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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 187932900X (1-879329-00-X)
Hardcover, Time Warner Libraries
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American literature that still commands deep praise and elicits controversy, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought to be lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a fuller understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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American Pie: Slices of Life (And Pie) from America's Back Roadsby Pascale LedraoulecISBN 0060957328 (0-06-095732-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morningby Laurie LeeISBN 0140033181 (0-14-003318-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning'Book summary:''I was nineteen years old, still soft at the edges, but with a confident belief in good fortune. I carried a small rolled-up tent, a violin in a blanket, a change of clothes, a tin of treacle biscuits, and some cheese. I was excited, vain-glorious, knowing I had far to go; but not, as yet, how far. As I left home that morning and walked away from the sleeping village, it never occurred to me that others had done this before me.'' Despite this romantic and optimistic opening, what Lee finds and describes is the most primitive and feudal country in Europe, a peninsula for the most part untouched by the modern world, a land of labor without dignity, a church devoid of compassion, and a country ripe for revolutionary change. There is humor here, and love, and adolescent awakening, but beneath the smoothly written surface is a foreboding sense of a savage future, a premonition that a war will come, which will not end soon. For Lee, as for much of the world, 1936 was the end of innocence, a fateful year when ''it was being learned again that men needed more than courage, anger, slogans, convictions, or even a just cause when they went to war.'' Thus Lee, innocently but inexorably, becomes entangled in the passionate, violent, and bloody struggle that was the Spanish Civil War. Along with Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, Lee's sequel to Cider with Rosie is a singular document, written with the excitement and wonder of a twenty-year-old, but infused with the wisdom of a young adult who sees what lies ahead and is capable of conveying to the reader how bad it will be. [via]
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- As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning: ISBN 0233961178 (0-233-96117-8)
Hardcover, Deutsch - As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning: ISBN 0233978038 (0-233-97803-8)
Hardcover, Andre Deutsch - As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning: ISBN 0393022331 (0-393-02233-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning: ISBN 0140033181 (0-14-003318-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
- As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning: ISBN 0233961178 (0-233-96117-8)
Between Extremes : A Journey Beyond Imaginationby Brian Keenan, John McCarthyISBN 0552145955 (0-552-14595-5)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Blue Nileby Alan MooreheadISBN 0060956402 (0-06-095640-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Nile'Book summary:An account of the course of the Blue Nile from the Ethiopian Highlands, through the Sudan and Egupt to the sea. The book contains an historical narrative which starts in the eighteenth century and ends in 1869. The period was dominated by four men: James Bruce, the Scot who journeyed to the supposed source of the Blue Nile, and stayed in warring Ethiopia; Napoleon who, needing military glory to further his political ambitions, led a brilliantly conceived expedition to Egypt; Mohammed Ali, the Turkish viceroy, who sent his son to conquer the Sudan in a ruthless quest for gold and slaves; and Emporer Theodore of Ethiopia, a tyrant who held British subjects captive. [via]
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Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk across Europeby Nicholas CraneISBN 0140243321 (0-14-024332-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk across Europe'Book summary:Alone - though he was just married - and on foot, Nicholas Crane embarked on an extraordinary adventure: a seventeen-month journey along the chain of mountains which stretches across Europe from Cape Finisterre to Istanbul. His aim was to explore Europe's last mountain wilderness and to meet the people who live on the periphery of the modern world. [via]
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The Dark Heart Of Italyby Tobias JonesISBN 0571205828 (0-571-20582-8)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Australiaby Dorling Kindersley, IncISBN 0756615690 (0-7566-1569-0)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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Dk Eyewitness Travel Guides Moscowby Not AvailableISBN 075662438X (0-7566-2438-X)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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The Duchess of Bloomsbury Streetby Helene HanffISBN 0233965092 (0-233-96509-2)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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An Embarrassment Of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interludeby Ann VanderhoofISBN 0385659547 (0-385-65954-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
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The Enduranceby Caroline AlexanderISBN 0375404031 (0-375-40403-1)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Endurance'Book summary:Melding superb research and the extraordinary expedition photography of Frank Hurley, The Endurance by Caroline Alexander is a stunning work of history, adventure, and art which chronicles "one of the greatest epics of survival in the annals of exploration." Setting sail as World War I broke out in Europe, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by renowned polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, hoped to become the first to cross the Antarctic continent. But their ship, Endurance, was trapped in the drifting pack ice, eventually to splinter, leaving the expedition stranded on floes--a situation that seemed "not merely desperate but impossible."
