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1984by Thomas Pynchon, Erich Fromm, George OrwellISBN 0452284236 (0-452-28423-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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Alexandriaby E. M. ForsterISBN 0670112321 (0-670-11232-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Amateur Emigrantby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0701219122 (0-7012-1912-2)
Softcover, Chatto & Windus
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American Questby Jack BarthISBN 0671682407 (0-671-68240-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Animal Farmby George Orwell, Ann PatchettISBN 0452284244 (0-452-28424-4)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Are You Two Together: A Gay and Lesbian Grand Tour of Europeby Lindsy Van GelderISBN 0679735992 (0-679-73599-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Backpackby Emily BarrISBN 0452282934 (0-452-28293-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Backpack'Book summary:Emily Barr's irrepressible first novel follows the trials and tribulations of Tansy, a Londoner who leaves behind her horrible boyfriend, too-trendy friends, and hotshot media job to find herself a continent away.
Adrift in the wake of her long-suffering mum's death, Tansy hopes her modest inheritance will help cast her in the role of glamorous "Englishwoman Abroad," as she flits from Vietnam to China. Instead, she finds ungrateful locals who treat her like the tourist she is, a climate that's hell on her skin, and a motley group of grimy back packers she likes more than she'll ever admit. But when blond Englishwomen in Asia start turning up dead, what began as a grand adventure suddenly becomes a real-life murder mystery . . . and blond Tansy wonders if she'll live long enough to tell the tale of her travels.
Brimming with romance, humor, and a slyly self-deprecating wit, Backpack is Lisa Jewell meets The Beach. [via]More editions of Backpack:
The Bells in Their Silence: Travels Through Germanyby Michael Edward GorraISBN 0691126178 (0-691-12617-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Best European Travel Tipsby John WhitmanISBN 0671733869 (0-671-73386-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Between Meals : An Appetite for Parisby A. J. Liebling, James SalterISBN 0679601422 (0-679-60142-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between Meals : An Appetite for Paris'Book summary:A man of Rabelaisian appetite, with the exquisite palate of the true gastronome and the literary flair to match, A.J. Liebling (1904-1963) was a formidable eater and a remarkable man, and his nostalgic recitation of his years and meals in Paris is a pleasure to read, dream on, and drool about.
Liebling treasured a good appetite as a prerequisite for writing about food, as his accounts of substantial meals (two portions of cassoulet, one steak topped with beef marrow, and a dozen or so oysters, for example) attest. For the poised, precise, literary, and humorous flavor of his writing, you need only crack open the book--any page will do. Liebling recounts how to dine superbly without being lead astray by too much money, and he digresses magnificently on the evils of abstemiousness ("No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane"). In this age of diets and pragmatic health care, it's refreshing to read such an inspired and inspiring ode to pleasure. As a means of savoring a love affair with Paris, sparking an interest in a trip to France, restructuring your priorities for the trip you've already planned, or gearing up on the flight over for the gastronomic debauches to come, Liebling is unsurpassed. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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Born to Shop: London/the Insider's Guide to Name-Brand, Designer, and Bargain Shopping in Londonby Suzy Gershman, Judith ThomasISBN 0553352059 (0-553-35205-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra, Brought the Arabian Nights to theby Edward RiceISBN 0684191377 (0-684-19137-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Climbby Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DewaltISBN 0613125797 (0-613-12579-7)
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Compass American Guide to Las Vegasby Deke CastlemanISBN 0679003703 (0-679-00370-3)
Softcover, Fodor's Travel Publications
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Dakota: A Spiritual Geographyby Kathleen NorrisISBN 0618127240 (0-618-12724-0)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dakota: A Spiritual Geography'Book summary:After 20 years of living in the "Great American Outback," as Newsweek magazine once designated the Dakotas, poet Kathleen Norris (The Cloister Walk) came to understand the fascinating ways that people become metaphors for the land they inhabit. When trying to understand the polarizing contradictions that exist in the Dakotas between "hospitality and insularity, change and inertia, stability and instability.... between hope and despair, between open hearts and closed minds," Norris draws a map. "We are at the point of transition between east and west in the United States," she explains, "geographically and psychically isolated from either coast, and unlike either the Midwest or the desert west."
