her work as a radio journalist. When a chance encounter with a handsome stranger presented her with an opportunity to move halfway around the world, Lisa left behind cosmopolitan Los Angeles for a new adventure in the ancient Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan—said to be one of the happiest places on earth. Long isolated from industrialization and just beginning to open its doors to the modern world, Bhutan is a deeply spiritual place, devoted to environmental conservation and committed to the happiness of its people—in fact, Bhutan measures its success in Gross National Happiness rather than in GNP. In a country without a single traffic light, its citizens are believed to be among the most content in the world. To Lisa, it seemed to be a place that offered the opposite of her fast-paced life in the United States, where the noisy din of sound-bite news and cell phones dominate our days, and meanin
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Crown Female Nomad and Friends
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Crown Paris Paris
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Random House USA Inc In Xanadu
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St Martin's Press Round Ireland with a Fridge
Book SynopsisHave you ever made a drunken bet? Worse, still, have you eveer tried to win one? In attempting to hitchhike round Ireland wich a fridge, Tony Hawks did both, and his foolhardiness led him to one of the best experiences of his life. Joined by his trusty traveling companion-cum-domestic appliance, he made his way from Dublin to Donegal, from Sligo through Mayo, Galway, Clare, Kerry, Cork, Wexford, Wicklow--and back again to Dublin. In their month of madness, Tony and his fridge met a real prince, a bogus king, and the fridge got christened. They surfed together, entered a bachelor festival, and one of them had sex without the other knowing. And unexpectedly, the fridge itself became a momentary focus for the people of Ireland.An international bestseller, Round Ireland with a Fridge is a classic travel adventure in the tradition of Bill Bryson with a dash of Dave Barry.
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St Martin's Press False Papers Essays on Exile and Memory
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St Martin's Press 99 Drams of Whiskey The Accidental Hedonists Quest for the Perfect Shot and the History of the Drink
Book SynopsisEducates the readers on whiskey's place in the history of the world. This title discusses the fine art of distilling and the proper ways to drink whiskey, and provides tasting notes on different brands.Trade Review"99 DRAMS OF WHISKEY is part travelogue, part distillery guide, and part history book. It is deeply personal, and told in Kate Hopkins humorous, engaging, and inimitable style." Kevin Erskine, author of the Instant Expert's Guide To Single Malt Scotch"
£20.64
Griffin Publishing French Toast An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French
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Little, Brown & Company Skeletons on the Zahara
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Little, Brown & Company Blue Highways A Journey into America
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Pan Macmillan Facing the Frozen Ocean
Book SynopsisBear Grylls spent three years with the British Special Forces. During this time he had a horrendous parachuting accident in southern Africa, breaking his back in three places. Two years later he overcame the odds to become one of the youngest British climbers ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and this story forms the basis for his bestselling memoir, Facing Up. Bear Grylls is one of the most successful motivational speakers on the world circuit. Looking for another adventure, Bear tackled the treacherous North Atlantic seas in Facing the Frozen Ocean. Bear Grylls is one of the most recognized faces of survival and outdoor adventure and one of the most successful motivational speakers on the world circuit.Trade ReviewAn epic story of hardship, friendship and faith. * Daily Telegraph *Riveting. * Daily Express *Grylls is certainly proof that the age of great explorers has not completely passed us by. * Scotsman *
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Little, Brown Book Group Valley Of The Casbahs A Journey Across the Moroccan Sahara
Book SynopsisThe four-hundred-and-fifty-mile long Draa River Valley in the Moroccan Sahara contains some of the most sumptuous oases and searing desert of the Arab world, starting in the moonscape gorges of the Anti Atlas Mountains through to a green sea of date palms over which rise the many-towered casbahs of ochre coloured clay, medieval in aspect and sheltering a life medieval in character. It is a region richer historically and ethnically than anywhere else in North Africa. The river stretches to the mosaic of dunes and parched land known as hammada - the domain of Bedouin and Blue Men and isolated Berber tribes - and pours through the desert into the Atlantic, where it ends its course. Jeffrey Tayler follows the Draa by foot and on camel, recounting stays in casbah homes, weddings, visits to mosques and marabouts and nights in hashish dens. It is a journey marked with extremes - of weather, as Tayler survives intense heat and sandstorms and potentially lethal local tribesmen - and one which Trade ReviewTayler imparts a sense of immediacy to his travels, while reflecting on a nomadic way of life in fast decline. * NORTHERN ECHO *A delightful and thought-provoking snapshot of Moroccan life. * DAILY EXPRESS *He vividly recreates his trek, balancing the beauty with the gritty. * INK *It is easy to see why Tayler counts Bill Bryson amongst his fans * GOOD BOOK GUIDE *
