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Abandon : A Romanceby Pico IyerISBN 037541505X (0-375-41505-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Adriftby Steven CallahanISBN 0345340833 (0-345-34083-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adrift'Book summary:A NEW YORK TIMES besteller, this true story tells the riveting, first-hand account of the only man in history to have survived more than a month alone at sea,fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out. Racked by hunger, buffeted by storms, and broiled by the tropical sun, Steven Callahan drifted over eighteen hundred miles of ocean, fighting off sharks with a makeshift spear, and watching nine ships pass by without turning back. Here is a story of anguish and horror, of undying heroism, hope--and survival. [via]
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Adrift : 76 Days Lost at Seaby Steven CallahanISBN 0345410157 (0-345-41015-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of Franceby Kermit LynchISBN 0374522669 (0-374-52266-9)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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The Aeneidby Robert Fitzgerald, VirgilISBN 0394528271 (0-394-52827-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:Arma virumque cano: "I sing of warfare and a man at war." Long the bane of second-year Latin students thrust into a rhetoric of sweeping, seemingly endless sentences full of difficult verb forms and obscure words, Virgil's Aeneid finds a helpful translator in Robert Fitzgerald, who turns the lines into beautiful, accessible American English. Full of betrayal, heartache, seduction, elation, and violence, the Aeneid is the great founding epic of the Roman empire. Its pages sing of the Roman vision of self, the Roman ideal of what it meant to be a citizen of the world's greatest power. The epic's force carries across the centuries, and remains essential reading. [via]
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African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudanby Edward HoaglandISBN 0394504186 (0-394-50418-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Almost Heaven: Travels Through the Backwoods of Americaby Martin FletcherISBN 0349109354 (0-349-10935-4)
Softcover, Little Brown Uk
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American Looks at Britainby Richard CritchfieldISBN 0385244576 (0-385-24457-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Around the World: On Expensesby Peter BiddlecombeISBN 0349106843 (0-349-10684-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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At Home in France: Tales of an American and Her House Abroadby Ann BarryISBN 0345407873 (0-345-40787-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Atlantic High: A Celebrationby William F. BuckleyISBN 0385152337 (0-385-15233-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atlantic High: A Celebration'Book summary:William F. Buckley Jr.-s account of his voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in the sailboat Sealestial, Atlantic High is a work that everywhere evidences Buckley-s love for sailing and good companionship. Infused with his inimitable wit and supported by a rich fund of anecdotes and observations, Atlantic High is truly a one-of-a-kind work. [via]
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Australia Travel Guideby Sunset BooksISBN 0376060662 (0-376-06066-2)
Softcover, Leisure Arts
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Basin and Rangeby John A. McPheeISBN 0374516901 (0-374-51690-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Basin and Range'Book summary:One of the most valuable tools for the advancement of geological science has in fact been the humble road cut. United States Interstate 80 crosses the entire North American continent, in the process exposing hundreds of millions of years of geological history. In Basin and Range, McPhee, accompanied at times by Princeton geologist Kenneth S. Dreyfuss, demonstrates how the contorted and tilted rocks seen in these road cuts reveal how islands of the earth's crust have floated across the earth's surface, crashing and folding to form basin and range. This is a masterful and sometimes even poetic volume of popular writing about plate tectonics, communicating the profound satisfaction of using scientific research as a tool for understanding the world around us.
This is the first of four books on North American geology by McPhee, collectively entitled Annals of the Former World. The other volumes are In Suspect Terrain, Rising from the Plains, and Assembling California. [via]
The Big Year : A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsessionby Mark ObmascikISBN 0375432949 (0-375-43294-9)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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Blue Guide Florenceby Alta MacAdamISBN 0393327310 (0-393-32731-0)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Blue Guide Florence: City Guideby Alta MacAdamISBN 0393322025 (0-393-32202-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Blue Guide Greeceby Robin Barber, John FlowerISBN 0393312739 (0-393-31273-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticismby VoltaireISBN 0393960587 (0-393-96058-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism'Book summary:Robert M. Adams's superlative revised translation of Candide provides the basis for this widely adopted Norton Critical Edition.
