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Random House USA Inc An Embarrassment of Mangoes
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McClelland & Stewart Inc. Ten Thousand Scorpions
Book SynopsisThe desert tribes of Yemen call her Bilqis. In the high plateaus of Ethiopia, she is revered as Makeda. And in the fertile valleys of Anatolian Turkey, she is known as Saba Sultana. Who was the mysterious Queen of Sheba, and why has her legend survived for three thousand years - not least in accounts from both the Bible and the Koran?In 1996, a geology team working for Chuck Fipke (the immensely colourful discoverer of the Etaki diamond mines in the Northwest Territories and the subject of the bestselling 1999 biography Fire into Ice) was looking for gold deposits in the remote Yemeni desert. There they stumbled upon ancient mine tunnels. Were these primitive Iron Age ruins the source of Sheba’s gold?Author Larry Frolick travelled with Fipke’s Cantex crew into the desert, seeking the truth of the legendary Queen. What he found there were not answers but more questions - questions that ultimately led him from Yemen to the Highlands of Ethiopia during L
£15.26
Walker & Company Ghosts of Spain
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£17.00
Random House USA Inc The Nile
Book SynopsisThe Nile, like all of Egypt, is both timeless and ever-changing. In these pages, renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey downriver that is both history and travelogue. We begin at the First Nile Cataract, close to the modern city of Aswan. From there, Wilkinson guides us through the illustrious nation birthed by this great river. We see Thebes, with its Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and Luxor Temple. We visit the fertile Fayum, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and finally, the pulsing city of Cairo, where the Arab Spring erupted on the bridges over the water. Along the way, Wilkinson introduces us to the gods, pharaohs, and emperors who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality; and to the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have all fallen under its spell. Peerlessly erudite, vividly told, The Nile brings the course of this enduring river into stunning view.
£16.15
Northwestern University Press Trouble Lights
Book SynopsisTravelling from the rural Midwest and Chicago, his mythic childhood city, to the out-posts of Cornwall and far-off Guangzhou, the author searches for the miracle of wholeness in the small details. His poetry aims to create a genuine surrealism.
£999.99
Northwestern University Press Trouble Lights
Book SynopsisTravelling from the rural Midwest and Chicago, his mythic childhood city, to the out-posts of Cornwall and far-off Guangzhou, the author searches for the miracle of wholeness in the small details. His poetry aims to create a genuine surrealism.
£999.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Helen in Egypt
Book SynopsisA fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem.
£17.09
Syracuse University Press All in a Days Work Scenes and Stories from an
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£16.46
University of Arizona Press The Panama Hat Trail
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£20.85
MP - University Of Minnesota Press Portage
Book Synopsis Part travelogue, part natural and cultural history, Portage is the memoir of one family's thirty-five-year venture into the watery expanse of the world. Exploring the river means encountering the inevitable changes that occur as a family canoes through time and learns what it means to be human in this natural world.Trade Review"Read Sue Leaf’s Portage as a guidebook to canoeing or how to raise a family, as a natural history, as a meditation on the significance of wild places, as an intimate portrayal of a marriage. Leaf combines them all."—Kent Meyers, author of The Witness of Combines and Twisted Tree"Even those who’ve never dipped a paddle will be pulled into Sue Leaf’s rich and surprising tale about the true nature of wilderness as seen from the seat of a canoe. Rich details and refreshing honesty bring her journeys to life. It’s as if I were in the canoe with her, minus the bugs, the spills, and the dangers that come from venturing into the wilderness."—Catherine Friend, author of Hit by a Farm and Sheepish"Take your pick of reasons to read Sue Leaf’s Portage—for a glimpse into the experience of canoeing the region’s water roads, for insights into ecology, to see how a love for wild places can be passed along from generation to generation, for a darn good story. If, like me, you mark the margins of your books for special passages you want to remember, get your pencil ready."—Laurie Allmann, author of Far from Tame: Reflections from the Heart of a Continent"Leaf ably interfaces her personal narratives with historical facts and natural details of the more than 25 lakes and rivers she has paddled. Pleasant outdoors stories that will appeal to nature lovers, avid canoeists, and armchair travelers."