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13 Little Blue Envelopes
by Maureen Johnson

ISBN 0060541431 (0-06-054143-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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When Ginny receives thirteen little blue envelopes and instructions to buy a plane ticket to London, she knows something exciting is going to happen. What Ginny doesn't know is that she will have the adventure of her life and it will change her in more ways than one. Life and love are waiting for her across the Atlantic, and the thirteen little blue envelopes are the key to finding them in this funny, romantic, heartbreaking novel.
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Amsterdam
by Pierre-Yves Mercier, Knopf Guides Staff

ISBN 0679749144 (0-679-74914-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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Around the World in 80 Days
by Michael Palin

ISBN 0563362138 (0-563-36213-8)
Softcover, Bbc Pubns

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Baghdad Without a Map: And Other Misadventures in Arabia
by Tony Horwitz

ISBN 0452267455 (0-452-26745-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Horwitz has the touch, the ability to astutely capture the ludicrous essence of an experience while filling in all the pertinent socio-historic details. He chews qat with the Yemenis, plays soccer with the Sudanese Dinka refugees and listens to an endless refrain of "You are the perfume of Iraq, oh Saddam" in Baghdad. Horwitz' eye and wit are equally sharp, and his book is an exceptionally good read. [via]
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- Baghdad Without a Map: And Other Misadventures in Arabia: ISBN 0525249605 (0-525-24960-5)
  Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary
by Richard Darwin Keynes

ISBN 0521003172 (0-521-00317-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Here is a fascinating record of one of the most famous journeys ever made. This work constitutes an accurate historical document as well as an evocative travelog that conveys Charles Darwin's personal account of the voyage with freshness and immediacy. [via]
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- Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary: ISBN 0521235030 (0-521-23503-0)
  Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle Round the World
by Charles Darwin

ISBN 1579124925 (1-57912-492-5)
Hardcover, Book Sales

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Dk Eyewitness Travel Guides Amsterdam
by Dk Publishing

ISBN 075662441X (0-7566-2441-X)
Softcover, Dk Pub

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A pocket-sized travel guide of Amsterdam, for both independent and package travellers. It provides a background to the destination and a full gazetteer of the best places to see, including opening times, addresses and telephone numbers. Walks and motor tours with maps, plus information on sport, entertainment and other practical details are included too. [via]
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Eyewitness Travel Guides Amsterdam
by Christopher Catling, Robin Pascoe

ISBN 078940186X (0-7894-0186-X)
Softcover, Dk Pub

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Features: Oude Zijde, Nieuwe Zijde, the Western Canal Ring, Central Canal Ring, Eastern Canal Ring, the Museum Quarter, and Plantage. [via]
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  Softcover, Dk Pub
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Falling off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
by Pico Iyer

ISBN 0679746129 (0-679-74612-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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  Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Fielding's the World's Most Dangerous Places
by Robert Y. Pelton, Kathy Knoles

ISBN 1569521409 (1-56952-140-9)
Softcover, Fielding Worldwide, Incorporated

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Fielding's The World's Most Dangerous Places is not a comforting book; its pages bristle with tales of land mines, war zones, terrorists, mercenaries, mafiosi, massacres, kidnappers, drug smugglers, and all the other travel disasters that are the stuff of nightmares. But then, as the editors point out in their foreword, "as travelers are kidnapped and executed in Cambodia, a recognized dangerous place, they also are hunted down and murdered in Los Angeles." In other words, the most dangerous place in the world is more of a state of mind: ignorance.
Neither is The World's Most Dangerous Places meant to be used as a guidebook. True, there will be some adrenaline junkies out there who, upon perusing the pages about the war in Chechnya, decide that that's the place they want to be. The people most likely to benefit from this book, however, are those who either have to visit the perilous corners of the world--journalists, foreign-service employees, etc.--or those who have a desire to learn more about such places without necessarily visiting them. It's also a good compliment to more mainstream guidebooks for the growing legion of adventure travelers whose quests for higher mountains to climb, fiercer rivers to raft, and wilder trails to hike often take them to hazardous regions. Whether you're planning a trip to a dangerous place or you just want to learn more about one, The World's Most Dangerous Places is the right book at the right time. [via]
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Fielding's the World's Most Dangerous Places
by Robert Young Pelton, Wink Dulles, Coskun Aral, Coskun Ara