Most skillfully Alexander constructs the expedition's character through its personalities--the cast of veteran explorers, scientists, and crew--with aid from many previously unavailable journals and documents. We learn, for instance, that carpenter and shipwright Henry McNish, or "Chippy," was "neither sweet-tempered nor tolerant," and that Mrs. Chippy, his cat, was "full of character." Such firsthand descriptions, paired with 170 of Frank Hurley's intimate photographs, which are comprehensively assembled here for the first time, penetrate the hulls of the Endurance and these tough men. The account successfully reveals the seldom-seen domestic world of expedition life--the singsongs, feasts, lectures, camaraderie--so that when the hardships set in, we know these people beyond the stereotypical guise of mere explorers and long for their safety.
Alexander reveals Shackleton as an inspiring optimist, "a leader who put his men first." Throughout the grueling ordeal, Shackleton and his men show what endurance and greatness are all about. The Endurance is a most intimate portrait of an expedition and of survival. Readers will possess a newfound respect for these daring souls, know better their unthinkable toil and half-forgotten realm of glory. --Byron Ricks [via]
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Everything Is Illuminatedby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0060529709 (0-06-052970-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything Is Illuminated'Book summary:The simplest thing would be to describe Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's accomplished debut, as a novel about the Holocaust. It is, but that really fails to do justice to the sheer ambition of this book. The main story is a grimly familiar one. A young Jewish American--who just happens to be called Jonathan Safran Foer--travels to the Ukraine in the hope of finding the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his search by Alex Perchov, a naïve Ukrainian translator, Alex's grandfather (also called Alex), and a flatulent mongrel dog named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. On their journey through Eastern Europe's obliterated landscape they unearth facts about the Nazi atrocities and the extent of Ukrainian complicity that have implications for Perchov as well as Safran Foer. This narrative is not, however, recounted from (the character) Jonathan Safran Foer's perspective. It is relayed through a series of letters that Alex sends to Foer. These are written in the kind of broken Russo-English normally reserved for Bond villains or Latka from Taxi. Interspersed between these letters are fragments of a novel by Safran Foer--a wonderfully imagined, almost magical realist, account of life in the shtetl before the Nazis destroyed it. These are in turn commented on by Alex, creating an additional metafictional angle to the tale.
If all this sounds a little daunting, don't be put off; Safran Foer is an extremely funny as well as intelligent writer who combines some of the best Jewish folk yarns since Isaac Bashevis Singer with a quite heartbreaking meditation on love, friendship, and loss. --Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Food Lover's Guide to Parisby Patricia Wells, Susan Herrmann Loomis, Steven Rothfeld, Peter TurnleyISBN 0761114793 (0-7611-1479-3)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Food Lover's Guide to Paris'Book summary:Let's face it. Finding the best of the fabled cuisine in Paris can be difficult for us Americans. We're thrown off by the language, the numerous terms for eateries, and the French themselves, who love to pretend they don't speak English.
That's why Patricia Wells's updated guide, now in its fourth edition, is a hit. With detailed information on 450 restaurants, Wells takes readers by the hand and demystifies the culture so well known for its luscious food and demanding gourmands. Sidebars abound: she dissects breads, foie gras, and oysters--and even gives the cultural background on why the French may drink wine in the morning (to kill worms, of course), as well as discussing the pros and cons of eating the rinds of cheeses. Also listed are the best bakeries, cafés, and specialty shops, as well as 50 recipes to try at home.
If there is a criticism to be made of this sturdy and informative book, it's of the writing of this International Herald Tribune critic, which is sometimes riddled with stock descriptions and clichés. Yet readers are likely to forgive her this occasional foible, as Wells's interesting details and enthusiasm are enough to send devout Italophiles, even, to Paris--where they can sink their teeth into those crusty baguettes. --Melissa Rossi [via]
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Frommer's Virginiaby Bill GoodwinISBN 0028620186 (0-02-862018-6)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frommer's Virginia'Book summary:You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go--they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You'd be lost without us!
Meticulously researched by a longtime resident, and infinitely more detailed and complete than its major competitor, Frommer's Virginia has everything you need for the perfect trip. You'll rely on our honest, in-depth reviews of accommodations in every price range, from colonial inns and distinctive B&Bs to family-friendly motels. We'll bring you the latest on the dining scene, including sophisticated cafes, historic taverns, and down-home Southern barbecue joints.