—Kirkus Reviews"This well-written book evokes the feeling of exploring one of the continent’s wildest forests."—Nature World News"Leaf is a thoughtful, observant writer, and these 28 essays, while steeped in nature, are also about much more — family, and fear, and adventure."—Star Tribune"A great read for anyone who enjoys paddling."—Northern Wilds"Sue Leaf is one of the most elegant writers about nature and the environment. She shows her talents again in Portage."—Pioneer Press"It was like a good canoe outing-- you looked forward to what was in the next lake or bend (or chapter), you felt the joy of moving along and, at the end, you were both sorry it was over and thankful for the memories."—Rochester Post-Bulletin"Insightful, peaceful memoir about years of canoeing in the area’s lakes and river, with observations on plants, animals, traveling with children and ecological degradation."—Pioneer Press"Leaf does a wonderful job guiding us visually and experientially through the lakes she herself has canoed. Vivid descriptions of the land and the wildlife paint clear visions of the scenery that she was fortunate enough to see. Fascinating and comical anecdotes featuring the historical figures who visited some of the lakes, capsized canoes, stormy lakes, and long paddles lend color and excitement to the story."—Cook County News-HeraldTable of ContentsContentsPrologue: In the Beginning, a Silver StreakThe Pictographs on Lac La Croix: Into the Boundary Waters, 1979Locked In: The Mississippi at Minneapolis, 1981Canoeing the Spirit River: The Rum, 1986Missouri Breaks: The Upper Missouri River, 1993Breaking in the New Canoe: The Kettle River, 1994Canoe Swarms: Back to the Boundary Waters, 1993–94Kid Canoeing: The Crow Wing, 1995Self-Reliance: The Upper Mississippi River, 1997Canoeing the Sandhills: The Niobrara River, 1998Loving It to Death: The Boundary Waters, 1998Burnt Woods River: The Bois Brule of Northern Wisconsin, 1999Paddling with the Alligators: Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, 2001Mother’s Day: The Cannon River, 2002The Eye of the Wolf: Isle Royale National Park, 2003The Clarity of Nellie Lake: Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario, 2004Looking for Snakes: The Marias River, Havre, Montana, 2005Abundance: The Upper Iowa River, 2006Sea Caves: Lake Superior, 2007Transition: Kejim-Kujik National Park, Nova Scotia, 2008Nerve-Wracked: The White River of Wisconsin, 2010Wild and Scenic: The Upper St. Croix River, 2011Pursuing the Group of Seven: Algonquin Provincial Park, 2012Chronos and Kairos: The Little Missouri River, 2013Ancient Valley: The Kickapoo River, 2013Urban Adventure: Minnehaha Creek, 2014Father’s Day: The Fox River, 2014Draining the Ancient Lake: The Red Lake River of Northwestern Minnesota, 2014What Is the Good Life? The Au Sable River of Lower Michigan, 2014Acknowledgments
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Wesleyan University Press Wilderness
Book SynopsisA new paperback edition of Kent's first book, often referred to as Alaska's Walden.
£18.47
Beaufort Books The Camino
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£15.29
North Point Press Caught inside a Surfers Year on the California
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£15.20
Michigan State University Press My Grandfathers Book Generations of an American
Book SynopsisInspired by his grandfather's love of Joseph Conrad, Gary Gildner embarked on a journey of self-discovery that took him from the Tatra Mountains in Eastern Europe to the Clearwater Mountains in Idaho, finding where the truth begins in his own life.
£999.99
Michigan State University Press Ordinary Women An Arctic Adventure
Book SynopsisA chronicle of the first all-women ski expedition from the Russian side of the planet to the North Pole. Full of surprises from its inception to its execution nearly eight years later, this is a story of women working together, taking on harsh critics, challenging each other, and reaching a common goal
£999.99
Wisconsin Historical Society Press The Bark River Chronicles Stories from a
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Maryland Lost and Found...Again
Book SynopsisVeteran Washington Post reporter and award-winning writer Eugene L. Meyer directs a tour across the âœFree Stateâ that is part love letter, part oral history, part obituary. He explores what makes Maryland special, the people who make it unique, and the places and livelihoods that have vanished over the years. The whole of the American experience is found within or close to the state's borders and between the covers of this bookmegalopolis, Appalachia, the Chesapeake Bay, the Deep South, the industrial North, rich farmland, a major port, the nation's capital, the primary car and rail routes carrying East Coast interstate traffic. Maryland Lost and Found Again transcends the state to comment on the American landscape.