The accompanying apparatus has been revised in accordance with recent biographical and critical materials. The Backgrounds and Criticism sections provide important essays that shed light on major critical issues relevant to Candide and to the intellectual climate of the period. In addition to the reports of five English visitors to Ferney, essays by Haydn Mason, Erich Auerbach, Ernst Cassirer, and Robert M. Adams are included. The final section of the edition, "The Climate of Controversy," summarizes the debate surrounding Voltaire's works and includes essays by Peter Gay, Raymond Naves, Gustave Lanson, and John Morley. Also included are a series of quotations about Voltaire by such prominent figures as Gustave Flaubert, Frederick the Great, and Stendhal, as well as the text of "Pangloss's Song," a ballad from the 1956 Candide-based operetta by Richard Wilbur. [via]More editions of Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism:
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Cold Mountainby Charles FrazierISBN 0375700757 (0-375-70075-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor.
Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learn to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic American Odyssey--hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving. [via]More editions of Cold Mountain:
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The Colossus of New York : A City in 13 Partsby Colson WhiteheadISBN 0385507941 (0-385-50794-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Colossus of New York : A City in 13 Parts'Book summary:In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived inor spent timein the greatest of American cities.
A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captures the citys inner and outer landscapes in a series of vignettes, meditations, and personal memories. Colson Whitehead conveys with almost uncanny immediacy the feelings and thoughts of longtime residents and of newcomers who dream of making it their home; of those who have conquered its challenges; and of those who struggle against its cruelties.
Whiteheads style is as multilayered and multifarious as New York itself: Switching from third person, to first person, to second person, he weaves individual voices into a jazzy musical composition that perfectly reflects the way we experience the city. There is a funny, knowing riff on what it feels like to arrive in New York for the first time; a lyrical meditation on how the city is transformed by an unexpected rain shower; and a wry look at the ferocious battle that is commuting. The plaintive notes of the lonely and dispossessed resound in one passage, while another captures those magical moments when the city seems to be talking directly to you, inviting you to become one with its rhythms.
The Colossus of New York is a remarkable portrait of life in the big city. Ambitious in scope, gemlike in its details, it is at once an unparalleled tribute to New York and the ideal introduction to one of the most exciting writers working today. [via]More editions of The Colossus of New York : A City in 13 Parts:
Cornucopia: A Gastronomic Tour of Britainby Paul RichardsonISBN 0349111324 (0-349-11132-4)
Softcover, Abacus
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Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worldsby Stephen KinzerISBN 0374528667 (0-374-52866-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Ella in Europe: An American Dog's International Adventuresby Michael KonikISBN 0385338635 (0-385-33863-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Encyclopedia of World Travelby C. Earl Cooley, Seth Goldstein, John J. Corris, Nelson DoubledayISBN 0385146698 (0-385-14669-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Encyclopedia of World Travelby Nelson Doubleday, C. Earl Cooley, Marjorie E. Zelko, Diana Powell WardISBN 038506120X (0-385-06120-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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An End To Suffering: The Buddha In The Worldby Pankaj MishraISBN 0374148368 (0-374-14836-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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English Passengersby Matthew KnealeISBN 038549744X (0-385-49744-X)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Passengers'Book summary:Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India when he ran full-tilt boogie into the Americas. One of the narrators of Matthew Kneale's ambitious historical novel English Passengers has more modest aspirations: Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley wants only to smuggle a little tobacco, brandy, and French pornography from the Isle of Mann to a secluded beach in England. Yet somehow in the process, he and his crew end up weighing anchor for Australia. Worse, they're forced to carry three temperamental Englishmen bound for Tasmania on a mission to discover the exact location of the Garden of Eden. The year is 1857, and the study of geology is beginning to make serious inroads into areas of religious doctrine. When the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson runs across a scientific treatise that puts the age of Silurian limestone somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred thousand years, he is scandalized: "This was despite the fact that the Bible tells, and with great clarity, that the earth was created a mere six thousand years ago." His many attempts to prove the Bible's accuracy lead, eventually, to a scientific expedition comprising himself, Timothy Renshaw, a dilettante botanist, and Dr. Thomas Potter.