Like Terry Tempest Williams (Refuge), Norris understands how the boundary between inner and outer scenery begins to blur when one is fully present in the landscape of their lives. As a result, she offers the geography lesson we all longed for in school. This is a poetic, noble, and often funny (see her discussion on the foreign concept of tofu) tribute to Dakota, including its Native Americans, Benedictine monks, ministers and churchgoers, wind-weathered farmers, and all its plain folks who live such complicated and simple lives. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Danziger's Adventures : From Miami to Kabulby Nick DanzigerISBN 0586090819 (0-586-09081-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Testby Tom WolfeISBN 0553380648 (0-553-38064-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'Book summary:They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. But, fortunately, Tom Wolfe was there, notebook in hand, politely declining LSD while Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters fomented revolution, turning America on to a dangerously playful way of thinking as their Day-Glo conveyance, Further, made the most influential bus ride since Rosa Parks's. By taking On the Road's hero Neal Cassady as his driver on the cross-country revival tour and drawing on his own training as a magician, Kesey made Further into a bully pulpit, and linked the beat epoch with hippiedom. Paul McCartney's Many Years from Now cites Kesey as a key influence on his trippy Magical Mystery Tour film. Kesey temporarily renounced his literary magic for the cause of "tootling the multitudes"--making a spectacle of himself--and Prankster Robert Stone had to flee Kesey's wild party to get his life's work done. But in those years, Kesey's life was his work, and Wolfe infinitely multiplied the multitudes who got tootled by writing this major literary-journalistic monument to a resonant pop-culture moment.
Kesey's theatrical metamorphosis from the distinguished author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest to the abominable shaman of the "Acid Test" soirees that launched The Grateful Dead required Wolfe's Day-Glo prose account to endure (though Kesey's own musings in Demon Box are no slouch either). Even now, Wolfe's book gives what Wolfe clearly got from Kesey: a contact high. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Emperor's Last Islandby Julia BlackburnISBN 0679739378 (0-679-73937-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. Helenaby Julia BlackburnISBN 067941150X (0-679-41150-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Fillets of Plaiceby Gerald Malcolm DurrellISBN 0670313270 (0-670-31327-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Fodor's Exploring Scotlandby Gilbert SummersISBN 0679007164 (0-679-00716-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fodor's How to Pack: Expert Share Their Secretsby Laurel CardoneISBN 0679035176 (0-679-03517-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Frommer's Europeby Darwin PorterISBN 047192265X (0-471-92265-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Frommer's Ireland's Best-loved Driving Toursby Susan Poole, Lyn GallagherISBN 0471776513 (0-471-77651-3)
Softcover, Frommer
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Frommer's Washington Stateby Karl SamsonISBN 0471763896 (0-471-76389-6)
Softcover, Frommer
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Herodotus: The Persian Warby W. ShepherdISBN 0521281946 (0-521-28194-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Hip Hotels: Cityby Herbert J. M. YpmaISBN 0500281114 (0-500-28111-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hip Hotels: City'Book summary:The high-design revolution of the 1990s has provided a stylish alternative to the chain hotels and traditional "grand" hotels. This guide features 44 hotels that are widely diverse in their gastronomy, architecture, ownership, location, atmosphere and design; but they all offer one key feature - an experience. It may be high design or high art, Zen minimalism or cool kitsch, chic loft living or lavish historical revivalism, but always the hotel takes centre stage. Many big names in contemporary architecture, interior design and fashion have had a hand in creating the style of this book, including: Terence Conran in Vienna; Diesel in Miami; Anouska Hempel in London; Karl Lagerfeld in Berlin; Christian Liaigre in New York; Andree Putman in Cologne; and Philippe Starck in Hong Kong and Los Angeles. [via]
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Hip Hotels City: Cityby Herbert J. M. YpmaISBN 050028301X (0-500-28301-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Historiesby Hugh Bowden, George RawlinsonISBN 0460871706 (0-460-87170-6)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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How to Travel Practically Anywhere: The Ultimate Planning Guideby Susan StellinISBN 0618607536 (0-618-60753-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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I Saw Two Englandsby H. V. MortonISBN 0413620107 (0-413-62010-7)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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In Ruinsby Christopher WoodwardISBN 070116896X (0-7011-6896-X)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Intelligent Traveller's Guide to Historic Britainby Phillip A. CrowlISBN 0685577821 (0-685-57782-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Italy in Mind: An Anthologyby Alice Leccese PowersISBN 0679770232 (0-679-77023-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Kingbird Highway: The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Handby Kenn KaufmanISBN 0618062351 (0-618-06235-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kingbird Highway: The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand'Book summary:As ornithologist Kenn Kaufman recounts in his lively memoir Kingbird Highway, he's managed to do what other birders only dream of doing: take a year and chase winged creatures from one end of the country to another. The year in question was 1973, when Kaufman was 19 years old, and a few dollars and an outstretched thumb could go a long way. Armed with binoculars, notebook, and the blessing of birder patron saint Roger Tory Peterson, Kaufman set out to capture the record for most species spotted in a single year. He came close, closing with 666 species sighted from Alaska to Florida and back again. More important, he racked up a lifetime's worth of adventures on the road. These stories form the heart of his book, a narrative in which spotted redshanks, white-eared hummingbirds, marbled murrelets, and black-capped gnatcatchers are among the chief supporting players. [via]
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Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birderby Kenn KaufmanISBN 0618709401 (0-618-70940-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Knopf Guide Romeby Shelley WangerISBN 0679750673 (0-679-75067-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Knopf Guide Rome'Book summary:"You can lose yourself in a guide, but you won't get lost in the city." -- Town & Country
Once the most powerful city in the world, the heart of an empire that stretched from northern Africa to England, the Rome of today stands as an unforgettable reminder of the birth of Western civilization. Rome is a city unsurpassed in its legacy of art and architecture, yet its nightclubs and fantastic restaurants such has Alfredo's (with its signature fettucine) prove there is still plenty of life in this city that sits along the banks of the Tiber.
