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Travels

by Michael Crichton

Published: 2002-11-05

Paperback: 377 pages

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Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.When Michael Crichton -- a Harvard-trained physician, bestselling novelist, and successful movie director -- began to feel isolated in his own life, he decided to widen his horizons. He tracked wild ani...

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Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile (Modern Library)

by Sara Wheeler

Published: 1999-03-16

Paperback: 336 pages

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Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral...

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Travels in Siberia

by Ian Frazier

Published: 2011-09-27

Paperback: 560 pages

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New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearA Boston Globe Best Book of 2010A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2010A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Books of 2010A Washington Post Best Book of the YearA Kansas City Star 100 Best Books of 2010A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best of 20...

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Travels in the Scriptorium: A Novel

by Paul Auster

Published: 2007-01-23

Hardcover: 145 pages

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An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written, labels and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white...

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* * * * Optimistic,
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The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (Arbor House Library of Contemporary Americana)

by Robert Lewis Taylor

Published: 2010-12-08

Kindle Edition: 550 pages

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With more than one million copies in print since its first publication in 1959, this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic details the journey of 13-year-old Jaimie and his father from Kentucky to gold-rush California in 1849.

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Travels with Charley

by John Steinbeck

Published: 1999

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7 compact discs (8 hr., 30 min.) The chronicle of Steinbeck's journey across America with his dog Charley. Narrated by Ron McLarty, unabridged.

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Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition)

by John Steinbeck

Published: 2002-02-05

Paperback: 224 pages

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Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art...

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Travels with Charlie: Way Out West

by Miles Backer

Published: 2006-04-01

Hardcover: 36 pages

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Get ready for a trip through the western United States with Charlie, the adventurous pup with a passion for geography! Traveling with Charlie, you'll learn the answers to questions such as: - How many people cross the Hoover Dam each day? - When was the first potato planted in Idaho? - W...

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* * * Insightful,
Slow,
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Travels with Herodotus

by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Published: 2007-06-05

Hardcover: 288 pages

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From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain.Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he?d like to go abroad. Dream...

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Travels with My Aunt (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Graham Greene

Published: 2004-09-28

Paperback: 254 pages

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"I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..." Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written just for the fun of it," Travels with My Aunt is the story of Hanry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for th...