Now jump back 30 years, to 1828, when a revolution of sorts is stirring on the island of Tasmania. Over the years, white settlers have been encroaching on aboriginal land and relations have deteriorated into violence. At the heart of the action is Peevay, a young half-breed abandoned by his aborigine mother, who had been kidnapped and raped by a white escaped convict. Now his vengeful mother is leading a war against the whites, and Peevay, desperate to win her love, has joined her. Chapters from the past narrated by Peevay and augmented by letters and dispatches from white settlers alternate with the sections told by Kewley, Wilson, Renshaw, and Potter. Eventually, of course, the two time lines intersect with momentous results.
War, mutiny, shipwreck, and not a little farce make English Passengers a gripping read, but it is Matthew Kneale's literary ventriloquism that renders it remarkable. In a novel with so many different points of view, the individuality of each voice stands out. There is, for instance, the mutinous Dr. Potter, whose descent into paranoia and egomania results in diary entries reminiscent of a 19th-century psychotic Bridget Jones: "Manxmen = treacherous even to v. last. Self heard Brew (lashed to mainmast as per usual) instructing helmsman to steer N.N.W. When self questioned he re. this he claiming we = carried into Bay of Biscay by difficult sea currents + must set course to avoid Breton Peninsular. He pointing to distant point of land to N.N.E. claiming this = Brittany. Self = doubtful." But perhaps the most compelling voice in English Passengers belongs to Peevay, who paints a vivid picture of aboriginal life in a foreign tongue he nonetheless makes his own:
When we sat so in the dark, after our eating, Tartoyen told us stories--secret stories that I will not say even now--about the moon and sun, and how everyone got made, from men and wallaby to seal and kangaroo rat and so. Also he told who was in those rocks and mountains and stars, and how they went there. Until, by and by, I could hear stories as we walked across the world, and divine how it got so, till I knew the world as if he was some family fellow of mine.
By the close of this epic tale, the world Peevay had known is gone forever and the lives of the Manx sailors and English passengers have been irrevocably changed. Based on real events in Tasmanian history, Matthew Kneale's novel delivers a home truth about Australia's brutal colonial past, even as it conveys the wonder and allure of the age of exploration. --Alix Wilber [via] 
Finding the Center: Two Narrativesby V. S. NaipaulISBN 0394537777 (0-394-53777-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Foreign Landby Jonathan RabanISBN 0375725946 (0-375-72594-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Gone to New York: Adventures in the Cityby Ian Frazier, Jamaica KincaidISBN 0374281637 (0-374-28163-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gone to New York: Adventures in the City'Book summary:Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, a city more downtown than up, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and the man who climbed the World Trade Center, and an eighty-three-year-old typewriter repairman whose shop on Fulton Street has drawers full of umlauts. Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes, and meander the length of Route 3 to New Jersey.[via]
Like his literary forbears Joseph Mitchell and A.J. Liebling, Frazier, in his bewitching, inimitable voice, makes us fall in love with America's greatest city all over again, the way he did, arriving as a young man from Hudson, Ohio. In classic evocations of the F train, Canal Street, and Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and in his iconic "Bags in Trees" essay, Frazier gives us New York again, in all its vital and human multiplicity.More editions of Gone to New York: Adventures in the City:
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The Good Rain : An Exploration of the Pacific Northwestby Timothy P. EganISBN 0394577248 (0-394-57724-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Greeceby Robin BarberISBN 0393303721 (0-393-30372-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A House Like a Lotusby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374333858 (0-374-33385-8)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Iceland: Land of the Sagasby David Roberts, Jon KrakauerISBN 0375752676 (0-375-75267-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iceland: Land of the Sagas'Book summary:"We raised our fists and cheered. . . . With the sagas in our heads, with Iceland at its wildest beneath our boots, it would not have been impossible to see Bárdr clumping along the summit ridge, prodding the glacier with his staff, ready to show us the way down."
Iceland is a pictorial classic on one of the last "undiscovered" countries in Europe--reissued for the first time in paperback.
Iceland is often thought to be covered by ice, but in fact it is gloriously green. Lush meadows, wildflower fields, and miles of rich tundra cover a landscape of remarkable variety: deep lakes, bubbling hot springs, tumbling waterfalls, snow-capped mountains. It's also a landscape amazingly alive with massive lava flows and enormous glaciers. The human story of Iceland goes back more than eleven thousand years, and its heritage is told here in a treasury of riveting sagas of real-life heroes and all manner of supernatural beings.
