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At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay
John Gimlette (2003)
Equal parts travelogue, history, and unorthodox travel guide, this book breaches the boundaries of this isolated land, and illuminates a little-understood place and its people.
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Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
William Least Heat Moon (1982)
At a turning point in his life, the author packed up a van and escaped out of himself and into the country. This is a chronicle of his journey.
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Coming Into the Country
John McPhee (1977)
This unforgettable account is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of the bush. Non-f 917.98 McP
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
Plagued with despair after a nasty divorce, the author, in her early 30s, divides a year equally among three dissimilar countries, exploring her competing urges for earthly delights and divine transcendence.
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Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings, 1985-2000
Paul Theroux (2000)
In this remarkable collection of essays and articles written over the last fifteen years, Paul Theroux demonstrates how the traveling life and the writing life are intimately connected.
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In Patagonia
Buce Chatwin (1977)
Chatwin's evocative descriptions, notes on the odd history of the region, and enchanting anecdotes make In Patagonia an exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land.
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In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson (2000)
Taking readers on a rollicking ride far beyond packaged-tour routes, Bryson introduces a country (Australia) where interesting things happen all the time, from a Prime Minister who was lost at sea while swimming at a Victoria beach to Japanese cult members who managed to set off an atomic bomb unnoticed on their 500,000-acre property.
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In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon
Redmond O’Hanlon (1988)
A trip into the bug-ridden rain forest between the Orinoco and the Amazon--infested with jaguars and piranhas, where men would kill over a bottle of ketchup and where the locals may be the most violent people on earth (next to hockey fans).
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer (1997)
The definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest.
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The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City
Robert Sullivan (1998)
Armed with pickax, shovel and metal detector, Sullivan bravely sets out to find the two things believed to be dumped in the Meadowlands that particularly obsess him - the elusive corpse of famed labor leader Jimmy Hoffa and Manhattan's once-glorious original Penn Station.
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Peter Hessler (2006)
A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West, Hessler captures the soul of a country that is undergoing a momentous change before our eyes.
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The Places In Between
Rory Stewart (2006)
In January 2002, having just spent 16 months walking across Iran, Pakistan, India, and Nepal, Stewart began a walk across Afghanistan from Herat to Kabul. The recounting of that journey makes for an engrossing, surprising, and often deeply moving portrait of the land and the peoples who inhabit it.
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
Peter Hessler
A colorful memoir from a Peace Corps volunteer who came away with more understanding of the Chinese than any foreign traveler has a right to expect.
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Seaworthy: Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting
T.R. Pearson (2006)
In 1953, the 60-year-old Willis sailed a homemade balsa-wood raft over 4,000 miles across the Pacific from Peru to American Samoa, accompanied only by a cat and a foul-mouthed parrot. Non-f 910.45 Pea
The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen (1978)
A classic of modern nature writing, The Snow Leopard is Matthiessen’s account of an expedition to find one of the world's most elusive big cats, the snow leopard of high Asia, a creature so rarely spotted as to be nearly mythical.
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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
Jan Morris (2001)
The author brilliantly weaves historic and personal memories (as the soldier James Morris, before her sex-change operation, she was stationed there during WWII), observations on love, lust, nationalism, exile and kindness, and a tender portrait of the oft-forgotten Italian city of Trieste.
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Richard Preston (2007)
Richard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored.
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