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Adriftby Steven CallahanISBN 1885283164 (1-885283-16-4)
Hardcover, Adventure Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adrift'Book summary:On the night of January 29, 1982, Steven Callahan set sail in his small sloop from the Canary Islands bound for the Caribbean. Thus began one of the most remarkable sea adventures of all time. Six days out, the sloop sank, and Callahan found himself adrift in the Atlantic in a five-and-a-half-foot inflatable raft with only three pounds of food and eight pints of water. He would drift for seventy-six days over eighteen hundred miles of ocean before he reached land and rescue.
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American Notes for General Circulationby Charles Dickens, Patricia Ingham, Charles DickenISBN 0140436499 (0-14-043649-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Notes for General Circulation'Book summary:The New World had caught the English imagination, and its democratic promise had become such a hotly disputed issue that Dickens, who went to America in 1842, was only the most celebrated of many travellers curious to find out what was happening there. [via]
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At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels through Paraguayby John GimletteISBN 1400078520 (1-4000-7852-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Behind the Wall: A Journey Through Chinaby Colin ThubronISBN 0871132427 (0-87113-242-7)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslaviaby Rebecca WestISBN 0140188479 (0-14-018847-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia'Book summary:Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a thousand-page scale, Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is a genre-bending masterwork written in elegant prose. But what makes it so unlikely to be confused with any other book of history, politics, or culture--with, in fact, any other book--is its unashamed depth of feeling: think The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire crossed with Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. West visited Yugoslavia for the first time in 1936. What she saw there affected her so much that she had to return--partly, she writes, because it most resembled "the country I have always seen between sleeping and waking," and partly because "it was like picking up a strand of wool that would lead me out of a labyrinth in which, to my surprise, I had found myself immured." Black Lamb is the chronicle of her travels, but above all it is West following that strand of wool: through countless historical digressions; through winding narratives of battles, slavery, and assassinations; through Shakespeare and Augustine and into the very heart of human frailty.
West wrote on the brink of World War II, when she was "already convinced of the inevitability of the second Anglo-German war." The resulting book is colored by that impending conflict, and by West's search for universals amid the complex particulars of Balkan history. In the end, she saw the region's doom--and our own--in a double infatuation with sacrifice, the "black lamb and grey falcon" of her title. It's the story of Abraham and Isaac without the last-minute reprieve: those who hate are all too ready to martyr the innocent in order to procure their own advantage, and the innocent themselves are all too eager to be martyred. To West, in 1941, "the whole world is a vast Kossovo, an abominable blood-logged plain." Unfortunately, little has happened since then to prove her wrong. --Mary Park [via]
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Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Beforeby Tony HorwitzISBN 0805065415 (0-8050-6541-5)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before'Book summary:Captain James Cook's three epic 18th-century explorations of the Pacific Ocean were the last of their kind, literally completing the map of the world. Yet despite his monumental discoveries, principally in the South Pacific, Cook the man has remained an enigma. In retracing key legs of the circumnavigator's journey, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz chronicles the cultural and environmental havoc wrought by the captain's opening of the unspoiled Pacific to the West, as well as the alternately indifferent and passionate reactions Cook's name evokes during the writer's journeys through Polynesia, Australia, the Aleutians, and the explorer's native England. Horwitz skillfully weaves a biography and travel narrative with warm humor that is natural and human-scale, and his restless inquisitiveness quickly infects the reader. While striking dichotomies abound throughout that journey--Maori toughs who adopt Nazi imagery to symbolize their own fight against white domination, millennia-old Polynesian sexual mores that would shame the Reeperbahn, a sense that Christianity decimated native cultures at least as effectively as Western venereal diseases did--few are more poignant than the ones that abound in Cook's own life. This fine work is an adventurous reminder that answers to historical riddles are elusive at best--and seldom as compelling as the myriad new questions they pose. --Jerry McCulley [via]
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By the Seat of My Pants: Humorous Tales Of Travel And Misadventureby Don GeorgeISBN 1741046068 (1-74104-606-8)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Coastingby Jonathan RabanISBN 0002721198 (0-00-272119-8)
Hardcover, Collins Harvill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coasting'Book summary:This text tells the story of how in 1982 the author set out alone in a 30-foot ketch to sail round the British Isles. Raban had never before handled a boat at sea, but wanted to inspect the country where he lived as an independent navigator with a sceptical outsider's eye for his homeland. He sails into his own past, into Britain's troubled present, and into a sense of reflection. [via]
