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Publisher
Birlinn Limited
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A travelogue of one man's whisky-tasting journey across Scotland's beautiful islands, by the bestselling author of 101 Gins to Try Before You Die. Island whiskies have long held a fascination and a powerful emotional draw on whisky drinkers the world over. Their special combination of heritage, mystique, and remote location captures the imagination; their highly distinctive flavors are often imitated but seldom bettered. There have been few books...
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English
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The art of discovering cultural and natural treasures in everyday landscapes
In the course of the mundane routines of life, we encounter a variety of landscapes and objects, either ignoring them or looking without interest at what appears to be just a tree, stone, anonymous building, or dirt road. But the "deep traveler," according to Hartford Courant essayist David K. Leff, doesn't make this mistake. Instead, the commonplace elements become the...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Before John Dos Passos enjoys fame as a chronicler and critic of American society, he wins recognition for command of aesthetics. Orient Express, a memoir of the author's travels through Eastern Europe, the Near East, and the Middle East, focuses on sights, sounds, and smells rather than plot or character. Dos Passos applies his instincts as a painter to mountain ranges and grimy alleyways, finding beauty everywhere. His tour extends from Tiflis,...
64) Sicilian odyssey
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English
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A blending of art and cultural criticism, travel writing, and personal narrative, Sicilian Odyssey is Francine Prose's imaginative consideration of the diverse cultural legacies found juxtaposed and entangled on the Mediterranean island of Sicily. She writes of the intensity of Sicily, the "commitment to the extreme," where the history is more colorful, the sun hotter, the cooking earthier, the violence more horrific, the carnival more raucous, the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state in the heart of Trumpland that hasn't elected a Democrat to a statewide office in more than twenty years; but it is also a state in which minorities already form a majority (including the largest number of Muslim adherents). The cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king but Texas now leads California in technology exports....
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Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's Iceland's Ring Road. This trusted travel companion features 5 amazing road trips, from 1-day escapes to 5-day adventures. Marvel at majestic glaciers, discover Reykjavik, and swim in the Blue Lagoon. Get to Iceland, rent a car, and hit the road!
Inside Lonely Planet's Iceland's Ring Road:
Lavish colour and gorgeous photography throughout
Itineraries and planning advice to pick the...
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Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The author examines the people and culture of Bombay, India and provides a look into the criminal underworld of rival gangs, poverty and abuse, and stories of people who travel to the city in search of a better life.
70) Japan
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Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Lonely Planet's Japan is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Summit Mount Fuji, pay your respects at Buddhist temples in Kyoto, and have your fill of sushi and sake; all with your trusted travel companion.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea -- from its southern tip to the North Korean border -- in order to set the record straight about this enigmatic and elusive land. Fascinating for its vivid presentation of historical and geographic detail, Korea is that rare book that actually defines a nation and its people. Winchester's gift for capturing engaging characters in...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
I arrived in the Alice at five a.m. with a dog, six dollars and a small suitcase full of inappropriate clothes. . . . There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns. For Robyn Davidson, one of these moments comes at age twenty-seven in Alice Springs, a dodgy town at the frontier of the vast Australian desert. Davidson is intent on walking the 1,700 miles of desolate landscape between Alice Springs and the Indian...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From "one of our most original writers" (Kathryn Schulz) comes an expansive and exacting book--firmly grounded, but elegant, witty, and always inquisitive--about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer's perennial search for tranquility, for "something better," continues in this series of fascinating and seemingly unrelated pilgrimages--with a tour guide who is in fact not a tour guide at...
77) Deep South
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar takes a revealing journey through the Southern US in a " vivid contemporary portrait of rural life " ( Atlanta Journal-Constitution ). Paul Theroux has spent decades roaming the globe and writing of his experiences with remote people and far-flung places. Now, for the first time, he turns his attention to a corner of America -- the Deep South. On a winding road trip through Mississippi, South Carolina,...
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Publisher
Garnet Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Tearing up the Silk Road is an irreverent travelogue that details a journey along the ancient trade routes from China to Istanbul, through Central Asia, Iran and the Caucasus. As Tom Coote struggles through the often arbitrary borders and bureaucracies of China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Armenia, Georgia and Turkey, it becomes increasingly apparent that the next generations to rise to power, will see themselves in a very different...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A rare and intimate glimpse at life in Cuba at the end of the twentieth century For NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu, reporting from Cuba on the eve of Pope John Paul II's 1998 visit was an opportunity to understand the realities of life in a country that has long been the subject of stereotypes and misconceptions. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba was the last place to witness a "laboratory of pre-post-communism," as it toed the line...
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