£13.49
John Wiley & Sons Oregon There and Back in 1877
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£999.99
John Wiley & Sons Reach of Tide Ring of History A Columbia River
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MP-OSU Oregon State Universi Where the Wind Dreams of Staying Searching for
Book SynopsisIn his powerful memoir Where the Wind Dreams of Staying, Eric Dieterle captures the emotional storms of a boy, and then a man, who seeks meaning in a place, or a place with meaning. His restless search for purpose and identity in the American West moves through cycles of success and failure, love and loss.
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University Press of Colorado Big Wonderful Notes from Wyoming
Book SynopsisIn this unconventional memoir, Kevin Holdsworth vividly portrays life in remote, unpredictable country and ruminates on the guts - or foolishness - it takes to put down roots and raise a family in a merciless environment.Table of ContentsContents; Acknowledgments; 1. Howdy; Theme from an Imaginary Western; At a Cemetery in Salt Lake City; The Doppler Effect; Big, Wonderful; 2. Roots; Finding Seedskadee; Roots; On Visiting Elinore Pruitt Stewart's Homestead; 3. Risk; Finale, Indian Summer; Money for Nothing; Crossing the Three Sisters; Dark Water, Bright Sky; On Dedicating a Statue of John Wesley Powell; 4. Boom and Bust; The Cycle of Snowfields; Boom and Bust, Part One; Emma; I. English Girl; II. Martin's Cove; III. The Burden of Interpretation; IV. Reaching a Settlement; Boom and Bust, Part Two: Economic Manic Depression; 5. Mountains; Lines Composed above Big Sandy Openings; Condensed from Aqueous Vapor in the Atmosphere; Seven Horseshoes; The Longest Day; The Glaciers Are Dying; 6. Children; Viva; Blood, Water, and Wine; Riverview; 7. Charismatic Megafauna; Memo: Town Deer; To the Bears of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; The Wild Horse Problem; Like a Thief in the Night; 8. Myth; Muy Frio; 9. Adios; Water's Edge; Tethered to Earth; Notes; Bibliography
£999.99
WW Norton & Co Walking Home A Poets Journey
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Portico Prize for Nonfiction Nineteen days, 256 miles, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of England.Trade Review"Part pilgrimage and part stunt… He writes with self-effacing humor and mixes a few of his own poems with memoir, natural history, and literary reflections… Though Armitage complains at times that the Pennine Way is an ‘unglamorous slog among soggy, lonely moors' …his account is never a slog for the reader." -- New Yorker"Never showy or excitable, his prose has a steady, phlegmatic, gently propulsive rhythm perfectly suited to the matter at hand, his sentences in tune with his feet." -- The Wall Street Journal"The walk is serious, but Armitage knows how to have fun along the way . . . managing a surprise ending that feels, psychically, satisfying." -- Boston Globe"Entertaining…Walking Home riffs on the ancient correlation between itinerancy and story-telling, with embedded tales of varying tallness coming and going in an almost casual manner." -- The Guardian"What makes Armitage’s pilgrimage special is that he attempts to fuel it on poetry alone. . . . [T]his is an adventure story, compellingly and humorously told." -- Daily Beast"Walking Home fits into the classic unnecessary journey genre, with a cast of local characters and transcendent moments…And never will reading about a hot shower and some foot ointment be quite so enjoyable." -- The Independent"Starred review. [A]n ingenious idea for a journey and a brilliant idea for a book, which includes some of his poems. In this entertaining jaunt through rural Britain and unpredictable weather, part travel guide and part memoir, Armitage describes his adventures, from collie dogs growling at his heels and “mean-looking cows” to the unbridled generosity of strangers. A travel gem." -- Booklist"Lovely… Armitage’s account is so observant, so funny and so intensely likeable you leave it wishing he’d picked a longer route. The dialogue is note-perfect and the jokes alone are worth the journey. And at the end of it all, Armitage has achieved far more than his stated ambition. Walking Home tells us not just about the bones of Britain, but about the connections still to be forged between people and print, and the everlasting power of an open heart." -- The Telegraph"[Armitage] displays a sharp appreciation of place, both in its unique contours and its mystery…doling out small stories—about the people he walks with or the history of the landscape, the misery of midges or the terror of a deep fog high in the Uplands—that flash like sun on chrome." -- Kirkus
£11.99
Orbis Books (USA) GRACIAS A Latin American Journal
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£16.17
Ibis Press Searching for ShangriLa Book I Himalayan Trilogy
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£19.80
Ibis Press Shambhala Sutra Book III Himalayan Trilogy
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£19.80
Academy Chicago Publishers Voyages of Discovery Captain James Cook
Book SynopsisOn each of his three voyages, James Cook kept a log and his reputation rose steadily with each voyage largely because Europeans were fascinated with the romance of discovery as well as reports of sexual licence in Tahiti and other Polynesian islands. This work features an introduction by Robert Welsch.
