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Physical Desc

178 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

Chronicles the journey of author Vikram Seth from China, through Tibet and Nepal, to his home in New Delhi, India and his encounter with nomadic Muslims, Chinese officials, and Buddhists. The author describes his travels in China and recounts his candid conversations with ordinary Chinese people.

2) Into the heart of Borneo

Author

O'Hanlon, Redmond

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Physical Desc

191 pages ; 22 cm.

Language

English

3) Video night in Kathmandu: and other reports from the not-so-far East

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Series

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379 pages ; 21 cm.

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English

4) The lady and the monk: four seasons in Kyoto

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Series

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description

When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today—not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the images woven through literature, of the lunar Japan that still lives on behind...

5) Road fever: a high-speed travelogue

Author

Cahill, Tim

Series

Physical Desc

viii, 278 pages ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

The author describes his twenty-three-day, fifteen-thousand-mile journey from Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost point in South America, to the Arctic Circle in a pickup truck.

6) Shooting the Boh: a woman's voyage down the wildest river in Borneo

Author

Johnston, Tracy

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Physical Desc

256 pages : map ; 21 cm.

Language

English

7) Falling off the map: some lonely places of the world

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ix, 190 pages ; 21 cm.

Language

English

8) Pecked to death by ducks

Author

Cahill, Tim

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xv, 377 pages : portrait ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

The author sleeps with a grizzly bear, witnesses demonic possession in Bali, and survives a run-in with something called the Throne of Doom in Guatemala. Vivid and outrageously funny.

9) Riding the white horse home: a western family album

Author

Jordan, Teresa

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Physical Desc

xiii, 219 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.

Language

English

10) Tracks

Author

Davidson, Robyn

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Physical Desc

256 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 21 cm.

Language

English

11) Bury me standing: the Gypsies and their journey

Author

Fonseca, Isabel

Series

Physical Desc

336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

After the revolutions of 1989, the author lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania -- listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become something more than despised outsiders. In this book, alongside unforgettable portraits of individuals -- the poet, the politician, the child prostitute- - are vivid insights into the wit, language, wisdom,...

12) So close to heaven: the vanishing Buddhist kingdoms of the Himalayas

Author

Crossette, Barbara

Series

Physical Desc

xiii, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Language

English

13) The ends of the earth: from Togo to Turkmenistan, From Iran to Cambodia--a journey to the frontiers of anarchy

Author

Kaplan, Robert D

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Physical Desc

xiv, 476 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Language

English

14) Pass the butterworms: remote journeys oddly rendered

Author

Cahill, Tim

Series

Physical Desc

xvi, 283 pages ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

In a collection of travel adventures, the author journeys from the rivers of Honduras to the grasslands of Mongolia, from Yellowstone's famed geysers to the deep jungles of Peru.

15) Tropical classical: essays from several directions

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xv, 314 pages ; 21 cm.

Language

English

16) Confederates in the attic: dispatches from the unfinished Civil War

Author

Horwitz, Tony

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406 p ; 21cm.

Language

English

Description

"When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his own heart. Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places...

17) French lessons: adventures with knife, fork, and corkscrew

Author

Mayle, Peter

Series

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audio CD

Description

The author offers a culinary tour of France in search of the perfect country bistro, village market, omelette, and bottle of wine.

18) The global soul: jet lag, shopping malls, and the search for home

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Physical Desc

303 pages ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

Beginning in Los Angeles International Airport, where town life--shops, services, sociability--is available without a town, Pico Iyer takes us on a tour of the transnational village our world has become. From Hong Kong, where people actually live in self-contained hotels, to Atlanta's Olympic Village, which seems to inadvertently commemorate a sort of corporate universalism, to Japan, where in the midst of alien surfaces his apartment building is...

19) Chasing the sea: being a narrative of a journey through Uzbekistan, including descriptions of life therein, culminating with an arrival at the Aral Sea, the world's worst man-made ecological...

Author

Bissell, Tom

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xxi, 388 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Language

English

20) Cuba in mind: an anthology

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