With Frommer's in hand, you won't miss any of the highlights: Jefferson's Monticello, the solemn expanses of Arlington National Cemetery, charming small towns, Colonial Williamsburg, the best trails in Shenandoah National Park, the sun and surf at Virginia Beach, and Civil War battlefields--plus the best fishing, golf, hiking, river rafting, foliage tours, and much more. [via]
Frommer's Virginiaby Arthur Frommer, Bill GoodwinISBN 0028635175 (0-02-863517-5)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Frommer's Virginiaby Rena Bulkin, Fred McDarrah, Bill Goodwin, Gloria McDarrahISBN 002860704X (0-02-860704-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Gentleman in the Parlour : A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphongby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 9748299589 (974-8299-58-9)
Softcover, White Orchid
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Gutsy Women: More Travel Tips and Wisdom for the Roadby Marybeth BondISBN 1885211619 (1-885211-61-9)
Softcover, Travelers' Tales Inc
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The Historianby Elizabeth KostovaISBN 0316154547 (0-316-15454-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Historian'Book summary:a novel about Vlad the Impaler and the modern world [via]
The Illustrated Out of Africaby Isak DinesenISBN 0712624058 (0-7126-2405-8)
Hardcover, Cresset Press
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In the Empire of Genghis Khan: A Journey Among Nomadsby Stanley StewartISBN 0002559048 (0-00-255904-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Ladies of the Grand Tour: British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europeby Brian DolanISBN 0060185430 (0-06-018543-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Letters from Africa 1914-1931by Isak Dinesen, Frans Lasson, Anne BornISBN 0226153118 (0-226-15311-8)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from Africa, 1914-1931'Book summary:"Here is a rich new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction . . . made her an international success and perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. . . . [These letters] contain the raw material that was later transformed into her classic memoir Out of Africa (1937). They also reveal her as a highly intelligent and sensitive analyst of a strange new world."Bruce Allen, Christian Science Monitor[via]
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Long Ago in Franceby M. F. K. FisherISBN 0671755145 (0-671-75514-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Long Ago in France'Book summary:In 1929 Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, newly married, arrived in Dijon, the provincial capital of Burgundy and the gastronomical capital of France. By the end of her three-year stay and studying at l'Ecole des Beaux Arts, she became a passionate gourmand amidst a Europe in violent upheaval. [via]
Malaria Dreams: An African Adventureby Stuart StevensISBN 0671710354 (0-671-71035-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Me Talk Pretty One Dayby David SedarisISBN 0316776963 (0-316-77696-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Me Talk Pretty One Day'Book summary:David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of "SantaLand Diaries," a scathing, hilarious account of his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy's. (It's in two separate collections, both worth owning, Barrel Fever and the Christmas-themed Holidays on Ice.) Sedaris's caustic gift has not deserted him in his fourth book, which mines poignant comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path, and his move with his lover to France. Though his anarchic inclination to digress is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these reminiscences: the inability of humans to communicate. The title is his rendition in transliterated English of how he and his fellow students of French in Paris mangle the Gallic language. In the essay "Jesus Shaves," he and his classmates from many nations try to convey the concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim. "It is a party for the little boy of God," says one. "Then he be die one day on two... morsels of... lumber," says another. Sedaris muses on the disputes between his Protestant mother and his father, a Greek Orthodox guy whose Easter fell on a different day. Other essays explicate his deep kinship with his eccentric mom and absurd alienation from his IBM-exec dad: "To me, the greatest mystery of science continues to be that a man could father six children who shared absolutely none of his interests."
Every glimpse we get of Sedaris's family and acquaintances delivers laughs and insights. He thwarts his North Carolina speech therapist ("for whom the word pen had two syllables") by cleverly avoiding all words with s sounds, which reveal the lisp she sought to correct. His midget guitar teacher, Mister Mancini, is unaware that Sedaris doesn't share his obsession with breasts, and sings "Light My Fire" all wrong--"as if he were a Webelo scout demanding a match." As a remarkably unqualified teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sedaris had his class watch soap operas and assign "guessays" on what would happen in the next day's episode.