Both the land and the people of one of Europe's most gorgeous countries come to life in this colorful account of the authors' adventures as they walk, climb, and photograph their way through Iceland and connect to the bone-chilling sagas and the unfamiliar terrain. With breathtaking photographs from critically acclaimed writer and journalist Jon Krakauer, author of the international bestsellers Into Thin Air and Into the Wild, and a penetrating narrative from Outside contributing editor and travel writer David Roberts, Iceland splendidly captures the spirit of this enigmatic country.
Circumnavigating Iceland in summer and winter, Krakauer and Roberts encounter tales of monks and Vikings, outlaws and adventurers, trolls and witches. While touring and photographing, they discover the myths and legends of Iceland's stirring history. Numerous other feats--including a hazardous winter climb to the summit of one of Iceland's tallest mountains--round out a fascinating introduction to this unique and beautiful land. [via]More editions of Iceland: Land of the Sagas:
Illustrated Guide to Britainby Automobile Association of EnglandISBN 0393012271 (0-393-01227-1)
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The Incredible Voyageby Tristan JonesISBN 0380499991 (0-380-49999-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island: And, Cycad Islandby Oliver W. SacksISBN 0375700730 (0-375-70073-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Drawn to the Micronesian island of Pingelap by reports of a community of people born totally colorblind, Dr. Sacks set up a clinic in a one-room dispensary. There he listened to patients describe their colorless world in terms rich with pattern and tone, luminance and shadow. Then, in Guam, he investigated a puzzling neurodegenerative paralysis, making housecalls amid crowing cockerels, cycad jungles, and the remains of a colonial culture. The experience affords Sacks an opportunity to elaborate on such personal passions as botany and history and to explore the meaning of islands, the dissemination of species, the birth of disease, and the nature of deep geologic time. [via]
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La Perdidaby Jessica AbelISBN 0375423656 (0-375-42365-6)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Last Pink Bits : Travels Through the Remnants of the British Empireby Harry RitchieISBN 0340666838 (0-340-66683-8)
Softcover, Hodder & Stoughton Canada
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The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoirby Bill BrysonISBN 0375434305 (0-375-43430-5)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Susan CheeverISBN 0375756728 (0-375-75672-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (186869) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations.
Backgrounds and Contexts includes a wealth of archival materials, among them previously unpublished correspondence with Thomas Niles and Alcotts own precursors to Little Women. Criticism reprints twenty nineteenth-century reviews. Seven modern essays represent a variety of critical theories used to read and study the novel, including feminist (Catharine R. Stimpson, Elizabeth Keyser), new historicist (Richard H. Brodhead), psychoanalytic (Angela M. Estes and Kathleen Margaret Lant), and reader-response (Barbara Sicherman). A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Little Women:
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Looking for a Shipby John A. McPheeISBN 0374523193 (0-374-52319-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Napaby James ConawayISBN 0380715996 (0-380-71599-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Womenby Geraldine BrooksISBN 0385475772 (0-385-47577-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Outermost Houseby Henry BestonISBN 0345334205 (0-345-33420-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Outermost House'Book summary:In 1926, Henry Beston spent two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod. He had not intended to stay longer, but, as he later wrote, "I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me that I could not go." Beston stayed for a year, meditating on humanity and the natural world. In The Outermost House, originally published in 1928, he poetically chronicled the four seasons at the beach; the ebb and flow of the tides, the migration of birds, storms, stars, and solitude. The landscape was his major character, and his writing provides a snapshot of the Cape, a place physically changed yet as soulful 80 years later. Like Henry D. Thoreau before him, and Rachel Carson after him, Beston was a writer of stunning beauty, importance and vision. Robert Finch once wrote of him, His are burnished, polished sentences, richly metaphoric and musical, that beg to be read aloud. The Outermost House is a classic of American nature literature. It is now available, for the first time, on audio. *Including an interview with Beston biographer, Dr. Daniel G. Payne *Unabridged on 5 CDs / approximately 5 hours *Narrated by Brett Barry [via]
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Paradise of Cities: Venice in the 19th Centuryby John Julius NorwichISBN 0385509049 (0-385-50904-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Pleasures of a Tangled Lifeby Jan MorrisISBN 0394576497 (0-394-57649-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Prester Questby Nicholas JubberISBN 0385607024 (0-385-60702-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Uk
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Racing Through Paradise: A Pacific Passageby Buckley, William F., Jr., Christopher LittleISBN 0394557816 (0-394-55781-6)
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Riding With Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles And Booksby Ted BishopISBN 0393062619 (0-393-06261-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Riding With Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles And Books'Book summary:A motorcycle odyssey that combines the sensory seduction of the road with the intellectual rewards of archival research.