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Little, Brown Book Group Another Long Day On The Piste
Book SynopsisWriter, adventurer, ex-teacher and veteran of umpteen travel disasters, Will Randall has fallen off donkeys in Spain and out of canoes in the Solomon Islands, but none of this has prepared him for a disastrous season as a ski-bum with a posse of raucous, hard-drinking ex-students.Dismally unfashionable and hopeless at skiing, Randal finds that his stay in the charming Alpine backwater of mont St Bernard brings a whole host of new opportunities for domestic catastrophe, romantic rejection and public humiliation, including a stint as a chalet girl and an encounter with a Russian oligarch and his hair-raising entourage.Wry, self-deprecating and deliriously funny, ANOTHER LONG DAY ON THE PISTE is a rollercoaster of a travel adventure and essential apres-ski reading.Trade ReviewUnremittingly calamitous, self-deprecating and entertaining * DAILY MAIL SKI + SNOWBOARD *Highly entertaining . . . there is much pointed irony and satire to enjoy * THE TIMES *...side-splittingly funny... Randall is a gifted raconteur... * FRENCH NEWS *timely and humorous * DAILY MIRROR *
£20.54
Mariner Books Rebel with a Clause
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER A fresh and democratic take on language by a gifted teacher. —Mary Norris[Jovin] never hectors, never finger-points; she enlightens and illuminates. This is lovely work. —Benjamin DreyerAn unconventional guide to the English language drawn from the cross-country adventures of an itinerant grammarian.When Ellen Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a GRAMMAR TABLE sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Grammar Table was such a hit—attracting the attention of the New York Times, NPR, and CBS Evening News—that Jovin soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from writers, lawyers, editors, businesspeople, students, bickering couples, and anyone else who uses words in this world.In
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Mariner Books On the Plain of Snakes
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Mariner Books American Ramble
Book Synopsis“American Ramble is a dazzling mixture of travelogue, memoir, and history. At times profound, funny, and heartbreaking, this is the story of a traveler intoxicated by life. I couldn’t put it down.” — Nathaniel PhilbrickA stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City—an unforgettable pilgrimage to the heart of America across some of our oldest common ground. Neil King Jr.’s desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an obsession. By the spring of 2021, events had intervened that gave his desire greater urgency. His neighborhood still reeled from the January 6th insurrection. Covid lockdowns and a rancorous election had deepened America’s divides. Neil himself bore the imprints of a long battle with cancer.Determined to rediscover what matters in life and to see our national story with new eyes, Neil turned north with a small satchel on his back and one mission in mind: To pay close attention to the land he crossed and the people he met.What followed is an extraordinary 26-day journey through historic battlefields and cemeteries, over the Mason-Dixon line, past Quaker and Amish farms, along Valley Forge stream beds, atop a New Jersey trash mound, across New York Harbor, and finally, to his ultimate destination: the Ramble, where a tangle of pathways converges in Central Park. The journey travels deep into America’s past and present, uncovering forgotten pockets and overlooked people. At a time of mounting disunity, the trip reveals the profound power of our shared ground.By turns amusing, inspiring, and sublime, American Ramble offers an exquisite account of personal and national renewal—an indelible study of our country as we’ve never seen it before.
£999.99
Lulu.com Adventures of a Mountain Man The Narrative of Zenas Leonard
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Lulu.com Adventures of a Mountain Man The Narrative of Zenas Leonard
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Greek House
Book SynopsisWhen Christian Brechneff first set foot on the Greek island of Sifnos, it was the spring of 1972 and he was a twenty-one-year-old painter searching for artistic inspiration and a quiet place to work. This narrative is about his relationship to Sifnos, writing with warmth about its residents and the house he bought in a hilltop farm village.