£15.26
University of Alaska Press Berings Voyages The Reports from Russia 03
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£999.99
Albatross Publishing The Wisdom of Tuscany Simplicity Security the
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£18.04
The New York Review of Books, Inc Hindoo Holiday An Indian Journal New York Review
Book SynopsisIn the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature.
£12.95
The New York Review of Books, Inc African in Greenland An New York Review Books
Book SynopsisTété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland—and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed and superbly entertaining record of his adventures among the Inuit is a testament both to the wonderful strangeness of the human species and to the surprising sympathies that bind us all.
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The Library of America Henry James Travel Writings Vol. 2 Loa 65 The
Book SynopsisHenry James’s travel writings are at once literary masterpieces, unsurpassed guidebooks and penetrating reflections on the international themes familiar from his fiction. This volume, the second of two, begins with the classic A Little Tour in France (1900), illustrated with Joseph Pennell’s exquisite drawings from the original edition. James begins his tour of the French countryside one rainy morning in mid-September of 1882, when he sets off for the city of Tours as a means of exploring the proposition that “though France might be Paris, Paris was by no means France.”From Tours, Balzac’s birthplace, James travels to the great chateaux of the Loire Valley, visiting Chambord, Amboise, Chenonceaux, and Blois, where, as you cross the threshold, “you step straight into the sunshine and storm of the French Renaissance.” Dense with literary associations and historical echoes, James’s prose brings castles and cathe
£30.00
Archipelago Books Autonauts of the Cosmoroute
Book SynopsisAutonauts of the Cosmoroute is a travelogue, a love story, an irreverent collection of visual and verbal snapshots. In May 1982, Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop climbed aboard Fafner, their VW camper van, and embarked on an exploration of the uncharted territory of the Paris-Marseilles freeway. It was a route they¢d covered before, usually in about ten hours, but his time they loaded up with supplies and prepared for an ardous voyage of thirty-three days without leaving the autoroute. Along the way they would uncover the hidden side of the freeway and record The trip’s vital minutiae with light-hearted abandon. At roadside rest areas, armed with typewriters, cameras, and mutual affection, the authors composed this book.
£18.36
Chronicle Books Feast for the Senses A Musical Odyssey in Umbria
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£32.00
International Polar Institute Press Kayakmen Tales of Greenlands Seal Hunters
Book SynopsisTranscribed directly from hunters, the stories described here relate adventures in the hazardous environment of Greenland in the mid 19th century.
£18.05
Hawthorne Books Joy Ride A Bike Odyssey from Alaska to Argentina
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£15.96
BookBaby The Wandering Investor
£21.59
Picador USA Three Tigers One Mountain
Book SynopsisFrom the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China, exploring the intertwined cultures and often fraught history of these neighboring countries.There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, Two tigers cannot share the same mountain. However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, is the enmity between these three tiger nations, and what prevents them from making peace. Currently China's economic power continues to grow, Japan is becoming more militaristic, and Korea struggles to reconcile its westernized south with the dictatorial Communist north. Booth, long fascinated with the region, travels by car, ferry, train, and foot, experiencing the people and culture of these nations up
£15.30
Picador USA Footprints
Book SynopsisA profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behindWhat will the world look like in ten thousand years-or ten million? What kinds of stories will be told about us?In Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, the award-winning author David Farrier explores the traces we will leave for the very distant future. Modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, whether it is plastic polluting the oceans and nuclear waste sealed within the earth or the 30 million miles of roads spanning the planet. Our carbon could linger in the atmosphere for 100,000 years, and the remains of our cities will still exist millions of years from now as a layer in the rock. These future fossils have the potential to reveal much about how we lived in the twenty-first century.Crossing the boundaries of lit
£17.10
WW Norton & Co The Heros Way Walking with Garibaldi from Rome
