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The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Centuryby Ross E. DunnISBN 0520067436 (0-520-06743-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveller of the 14th Century'Book summary:Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times. [via]
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Along the Edge of Americaby Peter JenkinsISBN 0395877377 (0-395-87737-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Along the Edge of America'Book summary:In the past, Peter Jenkins' explorations (The Walk West, A Walk Across America, The Road Unseen) have been confined to land, but now Jenkins takes to the watery edge of the Gulf Coast, traveling in a 25-foot cruiser from the Florida Keys to Texas cattle country. Jenkins's riveting storytelling is all the more fascinating because his adventure is not just a paean to dare-devil accomplishments. Jenkins explains from the start that this trip was meant to renew the confidence he'd had before a bad divorce laid him low. But while he rediscovers his zest for life, he also learns how to operate a boat, navigate a storm, and avoid getting hijacked--all the while sharing the stories of the individuals he meets, from the alligator-wrestling Parker brothers to Mr. James Bloodworth and Bloodworth's Drugstore, where you can still get a hand-scooped milkshake for $1.15. Jenkins relates a great tale, with honesty, humor, and a fine ear for language. [via]
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American Godsby Neil GaimanISBN 0060558121 (0-06-055812-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Gods'Book summary:American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman days.
Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow's dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.
Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.
More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what's real and what's not. --Therese Littleton [via]
Apple of My Eyeby Helene HanffISBN 038512483X (0-385-12483-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Are You Experienced?by William SutcliffeISBN 0140283587 (0-14-028358-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Are You Experienced?'Book summary:A bestseller in England, this hilarious novel is a trans-Atlantic, nineties version of On the Road.
Dave Greenford has heard the old cliche about how when you arrive in India, it's like stepping into an oven. But, somehow, this doesn't prepare him for the realization that when he arrives in India, it is like stepping into an oven.
He is there because his friend Liz--who he hopes will turn out to be more than just a friend--has the summer off. And what better way to spend her time than searching for her tantric center?
For Dave, however, the spiritual side of India is hidden by the daily frustrations of travel itself. A fourteen-hour bumpy bus ride, food-poisoning (and the ever-constant threat of malaria), child beggars, and a bossy and uninterested Liz can turn even the greatest of Asian adventures into the Vacation from Hell. Despite "[the] general belief that a long and unpleasant holiday was of crucial importance to one's development as a human being," Dave wants to go back home to England. How he finally gets there is what makes Are You Experienced? so much fun.
"A wonderfully acute, heartfelt--even 'wicked'--piece of new fiction . . . both very modern and timeless." --The Independent
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Baedeker's Great Britainby Baedekers Autofuhrer-VerlagISBN 0130558559 (0-13-055855-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall Press
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The Bafut Beaglesby Gerald Malcolm DurrellISBN 0140012664 (0-14-001266-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in Haitiby Herbert GoldISBN 0133723275 (0-13-372327-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt: Women Travellers and Their Worldby Mary RussellISBN 0006547486 (0-00-654748-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Bruce Chatwinby Nicholas ShakespeareISBN 0385498306 (0-385-49830-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bruce Chatwin'Book summary:Bruce Chatwin was the golden child of the contemporary English novel; by the time he died of an AIDS-related illness aged 49 in January 1989 he had produced the startlingly original masterpieces that made his name. Chatwin came late to being a published writer; In Patagonia, his instant classic of what can loosely be termed "travel literature", came out in 1977. In the preceding years this precocious, intense figure had been an art specialist at Sotheby's, a journalist with The Sunday Times, an archaeologist and a restless, questing traveller. By the time his novel of studying the Aboriginal dreamtime in Australia, The Songlines, was published, he had gained a worldwide audience.