It all adds up to the most distinctively skewed autobiography since Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia. The only possible reason not to read this book is if you'd rather hear the author's intrinsically funny speaking voice narrating his story. In that case, get Me Talk Pretty One Day on audio. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Michelin Green Guide: Great Britain, 1991/541by MichelinISBN 2067015419 (2-06-701541-9)
Softcover, Michelin Travel Pubns
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Michelin Green Guide: Greece, 1991/520ISBN 2067015206 (2-06-701520-6)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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Mont-Saint Michel and Chartresby AdamsISBN 0140390545 (0-14-039054-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres'Book summary:This first paperback facsimile of the classic 1913 edition includes thirteen photographs and numerous illustrations of the great cathedrals of Northern France. Henry Adams referred to this book as "A Study of Thirteenth-Century Unity," and its expansive scope, together with the author's deep understanding of the period, makes it a classic in art history as well as in American literature. He wrote, "I wanted to show the intensity of the vital energy of a given time, and of course that intensity had to be stated in its two highest terms-religion and art."
Henry Adams' record of his journeys through France, searching for images of unity in an age of conflict, is accompanied by observations on literature, politics, religion, and maior church leaders such as Abelard, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Thomas Aquinas.
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- Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres: ISBN 0691003351 (0-691-00335-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr - Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres: ISBN 0399124985 (0-399-12498-5)
Hardcover, Putnam - Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres: ISBN 0691039712 (0-691-03971-2)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press - Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres: ISBN 0140390545 (0-14-039054-5)
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- Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres: ISBN 0691003351 (0-691-00335-1)
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Mutant Message Down Underby Marlo Morgan, K. T. TraversISBN 0060723513 (0-06-072351-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mutant Message Down Under'Book summary:Mutant Message Down Under is the fictional account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey through outback Australia. An underground bestseller in its original self-published edition, Marlo Morgan's powerful tale of challenge and endurance has a message for us all. Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aborigines to accompany them on walkabout, the woman makes a four-month-long journey and learns how they thrive in natural harmony with the plants and animals that exist in the rugged lands of Australia's bush. From the first day of her adventure, Morgan is challenged by the physical requirements of the journey -- she faces daily tests of her endurance, challenges that ultimately contribute to her personal transformation. By traveling with this extraordinary community, Morgan becomes a witness to their essential way of being in a world based on the ancient wisdom and philosophy of a culture that is more than 50,000 years old. [via]
New Orleansby Richard Sexton, Bethany Ewald BultmanISBN 1878867393 (1-878867-39-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Orleans'Book summary:Created by local writers and photographers, Compass American Guides are the ultimate insider's guides, providing in-depth coverage of the history, culture and character of America's most spectacular destinations. Covering everything there is to see and do as well as choice lodging and dining, these gorgeous full-color guides are perfect for new and longtime residents as well as vacationers who want a deep understanding of the region they're visiting.
Outstanding color photography, plus a wealth of archival imagesTopical essays and literary extractsDetailed color mapsGreat ideas for things to see and doCapsule reviews of hotels and restaurants [via]-
North of South: An African Journeyby Shiva NaipaulISBN 0140188266 (0-14-018826-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North of South: An African Journey'Book summary:North of South: An African Journey (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin). [via]
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- North of South: An African Journey: ISBN 0140048944 (0-14-004894-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA - North of South: An African Journey: ISBN 0233970142 (0-233-97014-2)
Hardcover, Deutsch - North of South: An African Journey: ISBN 0671247425 (0-671-24742-5)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster - North of South: An African Journey: ISBN 0140188266 (0-14-018826-6)