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Coasting: A Private Voyageby Jonathan RabanISBN 014010657X (0-14-010657-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Colossus of Maroussiby Henry MillerISBN 0811201090 (0-8112-0109-0)
Softcover, New Directions
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Danubeby Claudio Magris, Patrick CreaghISBN 1860468233 (1-86046-823-3)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Danube'Book summary:There is something about the art of travel writing that seems to bring out the very best in the most skilful practitioners. The late Bruce Chatwin produced some of his most incandescent prose in his travel books (some would say even more so than in his novels), and the legacy of this kind of non-pareil work may be found in Claudio Magris' Danube, a book which seamlessly combines sharp descriptive information with prose of the greatest transparency. Magris (whose amazing breadth of knowledge is evident on every page) takes the reader on a colourful journey from the source of the Danube in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. At every stage of this voyage from the past to the present, Magris conjures up all the atmospheric associations of the houses, monuments and great personalities (from Marcus Aurelius to Kafka) and, in the process, produces a richly drawn picture of central Europe and a culture rich in the influences of the East and West. As in his celebrated Bohemia, Magris effortlessly incorporates his encyclopaedic knowledge into the kind of book that both recreates a whole continent and deeply inspires the reader to investigate this territory. In fact, to call this a travel book is an inadequate attempt to categorise something that can really only be judged as fine writing.
I take a few steps from my bench downhill to the source of the Berg, then, sousing my shoes and socks, climb up through the meadow towards the house. The water glitters in the grass, the spring flows quietly out, the green of the trees is good, and so is the smell. The traveller feels rather clumsy and small, aware of the superior objectivity in which he is framed. Is it possible that all those little trickles in a field are the Danube...which pours out into the Black Sea every year?
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Danube : A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Seaby Claudio Magris, Patrick CreaghISBN 1860466338 (1-86046-633-8)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Danube : A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea'Book summary:This is a very Italian book, reminiscent of Italo Calvino and Roberto Calasso. Part history, part philosophy, part travelogue, this is literature in the richest, most amply rewarding sense. Writing with tremendous exuberance, Claudio Magris has produced a paean to what Hölderlin called "the river of melody"--the Danube, Europe's main artery, and the heart of that elusive but fascinating zone known as Mitteleuropa. Magris is certainly erudite, and not afraid of displaying his erudition, but he also has a fine sense of humor and an eye for the absurd. According to one eminent sedimentologist, he tells us, the source of the Danube is a leaky tap in a remote mountain farmhouse. And of course, the one color it isn't, ever, is blue. The Hungarians call it blond, apparently. "Muddy yellow" might be more accurate, says the author. His greatest passion, however, is people: poets, singers, murderers, emperors, Dracula, Kafka, Wittgenstein , Josef Mengele--all human life is here. And it makes doubly fascinating reading for having been written back in 1986, when brutes like Ceaucescu were still in power and the Iron Curtain was still in place, though beginning to tremble slightly in the wind of history. --Christopher Hart, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Dark Heart Of Italyby Tobias JonesISBN 0865477248 (0-86547-724-8)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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Devil's Cupby Stewart Lee AllenISBN 1841950440 (1-84195-044-0)
Hardcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Devil's Cup'Book summary:This comprehensive work provides an account of caffeine's impact on humankind. Beginning in Ethiopia, the author sails along the same route that carried the first beans to Yemen 1500 years ago, and literally travels the world in his mission to prove that coffee is the driving force in history. [via]
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The Devil's Cup: Coffee, the Driving Force in Historyby Stewart Lee AllenISBN 1569471746 (1-56947-174-6)
Hardcover, Soho Pr Inc
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Eccentric Travellers: Excursions With Seven Extraordinary Figures from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuriesby John KeayISBN 0874772761 (0-87477-276-1)
Hardcover, J P Tarcher
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Finding George Orwell In Burmaby Emma LarkinISBN 1594200521 (1-59420-052-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour a Narrative Drawn from Gustave Flaubert's Travel Notes & Lettersby Gustave Flaubert, Francis SteegmullerISBN 0897330196 (0-89733-019-6)
Hardcover, Academy Chicago Limited
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Florence: A Delicate Caseby David LeavittISBN 1582342393 (1-58234-239-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Florence: A Delicate Case'Book summary:David Leavitt has long been a writer of rare distinction, and Florence, a Delicate Case is a compact and highly pleasurable book that functions on many levels. Firstly, there is the enjoyment of the prose: Leavitt's pithy, poetic style is immensely evocative, always erudite and unfailingly entertaining. Then there is the detailed and atmospheric evocation of one of the world's most beguiling cities. But most of all, Leavitt's book is a brilliant panoply of some of the most remarkable characters (literary and otherwise) who made Firenze their home.
