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At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay
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Christopher Robbins · 296 pages
Travel writer Christopher Robbins relates a story by turns hilarious and grim as he finds Eminem-worship by a shrinking Aral Sea, hears the Kazakh John Lennon play in a dusty desert town, joins nomads hunting eagles, eats boiled sheep's head (a delicacy), and explores some of the most beautiful, unspoiled places on earth. Meet the country that gave the world apples, trousers, and possibly King Ar
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
Tim Mackintosh-Smith · 356 pages
"Ibn Battutah, the greatest traveler of the pre-mechanical age, set out in 1325 from his native Tangiers on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, traveling three times the distance Marco Polo allegedly covered.". "Captivated by the paths taken and the words written by this inquistive, untiring man - a great Tangerine, or
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tony Horwitz · 432 pages
Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause are resurrected through ritual and remembrance. He joins "hardcore" reenactors; witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war; finds that Ande
Swiss Watching: Inside Europe's Landlocked Island
Diccon Bewes · 310 pages
Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest
Douglas Preston · 480 pages
Douglas Preston's Cities of Gold is a riveting account of his journey in the footsteps of Coronado, the legendary 16th-century explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition through the American Southwest. Preston and a friend, Walter Nelson, set out on horseback across one thousand miles of vast deserts and unknown mountains retracing Coronado's search for the fabled Seven Cities
Do Not Pass Go
Tim Moore · 346 pages
"Moore is a talented and very funny writer" Daily TelegraphA book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utililties of the Monopoly board . In the wonderful world of Monopoly it still only cost -50 to buy a house in Islington, you can move around London with the shake of a dice and even park your car for free. In Do Not Pass Go Tim Moore, belying his
American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders
Richard Grant · 320 pages
Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea
Claudio Magris · 416 pages
Exploration Fawcett: Journey to the Lost City of Z
Percy Harrison Fawcett · 312 pages
Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands
Ben Coates · 293 pages
"Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good. In the first book to consider the hidden heart and history of the Netherlands from a modern perspective, the author explores the length and breadth of his adopted homeland and discovers why one of the world's smallest countries is also so signi
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
Eric Weiner · 353 pages
An acclaimed travel writer examines the connection between surroundings and innovative ideas, profiling examples in such regions as early-twentieth-century Vienna, Renaissance Florence, ancient Athens, and Silicon Valley. --Publisher
The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze & Back in Chinese Time
Simon Winchester · 432 pages
Travels of Carl Philipp Moritz in England in 1782
Karl Philipp Moritz · 278 pages
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Peter Hessler · 528 pages
From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world.A century ago, outsiders saw Chinaas a place where nothing ever changes. Today the coun-try has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. That sense of time -- the contrast between past and present, and the rhythms that emerge in a v
Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light
David Downie · 304 pages
Presents a guide to the districts of Paris, describing the history, buildings, landscape, social customs, and people of the city in each section.
Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train
Ina Caro · 400 pages
Through twenty-five one-day train trips, the author describes outings spanning seven hundred years of French history, including Orléans, Versailles, Place de la Concorde, and Saint-Denis.
Iberia
James A. Michener · 837 pages
"Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener's enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and procession