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Out of Africaby Isak DinesenISBN 0679600213 (0-679-60021-3)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of Africa'Book summary:This is an illustrated memoir of Karen Blixen's life in Kenya, where she ran a coffee plantation at Ngong, initially with her husband until their divorce in 1921, and then on her own until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931. Fully illustrated with contemporary paintings and photographs as well as drawings by a present-day Kenyan artist, the book is a portrait of day to day life on a struggling coffee plantation, eccentric European settlers, the Africans and the beauty and wildness of the land. "Out of Africa" was released as a feature film in 1985, starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford and directed by Sydney Pollack. Other works by Karen Blixen published under her pen name Isak Dinesen include "Seven Gothic Tales", "The Angelic Avengers", "Winter's Tales", "Anecdotes of Destiny", "Shadows on the Grass", "Ehrengard" and a collection of her letters, "Letters from Africa". [via]
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- Out of Africa: ISBN 0394717406 (0-394-71740-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Out of Africa: ISBN 0375508457 (0-375-50845-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Out of Africa: ISBN 0394604989 (0-394-60498-9)
Hardcover, Modern Library - Out of Africa: ISBN 0517565099 (0-517-56509-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Out of Africa: ISBN 0712610162 (0-7126-1016-2)
Hardcover, Century - Out of Africa: ISBN 0679600213 (0-679-60021-3)
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Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grassby Isak DinesenISBN 0679724753 (0-679-72475-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass'Book summary:With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya. [via]
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Over Europeby Jan MorrisISBN 1876778695 (1-876778-69-5)
Hardcover, Fog City Pr
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Pasquale's Noseby Michael RipsISBN 0316748005 (0-316-74800-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pasquale's Nose'Book summary:Michael Rips quit his life as a major trial lawyer and went with his wife and new baby to Sutri, a tiny Etruscan village outside of Rome. Once there he headed straight for the local caf and there begins the hilarious journey of Pasquales NoseFelliniesque characters, local folklore and the surprising revelation that this small town mirrors the authors own eccentric family. Pasquales Nose is a journey, a memoir, and a story about finding home in the weirdest place imaginable. [via]
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Pasquale's Nose: Idle Days in an Italian Townby Michael RipsISBN 0316748641 (0-316-74864-1)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccaby Richard F. BurtonISBN 0486212173 (0-486-21217-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Seven Pillars of Wisdomby T. E. LawrenceISBN 022400896X (0-224-00896-X)
Hardcover, Cape
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumphby T. E. LawrenceISBN 0385418957 (0-385-41895-7)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph'Book summary:This is the exciting and highly literate story of the real Lawrence of Arabia, as written by Lawrence himself, who helped unify Arab factions against the occupying Turkish army, circa World War I. Lawrence has a novelist's eye for detail, a poet's command of the language, an adventurer's heart, a soldier's great story, and his memory and intellect are at least as good as all those. Lawrence describes the famous guerrilla raids, and train bombings you know from the movie, but also tells of the Arab people and politics with great penetration. Moreover, he is witty, always aware of the ethical tightrope that the English walked in the Middle East and always willing to include himself in his own withering insight. [via]
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Something to Declareby Julian BarnesISBN 033048916X (0-330-48916-X)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Something to Declare'Book summary:Julian Barnes's long and passionate relationship with la belle France began more than forty years ago, and in these essays on the country and the culture he combines a keen appreciation, a seemingly infinite sphere of reference, and prose as stylish as classic haute couture.
Barnes's vision of France-"The Land Without Brussels Sprouts"-embraces its vanishing peasantry; its vanished hyper-literate pop singers, Georges Brassens, Boris Vian, and Jacques Brel ("[he] sang at the world as if it& could be saved from its follies and brutalities by his vocal embrace"); and the gleeful iconoclasm of its nouvelle vague cinema ("'The Underpass in Modern French Film' is a thesis waiting to be written").
He describes the elegant tour of France that Henry James and Edith Wharton made in 1907, and the orgy of drugs and suffering of the Tour de France in our own time. An unparalleled connoisseur of French writing and writers, Barnes gives us his thoughts on the prolific and priapic Simenon, on Sand, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé ("If literature is a spectrum, and Hugo hogs the rainbow, then Mallarmé is working in ultra-violet").
In several dazzling excursions into the prickly genius of Flaubert, Barnes discusses his letters; his lover Louise Colet; and his biographers (Sartre's The Family Idiot, "an intense, unfinished, three-volume growl at Flaubert, is mad, of course"). He delves into Flaubert's friendship with Turgenev; looks at the "faithful betrayal" of Claude Chabrol's film version of Madame Bovary; and reveals the importance of the pharmacist's assistant, the most major minor character in Flaubert's great novel: "if Madame Bovary were a mansion, Justin would be the handle to the back door; but great architects have the design of door-furniture in mind even as they lay out the west wing."