Beginning by speculating as to why Florence has always proved such a desirable destination for would-be suicides, Leavitt's asks what makes the city (in the words of Henry James) such a "delicate case" for natives and incomers alike. Smoothly negotiating past and present, Leavitt details the history of the foreign colony from the middle of the 19th century until the dark days of the Mussolini era and, later, the last gasp of the Anglo-Florentine colony marked by the passing of such luminaries as Harold Acton and John Pope-Hennessy.
There are marvellously entertaining portraits of such talented visitors to the city as EM Forster, Tchaikovsky and DH Lawrence (Florence was always a centre for the sexual taboo-breakers--Leavitt is particularly perceptive when dealing with the many gay artists and writers who strolled down the Via Tornabuoni). But the author is just as diverting when discussing the wastrels and eccentrics. Who is the book aimed at? That's not quite clear--but if you're interested in the city, or its wildly disparate cast of characters, you're sure to find several tempting nuggets in this concise volume. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asiaby Peter HopkirkISBN 0870234358 (0-87023-435-8)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia'Book summary:The Silk Road, the great trans-Asian highway linking Imperial Rome to China, reached the height of its importance during the T'ang Dynasty. Along it travelled precious cargoes as well as new ideas, art and knowledge. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of trade. However, as the Chinese lost control of the region, it began to decline to the point where the towns disappeared beneath desert sands. Local legends grew of buried treasure guarded by demons. This is the story of the intrepid adventurers who, at great personal risk, led long-range archaeological raids to the region in the early years of the 20th century. Profiles of such archaeologists as Sir Aurel Stein, who carried off large quantities of priceless wall paintings, sculptures, silks and early manuscripts, augment a narrative which also traces the fate of the works of art that were removed. [via]
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Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregonby Chuck PalahniukISBN 1400047838 (1-4000-4783-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon'Book summary:It's rare to find a travel guide and a memoir joined neatly together in a single, highly readable 176-page volume. But Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke, Lullaby) is a writer of rare talent and his home of Portland, Oregon, is a city of rare wonders. In Strangers and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon, Palahniuk goes beyond the AAA handbooks to reveal the places, people, and legends of Portland that have long been known only to locals. The reader learns the location of the legendary Self Cleaning House, where to find the restless ghost of the founder of Powell's Books, and why feral cats are such an important part of Portland baseball. Portland, it seems, is also a highly sexual city and Palahniuk dutifully dissects the specialties of each strip joint as well as discussing Mochika, a zoo penguin with a real fetish for black boots. Along the way, he includes "postcards" from his life in the Rose City dating back to 1981 when, as a 19-year-old, he dropped acid and accidentally ate part of a woman's fur coat during a laser show of Pink Floyd's The Wall. As Palahniuk matures, the postcards reveal the author becoming increasingly a part of the city's scene, culminating with a wild and wooly Millennium Eve celebration at the Bagdad Theater that featured a screening of the film version of Fight Club. Fugitives and Refugees is a must for anyone who may, in their lives, go to Portland. But its appeal should reach beyond Oregonians. Palahniuk's love of the city is so great, and his stories so weirdly wonderful, it makes one want to get out of the house, get in the car, and drive to Portland right away. Just remember to pack the book. --John Moe [via]
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The Gift of Travel: The Best of Travelers' Talesby James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, Sean O'ReillyISBN 1885211252 (1-885211-25-2)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gift of Travel: The Best of Travelers' Tales'Book summary:The award-winning Travelers'' Tales books are based on the simple premise that the experience of other tr avellers is our best map to a strange land. This volume pres ents a selection of stories from the series. ' [via]
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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The Historiesby HerodotusISBN 1593081022 (1-59308-102-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Histories'Book summary:Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilometres) from Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got there? Was the Battle of Salamis fought between sausage-sellers? Which is the oldest language in the world? Why did Leonidas and his 300 Spartans spend the morning before the battle of Thermopylae combing their hair? Why did every Babylonian woman have to sit in the Temple of Aphrodite until a man threw a coin into her lap, and how long was she likely to sit there? And what is the best way to kill a crocodile? This wide-ranging history provides the answers to all these fascinating questions as well as providing many fascinating insights into the Ancient World. [via]
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Hunting Mister Heartbreakby Jonathan RabanISBN 0002720310 (0-00-272031-0)
Hardcover, Collins Harvill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hunting Mister Heartbreak'Book summary:A story of self discovery set against a journey across America. It follows the author as he moves from the social battlefield of Manhattan to rural Alabama, continually reinventing his own character as he travels. By the author of "Old Glory" and "Arabia through a Looking Glass". [via]
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Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of Americaby Jonathan RabanISBN 0060981075 (0-06-098107-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America'Book summary:A New York Times Notable Book
"In an era of jet tourism, [Jonathan Raban] remains a
traveler-adventurer in the tradition of . . . Robert Louis Stevenson."