Ted Bishop took one last ride before the fall term. When he tried to pass a tractor-trailer at 80 miles per hour, his motorcycle began to vibrate out of control. Bishop was flung into a ditch, breaking his back in two places, shattering a wrist and ankle, and collapsing his lungs. Left with time to write and reflect, Bishop produced Riding with Rilke, an account of the epic motorcycle trip he had completed just before the crash. Here, Bishop takes readers from Edmonton to Austin, through the classic landscapes of the American West, and to a few of America and Europe's most famous cities as he reconciles what it means to be both a road dog and a researcher. Whether describing the shock of holding Virginia Woolf's suicide note in the British Library or the outlaw thrill of cruising small American towns on his Ducati, Bishop meditates with wit and honesty on the tangled interplay of life, work, and art. [via]More editions of Riding With Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles And Books:
The Road Through Miyamaby Leila PhilipISBN 039457818X (0-394-57818-X)
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A Romantic Educationby Patricia HamplISBN 0393319059 (0-393-31905-9)
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Romeby Christopher HibbertISBN 0393019845 (0-393-01984-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rome'Book summary:This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City. It covers 3,000 years of history from the citys quasi-mythical origins, through the Etruscan kings, the opulent glory of classical Rome, the decadence and decay of the Middle Ages and the beauty and corruption of the Renaissance, to its time at the heart of Mussolinis fascist Italy. Exploring the citys streets and buildings, peopled with popes, gladiators, emperors, noblemen and peasants, this volume details the turbulent and dramatic history of Rome in all its depravity and grandeur. [via]
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Running in the Familyby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0393016374 (0-393-01637-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Running in the Family'Book summary:Picture The Great Gatsby with heat, tea plantations, and even more gin and you've got part of Michael Ondaatje's 1982 Running in the Family. Set in Ondaatje's native Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Running begins with the champagne shenanigans of competitively romantic upper-class youths swept up in that first global trend, the Jazz Age: "They all went swimming again with just the modesty of the night. An arm touched a face. A foot touched a stomach. They could have almost drowned or fallen in love." The main characters to emerge from this frolicking set of dancers and drinkers are Ondaatje's parents, and it is upon them that the book turns from moonlit serenades to financial and emotional ruin.
Part travelogue, part family memoir (complete with photographs), part collection of poems, Running is also a poignant autobiography/biography that reimagines the alcoholism of Ondaatje's father Mervyn and the eventual (inevitable?) divorce of his parents. In telling these tall tales, Ondaatje is affectionate and insightful toward a father who was clearly difficult to accommodate in life. Driving intoxicated over a rickety wooden bridge no one else would trust in any condition, Mervyn turns to young Michael to wink and claim, "God loves a drunk."
Running marks the commencement of Ondaatje's growing interest in migration (does running run in the family?). The expatriate characters of Ondaatje's later novels are here presaged by a generation of Ceylonese steaming off to England for education and an enduring love of cricket. Salman Rushdie knows that "the past is a country from which we are all migrants." In Running in the Family, Ondaatje reaches back, inwards, and abroad to map that most treasured and troubled of places, the human heart. --Darryl Whetter [via]
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Russian Journalby Andrea LeeISBN 0394518918 (0-394-51891-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Russian Journal'Book summary:A subtly crafted reflection of both the bleak and golden shadings of Russian life . . . Its tones belong more to the realm of poetry than journalism. The New York Times Book Review
At age twenty-five, Andrea Lee joined her husband, a Harvard doctoral candidate in Russian history, for his eight months study at Moscow State University and an additional two months in Leningrad. Published to enormous critical acclaim in 1981, Russian Journal is the award-winning authors penetrating, vivid account of her everyday life as an expatriate in Soviet culture, chronicling her fascinating exchanges with journalists, diplomats, and her Soviet contemporaries. The winner of the Jean Stein Award from the National Academy of Arts and Lettersand the book that launched Lees career as a writerRussian Journal is a beautiful and clear-eyed travel-writing classic.