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed author of Italian Ways returns with an exploration into Italy’s past and present—following in the footsteps of Garibaldi’s famed 250-mile journey across the Apennines.Trade Review"[An] utterly transporting chronicle." -- Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review"A rattlingly good story….Mr. Parks’s passionate engagement with this story lends this travelogue a special quality." -- Gregory Dowling, Wall Street Journal"A dream for armchair globetrotters…Parks intertwines his travelogue with thought-provoking contemplation on leadership, history, memory, politics, idealism and the true meaning of love of country." -- Jeremy Cliffe, The New Statesman"A chronicle of wiliness in defeat and the unlikely escape of a shrinking ragtag volunteer army…[T]he central point of how a seeming military debacle gradually became viewed as 'a glorious act of resistance' is powerfully made." -- Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times"A fresh, intriguing, environmentally sensitive, oddly endearing account." -- Jenny McPhee, Air Mail"Garibaldi's heroic journey and Parks' enthusiastic guide make this a trip well worth taking." -- Cory Oldweiler, Minneapolis Star Tribune"Soulful…This gripping account of Italy’s visionary past serves as a revealing window into its clouded present." -- Publishers Weekly (starred)
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Mariner Books Figures in a Landscape
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Random House USA Inc Travels with Herodotus Vintage International
Book SynopsisFrom the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad - perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India - the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world that took Kapuscinski from Iran to El Salvador, from Angola to Armenia. Revisiting his memories of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus' Histories in tow, Kapuscinski describes his awakening to the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of new environments, and how the words of the Greek historiographer helped shape his own view of an increasingly globalized world. Written with supreme eloquence and a constant eye to the global undercurrents that have shaped the last half-century, Travels with Herodotus is an exceptional chronicle of one man's journey
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Sourcebooks, Inc In the Land of Invisible Women
Book SynopsisA strikingly honest look into Islamic culture?in particular women and Islam?and what it takes for one woman to recreate herself in the land of invisible women.Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in motion. On a whim, she accepts an exciting position in Saudi Arabia. This is not just a new job; this is a chance at adventure in an exotic land she thinks she understands, a place she hopes she will belong.What she discovers is vastly different. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a world apart, a land of unparalleled contrast. She finds rejection and scorn in the places she believed would most embrace her, but also humor, honesty, loyalty and love.And for Qanta, more than anything, it is a land of opportunity.Very few Islamic books for women give a firsthand account of what it''s like to live in a place where Muslim women continue to be oppressed and treated as inferior to men. But if you waTrade Review"Ahmed was saddened, distressed, and taken aback by her colleagues' excitement in reaction to the 9/11 attacks. Her friends talked about how America "deserved" this tragedy because of its support of Israel." - ForeWord"Denied visa renewal in America, British-born Pakistani physician Ahmed, 31, leaves New York for a jobin Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she celebrates her Muslim faith on an exciting Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca...After 9/11, she is shocked at the widespread anti-Americanism. The details of consumerism, complete with Western brand names .... are central to this honest memoir about connections and conflicts, andespecially the clamorous clash of "modern and medieval, . . . Cadillac and camel."" - Booklist"A female doctor provides a uniquely revealing look at the hidden world of Saudi Arabian women.Denied a renewal of her visa in the United States, British-born, American-educated pulmonologist Ahmed accepted a position at a hospital in Riyadh. On rounds, the male residents she supervised would interrupt her, and female residents (what few there were) would cluster silently at the back of the group. All female doctors were required to be completely veiled. In surgeries, sons would supervise unconscious mothers, not to ensure the quality of their medical care, but to ensure that no parts of their faces were revealed by slipping veils. With such evidence around her, Ahmed began to think of these women as the wretched of the Earth. "I wouldn't be corrected in my simplistic views," she writes, "until much later, when I had befriended more Saudi women." When she did, she learned that the lives of these women under veils were no less complex and rich for being largely unseen. At her first party, she was astounded by the elegance and confidence exuded by professional women who had struggled immensely to achieve their positions. She began to understand how respect and love for women were expressed in her adopted society. Despite the strict monitoring of their clothing and behavior and the edicts against showing even the smallest scrap of skin in public, the Saudi women she met were neither so silent nor so helpless as their formless presence suggested. However, her friends were wealthy and educated; the vast impoverished majority could not even afford to visit doctors, let alone become one. Though never ceasing to be dismayed by the uglier aspects of regressive Saudi orthodoxy, Ahmed also found her own Muslim faith deepened and her conception of Islam broadened by her sojourn there. If she never learned to love the veil, she at least learned to understand it.A big-hearted examination of the extreme contradictions in a society very different-yet not so different-from our own." - Kirkus Reviews""Despite the restrictive customs of Saudi's religious rule, Ahmed found a vibrancy that left her hopeful. 