--The New York Times Book Review
In 1782 an immigrant with the high-toned name J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur--"Heartbreak" in English--wrote a pioneering account of one European's transformation into an American. Some two hundred years later Jonathan Raban, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, arrived in Crèvecoeur's wake to see how America has paid off for succeeding generations of newcomers. The result is an exhilarating, often deliciously funny book that is at once a travelogue, a social history, and a love letter to the United States.
In the course of Hunting Mr. Heartbreak, Raban passes for homeless in New York and tries to pass for a good ol' boy in Alabama (which entails "renting" an elderly black lab). He sees the Protestant work ethic perfected by Korean immigrants in Seattle--one of whom celebrates her new home as "So big! So green! So wide-wide-wide!"--and repudiated by the lowlife of Key West. And on every page of this peerlessly observant work, Raban makes us experience America with wonder, humor, and an unblinking eye for its contradictions.
"Raban delivers himself of some of the most memorable prose ever written
about urban America." --Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times
"When Raban describes America and Americans, he is unfailingly witty
and entertaining." --Salman Rushdie
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In the Merde for Loveby Stephen ClarkeISBN 1596911905 (1-59691-190-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Innocents Abroadby Mark Twain, Tom Quirk, Guy CardwellISBN 0142437085 (0-14-243708-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Innocents Abroad'Book summary:Based on a series of letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, The Innocents Abroad (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Twain's fresh and humorous perspective on hallowed European landmarks lacked reverence for the past-the ancient statues of saints on the Cathedral of Notre Dame are "battered and broken-nosed old fellows" and tour guides "interrupt every dream, every pleasant train of thought, with their tiresome cackling." Equally irreverent about American manners (including his own) as he is about European attitudes, Twain ultimately concludes that, for better or worse, "human nature is very much the same all over the world."[via]More editions of The Innocents Abroad:
Into the Heart of Borneo: An Account of a Journey Made in 1983 to the Mountains of Batu Tiban with James Fentonby Redmond O'HanlonISBN 0907540554 (0-907540-55-4)
Hardcover, Salamander Press
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Into Thin Airby Jon KrakauerISBN 1402809654 (1-4028-0965-4)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into Thin Air'Book summary:Into Thin Air is a riveting first-hand account of a catastrophic expedition up Mount Everest. In March 1996, Outside magazine sent veteran journalist and seasoned climber Jon Krakauer on an expedition led by celebrated Everest guide Rob Hall. Despite the expertise of Hall and the other leaders, by the end of summit day eight people were dead. Krakauer's book is at once the story of the ill-fated adventure and an analysis of the factors leading up to its tragic end. Written within months of the events it chronicles, Into Thin Air clearly evokes the majestic Everest landscape. As the journey up the mountain progresses, Krakauer puts it in context by recalling the triumphs and perils of other Everest trips throughout history. The author's own anguish over what happened on the mountain is palpable as he leads readers to ponder timeless questions. [via]
An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Veronaby Tim ParksISBN 080211508X (0-8021-1508-X)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Italian Neighborsby Tim ParksISBN 0802140343 (0-8021-4034-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Italian Neighbors: Or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Veronaby Tim ParksISBN 0802115314 (0-8021-1531-4)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebridesby James BoswellISBN 3829030029 (3-8290-3002-9)
Softcover, Konemann
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Journey Through Britainby John HillabyISBN 1850890722 (1-85089-072-2)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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A Journey to the Hebrides : A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebridesby Samuel Johnson, James BoswellISBN 0862415888 (0-86241-588-8)
