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Book
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Author
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Dewey Number
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Description
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The Places In Between
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Rory Stewart
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915.8104
STE
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Man walks across Afghanistan in 2002, meeting heroes,
rogues, tribal elders and teenaged soldiers.
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A Walk in the Woods
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Bill Bryson
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917.404
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Man walks Appalachian Trail with his very out-of-shape
friend.
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
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Paul Theroux
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915.044
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Veteran travel writer re-creates voyage of 30 years ago
through Asia that resulted in his most classic book.
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Without You, There Is No Us
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Suki Kim
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92 KIM
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Journalist goes undercover in North Korea, teaching
English at an elite North Korean boy’s school for a year.
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Walking the Gobi
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Helen Thayer
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915.173
THA
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Husband and wife in their 70s trek across the Gobi
desert.
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A Year In Provence
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Peter Mayle
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944 MAY
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Arthur chronicles a year restoring a 200 year old
farmhouse in Provence.
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Venice For Lovers
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Louis Begley
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914.531 BEG
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Couple describes their annual visits to their adopted
city of Venice, Italy.
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A Journey to Ohio in 1810
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Margaret Van Horn Dwight
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917.71 DWI
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Journal entries describe a rough wagon trip from New
Haven, CT to Ohio—from the Yale Historical Manuscripts
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Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
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Susan Jane Gilman
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915.104
GIL
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Young college-aged backpackers brave the newly opened
People’s Republic of China in the late 1980s.
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Cuba Diaries
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Isadora Tattlin
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972.91
TAT
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Ex-pat makes a home in Cuba with family when her husband
is posted there for business.
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The Sisters of Sinai
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Janet Soskice
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920 SOS
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Twin sisters traverse the Middle East to uncover the
earliest known copies of the Gospels, in pursuit of their passions for
adventure & learning.
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A Taste for Travel
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Anik See
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641 SEE
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Author travels on bicycle through 11 countries to
explore other cultures in a culinary odyssey. With recipes.
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The Geography of Bliss
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Eric Weiner
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910.4 WEI
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Author goes on global quest to find the happiest places
on earth.
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Tales for the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics
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Alexander Frater
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910.913
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Travel writer makes his way through nearly all of the 88
countries between the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn—starting with a tiny
South Seas island.
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Eat, Pray, Love
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Elizabeth Gilbert
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910.4
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Well know pilgrimage of self-exploration takes author to
Italy, India and Bali.
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At the Mercy of the River
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Peter Stark
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916.79
STA
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Author kayaks largely uncharted river in Africa and amid
hair-raising adventure ponders the nature of exploration.
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The Place Where Souls Are Born
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Thomas Keneally
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917.904
KEN
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Aussie author explores American Southwest from the Rocky
Mountains to the Mexican border.
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Seaworthy
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T.R. Pearson
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92 WIL
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Book explores the solo rafting explorations of William
Willis—an eccentric extreme sportsman who twice crossed the Pacific on a
raft.
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The Places In Between
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Rory Stewart
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915.8104
STE
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Man walks across Afghanistan in 2002, meeting heroes,
rogues, tribal elders and teenaged soldiers.
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