An obsessive art collector, Chatwin also acquired people as he did fabulous objects. He took both male and female lovers while continuing to remain married to his wife Elizabeth, seemingly the most enduring relationship of his life. It is her cooperation and tenacity which enabled this biography to come about, as well as Nicholas Shakespeare's exhaustive research (the book was eight years in the making). It is the international span of Chatwin's experiences that makes the reader appreciate his desire to know all cultures and disciplines. There is some excellent, evocative writing here, particularly in Shakespeare's account of Chatwin's last weeks, his disappointment at not winning the Booker Prize for Utz and the detailed passage describing Chatwin's awful, miserable death surrounded by friends and family. There are a plethora of adjectives used to describe Chatwin such as "elusive", "mercurial", and "charismatic". Yet what Nicholas Shakespeare brings across in this immense, excellent life of Chatwin is the complete aloneness of the man. He was a flamboyant fabulist, an unparalleled conversationalist, yet, as the Australian poet Les Murray is quoted as saying: "He was lonely and he wanted to be. He had those blue, implacable eyes that said: 'I will reject you, I will forget you, because neither you nor any other human being can give me what I want.'"--Catherine Taylor [via]
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The City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightingsby R. W. B. LewisISBN 0374124043 (0-374-12404-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Colonial American Travel Narrativesby Wendy MartinISBN 014039088X (0-14-039088-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Death In Brazil: A Book Of Omissionsby Peter RobbISBN 0312424876 (0-312-42487-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Dharma Bumsby Jack KerouacISBN 0140042520 (0-14-004252-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dharma Bums'Book summary:One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac. This book is a must-read for any serious Kerouac fan. [via]
El Alquimistaby Paulo CoelhoISBN 9700508609 (970-05-0860-9)
Softcover, Giron Spanish Books Distributors
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Alquimista'Book summary:La mÁgica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niÑo pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseÑa la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazÓn, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros sueÑos.
El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en EspaÑa en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en EspaÑa y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la dÉcada.
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El Alquimista / The Alchemistby Paulo CoelhoISBN 9685957843 (968-5957-84-3)
Softcover, Grijalbo Mondadori
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El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en EspaÑa en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en EspaÑa y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la dÉcada.
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Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europeby Eva HoffmanISBN 0140145494 (0-14-014549-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Fiestaby Ernest HemingwayISBN 8497597931 (84-9759-793-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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A French Affair: The Paris Beat 1965-1998by Mary BlumeISBN 0452282039 (0-452-28203-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A French Affair: The Paris Beat 1965-1998'Book summary:Even the most dedicated expat rarely manages to completely fit into an adopted foreign culture. It's precisely this quality that allows American Mary Blume to so thoughtfully observe and record Paris, the city that's served as her home for over three decades, though its ways may still mystify her. In A French Affair--a collection of essays published in the International Herald Tribune--the columnist deftly captures the quirks and changes that are visible only to those who live in France, though they may be most interesting to those who don't.
In these commentaries--ranging from the opening of invention conventions to the mire of bureaucracy that accompanies the naming of a street (which may only be named after dead people, preferably deceased for at least 15 years)--Blume unveils the French quest for perfection in a world that's perfectly imperfect because of French design, and how the logic of Descartes's descendents--regarding such points as grammar--is sometimes extreme to the point of being irrational. She captures trends, from the fashionable la ratte potato to the metric system. She records notable moments---the death of a designer, the opening of a charm school for men--and notable people, such as Renoir's jet-setting son and Simone de Beauvoir. Of course, this being a book about France, Blume occasionally delves into food, be it the inner workings of a soup kitchen or the launching of cooking classes taught by royalty. With these witty and insightful short snippets, Blume provides small, crystal-clear windows into true French life--a rare accomplishment from an expatriate or a native. --Melissa Rossi [via]
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Frommer's 97 Englandby Darwin Porter, Danforth PrinceISBN 0028611322 (0-02-861132-2)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Frommer's 98 Englandby Darwin Porter, Danforth PrinceISBN 0028616545 (0-02-861654-5)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Frommer's 98 England from $60 a Day: The Ultimate Guide to Comfortable Low-Cost Travelby Darwin Porter, Danforth PrinceISBN 0028616510 (0-02-861651-0)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Frommer's England from $70 a Day: The Ultimate Guide to Comfortable Low-Cost Travelby Darwin Porter, Danforth PrinceISBN 0028630696 (0-02-863069-6)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Going to Extremesby Joe McGinnissISBN 0452252903 (0-452-25290-3)