Softcover, Canongate Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Journey to the Hebrides : A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides'Book summary:Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland. Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published separate accounts of their journey. These accounts of their great tour contain some of the finest pieces of travel writing ever produced: they are magnificent historical documents and also portraits of two extraordinary personalities. In the vivid prose of these two famous men of letters, the Highlands and the Western Islands spring to life. The juxtaposition of the two very different accounts creates an unsurpassed portrait of a society which was utterly alien to the Europe of the Enlightenment, and which was straining on the brink of calamitous change. These great masterpieces, entertaining, profound, and marvellously readable are also our last chronicles of a lost age and people. Introduced by Ian McGowan.[via]More editions of A Journey to the Hebrides : A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides:
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Journey Without Mapsby Graham Greene, Paul TherouxISBN 0143039725 (0-14-303972-5)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey Without Maps'Book summary:[via]His mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar republic founded for released slaves. Now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, Journey Without Maps is the spellbinding record of Greene's journey. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to know one of the few areas of Africa untouched by colonization. Western civilization had not yet impinged on either the human psyche or the social structure, and neither poverty, disease, nor hunger seemed able to quell the native spirit.
Lives Between Cultures: A Study of Human Nature Identity and Cultureby Richard M. SwiderskiISBN 0938737244 (0-938737-24-4)
Softcover, Denali Pr
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Lonely Planet Guide To Travel Writingby Not AvailableISBN 0864427425 (0-86442-742-5)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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...pack a pen with your passport, craft prose that flows and become a Travel Writer. Written by established travel writers and bursting with invaluable advice, this inspiring and practical guide is a must for anyone who has ever yearned to turn their travels into saleable tales. Being a travel writer is a dream job with this guide youre scribbling distance from the reality.
Discover:
The secrets of a great story
The best ways to research
What makes a winning pitch
How to get your name in print
Quirks of writing for newspapers, magazines, Web & books
Extensive writers resources & industry organizations
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Lonely Planet Journeys Round Ireland in Low Gearby Eric NewbyISBN 0864426275 (0-86442-627-5)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lonely Planet Slowly Down the Gangesby Eric NewbyISBN 0864426313 (0-86442-631-3)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lonely Planet Western Balkansby Richard PlunkettISBN 1741046106 (1-74104-610-6)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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The Lost Heart of Asiaby Colin ThubronISBN 0060926562 (0-06-092656-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Heart of Asia'Book summary:West of China, south of Russia, hemmed in by mountains, steppe, and desert, lie the five Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. Cut loose from Moscow in the early '90s, the five "Stans" (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan) discover that their newly found freedom plays tug-o-war with despair and a nostalgia for the certainties of the Soviet past. It's during this time that author Colin Thubron travels the width of central Asia, asking questions about the past, present, and future. Not content to simply bounce from place to place, Thubron travels from person to person, uncovering their many vibrant stories and developing a deep understanding of the area's lesser-known history. Kyrgyz and Uzbeks debate the place of Islam. Koreans and Germans, descendants from forced migrants, wonder if they know enough of their ethnic tongue to return to their homelands. Russians find themselves left behind, disbelieving, as the tide of Russian power recedes toward Moscow.