'Saudi is much more heterogeneous than one would expect,' she says. 'Muslims themselves feel fairly lost in a country so caricatured and vilified for its severe austerity and Wahhabi theocracy, but it's also the cradle of Islam and the site of the Hajj-a symbol of what Islam could be.'"" - Kirkus Reviews"Ahmed still beautifully asserts her arguments and confronts the anti-Semitism, the sexism, and the anti-western attitudes she experienced... In the Land of Invisible Women gave me a lot to think about, and just not about the complexities of Saudi Arabia but also my country's, the U.S.A., interactions within the Middle East. " - Adventures in Reading"This book is a well -written and fascinating insider's look into life in Saudi Arabia and the challenges that women and sometimes even men must face in their daily lives." - Bookopolis"In the Land of Invisible Women is a must read for everyone. Why? People must find out how Dr. Ahmed dared to cope with radical Islamic fundamentalism. Rather than misery and despair, her story is one of brightness and optimism for Saudi women. But equally vital, it is a tale of expectation, a hope that brave Saudi men, who dare read her story, might have a jolt of conscience over unjustified cowardly feelings they hold toward women." - Blog CriticsTable of ContentsChapter 1: The Bedouin BedsideChapter 2: A Time to Leave AmericaChapter 3: My New Home, a Military CompoundChapter 4: Abbayah Shopping Chapter 5: Invisible and SafeChapter 6: Saudi Women Who Dance AloneChapter 7: Veiled DoctorsChapter 8: The Lost Boys of the KingdomChapter 9: A Father's Grieving Chapter 10: An Invitation to God Chapter 11: The Epicenter of Islam Chapter 12: Into the Light Chapter 13: The Child of God Chapter 14: The Million-Man Wheel Chapter 15: Committing Haram Chapter 16: Calling Doctora Chapter 17: Daughters of the DesertChapter 18: Next Stop: Absolution Chapter 19: Prayer under the Stars Chapter 20: Between the Devil and the Red Sea Chapter 21: Mutawaeen: The Men in Brown Chapter 22: Single Saudi MaleChapter 23: The Calm before the Storm Chapter 24: Wahabi Wrath Chapter 25: Doctor Zhivago of Arabia Chapter 26: Love in the Kingdom Chapter 27: Show Me Your Marriage License! Chapter 28: An Eye for an EyeChapter 29: Princes, Polygamists, and PaupersChapter 30: Divorce, Saudi-StyleChapter 31: The Saudi DivorcéeChapter 32: Desperate HousewivesChapter 33: The Making of a Female Saudi SurgeonChapter 34: The Hot Mamma Chapter 35: The Gloria Steinem of ArabiaChapter 36: Champion of ChildrenChapter 37: 9/11 in Saudi ArabiaChapter 38: Final Moments, Final Days Afterword: Rugged GloryEndnotesBibliographyReading Group Guide Acknowledgments
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Harperenfoque Los Siete Principios del Camino de Santiago
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National Geographic Society Secret Journeys of a Lifetime
Book SynopsisThis beautiful and evocative sequel to National Geographic's bestselling travel book, Journeys of a Lifetime, is illustrated with hundreds of dazzling full-color images and highlights 500 trips to the world's most inviting and inspirational - but quietly secret--localesTrade Review“If you've resolved to explore new horizons this year, Joe Yogerst has some suggestions. As one of the primary authors of Secret Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's-Best Hidden Travel Gems (National Geographic, $40), he says many incredible sites are overlooked.” –USA Today "We're kind of obsessed with National Geographic's new book, Secret Journeys of a Lifetime. The book, which came out earlier this week, has all sorts of travel tips, from the best ghost towns worth visiting to broader topics like the most idyllic island getaways, spiritual travel tips and even classic road trips worth embarking on." --The Huffington Post “As is custom in a National Geographic coffee table book, the photos are stunning; the practical information and planning advice are useful; and the small sidebars on other nearby points of interest are fascinating. But most compelling are the star attractions, with vivid descriptions that transport you for a tiny glimpse into an often unseen world. It will leave you wondering what National Geographic will come up with next.” –San Jose Mercury News
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Free Press Peace Meals
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Chronicle Books China Days
Book SynopsisThe nation of China is a constant source of fascination, yet we rarely glimpse life beyond its urban centers. Far west of Beijing and Shanghai, in the remote Chinese province of Yunnan, pioneering artist Henrik Drescher settled over a decade ago. While residing in his adopted home, Drescher records his experiences and observations in his illustrated notebooks, capturing everyday life in settings ranging from street markets to mountainscapes. These richly illustrated pages are compiled here for the first time. Drescher''s loyal fans will appreciate this window onto the life of the artist at the height of his powers, while those with an interest in Chinese culture will marvel at this rarely seen view of a country in the global spotlight.