ISBN 1569521042 (1-56952-104-2)
Softcover, Fielding Worldwide

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The first thing you should know about Fielding's The World's Most Dangerous Places is that it is not a comforting book. Its pages bristle with tales of land mines, war zones, terrorists, mercenaries, mafiosi, massacres, kidnappers, drug smugglers, and all the other unpleasant travel disasters that are the stuff of nightmares. But then, as the editors point out in their foreword, "as travelers are kidnapped and executed in Cambodia, a recognized dangerous place, they also are hunted down and murdered in Los Angeles." In other words, the most dangerous thing in the world is ignorance.
The second thing you should know about The World's Most Dangerous Places is that it is not meant to be used as a guidebook. True, there will be some adrenaline junkies out there who, upon perusing the pages about the war in Chechnya, decide that that's the place they want to be. The most likely audience for this book, however, is comprised of people who either have to visit the perilous corners of the world--journalists, foreign-service employees, etc.--or have a desire to learn more about such places without necessarily visiting them. It's also a good compliment to more mainstream guidebooks for the growing legion of adventure travelers whose quests for higher mountains to climb, fiercer rivers to raft, and wilder trails to hike often take them to hazardous regions. Whether you're planning a trip to a dangerous place or just want to learn more about one, The World's Most Dangerous Places is the right book at the right time. [via]
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  Softcover, Fielding Worldwide
Into the Heart of Borneo
by Redmond O'Hanlon

ISBN 0394755405 (0-394-75540-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer

ISBN 0385486804 (0-385-48680-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.
Described by friends and relatives as smart, literate, compassionate, and funny, did McCandless simply read too much Thoreau and Jack London and lose sight of the dangers of heading into the wilderness alone? Krakauer, whose own adventures have taken him to the perilous heights of Everest, provides some answers by exploring the pull the outdoors, seductive yet often dangerous, has had on his own life. [via]
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James Stewart
by Allan Hunter

ISBN 0870521195 (0-87052-119-5)
Hardcover, Spellmount

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Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology: Of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, under the Command of Capt Fitz Roy, R.N.
by Charles Darwin

ISBN 040408401X (0-404-08401-X)
Hardcover, AMS Press

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London A Z: Street Atlas

ISBN 0850391954 (0-85039-195-4)
Softcover, Hunter Pub Inc

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Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Hunter Publishing (NJ) (April 1988) Language: English [via]
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London A-Z

ISBN 1843480204 (1-84348-020-4)
Softcover, Hunter Pub Inc

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt

ISBN 0679751521 (0-679-75152-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has been heralded as a "lyrical work of nonfiction," and the book's extremely graceful prose depictions of some of Savannah, Georgia's most colorful eccentrics--remarkable characters who could have once prospered in a William Faulkner novel or Eudora Welty short story--were certainly a critical factor in its tremendous success. (One resident into whose orbit Berendt fell, the Lady Chablis, went on to become a minor celebrity in her own right.) But equally important was Berendt's depiction of Savannah socialite Jim Williams as he stands trial for the murder of Danny Hansford, a moody, violence-prone hustler--and sometime companion to Williams--characterized by locals as a "walking streak of sex." So feel free to call it a "true crime classic" without a trace of shame. [via]
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Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil: A Savannah Story
by John Berendt

