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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional travel & adventure books
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Hardcover: Feb 2006
Paperback: 30 Jan 2007
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| A celebrated writer's irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life. |
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
by David O. Relin, Greg Mortenson
Hardcover: Mar 2006
Paperback: 30 Jan 2007
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| The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia. |
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Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
by Scott Weidensaul
Hardcover: Nov 2005
Paperback: 6 Nov 2006
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| Retracing the journey that birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and naturalist
James Fisher took in 1953 (recorded in Wild America), Return to Wild America is
likely to become a classic in its own right - a sweeping
survey of the natural soul of North America today. |
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The Last Gentleman Adventurer
by Edward Beauclerk Maurice
Hardcover: Nov 2005
Paperback: 1 Nov 2006
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| As spare, gleaming, and exhilarating as the Arctic wastes and the gentle, stoic Eskimos who had mastery of this realm. His translucent prose is a sparkling and moving record of a bygone way of life. |
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The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt
Hardcover: Sep 2005
Paperback: 1 Oct 2006
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| The author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil returns after
more than a decade to give us an intimate look at the "magic, mystery, and
decadence" of the city of Venice and its inhabitants. |
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The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks
by Susan Casey
Hardcover: Jun 2005
Paperback: 30 May 2006
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| A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators -- and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them. |
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The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
by Tom Reiss
Hardcover: Feb 2005
Paperback: 14 Mar 2006
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| 'Mixing memory with desire, this marvelous and original book once more reminds us of ways through which the imagination becomes a refuge from the uncontrollable cruelties of reality.' |
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Finding George Orwell in Burma
by Emma Larkin
Hardcover: Jun 2005
Paperback: 6 Mar 2006
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| A brave and revelatory reconnaissance of modern Burma, one of the world's grimmest and most shuttered police states, using as its compass the life and work of George Orwell, the man many in Burma call simply "the prophet" |
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