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"Jim Gaffigan meets Cheryl Strayed in this blisteringly funny memoir about the call of the wild, from one of Scandinavia's biggest comedians. Sometime around his forties, Are Kalvø starts losing his friends ... to the mountains. Friends who used to meet him at the pub are now hiking and skiing every weekend, and when they do show up, all they talk about is feeling at one with nature (without a hint of irony). When Are realizes he's the only person...
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When Jerome K Jerome and his friend decide to attend the Oberammergau Passion Play, an Easter pageant that is performed in Oberlin, Germany once every decade, they turn the trip into a vacation. From London to Germany, the pair plan a cross-continent trip, excited to sight-see and experience different cultures. However, the friends run into conflict before they even take off, unsure what to pack. While they sort through contradicting advice from others,...
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Lee & Nicki's dream to travel started with a working 'year' in Australia but faltered as they reached their first city and didn't move anywhere else (not even home). Ten years later and fast approaching middle age, they'd become the epitome of an average, boring couple. Slowly but surely, their wanderlust kept brewing, it was time to break the cycle, but had they left it too late? They head off for a year long adventure around the globe. This book...
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Moving away from home, leaving the nest, could be the beginning of a voyage that ends in a faraway country we would not have even considered when we set out-until we got there and discovered its secrets, its culture, its undiscovered paradises. Half a lifetime ago, the author ended his voyage of discovery in the Philippines, a country with one foot in the world of fairies and spirits, and where every event has an unusual twist, whether wedding or...
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Mark Twain toured the British Empire in 1895, during which time he began concocting a travelogue about the experience that was published in 1897. Twain's narrative spans the globe, from Australia to Hawaii. Full of tall-tales and real-life criticisms of imperialist arrogance, "Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World" is written with Twain's characteristic wit and enthusiasm for a good, entertaining story.
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Stephen Harris is a travel journalist whose yen for exploring places off the beaten path led him to North Korea. He had long wondered what might lie within this most mysterious and controversial of countries that mainstream media outlets attack so fiercely. However, preconceptions could never have, prepared him for an experience so unexpected in the Hermit Kingdom!
Loaded with photos, Traveling Through North Korea promises to entertain and attempts...
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Which Asian country had a killer fish designed as a counter insurgency measure, a president who took over an island to make a private family game park of African wild animals; a revolution involving millions of people without bloodshed; coup plotters who took phone messages for you; more earthquakes, eruptions, floods, landslides and typhoons than just about any other country; a mountain where the bizarre becomes the ordinary; cities and villages...
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The highly-acclaimed sequel to August Esquire's bestselling "On the Lam" brings you to four more memorable countries. From sacrificing animals in Mexico to frolicking with peckish deer in Japan, this second instalment will bring you to tears with true tales of travels gone awry.
Written by a Canadian who understands that bad luck makes great stories. August J. Esquire is a magnet for disasters and has had to come to terms with the fact that his best...
9) 101 Places to Get F*cked Up Before You Die: The Ultimate Travel Guide to Partying Around the World
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Looking for a guidebook that isn't full of tired, lame, or even BS travel information? 101 Places to Get Fucked Up Before You Die brings together the most irreverent and legit accounts of drinking, nightlife and travel culture around the world. Part guide, part social commentary, part party invitation, 101 Places gives you all the info and inspiration you'll need to:
* Blowout one (or several) of the year's biggest festivals
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A mad romp around the world by a quirky data collecting redhead!
A book for those who love Peter Moore. If you love Bill Bryson read this!
Fran has a travel story for all 365 dates of the year, from Thanksgiving in New York, Christmas in Bethlehem, to New Year's Day in Cairo. Travel mishaps and adventures include broken bank cards in Jerusalem, arguments in Libya, and Wacky Races in Mauritania.
Fran left Australia in 1992 as a naive 18-year-old...
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How to Succeed in Mexican Jail gives you all the tools you need to not only survive, but thrive, in Mexican jail. Essential reading for anybody visiting, living in, or considering visiting, or living in, Mexico. Based on the letters of an actual American dude who spent nearly three years in prison in Cancun, How to Succeed in Mexican Jail provides tips and strategies for keeping a positive attitude and making the best out of a pretty gnarly situation....
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Ah travel! New scenery, exciting adventures, time alone with a loved one. Truth is, travel can make or break a relationship. Just negotiating when to leave for the airport can be tricky: she insists on arriving hours ahead of flight time, he likes the excitement of a photo finish. But as Mary-Lou Weisman sees it, "The inevitable rage with which we begin each trip only helps us to better appreciate the good times that lie ahead."
Or maybe not. When...
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A further collection of entertaining short stories to complete the author's trilogy of world-wide adventures. His intriguing tales are spiced with lively encounters and astute observations, full of humour and wit. His fascinating historical facts are particularly enlightening, and will have you saying, 'Really? I didn't know that.' Each story will leave you wanting more: Teachers' ghostly prank with a bizarre twist. Sampling local whiskey at a village...
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Whether attending decidedly awkward dinner parties or hayseed weddings complete with karaoke and inebriated attendants, or risking life and limb to aid the impoverished in Belize and Peru (with near-drastic results of misspoken Spanish), there's a story for everyone in this third installment of Dr. Carroll James's series of rollicking and touching memoirs.
And Nothing but the Tooth offers up a continuation of bizarre episodes during Dr. James's forty-plus...
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Planes travel fast; for airline crew, good gossip travels faster. In this sequel to bestselling "Confessions of a Hostie", international flight attendant Danielle Hugh entertains and shocks in equal measure with more, turbulent tales of life in the sky. Intense shopping, jetlag, poltergeist passengers, mile-high-club contenders and sick bags all put in an appearance, as do Danielle's 'earthling' boyfriend, Dean, her best friend, Helen, and her promiscuous...
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Since the late 1970s, James Pauley, Jr. has been jet-setting around the world as a flight attendant. During his time on this planet and in the skies, he's pretty much seen and heard it all. In Bumpy Rides and Soft Landings, Pauley chronicles his life, both in the air and on the ground, one meaningful adventure after another.
As someone whose innate filter doesn't always work, Pauley says it exactly as he sees it. Written in his uniquely humorous,...
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Humorous tales of travel and misadventure. Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures, unidentifiable dinners or unforgettable encounters, they can give birth to our most found travel lessons, and our most memorable - and hilarious - travel stories. These 31 globegirdling tales that run the gamut from close-encounter safaris to loss-of-face...
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This book describes a journey of contemplation and misadventure as I re-live a bicycle trip I first embarked on as a fresh faced 20-year-old. It was more than 40 years ago, that I originally mounted the tandem and headed south with a guy I had met at Liverpool Street station a few days earlier.
Rod Stewart was still on his third marriage. The channel tunnel was just a dream and only a few years had passed since Man first walked on the Moon.
For the...
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A Prime Minister gone rogue, a global banking crisis, an evil alliance between East and West, a honeytrap conspiracy, a military coup, and peace in the Aegean region under threat, form the backdrop of a thrill a minute roller-coaster ride of a crime/political thriller.
Alex Kalfas, the Greek Justice Minister and former CIA operative, finds himself trapped in a treacherous web of deceit when he is blackmailed by Themis Xenakis, the Greek...
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