Everything you want to know about Rome is here: the Vatican ceremonies, secret gardens from a by-gone era, and walking tours from the breathtaking Piazza Novana to the Forum and Trastevere. Discover the beautifully proportioned piazzas, centuries-old churches, magnificent palazzos, and unsurpassed displays of mosaics, frescoes and statues, as well as the sidewalk cafes and shops along the Via Condotti. Enjoy the city's charm -- palm trees against crumbling ochre-colored walls, the golden vista of obelisks and domes at sunset, cats asleep in the Teatro Pompeii where Julius Caesar met his fate in 44 BC -- and marvel at its modern-day brio. [via]More editions of Knopf Guide Rome:
Las Vegasby Deke Castleman, Kerrick JamesISBN 0676901387 (0-676-90138-7)
Softcover, Fodor's Travel Publications
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Las Vegasby Michael S. Yamashita, Deke Castleman, Kerrick James, Michael YamashitaISBN 0679000151 (0-679-00015-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Last Italian: Portrait of a Peopleby William MurrayISBN 0671779990 (0-671-77999-0)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Last Places: A Journey in the Northby Lawrence Millman, Paul TherouxISBN 0618082484 (0-618-08248-4)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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Life of Piby Yann MartelISBN 0676978991 (0-676-97899-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life of Pi'Book summary:Serious novels about young boys being drawn closer to God while trapped on lifeboats with dangerous wild animals ought to be impossible. Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, proves they're not. Its plot stretches the limits of credibility into new and exciting shapes, and the fact that Martel has made his materials into an enchanting story is almost unbelievable. Martel's Pi is Piscine Molitor Patel, a boy from Pondicherry, one of the few Indian towns to be colonized by France. Pi is an intelligent, unusual child: he has a scientific turn of mind but is also a practising Hindu, Moslem, and Christian. Pi's family runs a large zoo, but they decide to sell their animals to zoos in the United States and emigrate to Canada. Crossing the Pacific (with their animals), they're shipwrecked halfway between China and Midway. Pi survives, only to find himself sharing a lifeboat with an injured zebra, a spotted hyena, an orangutan, and Richard Parker--an immense Bengal tiger.
Most of these animals are doomed, but Pi and Richard Parker cling to life, establishing a tacit order on the lifeboat. Martel handles this part of the story perfectly: one would expect Life of Pi to become cute, or perhaps preachy, but it is neither. Life on the boat proceeds in strict accordance with the rules of ecology and territorialism, and the interdependence of the passengers is both believable and absorbing. Life of Pi is a superb novel, both for its story and for its rich examinations of religion, isolation, and love. If this is an indication of what is to come, we can expect great things from Yann Martel. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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A Life on the Roadby Charles KuraltISBN 0399134883 (0-399-13488-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
John Charles Kuralt on the journey of his life. From a southern boy bitten by wanderlust and wonder, to a curious rover writing for newspapers, radio, and TV, to a CBS News correspondent adventuring around the world--from Cuba and Vietnam to the Congo and the North Pole, to his twenty-plus years roaming the back roads of America. In this engaging memoir, Kuralt relives a lifetime of discovering places and people whose unique stories enriched him, shaped him, and fueled his all-consuming passion: to find out what wonderful thing waits just around the next bend.
