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Everyman's library. Travel and topography volume no. 104
Harvard classics volume 29
Tantor unabridged classics
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Harvard classics volume 29
Tantor unabridged classics
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English
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This is Charles Darwin's chronicle of his five-year journey, beginning in 1831, around the world as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle.
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English
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One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.
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Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
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Works volume 5-6
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English
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835—1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884). First published in 1897, Twain's travel book "Following the Equator - A Journey Around the World" chronicles his 1895 tour of the British Empire when he was 60 years old. Fundamentally...
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"Plagued by anxiety and a persistent feeling that there was more to life than paychecks and mortgages, Kim and her husband decide to uproot their lives and travel around the world. Just before their departure, they're given an unexpected gift that will shape their adventures: a yellow envelope containing a check and instructions to give the money away to those they encounter on their journey. Through Ecuador, India, Nepal, and beyond, the pair encounter...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
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[xvi], 535 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports., facsims., photos ; 25 cm.
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English
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"In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation."--Publisher's description
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Works issued by the Hakluyt Society volume 2nd ser., no. 122
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Published for the Hakluyt society at the University Press
Pub. Date
1964
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230 p.
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English
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
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356 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"People We Meet on Vacation meets The Unhoneymooners in this sparkling debut romantic comedy about two near strangers-and complete opposites-who win a radio contest for a trip around the world"--
17) The golden ocean
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English
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This is the first novel Patrick O'Brian ever wrote about the sea, a precursor to the Aubrey-Maturin series
The Golden Ocean shares the high-seas adventure and rich humor of this triumphant series, invoking the eloquent style and authentic historic atmosphere that O'Brian fans love so much. In 1740, two young Irishmen-lifelong friends Peter and Sean-join Commodore Anson and his crew on their quest for fortune and fame on the golden ocean.
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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First edition.
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viii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"In 2003, Albert Podell realized that he'd been to 110 countries in the world. What if, he wondered, he could go to them all? He would set foot in not just the well-known tourist destinations in Europe or the vacation spots in Latin America, but the little-known, far-off lands that most people don't know exist. In Around the World in 50 Years, Podell recounts the misunderstandings, detours, accidents, breakdowns, robberies, and even wars that he needed...
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Ticknor & Fields
Pub. Date
1992
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409 p. : col. map ; 24 cm.
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English
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In this towering story about a man pitting himself against the sea, against society, and against himself, Robert Stone again demonstrates that he is "one of the most impressive novelists of his generation" (New York Review of Books). Inviting comparison with the great sea novels of Conrad, Melville, and Hemingway, Outerbridge Reach is also the portrait of two men and the powerful, unforgettable woman they both love - and for whom they are both ready,...
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