[Lee] takes us wherever she is, conveying a feeling of place and atmosphere that is the mark of real talent.
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A book of very great charm . . . [Lee] records what she saw and heard with unassuming delicacy and exactness.
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japanby Giles MiltonISBN 0374253854 (0-374-25385-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan'Book summary:Samurai William tells how, in 1598, William Adams, an English seaman of humble origin, sailed out of Rotterdam on a Danish ship en route to the East Indies. After 20 months at sea in which they survived a series of disasters, starvation and disease, Adams and a few remaining sailors floated into a harbour on the island of Kyushu in southwestern Japan. Though not the first Westerner to reach Japan--Portuguese traders and Jesuit monks from Spain had arrived about 60 years earlier--Adams was the first Englishman to arrive. The impact this one man would have on future relations between East and West is the subject of this engrossing book.
After landing, Adams spent some time in prison and was nearly executed before he made an unlikely ally in Tokugawa Ieyasu, a powerful feudal lord who would later become shogun of Japan. Intrigued by the outside world and impressed with the sailor's navigational abilities, Ieyasu commissioned Adams to oversee the construction of some ships to be used for both trade and exploration. In time, Adams mastered the language and complex social customs of Japan, began teaching the shogun about geometry and mathematics and served as a translator and political counsellor to Ieyasu. For his service, he was awarded great wealth, land holdings and even a lordship, making him the first foreigner ever to be honoured as a samurai. When news of his high standing reached England, a small crew of Englishmen were sent to Japan to use Adams's political connections to open trade between the two countries.
Giles Milton, author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg does a masterful job of covering Adams's remarkable life. His narrative moves along briskly as he recounts harrowing sea adventures, fascinating details about Japanese culture and the attempts of various countries, including Holland, Portugal, Spain and England, to gain a foothold in Japan to exploit the rich trade possibilities. Samurai William is an impressive achievement and a thoroughly entertaining read. --Shawn Carkonen, Amazon.com [via]
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The Search for Shangri-la : A Journey into Tibetan Historyby Charles AllenISBN 0349111421 (0-349-11142-1)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Serpent in Paradiseby Dea BirkettISBN 0385488718 (0-385-48871-8)
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Setting Free the Bearsby John IrvingISBN 0345367413 (0-345-36741-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Setting Free the Bears'Book summary:It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty-five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller.
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Sky Burialby Xinran, Julia Lovell, Esther TyldesleyISBN 0385515480 (0-385-51548-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sky Burial'Book summary:It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet an oddly dressed woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China. Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu Wen, who recounted the story of her thirty-year odyssey in the vast landscape of Tibet.
Shu Wen and her husband had been married for only a few months in the 1950s when he joined the Chinese army and was sent to Tibet for the purpose of unification of the two countries. Shortly after he left she was notified that he had been killed, although no details were given. Determined to find the truth, Shu Wen joined a militia unit going to the Tibetan north, where she soon was separated from the regiment. Without supplies and knowledge of the language, she wandered, trying to find her way until, on the brink of death, she was rescued by a family of nomads under whose protection she moved from place to place with the seasons and eventually came to discover the details of her husbands death.