Softcover, New American Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Going to Extremes'Book summary:When construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline created an oil boom in the late 1970s, journalist Joe McGinniss headed north to find out what if anything was left of the 'last frontier.' He discovered, as one reader put it, 'mind-bending contradictions'--greed, waste, addictions, and racism, all of which contrasted with the vast untamed natural beauty and the honest, open, and independent spirit of the people. McGinniss focused mostly on the underbelly of Alaska s boom culture. He tells a sometimes shocking, often moving story of turmoil through the perspective of a lively assortment of bush pilots, boomers, park rangers, bartenders, teachers, journalists, waitresses, politicians, Alaskan Native, and an advancing legion of outsiders looking to get rich quick. Going to Extremes is an entertaining yet historically important book that stands as a journalistic time capsule from a time three decades ago when overwhelming changes swept over Alaska. [via]
Hong Kongby Jan MorrisISBN 0394550978 (0-394-55097-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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I See By My Outfitby Peter BeagleISBN 0140095535 (0-14-009553-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Imperial Eyes : Studies in Travel Writing and Transculturizationby Mary L. PrattISBN 041502675X (0-415-02675-X)
Hardcover, Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
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Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturationby Mary Louise PrattISBN 0415060958 (0-415-06095-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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Imperiumby Ryszard KapuscinskiISBN 8307023335 (83-07-02333-5)
Hardcover, Plon
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Investment Biker: Around the World With Jim Rogersby Jim RogersISBN 0471495522 (0-471-49552-2)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Journey Without Mapsby Graham Greene, Paul TherouxISBN 0143039725 (0-14-303972-5)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbellyby Anthony BourdainISBN 0060899220 (0-06-089922-0)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly'Book summary:Most diners believe that their sublime sliver of seared foie gras, topped with an ethereal buckwheat blini and a drizzle of piquant huckleberry sauce, was created by a culinary artist of the highest order, a sensitive, highly refined executive chef. The truth is more brutal. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential, that elegant three-star concoction is the collaborative effort of a team of "wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts, and psychopaths," in all likelihood pierced or tattooed and incapable of uttering a sentence without an expletive or a foreign phrase. Such is the muscular view of the culinary trenches from one who's been groveling in them, with obvious sadomasochistic pleasure, for more than 20 years. CIA-trained Bourdain, currently the executive chef of the celebrated Les Halles, wrote two culinary mysteries before his first (and infamous) New Yorker essay launched this frank confessional about the lusty and larcenous real lives of cooks and restaurateurs. He is obscenely eloquent, unapologetically opinionated, and a damn fine storyteller--a Jack Kerouac of the kitchen. Those without the stomach for this kind of joyride should note his opening caveat: "There will be horror stories. Heavy drinking, drugs, screwing in the dry-goods area, unappetizing industry-wide practices. Talking about why you probably shouldn't order fish on a Monday, why those who favor well-done get the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, and why seafood frittata is not a wise brunch selection.... But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it." --Sumi Hahn [via]
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The London Mapguide: The Essential Guide to Experience Londonby Michael MiddleditchISBN 0140279482 (0-14-027948-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Midnight in Sicily : On Art, Feed, History, Travel, and la Cosa Nostraby Peter RobbISBN 0375704582 (0-375-70458-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight in Sicily : On Art, Feed, History, Travel, and la Cosa Nostra'Book summary:[via]A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily.
South of mainland Italy lies the island of Sicily, home to an ancient culture that--with its stark landscapes, glorious coastlines, and extraordinary treasure troves of art and archeology--has seduced travelers for centuries. But at the heart of the island's rare beauty is a network of violence and corruption that reaches into every corner of Sicilian life: Cosa Nostra, the Mafia. Peter Robb lived in southern Italy for over fourteen years and recounts its sensuous pleasures, its literature, politics, art, and crimes.More editions of Midnight in Sicily : On Art, Feed, History, Travel, and la Cosa Nostra:
Music in Every Room: Around the World in a Bad Moodby John KrichISBN 0070353026 (0-07-035302-6)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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My Life As an Explorerby Sven Anders HedinISBN 019585375X (0-19-585375-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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On the Road with Charles Kuraltby Charles KuraltISBN 0449007405 (0-449-00740-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Road with Charles Kuralt'Book summary:"Read Kuralt's words and discover America with him."
