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A Pilgrimage of Passion: The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (Tauris Parke Paperbac	The Silverado Squatters: A Sojourn in Napa County, California, in the Summer of 1880 Best Price: $5.24 "The scene of this little book is on a high mountain. Its naked peak stands nearly four...	A Pilgrimage of Passion: The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (Tauris Parke Paperbac	The Silverado Squatters: A Sojourn in Napa County, California, in the Summer of 1880 Best Price: $5.24 "The scene of this little book is on a high mountain. Its naked peak stands nearly four...	Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) Best Price: $10.95 Mysteriously sophisticated, darkly alluring, almost Satanic: absinthe was the drink of choice...



The Trail of War: On the Track of Big Horse in Central Asia Best Price: $6.99 Commissioned by the Chinese to map a road through one of the most inhospitable regions in the...	Vietnam: A Portrait of its People at War Best Price: $10.21 Here is the story of the "other side" of the Vietnam War--of the Vietcong and North...	Churchill: An Unruly Life Best Price: $6.99 Winston Churchill (1874-1965) is often proclaimed as the greatest Briton in history and one of...	The Station: Travels to the Holy Mountain of Greece Best Price: $8.99 Mount Athos, the spiritual heart of Eastern Orthodox Monasticism, is perhaps the most sacred and...	Out of Egypt: A Memoir



Pavilions of the Heart: The Four Walls of Love Best Price: $8.91 Lesley Blanch here takes the reader on a uniquely romantic journey to the settings - caves,...	Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man Best Price: $13.98 Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)--poet, philosopher, painter, novelist, playwright, composer,...	The Silk Road: Ten Thousand Miles through Central Asia Best Price: $4.99 Linking East and West, Asia with Europe, the Silk Road was once the most important trading route...	In Morocco Best Price: $4.99 "I stand in portico hung with gentian-blue ipomeas ... and look out on a land of mists and...	Empires of Time Pb Best Price: $52.85 Humanity has always felt a powerful need to impose scale and order on that most elusive and...

The Divine Supermarket: Travels in Search of the Soul of America Best Price: $12.24 Traveling in a battered camping van, Malise Ruthven set out across America in search of the...	The Golden Horde: From the Himalaya to the Mediterranean (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) Best Price: $13.73 In The Afghan Amulet , Sheila Paine told the story of her extraordinary search for a mysterious...	Mongolia: Travels in the Untamed Land Best Price: $8.00 I am not a great reviewer of historical material. having that out of the way, I appreciated the...	Afghan Frontier: At the Crossroads of Conflict Best Price: $12.25 For centuries, men have fought and died on the Afghan frontier -- American soldiers and the...	The Western Shores of Turkey: Discovering the Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts Best Price: $17.11 This is a great followup to the Blue Guide for Turkey but is focused on the Western Aegean...

Road through Kurdistan: The Narrative of an Engineer in Iraq Best Price: $25.97 "Those rocks had stood there since before the birth of the first Kurdishman, would they not...	The Great Belzoni: The Circus Strongman Who Discovered Egypt's Ancient Treasures, Second Edition (International Library of Historical Studies) Best Price: $12.18 This is a great book about a lesser known figure in the history of Egyptian Archaeology. It des...	The Oatmeal Ark: From the Scottish Isles to a Promised Land Best Price: $4.99 This a great read, especially for those of Scottish roots. The story is more novel than...	Turkestan Solo: A Journey Through Central Asia Best Price: $24.95 I've always had a interest in central asian history, yet I have never found very many...	The Afghan Amulet: Travels from the Hindu Kush (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) Best Price: $13.69 Paine has apparently traveled extensively throughout this region which frankly impresses me....

Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera Best Price: $7.49 This delightful, well researched and eminently readable book carried me along so effortlessly...	City of Florence I have been through many little and large books on Florence, but this one I will take with me...	Sliced Iguana: Travels in Mexico Best Price: $11.27 SLICED IGUANA By Isabella Tree Tauris Park Paperbacks New York 2008 The year 2010 marks...	Road to Katmandu Best Price: $8.22 This is a travel classic--the story of Patrick Marnham's pilgrimage from Turkey to Nepal in...	Who Was Jesus?: Conspiracy in Jerusalem Best Price: $8.05 Building on his hypothesis that events of pre-exile Jews of the Old Testament took place in...

Evia: Travels on an Undiscovered Greek Island (Tauris Parke Paperback S.) Best Price: $11.76 She may have written anonymous mash notes to her tutor, she may have penned brilliantly-argued...	Passenger to Teheran (Tauris Parke Paperback S.) Best Price: $11.60 In 1926 Vita Sackville-West travelled to Iran to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was...	The Last of the Crusaders: The Knights of St. John and Malta in the Eighteenth Century Best Price: $12.85 Founded in 1080, the Knights Hospitaller of St. John and Malta was a militant order of...	Conquering the Desert of Death: Across the Taklamakan Best Price: $8.30 This is truly an amazing true story of perseverance and determination to go against the odds and...	In the Shadow of Vesuvius Best Price: $10.22 From its origins in Homer's Odyssey and its founding nearly 3,000 years ago, Naples has long...