Central Asia was mostly off limits to foreigners during the Soviet years, and while officials are still uncertain about how to deal with a backpack-wearing solo traveler, the locals Thubron meets are not. Thubron finds the heart of Asia in the hearts of its people, swimming in a sea of tea, vodka, and hospitality. From the oldest-known Quran to a deserted Soviet naval base on the shores of a high mountain lake 1,500 miles from the ocean (used to test torpedoes far from spying eyes), Thubron's writing echoes the melancholy emptiness of the wide spaces he passes through. The Lost Heart of Asia is a rare meeting of a marvelous writer and a mysterious land. --Ken Peavler [via]
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Magic and Mystery in Tibetby Alexandra David-NeelISBN 1585090972 (1-58509-097-2)
Softcover, Book Tree
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The Majic Bus: An American Odysseyby Douglas BrinkleyISBN 1560254963 (1-56025-496-3)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Malaria Dreams: An African Adventureby Stuart StevensISBN 087113361X (0-87113-361-X)
Softcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Maniby Patick Leigh FermorISBN 0140115110 (0-14-011511-0)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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The Mindful Traveler: A Guide to Journaling and Transformative Travelby J. D. CurrieISBN 081269421X (0-8126-9421-X)
Softcover, Open Court Pub Co
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No Touch Monkey: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Lateby Ayun HallidayISBN 1580050972 (1-58005-097-2)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Touch Monkey: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late'Book summary:Ayun Halliday may not make for the most sensible travel companion, but she is certainly one of the zaniest, with a knack for inserting herself (and her unwitting cohorts) into bizarre situations around the globe. Curator of kitsch and unabashed aficionada of pop culture, Halliday offers bemused, self-deprecating narration of events from guerilla theater in Romania to drug-induced Apocalypse Now reenactments in Vietnam to a perhaps more surreal collagen-implant demonstration at a Paris fashion show emceed by Lauren Bacall. From taming the wild dog packs of Bali to requiring the services of a bonesetter in Sumatra, Ayun Halliday offers up the best of her itinerant foibles as examples of how not to travel abroad. For instance, on layover in Amsterdam, Halliday finds unlikely trouble in the red-light district-eliciting the ire of a tiny, violent madam,-and is forced to explain tampons, which she admits, "might have looked like white cotton bullets lined up in their box," to soldiers in Kashmir-"They're for ladies. Bleeding ladies." A self-admittedly bumbling vacationer, Halliday shares-with razorsharp wit and to hilarious effect-the travel stories most are too self-conscious to tell. [via]
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Old Gloryby Jonathan RabanISBN 0140063080 (0-14-006308-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Old Glory: An American Voyageby Jonathan RabanISBN 006097480X (0-06-097480-X)
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On the Roadby Jack KerouacISBN 0140042598 (0-14-004259-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Road'Book summary:In its time Jack Kerouac's masterpiece was the bible of the Beat Generation, the essential prose accompaniment to Allen Ginsberg's Howl . While it stunned the public and literary establishment when it was published in 1957, it is now recognized as an American classic. With On the Road , Kerouac discovered his voice and his true subject-the search for a place as an outsider in America. On the Road swings to the rhythms of fifties underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns, and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveler and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. "Life is great, and few can put the zest and wonder and sadness and humor of it on paper more interestingly than Kerouac." -Luther Nichols, San Francisco Examiner "Just as, more than any other novel of the Twenties, The Sun Also Rises came to be regarded as the testament of the Lost Generation, so it seems certain that On the Road will come to be known as that of the Beat Generation." -Gilbert Millstein, The New York Times @Didn'tTypeOnTP! For TWITTERATURE of On the Road by Jack Kerouac, please see On the Road by Jack Kerouac. From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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On the Shores of the Mediterraneanby Eric NewbyISBN 0864426216 (0-86442-621-6)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Out of Africaby Isak DinesenISBN 0809435985 (0-8094-3598-5)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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Paris: True Stories of Life on the Roadby James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, Sean J. O'Reilly, O'Reilly SeanISBN 1885211104 (1-885211-10-4)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris: True Stories of Life on the Road'Book summary:Ella Fitzgerald loved "Paris in the Springtime," Bogie and Bergman would "always have Paris," and Hemingway found Paris A Moveable Feast--the City of Light has plenty of fans, and for good reason. Paris is, quite simply, magic. In Travelers' Tales Paris, 43 essayists attempt to convey their experience of the city. Jack E. Bronston shares his passion for the French encyclopedia set Vie et Histoire, which covers in 20 volumes Paris's 20 arondissements, and takes you on a tour of the ninth arondissement while he's at it. In "Hair Pierre," Cailin Boyle attempts to master French chic along with the language: "Always wear tight jeans. Anywhere and anyhow. A must. Even at funerals. And heels. Podiatrists must retire early in France.... Carry an overstuffed shoulder bag. Watch for signs of curvature of the spine." In "Bearing Witness," Therese Lung describes in loving detail the quotidian life on the tiny Rue Watt--an old, unknown street where "elaborate, traditional iron banisters and streetlight globes separate pedestrians from the street on a raised sidewalk, turning it into a promenade"--just before it is to be demolished to provide underground parking for a new library.