In the haunting Sky Burial, Xinran has recreated Shu Wens journey, writing beautifully and simply of the silence and the emptiness in which Shu Wen was enveloped. The book is an extraordinary portrait of a woman and a land, each at the mercy of fate and politics. It is an unforgettable, ultimately uplifting tale of love loss, loyalty, and survival. [via]More editions of Sky Burial:
Spanish Recognitions: The Roads To The Pastby Mary Lee SettleISBN 0393327175 (0-393-32717-5)
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Sparring with Charlie : Motorbiking down the Ho Chi Minh Trailby Christopher HuntISBN 0385481284 (0-385-48128-4)
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The Storyteller's Daughter : One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homelandby Saira ShahISBN 0375415319 (0-375-41531-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Storyteller's Daughter : One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland'Book summary:The vivid, often startling memoir of a young woman shaped by two dramatically disparate worlds. Saira Shah is the English-born daughter of an Afghan aristocrat, inspired by his dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears presided over for nine hundred years within sight of the minarets and lush gardens of Kabul and the snow-topped mountains of the Hindu Kush. Part sophisticated, sensitive Western liberal, part fearless, passionate Afghan, falling in love with her ancestral mythchasing AfghanistanShah becomes, at twenty-one, a correspondent at the front of the war between the Soviets and the Afghan resistance. Then, imprisoning herself in a burqa, she risks her life to film Beneath the Veil, her acclaimed record of the devastation of womens lives by the Taliban. Discovering her extended family, discovering a world of intense family ritual, of community, of male primacy, of arranged marriages, and finding at last the now war-ravaged family seat, she discovers as well what she wants and what she rejects of her extraordinary heritage. [via]
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Street in Marrakechby Elizabeth Warnock FerneaISBN 0385000960 (0-385-00096-0)
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Sydneyby Jan MorrisISBN 0394550986 (0-394-55098-6)
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A Taste for Travelby John Julius NorwichISBN 0394558553 (0-394-55855-3)
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The Traveler's Key to Ancient Egypt: A Guide to the Sacred Places of Ancient Egyptby John Anthony WestISBN 0394514416 (0-394-51441-6)
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Trekkingby David Nolan, David NolandISBN 0393320723 (0-393-32072-3)
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Uncommon Carriersby John McPheeISBN 0374280398 (0-374-28039-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncommon Carriers'Book summary:What John McPhee's books all have in common is that they are about real people in real places. Here, at his adventurous best, he is out and about with people who work in freight transportation.[via]
Over the past eight years, John McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. Uncommon Carriers is his sketchbook of them and of his journeys with them. He rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of a sixty-five-foot,
eighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmats. McPhee attends ship-handling school on a pond in the foothills of the French Alps, where, for a tuition of $15,000 a week, skippers of the largest ocean ships refine their capabilities in twenty-foot scale models. He goes up the "tight-assed" Illinois River on a
"towboat" pushing a triple string of barges, the overall vessel being "a good deal longer than the Titanic." And he travels by canoe up the canal-and-lock commercial waterways traveled by Henry David Thoreau and his brother, John,
in a homemade skiff in 1839.
Uncommon Carriers is classic work by McPhee, in prose distinguished, as always, by its author's warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character.More editions of Uncommon Carriers:
Vagabonding in Europe and North Africaby Ed BurynISBN 0394487672 (0-394-48767-2)
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A Vanished Worldby Wilfred ThesigerISBN 0393050866 (0-393-05086-6)
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Venice: The Biography of a Cityby Christopher HibbertISBN 0393026760 (0-393-02676-0)
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Venice: Tales of the Cityby Michelle LovricISBN 034911899X (0-349-11899-X)
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A Viking Voyage: In Which an Unlikely Crew Attempts an Epic Journey to the New Worldby W. Hodding CarterISBN 0345420039 (0-345-42003-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Viking Voyage: In Which an Unlikely Crew Attempts an Epic Journey to the New World'Book summary:The author himself describes his story as a tale of "quixotic idiocy, passion, determination, frightening beauty, love, loss, enlightenment, failure, and redemption...." Initially, only the idiocy is apparent. On a whim, Carter decides to reenact the voyage of Viking Leif Ericson, who, in the year 1000, sailed his knarr (a Viking longboat) from Greenland to a land he called "Vinland." But why should anyone care? Because Vinland, many experts believe, was located somewhere on the northeast coast of North America, meaning that Ericson beat Columbus to the New World by nearly 500 years.
To realize his dream voyage, Carter endures an almost comical assortment of trials. First, he must find someone to build, pay for, and help sail the boat. Then, he and his novice crew must sail it from Greenland to North America, struggling with the arctic cold, 1,000-year-old technology, and their own ineptitude. Carter describes their exploits with equal parts humor and terror. Fighting frostbite, he muses,
Like Robert Peary, I was going to lose my toes. Unlike him, I would whine and scream until the end. And I certainly would not be able to claim I discovered the North Pole or anything at all beyond learning that Viking boats were not meant to sail windward in anything beyond a duck pond.
