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Fly-Fishing the 41st: From Connecticut to Mongolia and Home Again: A Fisherman's Odyssey

Fly-Fishing the 41st: From Connecticut to Mongolia and Home Again: A Fisherman's Odyssey




Review “James Prosek has eloquently demonstrated that angling is a kind of universal language: he has taken us on ...
Stepping Twice into the River

Stepping Twice into the River


Robert King



From King undertakes a classic river journey, not in a land exotic to him but in North Dakota, his longtime home. And in...
Brodsky Abroad: Empire, Tourism, Nostalgia

Brodsky Abroad: Empire, Tourism, Nostalgia


Sanna Turoma



Review “Instead of focusing on Brodsky’s political martyrdom, Brodsky Abroad brings together concepts of tr...
Misadventure in the Middle East: Travels as Tramp, Artist & Spy

Misadventure in the Middle East: Travels as Tramp, Artist & Spy


Henry Hemming



Review Hemming's account of his dilemma is truly gripping, and sums up that age-old travellers' feeling: a heady mix of...
Rediscovering the Great Plains: Journeys by Dog, Canoe, and Horse (Creating the North American Landscape)

Rediscovering the Great Plains: Journeys by Dog, Canoe, and Horse (Creating the North American Landscape)


Norman Henderson



Rediscovering the Great Plains: Journeys by Dog, Canoe, and Horse (Creating the North American Landscape)...
Broke Through Britain: One Man's Penniless Odyssey

Broke Through Britain: One Man's Penniless Odyssey


Peter Mortimer



Broke Through Britain: One Man's Penniless Odyssey...
Sir Anthony Sherley and his Persian Adventure: Including Some Contemporary Narratives Relating Thereto (The Broadway Travellers)

Sir Anthony Sherley and his Persian Adventure: Including Some Contemporary Narratives Relating Thereto (The Broadway Travellers)


E. Ross



Sir Anthony Sherley and his Persian Adventure: Including Some Contemporary Narratives Relating Thereto (The Broadway Travellers)...
Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed

Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed


Alan Rabinowitz



Review “Life in the Valley of Death is not your typical chronicle of rescuing wildlife. Rather it’s a clear-e...
The Gringo Trail

The Gringo Trail


Mark Mann



The Gringo Trail...
The Year We Seized the Day: A True Story of Friendship and Renewal on the Camino

The Year We Seized the Day: A True Story of Friendship and Renewal on the Camino


Colin Bowles, Elizabeth Best



From *Starred Review* They barely knew each other—Best a young writer just starting off and Bowles a middle-aged ...
The Sea on Our Left: A Couple's Ten Month Walk Around Britain's Coastline

The Sea on Our Left: A Couple's Ten Month Walk Around Britain's Coastline


Shally Hunt



The Sea on Our Left: A Couple's Ten Month Walk Around Britain's Coastline...
My Other World

My Other World


Margaret Whitlam



Review "A readily deployed humour . . . her zest and her disdain for grandiloquence combine to make this a fine read." --...
Thistle Soup (Summersdale Travel)

Thistle Soup (Summersdale Travel)


Peter Kerr



Review "Adept at re-creating the local dialect and, with gentle humor, animating the family and friends who made up his w...
Hello World: Travels In Virtuality

Hello World: Travels In Virtuality


Sue Thomas



About the Author Sue Thomas was born in England in 1951. Both her parents were Dutch but made their home in the UK and he...
Off the Map (Summersdale Travel)

Off the Map (Summersdale Travel)


John Harrison



Off the Map (Summersdale Travel)...
American Notes for General Circulation (Penguin Classics)

American Notes for General Circulation (Penguin Classics)


Charles Dickens



About the Author Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by th...
Pint-sized Ireland: In Search of the Perfect Guinness

Pint-sized Ireland: In Search of the Perfect Guinness


Evan Mchugh



From Publishers Weekly An Australian, McHugh has his first pint of Guinness on the ferry from Wales to Ireland and is mig...
Sicilian Summer: A Story of Honour, Religion and the Perfect Cassata

Sicilian Summer: A Story of Honour, Religion and the Perfect Cassata


Brian Johnston



About the Author Brian Johnston is a freelance travel and features writer and the author of Boxing with Shadows and ...
Around the World in 80 Dinners

Around the World in 80 Dinners


Bill Jamison, Cheryl Alters Jamison



From Publishers Weekly After years of painstaking planning, veteran cookbook authors Cheryl and Bill Jamison (Smoke & Spi...
In Search of Nomads

In Search of Nomads


John Ure



Review Sir John Ure, career diplomat who became British Ambassador to a variety of countries, spent an intrepid honeymoon...
Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey

Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey


James Attlee



Review “I have written much about the streets of Oxford myself, but seldom so perceptively or interestingly as Att...
Sleeping Around: A Couch Surfing Tour of the Globe

Sleeping Around: A Couch Surfing Tour of the Globe


Brian Thacker



About the Author Brian Thacker is an inveterate traveller who has visited 76 countries around the world. He is also the a...
Xenophon: Anabasis Books I-VII (Loeb Classical Library)

Xenophon: Anabasis Books I-VII (Loeb Classical Library)


Xenophon



Language Notes Text: English, Greek (translation) Original Language: Greek --This text refers to an alternate editio...
What I Saw In America (1922)

What I Saw In America (1922)


G. K. Chesterton



Book Description An eloquent record of the polymath G. K. Chesterton’s experiences on a lecture tour of the US in 19...
From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years With National Geographic

From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years With National Geographic


Thomas Canby



From Publishers Weekly Beginning in the glossy Kennedy era, Thomas Y. Canby traveled the world, creating texts that could...
The Sea Ahead: From Cape Wrath to the Riviera

The Sea Ahead: From Cape Wrath to the Riviera


Shally Hunt



About the Author Shally Hunt's first book, The Medway: Sketches Along the River, was followed by The Sea On Our Left, the...
A Summer in Gascony: Discovering the Other South of France

A Summer in Gascony: Discovering the Other South of France


Martin Calder



From British student Calder answers an ad for summer farm help in Péguilhan in southwest France’s famed Gasc...
Riding with Strangers: A Hitchhiker's Journey

Riding with Strangers: A Hitchhiker's Journey


Elijah Wald



From Publishers Weekly There are those who travel just to get somewhere, and those who value the journey as much as (or m...
Return to Tibet: Tibet After the Chinese Occupation

Return to Tibet: Tibet After the Chinese Occupation


Heinrich Harrer



Language Notes Text: English, German (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this...
Strabo: Geography, Books 15-16 (Loeb Classical Library No. 241)

Strabo: Geography, Books 15-16 (Loeb Classical Library No. 241)


Strabo



Strabo: Geography, Books 15-16 (Loeb Classical Library No. 241)...