THE GENTLEMEN'S CLUBS OF LONDON by ANTHONY LEJEUNE

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DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI by CHARLES FLOWERS

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America Is My Neighborhood by Willard Scott; Daniel Paisner

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VOYAGE BY BUS : SEEING AMERICA BY LAND YACHT by LEONARD WIBBERLEY

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FISHING BOATS AND FISHER FOLK ON THE EAST COAST OF SCOTLAND by PETER F ANSON

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Stoneybatter : Dublin's Inner-Urban Village by Kevin Corrigan Kearns

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The Way That I Went : An Irishman in Ireland by Robert L. Praeger

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Written by Ireland's greatest field botanist and first published in 1937, Robert Praeger's personal tour of Ireland's natural wonders has had a greater influence on Irish naturalists than any other book. It represents five years of weekends spent walking, swimming, staying out all night on islands, sift ing fossil bones, and exploring tombs. ...Show more

RORAIMA AND BRITISH GUIANA : WITH A GLANCE AT BERMUDA, THE WEST INDIES AND THE SPANISH MAIN by J W BODDAM-WHETHAM

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MOEBIUS TRIP - DIGRESSIONS FROM INDIAS H by GITI THADANI

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Chasing the Mountain of Light : Across India on the Trail of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond by Kevin Rushby

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Kevin Rushby pursues the dramatic career of the Koh-I-Noor, the most renowned diamond of India, through the relics of great kingdoms to the frozen heights of the Himalayas. Kevin Rushby follows the trail of this great jewel on a journey that takes him to many fascinating corners of India and to the heart of Indian culture. Along the way he meets the dealers, smugglers and petty crooks who populate modern India's diamond trade, and finds that the depths of human greed and the heights of spiritual aspiration are both bound up in India' long association with diamonds.The historical characters are no less fascinating, from the bloodthirsty tyrants who built mountains for human heads, to the man-god Krishna ...Show more

Under the Tuscan Sun by FRANCES MAYES

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280 pages Frances Mayes - widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer - opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countrywide. Doing for Tuscany what M.F.K.Fisher and Peter Mayle did for Provence, mayes writes about the teastes and pleasures of a foreign country with gusto and passion. A celebration of the extraordinary quality of life in Tuscany, UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN is a feast for all the senses. ...Show more

The Last Englishmen - Love, War and the End of Empire by Deborah Baker

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'Wholly original... It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that there is something Tolstoyan to Baker's vast project...remarkable' Neel Mukherjee John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalayas. Michael Spender was the first to survey the northern approach to the summit of Mount Everest. While th eir younger brothers - W.H Auden and Stephen Spender - achieved literary fame, they vied for a place on an expedition that would finally conquer Everest, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain's efforts to maintain power over India. To this rivalry was added another- in the summer of 1938 both men fell in love with a painter named Nancy Sharp. Her choice would determine each man's wartime loyalties. From Calcutta to pre-war London to the snowy slopes of Everest, The Last Englishmen tracks a generation obsessed with a romantic ideal. As political struggle rages in Spain, the march to war with Germany seems inevitable, Communist spies expand their ranks and the fight for Indian independence enters its final bloody act, writers and explorers, Englishmen and Indians must pick their cause. The Last Englishmen is an engrossing story that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order. It encourages us to look again at our national story, to seek out the viewpoints of those on the other end of unchecked power, and to question our own mythologies. ...Show more