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He has entertained and informed us about ourselves on television for years. Taking to the highways, he has met the little-known and the famous, and shared them with the rest of us. This heartwarming book reminds us again of some of the extraordinary people he has met over the years in words and photographs, and provides the exact words of the interviews, so that we can permanently enjoy his visits with people we have come to know and care for, again and again. [via]More editions of On the Road with Charles Kuralt:
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The Oregon Trailby Francis Parkman, Bernard RosenthalISBN 0192839128 (0-19-283912-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oregon Trail'Book summary:[via]Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experienced while traveling across mountains and prairies; vibrant portraits of emigrants and Western wildlife; and vivid descriptions of Indian life and culture. A classic of American frontier literature.More editions of The Oregon Trail:
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Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - The Oregon Trail: ISBN 029905070X (0-299-05070-X)
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The Oregon Trailby David Levin, Francis ParkmanISBN 0140390421 (0-14-039042-1)
Softcover, Puffin
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gayby Cornelia Otis SkinnerISBN 0396024017 (0-396-02401-7)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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The Penguin London Mapguide: The Essential Guideby Michael MiddleditchISBN 0140469540 (0-14-046954-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: The Complete Cultural Handbookby David Gitlitz, Linda Kay DavidsonISBN 0312254164 (0-312-25416-4)
Softcover, Griffin
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A Room With a Viewby E. M. ForsterISBN 0060933216 (0-06-093321-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Room with a View'Book summary:British social comedy examines a young heroine's struggle against strait-laced Victorian attitudes as she rejects the man her family has encouraged her to marry and chooses, instead, a socially unsuitable fellow she met on holiday in Italy. Classic exploration of passion, human nature and social convention.[via]More editions of A Room With a View:
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A Room With a Viewby Malcolm Bradbury, E. M. ForsterISBN 0141183292 (0-14-118329-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Room With a View'Book summary:This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson--who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist--Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor, and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion. The enduring delight of this tale of romantic intrigue is rooted in Forster's colorful characters, including outrageous spinsters, pompous clergymen and outspoken patriots. Written in 1908, A Room With A View is one of E.M. Forster's earliest and most celebrated works. [via]
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Snakebite Survivors' Club : Travels among Serpentsby Jeremy SealISBN 0156013673 (0-15-601367-3)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Spainby Jan MorrisISBN 013824152X (0-13-824152-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Sun after Dark: Flights into the Foreignby Pico IyerISBN 0375415068 (0-375-41506-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Throughout his travels, the familiar thrill of adventure is haunted by the unsettling questions that arise for Iyer everywhere he goes: How do we reconcile suffering with the sunlight often found around it? How does the foreign instruct the traveler, precisely by discomfiting him? And how does travel take us more deeply into reality, both within us and without? Intensely affecting, Iyers explorations are a road map of thinking in new ways about our changing world. [via]More editions of Sun after Dark: Flights into the Foreign:
Three Letters from the Andesby Patrick Leigh FermorISBN 0140167889 (0-14-016788-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Three Weeks With My Brotherby Nicholas Sparks, Micah SparksISBN 0446694851 (0-446-69485-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Weeks With My Brother'Book summary:In January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother Micah set off on a three-week trip around the world. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at 37 and 38 respectively, they were now the only surviving members of their family. As Nicholas and Micah travel the globe, the intimate story of their family unfolds in the details of the untimely deaths of their parents and only sister. Against the backdrop of the wonders of the world, the Sparks brothers band together to heal, to remember, and to learn to live life to the fullest. [via]
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Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.by Jeremy MercerISBN 0312347405 (0-312-34740-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Travels Through France and Italyby Tobias George Smollett, Frank FelsensteinISBN 019283634X (0-19-283634-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Travels Through France and Italyby Tobias SmollettISBN 0192815695 (0-19-281569-5)
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A Valley in Italy: The Many Seasons of a Villa in Umbriaby Lisa st Aubin De TeranISBN 0060926198 (0-06-092619-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Viaje a LA Alcarriaby Camilo J. CelaISBN 8423919315 (84-239-1931-5)
Softcover, Elliots Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Viaje a LA Alcarria'Book summary:Libro de viajes del Premio Nobel.
Con el morral a la espalda y la cantimplora sujeta al cinturón, el viajero recorre los caminos y los pueblos de la Alcarria. De trecho en trecho va viviendo curiosos encuentros, minúsculas anécdotas y sorprendentes conversaciones que, impertérrito, transcribe con una suave prosa que aúna realismo, comicidad y ternura... Al finalizar el viaje queda este entrañable libro que demuestra las palabras de su autor: «El escritor, aun el que más sedentario pueda parecer, es siempre un irredento vagabundo y ése es su mayor timbre de gloria y libertad».