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Orion Publishing Co Wayward
Book SynopsisThe life story of the young musician who gave up everything and everybody to take to the road with a horse, wagon, dog and partner, in a journey that would lead to the writing and recording of her 1970 album Just Another Diamond DayTrade ReviewThis is a magical and transporting memoir, relating how Bunyan ducked out of the London music scene, instead choosing to make her way - by foot and wagon - to the Outer Hebrides. Her mesmerising viewpoint and lyrical outlook on life will be familiar to anyone who, like me, loves her music, but Wayward proves that Bunyan has lived the best possible life, on her own idiosyncratic terms -- Maggie O'FarrellA gorgeous account of outsiderness and survival; a map of how to live outside the boundaries and of striving for an authentic artistic life. A quietly defiant and moving work -- Sinéad GleesonVashti Bunyan possesses one of the purest voices English music has ever produced, and now that unique otherness translates to literature. Wayward is an epic in miniature, a mythical tale with echoes of her ancestor John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, made all the more magical by the fact it actually happened. I loved - and lived - every sentence -- Benjamin MyersA quietly beautiful and gentle read, full of light and kindness. Underneath its easygoing exterior is a proud story about gut instinct and persistence, and I have much affection for what it showed me about choosing a pace of life, and how we might find our place in the world as we move through it -- Jennifer Lucy AllanThis simply beautiful memoir cast the same spell on me as Vashti Bunyan's music. Her account of a legendary road-trip taken at horse pace through a gone England is hedgerow rich in vivid detail. But this is no nostalgia piece: Bunyan is needle-sharp on the way so many men tried to cut her - and her songs - down to size: essential reading for women in the arts now. I read the last pages through tears, deeply moved by the wilder life she embarked on, step by step, song by song. If you loved Patti Smith's Just Kids then you need to read Wayward next. -- Tanya Shadrick, author of The Cure for SleepBunyan weaves her captivating nomad's tale with a rambler's eye for detail and a dreamer's visionary ambition. Her perpetual search for utopia, and the experiences behind her songs of innocence, are romantic and revelatory -- Rob YoungDefiant and surprisingly unromantic, painting her cross-country journey in shades of muddy green, this is a fascinating and brave memoir -- Bob StanleyLike the music she makes, Vashti Bunyan's writing in this memoir of an unusual musical life is ethereal and dream-like, skipping from one thought to the next, lingering long enough to leave a clear impression but not to overburden the reader's experience . . . a story of finding meaning in the right location, with beautiful music as a backdrop * Record Collector *Extraordinary * Mojo *
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Orion Publishing Co The Story of Scandinavia
Book SynopsisIn The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the Age of Perpetual War to the modern age today. For a thousand years, the Scandinavian countries were kingdoms of repression where monarchs played at the game of being European powers, at the expense of their own populations.The brand we now know as Scandinavia is a recent invention. During most of its history, Denmark and Sweden, and to some degree Norway, were bloody enemies. These sentiments of enmity have not been fully settled. Under the surface of collaboration remain undercurrents of hatred, envy, contempt and pity. What does it mean today to be Scandinavian? For the author, whose identity is Scandinavian but his life European, this masterly history iTrade ReviewCarrying us from the Vikings to today, Stein Ringen's sweeping narrative will engage and instruct everyone from specialists to first-timers. Scandinavia is another outstanding book from a writer remarkable for the breadth of his reach and the incisiveness of his analysis -- James T. Kloppenberg, author * Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought *While not losing sight of the differences between the ways the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian social democrats navigated the local waters, Ringen skilfully teases out the common denominators . . . He also writes in a pleasant, breezy, non-nonsense style -- Henrik Berggren * TLS *
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