For lovers of France and all things French-and of Julian Barnes's singular wit and intelligence-Something to Declare is an unadulterated joy to read. [via]
Stalin's Nose: Across the Face of Europeby Rory MacLeanISBN 000215871X (0-00-215871-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Stalin's Nose: Travels Around the Blocby Rory MacLeanISBN 0316542393 (0-316-54239-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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A Time to Keep Silenceby Patrick Leigh FermorISBN 0140119604 (0-14-011960-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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To the Ends of the Earth : The Selected Travels of Paul Therouxby Paul TherouxISBN 0679402462 (0-679-40246-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islandsby Patrick Leigh FermorISBN 0140115137 (0-14-011513-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands'Book summary:The account of a journey - by steamer and aeroplane and sailing ship - through the long island chain of the West Indies, and of the idiosyncraticand highly dissimilar civilisation that have sprung up amonst the Caribean Islands. [via]
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japanby Isabella L. BirdISBN 0486445151 (0-486-44515-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Valley of the Assassins and Other Persian Travelsby Freya StarkISBN 0719524296 (0-7195-2429-6)
Hardcover, Transatlantic Arts
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The Valleys of the Assassinsby Freya StarkISBN 0375757538 (0-375-75753-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Vanilla Beans and Brodoby Isabella DusiISBN 0743234618 (0-7432-3461-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanilla Beans and Brodo'Book summary:Traditionally, foreign writers describing a country adopt the outsider's point of view and focus on the more quaint and amusing aspects of the locals' lives. This is particularly true of Italy, where the more exotic side of the country is maximised and the lives of people treated as being less important. Not so in Isabella Dusi's fascinating Vanilla Beans and Brodo which takes the radical (and fascinating) approach of dealing with the day-to-day lives of those who live in the beautiful Tuscan Hills. In fact, the book is subtitled Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany, and the author (who sold all she owned to travel halfway around the world and settle in the exquisite mountain eyrie of Montalcino) makes the descriptions of the seasons and countryside as evocative as one could wish, but her real subject is the people. Finding it initially difficult to be accepted into this close-knit wine community, she gradually wins their respect and friendship.
The experiences of the author in the village--as different from English life as could be imagined--are totally absorbing. But this is no mere pleasant pictorial--Isabella Dusi conjures genuine drama as summer approaches and wild storms threaten to destroy the grape harvest. We are given, en route, the bloody history of this medieval village, but what stays with the reader is the incident-packed lives of the inhabitants: a million miles away from most people's placid image of life in this most beautiful part of the world. If you want to live another life for a few hours, here's your chance. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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The Voices of Marrakeshby Elias Canetti, J. A. UnderwoodISBN 0714525804 (0-7145-2580-4)
Softcover, Marion Boyars
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voices of Marrakesh'Book summary:[via]Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, Elias Canetti uncovers the secret life hidden beneath Marrakeshs bewildering array of voices, gestures and faces. In a series of sharply etched scenes, he portrays the languages and cultures of the people who fill its bazaars, cafes, and streets. The book presents vivid images of daily life: the storytellers in the Djema el Fna, the armies of beggars ready to set upon the unwary, and the rituals of Moroccan family life. This is Marrakesh -described by one of Europes major literary intellects in an account lauded as "cosmopolitan in the tradition of Goethe" by the New York Times. "A unique travel book," according to John Bayley of the London Review of Books.
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Washington Dcby Not AvailableISBN 1896339735 (1-896339-73-5)
Softcover, Irving Weisdorf & Co Ltd
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We'll Always Have Paris: Sex And Love in the City of Lightby John BaxterISBN 0060832886 (0-06-083288-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The White Nileby Alan MooreheadISBN 0060956399 (0-06-095639-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Nile'Book summary:The story of the Nile, from the Mountains of the Moon to the Mediterranean. The tale starts with Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke setting out to find the sources of the Nile. It continues with Baker of the Nile and his wife struggling with malaria, and of the famous greeting between Stanley and Livingstone. The book examines the results of their discoveries: the building of the Suez canal; the Khedive Ismail's appointment of Gordon as Governor-General of Sudan; and the story of the last days of Khartoum. The book concludes with Kitchener's military success at Omdurman which made Queen Victoria the ruler of the huge area from Alexandria to the highlands of Uganda and which resulted in the Nile being, for the first tiem, an open highway from Central Africa to the sea. [via]
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Microcosmiby Claudio MagrisISBN 8811662583 (88-11-66258-3)
Hardcover, Garzanti
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Lonely Planet Barcelonaby Damien SimonisISBN 8408056212 (84-08-05621-2)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Voyagesby C. Defremery, B. R. Sanguinetti, Ibn Batuta, Stefanos YerasimosISBN 2707113026 (2-7071-1302-6)
Hardcover, F. Maspero
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