ISBN 0679643419 (0-679-64341-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has been heralded as a "lyrical work of nonfiction," and the book's extremely graceful prose depictions of some of Savannah, Georgia's most colorful eccentrics--remarkable characters who could have once prospered in a William Faulkner novel or Eudora Welty short story--were certainly a critical factor in its tremendous success. (One resident into whose orbit Berendt fell, the Lady Chablis, went on to become a minor celebrity in her own right.) But equally important was Berendt's depiction of Savannah socialite Jim Williams as he stands trial for the murder of Danny Hansford, a moody, violence-prone hustler--and sometime companion to Williams--characterized by locals as a "walking streak of sex." So feel free to call it a "true crime classic" without a trace of shame. [via]
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  Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
- Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil: A Savannah Story: ISBN 0679643419 (0-679-64341-9)
  Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World in H.M.S. Beagle
by Charles Darwin

ISBN 1414226047 (1-4142-2604-7)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com

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After having been twice driven back by heavy south-western gales, Her Majesty's ship "Beagle," a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December, 1831. The object of the expedition was to complete the survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, commenced under Captain King in 1826 to 1830--to survey the shores of Chile, Peru, and of some islands in the Pacific--and to carry a chain of chronometrical measurements round the World. On the 6th of January we reached Teneriffe, but were prevented landing, by fears of our bringing the cholera: the next morning we saw the sun rise behind the rugged outline of the Grand Canary Island, and suddenly illumine the Peak of Teneriffe, whilst the lower parts were veiled in fleecy clouds. This was the first of many delightful days never to be forgotten. On the 16th of January 1832 we anchored at Porto Praya, in St. Jago, the chief island of the Cape de Verd archipelago.
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The Oxford Mark Twain
by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin

ISBN 0195090888 (0-19-509088-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Nearly nine decades after his death, Mark Twain remains an international icon. His white-maned, mustachioed image is instantly identifiable throughout the world, the very picture of probity and high spirits (which explains why he's become the poster boy for products as diverse as beer, billiard tables, sewing machines, pizza, and real estate). Perhaps more importantly, Twain's books have retained all their power to amuse and enrage. How is it possible for the creator of a 19th-century "boy's holiday book" (Twain's own description of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) to raise so many contemporary hackles? The answer is that Twain is a contemporary writer. Not, of course, from a chronological point of view--he was born in Missouri in 1835 and died in 1910 (having insisted that "annihilation has no terrors for me"). But Twain was the first writer to elevate the American vernacular to a high art. Sidestepping the starched-shirt diction of his peers, he created an idiom that resembled (but did not precisely duplicate) the wayward, slangy, ungrammatical music of American conversation. No serious reader of Twain will want to do without the Oxford Mark Twain. This 29-volume leviathan includes not only the major works but also a treasure trove of essays and short pieces, many of them unavailable for decades. Throw in the introductions to each volume (by such heavyweights as Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley), as well as the original illustrations, and you've got the book bargain of the millennium. [via]
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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
by Jonathan Raban

ISBN 0679776141 (0-679-77614-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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British-born Jonathan Raban sets out on a passage from Seattle to Juneau in a small boat that is more a waterborne writing den, and as usual with the brilliant Raban, this journey becomes a vehicle for history and heart-stopping descriptions that will make readers want to hail him as one of the finest talents who's picked up a pen in the 20th century. The voyage through the Inside Passage from Washington's Puget Sound to Alaska churns up memories and stirs up hidden emotions and Raban dwells on many, including the death of his father and his own role of Daddy to his young daughter, Julia, left behind in Seattle. More than just a personal travelogue, however, Passage to Juneau deftly weaves in the stories of others before him--from Indians whom white men formerly greeted with baubles set afloat on logs, to Captain Vancouver, who risked mutiny on his ship when he banned visits with prostitutes, some of whom offered their services for bits of scrap metal. Pressed into every page are intimate descriptions of life at sea--the fog-shrouded coasts, the crackly radio that keeps him linked to the mainland, the salty marine air, and the fellow sailors who are likewise drawn by a life of tossing on water. While Raban successfully steers his boat to the desired port, readers ultimately discover that this insightful, talented sage is in fact emotionally in deep water and may not fully be captain of his own life. --Melissa Rossi [via]
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- Passage to Juneau : A Sea and Its Meanings: ISBN 0679442626 (0-679-44262-6)
  Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Pole to Pole
by Michael Palin