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London: A Picture Book to Remember Her byby Ted SmartISBN 0517205408 (0-517-20540-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Looking for Osman : One Man's Travels Through the Paradox of Modern Turkeyby Eric LawlorISBN 0679738223 (0-679-73822-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Miles from Nowhere: Tales from America's Contemporary Frontierby Dayton DuncanISBN 0670831956 (0-670-83195-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to Americaby Martin AmisISBN 0670814326 (0-670-81432-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Neither East Nor West: One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iranby Christiane BirdISBN 0671027565 (0-671-02756-5)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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Nevadaby Robert Fisher, Deke CastlemanISBN 0679005358 (0-679-00535-8)
Softcover, Fodor's Travel Publications
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No Full Stops in Indiaby Mark TullyISBN 0670819190 (0-670-81919-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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On the Narrow Road: A Journey into Lost Japanby Lesley DownerISBN 067164047X (0-671-64047-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forestby Wade DavisISBN 0684834960 (0-684-83496-0)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Out-Of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body and Spiritby Henry Van DykeISBN 0405102976 (0-405-10297-6)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Paris: Biography of a Cityby Colin JonesISBN 0670033936 (0-670-03393-6)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris: Biography of a City'Book summary:Paris has been the center of French culture and politics, the great stage of kings, poets, and revolutionaries, the inspiration of artists, and the prize of armies since the Middle Ages. More distinguished than London, more central to world events than Rome, Paris has long been the worlds capital of art, beauty, and ideas. British historian Colin Jones unfolds the entire history of Paris in a single splendid volume that is simultaneously exuberant and erudite.
Fluent in cultural as well as political history and keenly attuned to the ongoing drama of the citys evolution, Jones brings to life the people, ideas, social movements, and architectural upheavals that have made and remade Paris. Beginning with the late-Stone Age settlement on the banks of a muddy river, Joness brisk, authoritative narrative moves through every epochfrom the Roman town loved by the Emperor Julian to the early Christian capital of Clovis and Clotilda, from the plague-infested alleys of the Middle Ages to the brilliant salons of the Enlightenment, and from the bloody epicenter of the revolution to the brilliant backdrop of Impressionism.
Caesar and Colette, Saint Louis and Gertrude Stein, Napoleon and Jacques Chirac take their places, along with hundreds of others, in this dazzling history of the worlds most glorious city. [via]
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Parisby Julian GreenISBN 0714529273 (0-7145-2927-3)
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Parisby J. A. Underwood, Julian GreenISBN 0714534048 (0-7145-3404-8)
Softcover, Marion Boyars
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris'Book summary:[via]An American born in Paris at the turn of the last century, Julian Green takes the reader on an imaginative stroll around the French capital, revealing its secret stairways, courtyards, and alleys. From haunted visions of Notre Dame to memories of the old Trocadero, Green describes strange and little-known locations as well as the great sights. A special bilingual edition illustrated with Greens own photographs, this is a book to treasure, containing the hidden delights of Paris in an intimate literary portrait.
Julian Green published over 70 books in France and was a member of both the Académie Française and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Pilgrim Stories: On and Off the Road to Santiagoby Nancy Louise FreyISBN 0520217519 (0-520-21751-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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A Pirate Looks at Fiftyby Jimmy BuffettISBN 0449005860 (0-449-00586-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pirate Looks at Fifty'Book summary:Tales from Margaritaville (stories) and Where Is Joe Merchant? (a mystery) secured songwriter Jimmy Buffett's niche reputation as an affable, poetic beach bum. A Pirate Looks at Fifty, a travel-diary-cum-autobiography, features Buffett behind the wheel of his Grumman Albatross seaplane, safely piloting family and friends through a three-week trip around South and Central America and the Caribbean. He blends gentle scenic narration with rambling, unplugged life stories meant to convey that he's made peace with the whole aging process. For Buffett, turning 50 "can be a ball of snakes that conjures up immediate thoughts of mortality and accountability. (`What have I done with my life?') Or, it can be a great excuse to reward yourself for just getting there. (`He who dies with the most toys wins.') I instinctively chose door number two."
