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Travels with Charley : in search of America
by John Steinbeck
To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.
With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. Along the way he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and the unexpected kindness of strangers.
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A year in Provence
by Peter Mayle
The author describes his experiences when he and his wife moved to a two-hundred-year-old French farmhouse, and shares his observations on the people and culture of Provence
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Assassination vacation
by Sarah Vowell
A tour of key historic sites in America where incidents of political violence have occurred reveals lesser-known points of interest pertaining to each and shares information about how history has been shaped by popular culture and tourism. By the author of The Partly Cloudy Patriot.
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Love with a chance of drowning : a memoir
by Torre DeRoche
Recounts how the author fell in love with a man she met at a bar and how she decided to set aside her fear of deep water and sail with him across the world
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A moveable feast
by Ernest Hemingway
In a vibrant study of Paris in the 1920s, Hemingway records his own five years in the French city, describing his creative struggles and sharing portraits of such fellow expatriates as Fitzgerald, Pound, and Stein.
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In a sunburned country
by Bill Bryson
Just in time for the 2000 Olympics in Australia, the bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods takes readers on an outrageous tour of the land Down Under that goes far beyond packaged-tour routes, leaving no Vegemite sandwich unsavored. 250,000 first printing.
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South and West : from a notebook
by Joan Didion
Two excerpts from never-before-seen notebooks by the National Book Award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking offer insights into her literary mind and process and includes notes on her Sacramento upbringing, her life in the Gulf states, her views on prominent locals and her experiences during a formative Rolling Stone assignment.
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Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
A personal account by the Pushcart Prize-winning author of Torch traces the personal crisis she endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom
and helped her to heal.
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Adventure divas : searching the globe for a new kind of heroine
by Holly Morris
The creator of the PBS documentary seires Adventure Divas describes her various adventures and journeys to the far corners of the globe, as well as the lives of women--politicians, artists, activists, and others--whose actions have transformed the world around them.
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Around the world in 50 years : my adventure to every country on earth
by Albert Podell
In an extraordinary tale of courage, persistence, determination and the uncanny ability to extricate himself from one dangerous situation after another, the author recounts his adventures as he set two records—one for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world, and one for going to every country on Earth.
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A cook's tour : in search of the perfect meal
by Anthony Bourdain
From Japan where he eats traditional Fugu, a poisonous blowfish that can only be prepared by specially licensed chefs, to a delectable snack with the Viet Cong in the Mecong Delta, a fascinating book follows the author, who combines his two greatest passions--cooking and travelling, as he embarks on a quest around the world to find the ultimate meal.
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In Patagonia
by Bruce Chatwin
Gives an account of Bruce Chatwin's journey through Patagonia, where he searched for almost-forgotten legends, Butch Cassidy's log cabin, and the descendants of Welsh immigrants
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My invented country : a nostalgic journey through Chile
by Isabel Allende
The author of Portrait in Sepia profiles the landscapes and people of her native country; recounts the 1973 assassination of her uncle, which caused her to go into exile and choose to become a writer; and shares her experiences as an immigrant in post-September 11 America.
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My life in France
by Julia Child
A memoir begun just months before Child's death describes the legendary food expert's years in Paris, Marseille, and Provence and her journey from a young woman from Pasadena who cannot cook or speak any French to the publication of her legendary Mastering cookbooks and her winning the hearts of America as "The French Chef."
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All strangers are kin : adventures in Arabic and the Arab world
by Zora O'Neill
A travel and food writer describes her experiences trying to learn Arabic and details the relationship between culture and communication as she explores Egypt, the UAE, Lebanon and Morocco, skipping the standard tourist track and instead visiting families and local hotspots.
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From scratch : a memoir of love, Sicily, and finding home
by Tembi Locke
An actress and TEDx speaker describes how her professional chef husband's Sicilian family didn't initially approve of him marrying a black American woman and the three summers she spent with them after he succumbed to cancer.
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All the way to the tigers : a memoir
by Mary Morris
The award-winning author of The Jazz Palace describes how a catastrophic injury forced her to cancel a dream vacation and contemplate permanent disability before a reading of Death in Venice inspired her life-changing tiger-spotting safari. Illustrations.
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Ice diaries : an Antarctic memoir
by Jean McNeil
Recounts the author's years spent traveling in icy regions, sharing her time in Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, and Svalbard and the internal exploring she did
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