£18.52
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Hells Traces One Murder Two Families ThirtyFive Holocaust Memorials
Book SynopsisAn unsentimental meditation on memory and loss that recounts the author’s search for a Holocaust memorial that speaks to the death of his young cousin.
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Picador USA Among Flowers
Book SynopsisIn this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular and exotic Himalayan land, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at home. The natural world and, in particular, plants and gardening are central to Kincaid's work; in addition to such novels as Annie John and Lucy, Kincaid is the author of My Garden (Book): a collection of essays about her love of cultivating plants and gardens throughout her life. Among Flowers intertwines meditations on nature and stunning descriptions of the Himalayan landscape with observations on the ironies, difficulties, and dangers of this magnificent journey.For Kincaid and three botanist friends, Nepal is a paradise, a place where a single day's hike can traverse climate zones, from subtropical to alpine, encompassing flora suitable for growing at their homes, from Wales to Vermont. Yet as she makes clear, there is far more to this foreign world than rhododendrons that grow thirty feet high. Danger, too, is a constant companionand the leeches are the least of the worries. Unpredictable Maoist guerillas live in these perilous mountains, and when they do appearas they do more than oncetheir enigmatic presence lingers long after they have melted back into the landscape. And Kincaid, who writes of the looming, lasting effects of colonialism in her works, necessarily explores the irony of her status as memsahib with Sherpas and bearers.A wonderful blend of introspective insight and beautifully rendered description, Among Flowers is a vivid, engrossing, and characteristically frank memoir from one of our most striking voices.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Dressed Up for a Riot Misadventures in Putins Moscow
Book SynopsisA memoir of revolution, reaction, and Russian men's fashionIn this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongsideand closely observingthe media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in chief of GQ Russia, Idov and his family arrive in a Moscow still seething from a dubious election and the mass anti-Putin rallies that erupted in response. Idov is fascinated by the political turmoil but nonetheless finds himself pulled in unlikely directions. He becomes a tabloid celebrity, acts in a Russian movie with Snoop Dogg, befriends the members of Pussy Riot, punches an anti-Semitic magazine editor on the steps of the Bolshoi Theatre, sells an autobiographical sitcom pilot that is later changed into an anti-American farce, and writes Russia's top-grossing domestic movie of 2015. Meanwhile, he becomes disillusioned with the splintering opposition to P
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HarperCollins Notes from a Small Island
Book Synopsis"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is...
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Basic Books Trading with the Enemy
Book SynopsisA travel classic, revised after twenty years: a journalist's lyrical account of life in Castro's Cuba.
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Random House USA Inc The Caliphs House
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Faber & Faber Reflections on Blue Water
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Rainy Day Publishing Inc Into the Carpathians
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iUniverse Walking to Singapore A Year Off the Beaten Path in Southeast Asia
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iUniverse A Week In Porlamar Margarita Island Venezuela
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iUniverse My Celtic Soul Our Year In the West of Ireland
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iUniverse Tahiti Report An Indepth Very Intimate Look at Tahiti Before the Jets Came 1960 and Today 2000 A Lighthearted Very Intimate Look at Tahiti Before the Jets Arrived 1960 and Today 2000
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iUniverse Report From Practically Nowhere
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iUniverse Moving to Majorca Provence on Wheels With Unforgettable Characters
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iUniverse Doing 90 at 40 A HighSpeed Odyssey into America
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iUniverse In Search of Beadle Lu Stories of an American in China Stories from an American in China
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iUniverse No Worries Mate A Manly Adventure in the Land Down Under
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iUniverse Great Lakes Solo Exploring the Great Lakes Coastline from the St Lawrence Seaway to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota
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iUniverse A Journey For Three Seasons A Personal Travel Journal through Europe and Eastern Europe
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iUniverse Dont Quit Your Day Job Adventures for the Working Stiff
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iUniverse Greetings from Carls Corner Texas
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iUniverse On The Road To Santiago
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iUniverse Light Nights and Wet Feet A Walk Through Modern Scotland
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