On this tack, Buffett plans an opulent, laid-back trip for his brood and goes into so many details about his favorite possessions (three pages on knapsacks!) that the cheerful vagabond in flip-flops is nearly eclipsed by the rich, domesticated businessman/dad he's become. In addition, stinging losses and limitations--his dad's Alzheimer's disease, his own terrifying solo plane crash in 1996--creep into his cozy yarns. Yet Buffett's infectious, grinning attitude towards life eventually finds resurrection in extended riffs on fly-fishing, solo piloting over water, and surfing. In such passages, he earns his claim to a "saline psyche," a legacy inherited from his grandfather, skipper of a five-masted barkentine that ferried lumber from New Orleans to the Caribbean. Sailing and soaring over Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific seas, Buffett looks at 50 and sees a very good life. [via]
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Ra Expeditionsby Thor HeyerdahlISBN 0451051211 (0-451-05121-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Rhode Island: A Picture Book to Remember Her byby Ted SmartISBN 0517625962 (0-517-62596-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asiaby Frederick BurnabyISBN 040503010X (0-405-03010-X)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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The Ring of Fireby Leona Blair, Lawrence BlairISBN 0553052322 (0-553-05232-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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River in the Desert : Modern Travels in Ancient Egyptby Paul W. RobertsISBN 0679421041 (0-679-42104-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Rural Ridesby William CobbettISBN 046000638X (0-460-00638-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Salon.Com's Wanderlust: Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romanceby Donald W. George, Pico LyerISBN 0679783636 (0-679-78363-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Saving Fish From Drowningby Amy TanISBN 0399153012 (0-399-15301-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Serpent and the Rainbowby Wade DavisISBN 0684839296 (0-684-83929-6)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Serpent and the Rainbow'Book summary:In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis -- people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti -- from the African origins of its people to the successful Haitian independence movement, down to the present day, where vodoun culture is, in effect, the government of Haiti's countryside.
The Serpent and the Rainbow combines anthropological investigation with a remarkable personal adventure to illuminate and finally explain a phenomenon that has long fascinated Americans.
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Spanish Phrase Bookby Dorling Kindersley, IncISBN 0606209220 (0-606-20922-0)
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Suzy Gershman's Born to Shop New York: The Ultimate Guide for Travelers Who Love to Shopby Suzy GershmanISBN 0471787434 (0-471-78743-4)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropicsby Alexander FraterISBN 0679408711 (0-679-40871-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A Thousand Miles Up the Nileby Amelia B. EdwardsISBN 0712600388 (0-7126-0038-8)
Softcover, Century Pub
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A Traveller in Southern Italyby H. V. MortonISBN 0396089267 (0-396-08926-7)
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Travels in Alaskaby John MuirISBN 0404160751 (0-404-16075-1)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Travels with Virginia Woolfby Jan Morris, Virginia WoolfISBN 0701209100 (0-7012-0910-0)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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Twin Cities: Minneapolis and St. Paulby Ted SmartISBN 051728863X (0-517-28863-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Viceroy of Ouidahby Bruce ChatwinISBN 0671412531 (0-671-41253-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Vroom with a Viewby Peter MooreISBN 0593052781 (0-593-05278-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vroom with a View'Book summary:He was an Australian author approaching 40. She was a fading Italian beauty from the sixties. They spent one unforgettable summer together, a magical road trip from Milan to Rome. Only one thing stood in the way of perfect love. Sophia was a motor scooter. After a late night Tai Bo fitness commercial warns him that his life will be over after 40, Peter Moore decides to pursue a boyhood dream sparked by watching old black and white movies of Sophia Loren - to tour Italy on a Vespa, in pursuit of la dolce vita. From picnicking in the Italian alps to exploring tumbledown seaside villages, gate-crashing Frances Mayes's villa and re-enacting Roman Holiday, this is as much a romance as a travel adventure. Not only does Peter sweep the woman of his dreams off her feet, he falls in love with a side of Italy others rarely see, along with Sophia of course... [via]
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Wallpaper City Guide Amsterdamby Wallpaper MagazineISBN 0714846813 (0-7148-4681-3)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Wallpaper City Guide Istanbul: The City at a Glanceby Wallpaper MagazineISBN 0714846864 (0-7148-4686-4)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Witches Abroadby Terry PratchettISBN 0451452259 (0-451-45225-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Witches Abroad'Book summary:One of the "Discworld" novels. The witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick travel to the distant city of Genua to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince. But all they've got is Mrs Gogol's voodoo, a one-eyed cat and a secondhand magic wand that can only do pumpkins. [via]
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Principito / the Little Princeby Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Bonifacio Del CarrilISBN 0613716132 (0-613-71613-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Principito / the Little Prince'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little man from a small planet who describes his adventures in the universe seeking the secret of what is really important in life. [via]
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