ISBN 0563362839 (0-563-36283-9)
Hardcover, Bbc Pubns

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Pole to Pole: North to South by Camel, River Raft, and Balloon
by Michael Palin

ISBN 0912333413 (0-912333-41-3)
Softcover, Bay Soma Publishing

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Road Fever
by Tim Cahill

ISBN 0394758374 (0-394-75837-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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If you define "adventure travel" as anything that's more fun to read about than to live through, then Tim Cahill's Road Fever is the adventure of a lifetime. Along with professional long-distance driver Garry Sowerby, Cahill drove 15,000 miles from the southernmost tip of Tierra del Fuego to the northernmost terminus of the Dalton Highway in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, from one end of the world to another, in a record-breaking 23 1/2 days. Just like the authors' camper-shelled GMC Sierra truck, the narrative bounces along at a relentless pace. Along the way Cahill and Sowerby cope with mood swings, engine trouble, Andean cliffs, obstinate bureaucracies, slick highways, armed and uncomprehending soldiery (not to mention the challenges of securing O.P.M., or Other People's Money--the sine qua non of adventure, Cahill observes). Author of such off-the-wall travelogues as Pass the Butterworms and Jaguars Ripped My Flesh, Cahill is equipped with the correct amalgam of chutzpah and dementia to survive what can only be called "The Road Trip From Hell." Readers, however, will thoroughly enjoy themselves. [via]
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Road Fever : A High-Speed Travelogue
by Tim Cahill

ISBN 039457656X (0-394-57656-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

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Road Trip USA: Cross-country Adventures on America's Two-lane Highways
by Jamie Jensen

ISBN 1566917662 (1-56691-766-2)
Softcover, Avalon Travel Pub

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Covers the United States with 11 cross-country routes, offering road-tested advice for adventurers who want to bypass the beaten path and see a slice of America the modern interstates have left behind. [via]
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Robert Young Pelton's the World's Most Dangerous Places
by Robert Young Pelton, Coskun Aral, Wink Dulles, Kathy Knoles, Jack Kramer

ISBN 1569520313 (1-56952-031-3)
Softcover, Fielding Worldwide, Incorporated

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The indispensable guide for the intrepid adventurer -- a book some governments don't want you to read. Pelton, a professional adventurer, and Aral, an international war correspondent, have created the only travel guide to danger and adventure. Everything you need to know about the world's hot spots -- Bosnia-Herzegovina, Liberia, Rwanda, Peru -- is right here, from the inoculations required and dangerous holidays to pencil onto your calendar to the addresses of intelligence organizations and political activist groups. If you're raring to go where angels fear to tread, this book could save your life. [via]
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Sahara
by Michael Palin, Basil Pao

ISBN 0312305435 (0-312-30543-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
by Rita Golden Gelman

ISBN 0609809547 (0-609-80954-7)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr

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When Rita Golden Gelman traveled to Mexico during a two-month separation from her husband, she hoped to satisfy an old craving for adventure and, in the process, rejuvenate herself and her marriage. Little did she know it was the beginning of a new life, not just as a divorcée, but as a nomad of the world. Since 1986, Gelman has had no permanent address and no possessions except those she can carry. She travels without a plan, guided by instinct, serendipitous opportunities, and a remarkable ability to connect with people. At first her family and friends accused her of running away, but Gelman knew she had embarked on a journey of self-discovery and a way of life that is inspiring and enviable.
We know Gelman is not your typical middle-aged housewife from LA when, on that first trip to Mexico, she randomly picks a Zapotec village and decides to live there for a month, knowing nothing about the culture or the language. When she arrives, the villagers run away from her, terrified. By the time she leaves, there are hugs and tears. From there she travels to Guatemala and Nicaragua, Israel and the Galapagos Islands. But the heart of the book--and her 15-year journey--is Indonesia, where she lives for eight years. It is Bali that forever changes how she looks at the world, facilitated by her friendship with an aging prince. Tu Aji not only invites her to live with his family but decides that the education of Rita will be his final duty in life. Wherever she goes, Gelman has an uncanny ability to slip into other ways of life and become part of a community. And she is a person for whom doors open widely--her seatmate on the plane to Bali scrawls the prince's name on a piece of paper, she talks her way into a sojourn at Camp Leakey in Borneo where orangutans are studied, and an entire village in a remote part of Irian Jaya prays for the clouds to clear so her plane can land--and they do! Gelmen's secret is her passion for people. That being the case, the book is short on descriptions of place, but long on the rarer inside view of the peoples and customs of those places. This in itself is treat enough, but Gelman's animated and intimate story comes with a kicker--it's never too late to fulfill those dreams. --Lesley Reed [via]
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- Tales of a Female Nomad : Living at Large in the World: ISBN 0609606425 (0-609-60642-5)
  Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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A Tramp Abroad
by Mark Twain

ISBN 1406813052 (1-4068-1305-2)
Softcover, Echo Library

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Nearly nine decades after his death, Mark Twain remains an international icon. His white-maned, mustachioed image is instantly identifiable throughout the world, the very picture of probity and high spirits (which explains why he's become the poster boy for products as diverse as beer, billiard tables, sewing machines, pizza, and real estate). Perhaps more importantly, Twain's books have retained all their power to amuse and enrage. How is it possible for the creator of a 19th-century "boy's holiday book" (Twain's own description of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) to raise so many contemporary hackles? The answer is that Twain is a contemporary writer. Not, of course, from a chronological point of view--he was born in Missouri in 1835 and died in 1910 (having insisted that "annihilation has no terrors for me"). But Twain was the first writer to elevate the American vernacular to a high art. Sidestepping the starched-shirt diction of his peers, he created an idiom that resembled (but did not precisely duplicate) the wayward, slangy, ungrammatical music of American conversation. No serious reader of Twain will want to do without the Oxford Mark Twain. This 29-volume leviathan includes not only the major works but also a treasure trove of essays and short pieces, many of them unavailable for decades. Throw in the introductions to each volume (by such heavyweights as Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley), as well as the original illustrations, and you've got the book bargain of the millennium. [via]
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A Tramp Abroad (1880)
by Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Russell Banks, James S. Leonard, Mark Twain

ISBN 0195114086 (0-19-511408-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press

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Nearly nine decades after his death, Mark Twain remains an international icon. His white-maned, mustachioed image is instantly identifiable throughout the world, the very picture of probity and high spirits (which explains why he's become the poster boy for products as diverse as beer, billiard tables, sewing machines, pizza, and real estate). Perhaps more importantly, Twain's books have retained all their power to amuse and enrage. How is it possible for the creator of a 19th-century "boy's holiday book" (Twain's own description of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) to raise so many contemporary hackles? The answer is that Twain is a contemporary writer. Not, of course, from a chronological point of view--he was born in Missouri in 1835 and died in 1910 (having insisted that "annihilation has no terrors for me"). But Twain was the first writer to elevate the American vernacular to a high art. Sidestepping the starched-shirt diction of his peers, he created an idiom that resembled (but did not precisely duplicate) the wayward, slangy, ungrammatical music of American conversation. No serious reader of Twain will want to do without the Oxford Mark Twain. This 29-volume leviathan includes not only the major works but also a treasure trove of essays and short pieces, many of them unavailable for decades. Throw in the introductions to each volume (by such heavyweights as Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley), as well as the original illustrations, and you've got the book bargain of the millennium. [via]
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Travels
by Michael Crichton

ISBN 0060509058 (0-06-050905-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.

When Michael Crichton -- a Harvard-trained physician, bestselling novelist, and successful movie director -- began to feel isolated in his own life, he decided to widen his horizons. He tracked wild animals in the jungles of Rwanda. He climbed Kilimanjaro and Mayan pyramids. He trekked across a landslide in Pakistan. He swam amid sharks in Tahiti.