For the landlubber, it's difficult to fathom why even the most die-hard Viking fanatics would go to such dangerous lengths to emulate their Norse heroes. Carter's account renders their passion more understandable, revealing little-known gems of Viking history and myth, and garnishing them with thrills and triumphs from his own adventures. Readers may not be inspired to rush out and build their own knarr, but they will find that Carter makes good on his introductory boast, wrenching new adventure from a world with seemingly no unexplored territory. --Andrew Nieland [via]
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A Viking Voyage: In Which an Unlikely Crew of Adventurers Attempts an Epic Journey to the New Worldby W. Hodding CarterISBN 0345420047 (0-345-42004-7)
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Virgil's Aeneidby Virgil, Cecil Day LewisISBN 0385093187 (0-385-09318-7)
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The Voyage Outby Virginia WoolfISBN 0375757279 (0-375-75727-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage Out'Book summary:The Modern Library is proud to include Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out--together with a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham. Published to acclaim in England in 1915 and in America five years later, The Voyage Out marks Woolf's beginning as one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and prolific writers.
Less formally experimental than her later novels, The Voyage Out none-theless clearly lays bare the poetic style and innovative technique--with its multiple figures of consciousness, its detailed portraits of characters' inner lives, and its constant shifting between the quotidian and the profound--that are the signature of Woolf's fiction.
Rachel Vinrace, Woolf's first heroine, is a motherless young woman who, at twenty-four, embarks on a sea voyage with a party of other English folk to South America. Guileless, and with only a smattering of education, Rachel is taken under the wing of her aunt Helen, who desires to teach Rachel "how to live."Arriving in Santa Marina, a village on the South American coast, Rachel and Helen are introduced to a group of English expatriates. Among them is the young, sensitive Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer, with whom Rachel falls in love. But theirs is ultimately a tale of doomed love, set against a chorus of other stories and other points of view, as the narrative shifts focus between its central and peripheral characters. E. M. Forster praised The Voyage Out as "a book which attains unity as surely as Wuthering Heights, though by a different path."
This edition includes a new Introduction by Michael Cunningham, bestselling author of The Hours. Cunningham at once unfolds an engaging short essay of Woolf's early life and career, an insightful exploration of the themes to which Woolf returns again and again in her fiction, and a spirited defense of the relevance and lasting importance of her art. Katherine Anne Porter wrote of Woolf: "The world of arts was her native territory; she ranged freely under her own sky, speaking her mother tongue fearlessly."
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Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattanby Phillip LopateISBN 0385497148 (0-385-49714-8)
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Watermarkby Joseph BrodskyISBN 0374523827 (0-374-52382-7)
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Where Nights Are Longest: Travels by Car Through Western Russiaby Colin ThubronISBN 0394536916 (0-394-53691-6)
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The Writer and the World: Essaysby V.S. Naipaul, Pankaj MishraISBN 0375707301 (0-375-70730-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Writer and the World: Essays'Book summary:V.S. Naipaul is a creature of paradox. Nowhere is this more apparent than in his essay collection, The Writer and the World. These essays, selected and introduced by Pankaj Mishra, range from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s. In them, our man travels the world, from his native Trinidad to his ancestral India to America and beyond, always looking with clear eyes at what's right there in front of him. In doing so, he's given us a distinctly Naipaulean journalism: he writes about countries as though they were people. "The politics of a country," he says, "can only be an extension of its idea of human relationships." His writing is, as a result, simultaneously petty and grand. Here, he writes of Belize City:
In the late afternoons Negroes in jackets and ties--famous throughout Central America for their immunity to disease--walk behind the hearses to the cemetery just outside the town, waving white handkerchiefs... It is like a ceremony of bewildered farewell at the limit of the world. But they are only keeping off the mosquitoes and sand flies.
Here is a writer who turns the specific to the universal, seemingly without effort. If Naipaul has a reputation as a grouch, it's only because he never lets go of the specific in favor of the universal. The two always coexist. The pieces contained here--mostly heretofore out of print--are short in length, catholic in interest, and in all a fine introduction to our most cosmopolitan postcolonial writer. --Claire Dederer [via]More editions of The Writer and the World: Essays:
A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literatureby Margaret Drabble, Jorge LewinskiISBN 039450819X (0-394-50819-X)
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