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A Secret Country: The Hidden Australia by John Pilger

This study takes the reader beyond the euphemistic and romantic popular misconceptions of Australia to reveal the often invisible past and the present subterfuge of the country. The author recognizes that since its very beginning the history of white ...

The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace

A work of astounding scope and origity that provides some of the first evidence of the modern theory of evolution. Wallace, a contemporary of Charles Darwin, spent nearly a decade cataloging the plant and animal species which inhabited the unique ...

Bad Land by Jonathan Raban

Jonathan Raban ambles and picks his way across the Montana prairie, called "The Great American Desert" until Congress offered 320-acre tracts of barren land to immigrants with stardust in their eyes. Raban's prose makes love to the waves of land, red dirt ...

A Walk In Wolf Wood by Mary Stewart

John and Margaret Begbie are picnicking with their parents in the Black Forest when they are mysteriously spirited back through time into the Middle Ages. There they meet Mardian, one-time servant and closest friend of Duke Otho, ruler of the country. He ...

So Many Miles to Paradise: From Clare to There by Christine Breen

... Miles to Paradise is an travel memoir about the journey and ...

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, Jeremy Hunter

“I’ve had a most amazing time....”So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H.G. Wells’s successful career and earned him his reputation as the father of science ...

Travels and Other Writings by William Bartram Editor: Thomas P. Slaughter

The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of ...

The Pirate Prince: Discovering the Priceless Treasures of the Sunken Ship Whydah: An Adventure by Barry Clifford, Peter Turchi

Barry Clifford's The Pirate Prince is the first-person account of a modern-day treasure hunter's quest to raise the legendary pirate ship Whydah, origly commissioned as a merchant slaver - sunk off the coast of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, during a raging ...

Top 10 London [With Pull-Out Map] by Roger Williams, DK Publishing

... , DK raises the bar on travel guides with its new Top ... 10 Travel Guide series. Whether you are ...

Dr. Futurity by Philip K. Dick

... of the paradoxes of time-travel that could only have come ...

De Ernesto al Che: El segundo y último viaje de Guevara por Latinoamérica by Carlos Calica Ferrer, Alberto Granado

El 7 de julio de 1953; Ernesto Guevara; con 25 años; se tomó un tren en la estación de Retiro de Buenos Aires rumbo a su último y definitivo viaje por Latinoamérica.Su compañero de ruta y amigo de la infancia; Carlos ~Calica~ Ferrer; relata por primera vez ...

The Outward Bound Map & Compass Handbook by Glenn Randall

This best-seller now includes all of the latest information on GPS receivers.

Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Creature by Tim Flannery

Between the Eagle and the Sun: Traces of Japan by Ihab Hassan

... forms of memoir, travel, and quest. Cultural essays, travel anecdotes, autobiographical meditations ...

Sea Kayaking along the New England Coast, 2nd by Tamsin Venn

Now completely revised and updated, with a new design that's easier to use, Sea Kayaking along the New England Coast offers the best of New England ocean paddling in one handy guide.

Safety and Security for Women Who Travel by Sheila Swan, Peter Laufer

... provide guidance for women to travel securely anywhere in the world ...

Land of the Snow Lion by Elaine Brook

For thirty years after the Chinese occupation in 1951, Tibet was virtually closed to all foreign visitors. In that time an abortive uprising, the escape of the Dalai Lama, a border war with India and the Cultural Revolution have done nothing to quell ...

Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera by Michael Nelson Foreword: Asa Briggs

Queen Victoria fell in love with the Riviera when she discovered it on her first visit to Menton in 1882 and her enchantment with this 'paradise of nature' endured for almost twenty years. Victoria's visits helped to transform the French Riviera by ...

The Clumsiest People in Europe by Favell Lee Mortimer, Todd Pruzan

... her from writing several successful travel books. With volumes on Europe ...

One Life at a Time, Please by Edward Abbey

From stories about cattlemen, fellow critics, his beloved desert, cities, and technocrats to thoughts on sin and redemption, this is one of our most treasured writers at the height of his powers.