Fueled by a powerful curiosity and the need to see, feel, and hear firsthand and close-up, Michael Crichton has experienced adventures as compelling as those he created in his books and films. These adventures -- both physical and spiritual -- are recorded here in Travels, Crichton's most astonishing and personal work.
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Travels with a Donkey
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 3895084603 (3-89508-460-3)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft

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Most of the problems travelers encounter have to do with transportation. On a 12-day trek through the Cevennes, Stevenson's cross to bear was Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative donkey he could never quite get the better of. After many humorous trials and tribulations, Stevenson found that his disdain for the creature had turned to love, and at the end of the trip he said goodbye with much regret. Written in just a few months when he was in his late twenties, the publication was initially a means to earn a quick buck. Little did Stevenson know that his Modestine would become one of the great characters in travel literature. [via]
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Travels With a Donkey an Inland Voyage the Silverado Squatters
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0460117661 (0-460-11766-1)
Softcover, Dent

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Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 1843500965 (1-84350-096-5)
Softcover, Frontlist Books

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Most of the problems travelers encounter have to do with transportation. On a 12-day trek through the Cevennes, Stevenson's cross to bear was Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative donkey he could never quite get the better of. After many humorous trials and tribulations, Stevenson found that his disdain for the creature had turned to love, and at the end of the trip he said goodbye with much regret. Written in just a few months when he was in his late twenties, the publication was initially a means to earn a quick buck. Little did Stevenson know that his Modestine would become one of the great characters in travel literature. [via]
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Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes, and Selected Travel Writings
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma Letley

ISBN 0192826298 (0-19-282629-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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This volume of Stevenson's travel writings includes his first published book An Inland Voyage (1878) - a vivid account of a canoe voyage in Belgium and France in two sail-powered skiffs, named Cigarette and Arethusa - and Stevenson's popular description of a tour with his recalcitrant donkey Modestine, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879). Stevenson's natural affinity for France, his appreciation of its landscape, and his enthusiasm for the French way of life are borne out by these works, which prompted a contemporary critic to suggest that he was `a Frenchman born out of place', rather than `a Scotsman of the Scots'. In addition to these longer pieces, a selection of travel essays deriving from the writer's experiences on the C te d'Azur, at Fontainbleau, and in the Swiss Alps reveal Stevenson's iconoclasm, his unconventionality, and the Bohemian stance which brought about his confrontation with the Edinburgh literary establishment. [via]
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Travels with a Tangerine
by Tim MacKintosh-Smith, Martin Yeoman

ISBN 0812971647 (0-8129-7164-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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'A gripping and accomplished travel book ...[it] stands out for its integrity and intelligence.' - Anthony Sattin, "Sunday Times". Ibn Battutah was the greatest traveller of the pre-mechanical age, journeying for twenty nine years and covering three times the ground Marco Polo covered. Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows the first stage of Ibn Battutah's journey, from Tangier to Constantinople. Destinations include an Islamic Butlin's in the Egyptian desert, Assassin castles in Syria, the Kuria Maria Islands in the Arabian Sea and some of the greatest cities of Medeival Islam. He also cleverly compares the contemporary Muslim world with the past. 'Mackintosh-Smith slips effortlessly between our world and that of the fourteenth century. In doing so, he has created a gripping and accomplished travel book...We will be lucky if there is a better one published this year' - "Sunday Times". 'An immensely engaging book...Subversive good humour without relentless jokiness; and a descriptive eye capable of sketching complext details in a few telling lines.' - "Daily Telegraph". [via]
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Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
by Tim Mackintosh-Smith