John Gregory Dunne, Jan Morris, Edmund White, and Ina Caro are just a few of the contributors to this glowing paean to Paris; French strippers, the forest at Fontainbleu, a one-night stand with an unexpected partner--with each essay, a different facet of Paris emerges. For those readers who have visited Paris, Travelers' Tales Paris is likely to bring back memories; for those who haven't, it will provide some inspiration to go. [via]
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A Parrot in the Peppertreeby Chris StewartISBN 095352275X (0-9535227-5-X)
Softcover, Sort of Books
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Pole to Pole: North to South by Camel, River Raft, and Balloonby Michael PalinISBN 0912333413 (0-912333-41-3)
Softcover, Bay Soma Publishing
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Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greeceby Patrick Leigh Fermor, Patricia StoraceISBN 159017187X (1-59017-187-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Running a Hotel on the Roof of the World: Five Years in Tibetby Alec Le SueurISBN 1873475934 (1-873475-93-4)
Softcover, Peerage Books
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A Small Place in Italyby Eric NewbyISBN 0864426054 (0-86442-605-4)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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With his characteristic wry humor and sharp eye for the quirks of human nature, Eric Newby paints an unforgettable picture of rural Italy and its people. The rhythms and rituals of country life - harvesting grapes, making wine, hunting for wild mushrooms - are lovingly evoked, along with the storybook landscapes and changing seasons. At the center of his memoir is the farmhouse itself, which from unpromising beginnings - tileless roof, long-abandoned septic tank and mice the size of small cats - was gradually restored.
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Spirit of Placeby Lawrence Durrell, Alan ThomasISBN 1569247226 (1-56924-722-6)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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The Stones of Veniceby John RuskinISBN 0141390654 (0-14-139065-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Surrender or Starve: Travels in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritreaby Robert D. KaplanISBN 1400034523 (1-4000-3452-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surrender or Starve: Travels in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea'Book summary:Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why theyre relevant to our world. In Surrender or Starve, Kaplan illuminates the fault lines in the Horn of Africa, which is emerging as a crucial region for Americas ongoing war on terrorism.
Reporting from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea, Kaplan examines the factors behind the famine that ravaged the region in the 1980s, exploring the ethnic, religious, and class conflicts that are crucial for understanding the region today. He offers a new foreword and afterword that show how the nations have developed since the famine, and why this region will only grow more important to the United States. Wielding his trademark ability to blend on-the-ground reporting and cogent analysis, Robert D. Kaplan introduces us to a fascinating part of the world, one that it would behoove all of us to know more about. [via]More editions of Surrender or Starve: Travels in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea:
Surrender or Starve: The Wars Behind the Famineby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0813307546 (0-8133-0754-6)
Hardcover, Perseus Books
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Travelsby Michael CrichtonISBN 0060509058 (0-06-050905-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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When Michael Crichton -- a Harvard-trained physician, bestselling novelist, and successful movie director -- began to feel isolated in his own life, he decided to widen his horizons. He tracked wild animals in the jungles of Rwanda. He climbed Kilimanjaro and Mayan pyramids. He trekked across a landslide in Pakistan. He swam amid sharks in Tahiti.
Fueled by a powerful curiosity and the need to see, feel, and hear firsthand and close-up, Michael Crichton has experienced adventures as compelling as those he created in his books and films. These adventures -- both physical and spiritual -- are recorded here in Travels, Crichton's most astonishing and personal work.
