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"The Rings of Saturn" begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the ... More

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From the author of AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER and ANNIE JOHN, a novel set in Antigua, where the idyllic tourist facade hides a colonial legacy of ... More

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Edith Hope is in disgrace and working out her probation on the shores of Lake Geneva. Friends and family have banished her to seemly Swiss solitude - ... More

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Title: The Mountains of California. [Illustrated.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of ... More

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Sitting in a sweltering New York hotel room in the summer of 1948, E.B. White began writing his memoir about the world's most fabulous city. He ... More

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A rich treasury of writings of our changing visions of the sea--from the bestselling author of Hunting Mister Heartbreak. Spanning everything from ... More

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The most thoroughly detailed account -- including material not found in more recent books -- of domestic life, religion, magic, medicine, commerce, ... More

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Carolyn Mytiner, an artist and amateur anthropologist, set off in the late 1930s with her friend to paint indigenous people in the Solomon Islands.

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First published in England in 1782, Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer was one of the first works to describe the character of the average ... More

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"Boy Life on the Prairie" was first published in 1899, some eighteen years before the appearance of Hamlin Garland's "A Son of the Middle Border." ... More

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Narrated once again by Mame's fictional deadpan nephew, "Around the World with Auntie Mame" takes readers on a first-rate, if not always first-class, ... More

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"Pilgrimage" took Annie Leibovitz to places that she could explore with no agenda. She wasn't on assignment. She chose the subjects simply because ... More

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An intensely personal account of Spiritualism by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle--the creator of Sherlock Holmes--written soon after announcing his belief in ... More

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National Geographic's biggest and most sumptuous photography book ever--a celebration of more than a century of collecting and publishing photographs ... More

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Esquemeling served the Buccaneers as a barber-surgeon, and was present for all their exploits. Little did he suspect that his first hand observations ... More

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are ... More

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A stunning collection of personal observations that uses images of the American West to probe larger concerns in lyrical, evocative prose that is a ... More

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This book takes readers on a leisurely journey through a bygone era with fascinating accounts of canals, corduroy roads, and turnpikes, waterwheels ... More

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An intrepid explorer who earned his living by collecting bird skins, Wallace also catalogued the vast number of plant and animal species that ... More

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Four children find in the sandpit a strange creature. Its eyes were on long horns like snail's eyes, and it could move them in and out like ... More

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Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890), the famous Victorian explorer, began his career in the Indian army in 1842. While in India he developed his ... More

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Originally published in 1893. A well illustrated and detailed record of the history and types of horse drawn transport along the main travel routes ... More

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