ISBN 1566492475 (1-56649-247-5)
Hardcover, Welcome Rain Publishers

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The Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award is not handed out lightly, and is almost invariably given to travel writing of a rare order. Tim Mackintosh-Smith is a very worthy recipient, and Travels with a Tangerine will no doubt inspire (as did his earlier Yemen) comparisons to the giants of writing about the Arabic world, from Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom to Wilfred Thesiger.
Travels with a Tangerine is subtitled A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah, and finds Mackintosh-Smith utilising his impressive knowledge of Arabic studies in a fascinating journey to find the real Arabia. For the past 17 years (when not travelling), he has lived in the Yemeni capital San'a, and this invaluable background has made him the perfect guide to the exotic landscapes of Arabia. Here, the author travels in the footsteps of a ghost. Ibn Battutah was the greatest traveller of the pre-mechanical age, setting out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. His journey took 29 years, and he visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance that Marco Polo covered. Mackintosh-Smith set out to write a "trailer" or continuation of the original writings, and this utterly fascinating book covers the first stage in the Moroccan's bizarre and dangerous journey (brigands were only one of the dangers he faced). The destinations include a quaint Islamic Butlin's in the Egyptian desert, the shores of the Cimmerian Bosphoros and some of the most impressive cities of medieval Islam. All the details of his journey are conjured up with maximum vividness, from buffalo milk puddings and fishbone houses to the legendary dancing dervishes. The writing, always spare and elegant, makes this a highly compelling read for either the adventurer or the armchair traveller. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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The Voyage of Charles Darwin
by Charles Darwin, Christoher Ralling

ISBN 0831792124 (0-8317-9212-4)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub

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Voyage of the Beagle
by Charles Robert Darwin

ISBN 1573927732 (1-57392-773-2)
Softcover, Prometheus Books

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Charles Darwin's father at first refused to allow his 22-year-old son to go on this voyage around the world in 1831-1836: he felt it was not a wise career choice. Fortunately, his father relented, and we have Darwin's journal, which may be the greatest scientific travel narrative ever written. Revised by the author in 1860, this is an account of his experiences on the Beagle, which led to his formulation of the theory of evolution. He was able to observe coral reefs, fossil-filled rocks, earthquakes, and more, first-hand, and made his own deductions. Original (of course) and entertaining! [via]
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The Voyage of the Beagle
by Charles Darwin

ISBN 1853264768 (1-85326-476-8)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited

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Inviting in its lavish detail, this is Darwin's fascinating account of his five-year journey aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Beagle (1831-1836) as it surveyed the coasts of South America, New Zealand, Australia, and the now famous Galapagos Archipelago. One of the most important voyages of the 19th century, this is where Darwin made the observations that led to his theory of evolution by means of natural selection, which emerged two decades later. The Voyage of the Beagle (1840-43) has delighted and enlightened millions because of Darwin's loving and insightful observations of the plants, animals, people, and locations he explored. These journals provide striking examples of the great scientist's reasoning ability and intriguing glimpses into his thought processes. They are the precursor to The Descent of Man (1871, 1874), a controversial leap in evolutionary theory from nature to humanity. [via]
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The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches
by Charles Darwin, Michael Neve, Janet Browne, E. J. Browne

ISBN 014043268X (0-14-043268-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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"The Voyage of the Beagle" is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to "The Origin of Species". This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Janet Brown and Michael Neve. When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia and the Australasian coral reefs - all are to be found in these extraordinary writings. The insights made here were to set in motion the intellectual currents that led to the theory of evolution, and the most controversial book of the "Victorian age: The Origin of Species". This volume reprints Charles Darwin's journal in a shortened form. In their introduction Janet Brown and Michael Neve provide a background to Darwin's thought and work, and this edition also includes notes, maps, appendices and an essay on scientific geology and the Bible by Robert FitzRoy, Darwin's friend and Captain of the Beagle. Charles Darwin (1809-82), a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. The advent of "On the Origin of Species" by means of natural selection in 1859 challenged and contradicted all contemporary biological and religious beliefs. If you enjoyed "The Voyage of the Beagle", you might enjoy Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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The Voyage of the Beagle: Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World
by Charles Darwin

