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Among Flowers, A Walk in the Himalaya
• Jamaica Kincaid
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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An atmospheric account of celebrated writer and gardener Jamaica Kincaid's journey to Nepal and the Himalayas with a small team of botanists.
(HML62, $10.95)
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Barcelona, The Great Enchantress
• Robert Hughes
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Written ten years after Hughes's book Barcelona, this is a personal exploration of the history, art and architecture of the city.
(SPN227, $10.95)
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Crete
• Barry Unsworth
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A travel memoir from the Booker prize-winning novelist, richly detailed and seeped in the millennia-old traditions, myths, literature, and history of the island.
(GRE303, $10.95)
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Desert Memories, Journeys Through the Chilean North
• Ariel Dorfman
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A quest for national history, personal memories, and family origins in the Atacama by the noted playwright, novelist and essayist. The legacy of mining, Pinochet, and the author's own history are woven into this meditative account.
(CHI53, $21.00)
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The Edge Of Maine
• Geoffrey Wolff
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A portrait of the coast of Maine, its culture, geology and history, by a writer long familiar with the region. With chapters on lobsters and boat building (among other topics). A volume in the series National Geographic Directions.
(USE367, $20.00)
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I Myself Have Seen It, The Myth of Hawai'I
• Susanna Moore
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A literate memoir and history of growing up in Hawaii in the 1950s and 60s.
(HWI89, $20.00)
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Imagined London, A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
• Anna Quindlen
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A unique exploration of London in the footsteps of its literary characters, from Dickens to Sherlock Holmes and beyond.
(GBR482, $10.95)
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Into a Paris Quartier, Reine Margot's Chapel and other Haunts of St. Germain
• Diane Johnson
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Novelist Diane Johnson (Le Divorce) writes with insight, verve and wit in this affectionate, personal portrait of St Germain-des-Prés, her neighborhood on the Left Bank.
(FRN491, $10.95)
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The Mays of Ventadorn, Tales from Southwest France
• W.S. Merwin
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A shapely memoir and literary meditation by the great poet and author of The Lost Upland: Stories of Southwest France.
(FRN341, $20.00)
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Mr. Jefferson's University
• Garry Wills
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A well-told, consice history of the construction of the University of Virginia. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills discusses Jefferson's vision, along with the university's architectural details legacy.
(USE316, $20.00)
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My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries and Preoccupations
• Howard Norman
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Howard Norman returned to Nova Scotia over a period of 30 years to interview local legends and research the folklore of the area. Norman writes with an impressionistic intimacy to create a portrait of this enchanting place and its people.
(CND204, $20.00)
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Oaxaca Journal
• Oliver Sacks
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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This book, the result of a trip to Oaxaca with (of all things) the American Fern Society displays the neurologist Oliver Sacks' wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, interweaving his observations and travels with history, nature and culture of the region.
(MEX100, $10.95)
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The Road to Santiago
• Kathryn Harrison
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The novelist's meditative, personal account of journeys along the route of St. James from St.-Jean-Pied-de-Port in France to Santiago de Compostela.
(SPN209, $20.00)
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Sicilian Odyssey
• Francine Prose
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Novelist Francine Prose tries her hand at travel writing in this lyrical, vibrant and concise portrait of Sicily. Prose evokes Sicily's history, art, landscape and cuisine through considerations of her own journey across the island .
(ITL451, $20.00)
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Southwestern Homelands
• William Kittredge
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A lyrical meditation on the land, geography and personality of the American Southwest
(SWU78, $20.00)
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