Con Viaje a la Alcarria, Cela inicia sus incursiones en un género en el que se ha revelado como un maestro excepcional: el libro de viajes. A Viaje a la Alcarria (1952) siguieron Del Miño al Bidasoa (1952), Primer viaje andaluz (1959), Viaje al Pirineo de Lérida (1965), libros que, a pesar de su carácter documental, no están exentos de virtuosismo estilístico, y en los que se recogen artísticas descripciones de paisajes, libros en los que Cela ofrece a menudo todo tipo de personajes y situaciones de la vida cotidiana que observa con detalle sin emitir juicio alguno sobre unos y otras, y que sabe trasladar a unas páginas de cuidadísima elocución, en las que suele aflorar, por momentos, un lirismo capaz de despertar en cualquier lector una contenida emoción. Este Viaje a la Alcarria comienza el 6 de junio de 1946 y concluye diez días después, el 15 de junio en el descubrimos una prosa en la que no se sabe qué admirar más: si su flexibilidad, dinamismo y expresividad, su aparente despreocupación formal, o ese estilo tan personal fruto de la más concienzuda elaboración literaria. Para entender el concepto que Cela tiene de lo que deben ser los libros de viaje, nada mejor que sus propias palabras entresacadas de la Nota a la primera edición de Austral : En el Viaje a la Alcarria -escribe Cela-, las cosas están contadas un poco a la pata la llana y tal como son o como se me figuraron. En esto de los libros de viajes, la fantasía, la interpretación de los pueblos y de los hombres, el folklore, etc., no son más que zarandajas para no ir al grano. Lo mejor, según pienso, es ir un poco al toro por los cuernos y decir aquí hay una casa, o un árbol, o un perro moribundo, sin pararse a ver si la casa es de éste o del otro estilo, si el árbol conviene a la economía del país o no y si el perro hubiera podido vivir más años de haber sido vacunado a tiempo contra el moquillo. En los libros de viajes suele sobrar la pedantería, que también es lo más fácil de poner .
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Voyages and Discoveriesby Richard HakluytISBN 0140430733 (0-14-043073-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Riversby Henry David Thoreau, H. Daniel PeckISBN 0140434429 (0-14-043442-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Wind, Sand and Starsby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0156027496 (0-15-602749-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Al Sur De Granadaby Gerald BrenanISBN 848310556X (84-8310-556-X)
Softcover, Tusquets Editor
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El Alquimistaby Paulo CoehloISBN 9700513866 (970-05-1386-6)
Softcover, Downtown Book Center Inc
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El Alquimista / The Alchemistby Paulo CoelhoISBN 8408022938 (84-08-02293-8)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Alquimista / The Alchemist'Book summary:La mÁgica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niÑo pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseÑa la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazÓn, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros sueÑos.
El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en EspaÑa en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en EspaÑa y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la dÉcada.
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Lonely Planet Costa Ricaby Carolina A. MirandaISBN 8408056220 (84-08-05622-0)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Una Breve Historia De Casi Todo/a Short History of Nearly Everythingby Bryson BillISBN 8478713808 (84-7871-380-8)
Softcover, Rba Publicaciones Editores revistas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Una Breve Historia De Casi Todo/a Short History of Nearly Everything'Book summary:One of the worlds best-selling writers takes his ultimate journey into the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer. Its a dazzling quest, to understand what that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. Or, as the author puts it, &how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since. Description in Spanish: Bill Bryson se describe como un viajero renuente, pero ni siquiera cuando está en su casa, en la seguridad de su estudio, puede contener esa curiosidad que siente por el mundo que le rodea. En Una breve historia de casi todo intenta entender qué ocurrió entre la Gran Explosión y el surgimiento de la civilización, cómo pasamos de la nada a lo ahora somos. [via]
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Viaje a La Alcarria: Las Botas De Siete Leguasby Camilo Jose CelaISBN 8423911411 (84-239-1141-1)
Hardcover, Espasa-Calpe
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Viaje a La Alcarria/ The Trip to Alcarriaby Camilo Jose Cela, Random House MondadoriISBN 8497592565 (84-9759-256-5)
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