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Travels in the Congoby Andre GideISBN 0880013656 (0-88001-365-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: An Abridged Versionby Norman Denny, John Mandeville, Josephine Filmer-SankeyISBN 0001923293 (0-00-192329-3)
Hardcover, Collins
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Fantastic 14th-century Account of a Journey to the Eastby John Mandeville, C.W.R.D. MoseleyISBN 0141441437 (0-14-144143-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Fantastic 14th-century Account of a Journey to the East'Book summary:By the standards of the 14th century, the writing style of the man who called himself Sir John Mandeville is so informal as to be nearly chummy: "He who wants to pass over the sea to Jerusalem, may go by many ways, both by sea and by land depending on the countries he comes from; many ways come to a single end. But do not think I shall tell of all the towns and cities and castles that men shall go by, for then I must make too long a tale of it." Historians remain skeptical as to whether the author really did journey to the Holy Land and Egypt, or hire himself out as a soldier to the Great Khan of China. Whatever the case, it is indisputable that he is one of the first modern travel writers, as we have come to know the genre, and that his book was considered authoritative in matters geographical throughout Europe--consulted by Leonardo da Vinci and Christopher Columbus alike. [via]
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Trawlerby Redmond O'HanlonISBN 1400078105 (1-4000-7810-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trawler'Book summary:Having survived Borneo, Amazonia, and the Congo, Redmond OHanlon now ventures into his own perfect storm in the wildest waters he could find.
His rendezvous with destiny begins aboard a trawler converted for deep-sea fishing at a cost of $3 millionwhich is why its young skippers setting out from Scotlands northern tip when the rest of the fleet is running for safe harbor. Equipped with a fancy Nikon, an excessive supply of socks and no seamanship whatsoever, OHanlon joins a crew of five who stock a bottomless hull with the catch, day after sleepless day, even as the hurricane threatens to wash them overboard. While he helps inventory the creatures of the deepest North Atlanticfrom jellycats to the wormlike hagfish, unchanged since its evolution more than 500 million years agohis shipmates exchange manic monologues that range from their woeful longing for loyal women to trade laws and complex fishing quotas.
Rich in oceanography, marine biology and mens lives, Trawler reveals once again the inimitable spirit of the man Bill Bryson has called probably the finest writer of travel books in the English language, and certainly the most daring. [via] 
Washington Schlepped Here: Walking in the Nation's Capitalby Christopher BuckleyISBN 1400046874 (1-4000-4687-4)
Hardcover, Crown Pub
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When the Going Was Goodby Evelyn WaughISBN 0837182530 (0-8371-8253-0)
Hardcover, Greenwood Press, Evesham, The
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With Chatwin : Portrait of a Writerby Susannah ClappISBN 0140276459 (0-14-027645-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The World, the Worldby Norman LewisISBN 0805051120 (0-8050-5112-0)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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A Year in the Merdeby Stephen ClarkeISBN 1582346178 (1-58234-617-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Year in the Merde'Book summary:An urban antidote to A Year in Provence, Stephen Clarke's book is a laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of an expat in Paris-for Francophiles and Francophobes alike.[via]
A Year in the Merde is the almost-true account of the author's adventures as an expat in Paris. Based on his own experiences and with names changed to "avoid embarrassment, possible legal action-and to prevent the author's legs being broken by someone in a Yves Saint Laurent suit", the book is narrated by Paul West, a twenty-seven-year-old Brit who is brought to Paris by a French company to open a chain of British "tea rooms." He must manage of a group of lazy, grumbling French employees, maneuver around a treacherous Parisian boss, while lucking into a succession of lusty girlfriends (one of whom happens to be the boss's morally challenged daughter). He soon becomes immersed in the contradictions of French culture: the French are not all cheese-eating surrender monkeys, though they do eat a lot of smelly cheese, and they are still in shock at being stupid enough to sell Louisiana, thus losing the chance to make French the global language. The book will also tell you how to get the best out of the grumpiest Parisian waiter, how to survive a French business meeting, and how not to buy a house in the French countryside.
The author originally wrote A Year in the Merde just for fun and self-published it in France in an English-language edition. Weeks later, it had become a word-of-mouth hit for expats and the French alike. With translation rights now sold in eleven countries and already a bestseller in the UK and France, Stephen Clarke is clearly a Bill Bryson (or a Peter Mayle...) for a whole new generation of readers who can never quite decide whether they love-or love to hate-the French.
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Historiasby Not AvailableISBN 8446002833 (84-460-0283-3)
Softcover, Akal Ediciones Sa
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Los Nueve Libros De La Historiaby HerodotusISBN 8426421997 (84-264-2199-7)
Hardcover, Lumen
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Danubioby Claudio MagrisISBN 8811674859 (88-11-67485-9)
Softcover, Garzanti
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