River in the Desert: A Modern Traveller in Ancient Egypt Best Price: $10.60 Based on the inexplicably positive Kirkus/PW reviews, plus a 5-star customer comment posted at...	Looking for Trouble: The Life and Times of a Foreign Correspondent Best Price: $11.50 Looking for Trouble is a vivid account of 35 years in journalism by a former foreign...	Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt (Tauris Parke Paperback) Best Price: $10.50 Lucie Duff Gordon was a world apart from her Victorian counterparts. An intellectual, traveller,...	Ionia: A Quest (Freya Stark Collection) Best Price: $6.95 When Freya Stark traveled along the western coast of Turkey in 1952 she met only one other...	A Winter in Arabia: A Journey through Yemen (Freya Stark Collection) Best Price: $2.99 In 1934 Freya Stark made her first journey to the Hadhramaut in what is now Yemen?the first...

Indian Balm: Travels amongst Fakirs and Fire Warriors (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) Best Price: $6.06 What a wonderful/horrible book. This is a part family history, part South India travel book, and...	Pharaoh's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt Best Price: $11.55 Popular interest in ancient Egypt has too often tended to focus on the deeds of rulers, great...	Next Exit Magic Kingdom: Florida Accidentally Best Price: $2.99 Abandoning himself to the winds of chance, MacLean stumbles across an alternative Florida, and...	Billy the Kid Best Price: $15.20 In 1988, 'Young Guns' was released in theatres and followed by it's sequel...	See Naples and Die: The Camorra and Organized Crime Best Price: $82.48 After witnessing the recent months-long garbage crisis in Campania, in particular, Naples, it...

Morocco: The Traveller's Companion, Second Edition Best Price: $16.00 This book brings together the writings of well-known travellers to Morocco and offers a...	A Pilgrimage of Passion: The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) Best Price: $6.69 Wilfred Scawen Blunt, 1840-1922, was one of England's true eccentrics: a wildly individual,...	A Passion for Egypt: Arthur Weigall, Tutankhamun and the 'Curse of the Pharaohs' (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) Best Price: $17.95 This compelling biography of Arthur Weigall, the British Egyptologist and Chief Inspector of...	The Clouded Leopard: A Book of Travels Best Price: $254.53 In one chapter of this book Wade Davis quotes British writer Lawrence Durell as saying "To...	Letters of Transit: Adventures and Encounters from America to the Pacific Isles Best Price: $0.01 A beautifully-crafted blend of travel, history, political observation and personal experience, ...

Crete: Discovering the 'Great Island' (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) Best Price: $10.17 Crete is a major travel destination with two million visitors per year. This guide is the...	A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East Best Price: $16.18 This is a excellent book for anybody who is interested in the culinary history, edicates, and...	Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman Best Price: $12.92 Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, who have been...	Three Women of Herat: A Memoir of Life, Love and Friendship in Afghanistan Best Price: $8.99 In the years before the communist coup and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Veronica...	A Byzantine Journey

Tales from the Bazaars of Arabia: Folk Stories from the Middle East Best Price: $10.71 I am no stranger to the world of Arabian Nights-inspired fiction. This collection of...	Twelve Days in Persia: Across the Mountains with the Bakhtiari Tribe Best Price: $7.99 A year after Vita Sackville-West first travelled to Iran - a journey described in the classic ...	The Spirit of Place: Nine Neo-Romantic Artists and Their Times In the 1930s, Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, and John Piper?three little-known painters in...	Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia's Mission to the Shah of Persia Best Price: $11.57 I think this book is good because it makes use of many Russian references and provides Russian...	Strolling through Venice: The Definitive Walking Guidebook to 'La Serenissima' Best Price: $11.72 This is an appalling book - worth recommending primarily as a strange kind of scholastic conceit...

An Island in Greece: On the Shores of Skopelos Best Price: $8.68 Scattered in a crescent in the sparkling waters of the Aegean, the islands of the Sporades are...	Mornings in Mexico Best Price: $8.72 I read Mornings in Mexico in preparation for a workshop on authors and artists of early 20th...	A Girl in Paris: A Persian Encounter with the West Best Price: $10.48 Otherwise enjoyable book ruined by lousy typesetting evidently done by a program run amuck....	From a Persian Tea House: Travels in Old Iran Best Price: $10.11 "From a Persian Tea House" is an elegantly written account of traveling in Iran when...	Traveling the Incense Route: From Arabia to the Levant in the Footsteps of the Magi Best Price: $4.99 Carrying frankincense and myrrh, spices from India, gold and exotic African animal skins, the...

Round the World Again in 80 Days: Tour du Monde en 80 Jours (Mon Premier Voyage) (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) Best Price: $5.24 Jean Cocteau retraces the most celebrated round-the-world voyage of all time: that of Jules...	Imperial Istanbul: A Traveller's Guide: Includes Iznik, Bursa and Edirne Best Price: $12.63 This is a good, intelligently written, historical guide for the visitor to Istanbul who wants to...	St. Patrick: The Life and World of Ireland's Saint Best Price: $4.79 St. Patrick is perhaps the most venerated saint of the modern age, whose feast day is marked...	Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun Best Price: $15.59 In November 1922, a momentous discovery - unlike any other before or since - was to change...

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