ISBN 0375756809 (0-375-75680-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on an expedition that, in his own words, determined my whole career. The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles his five-year journey around the world and especially the coastal waters of South America as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. While traveling through these unexplored countries collecting specimens, Darwin began to formulate the theories of evolution and natural selection realized in his master work, The Origin of Species. Travel memoir and scientific primer alike, The Voyage of the Beagle is a lively and accessible introduction to the mind of one of history's most influential thinkers. [via]
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A Walk Across America
by Peter Jenkins

ISBN 006095955X (0-06-095955-X)
Softcover, Perennial

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"Reading Jenkins' book is the next best thing to having actually walked along beside him." Associated Press
With his own feelings echoing the disillusionment of his whole generation, Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to walk across America and find out what his country was really about. Along the way, Jenkins' faith and pride in his country -- and himself -- were tested and ultimately restored. Yours will be too as you read his amazing story. [via]
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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
by Bruce Feiler

ISBN 0060838639 (0-06-083863-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses is the story of Bruce Feiler's 10,000-mile trek from Mount Ararat to Mount Nebo, undertaken for reasons he did not understand at the outset and accompanied by a companion who was very nearly a stranger. In the book's first chapter, in characteristically understated style, Feiler suggests a viable parallel to his journey:
Abraham was not originally the man he became. He was not an Israelite, he was not a Jew. He was not even a believer in God--at least initially. He was a traveler, called by some voice not entirely clear that said: Go, head to this land, walk along this route, and trust what you will find.
Feiler, a fifth-generation American Jew from the South, had felt no particular attachment to the Holy Land. Yet during his journey, Feiler's previously abstract faith grew more grounded. ("I began to feel a certain pull from the landscape.... It was a feeling of gravity. A feeling that I wanted to take off all my clothes and lie facedown in the soil.") Feiler's attentiveness, intelligence, and adventurousness enliven every page of this book. And the lessons he learned about the relationship between place and the spirit will be useful for readers of every religious tradition that finds its origins in the Bible. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The World's Most Dangerous Places: Professional Strength
by Robert Young Pelton

ISBN 0061120219 (0-06-112021-9)
Softcover, Collins

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The Professional Strength edition is a shorter and grittier version of Harper Collins cult book, "World's Most Dangerous Places" and focuses on the international business traveler in this new and more dangerous world - whether you're a reporter assigned to Baghdad or a wildcatter scoping out Chechnyan oil fields, this book will help you come back safe and sound. Inside, you'll find a discussion on the new dangers of working and traveling overseas on business, and sections that describe the type of safety training, equipment, resources, survival tips, and services you'll need to circumvent kidnappers, insurgents, drug dealers, and a whole host of hostile elements. This book is not merely for thrill seekers: it is a necessary tool for people traveling to strife-ridden areas on a professional level. [via]
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A-Z London

ISBN 0850395682 (0-85039-568-2)
Softcover, Hunter Pub Inc

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A-Z London: London's Best Selling Street Atlas

ISBN 0850397529 (0-85039-752-9)
Softcover, Hunter Pub Inc

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Unlike streets in the US, London's roads do not follow a logical numbering system (or even a logical system, for that matter!), so navigating you and your family around the maze of dead-ends and one-way streets can be a nightmare! Knowing the quickest routes from A to B is a learning process, and is largely a matter of time. But here is your escape route. This pocket-sized street atlas has been the London cabby's bible for years. It is by far the best-selling, all-color street atlas of the city, covering every street, lane, highway, mew, garden, close, glen, river, bridge and motorway. In addition, it shows the tube and mainline train stations, gardens, parks, schools and major points of interest, making it your best friend on a trip to this historic city. A complete index lists every entry, so you can get from Baker Street to the Tate Gallery and back to Leicester Square in the evening without getting frustrated and spending hours going round in circles. With this book in hand, you'll be able to direct you and your family without any hesitation, and you'll also know when the cabby is taken you the "long way home" (haven't I seen that street corner before?). [via]
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