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From the Klondike to the Bering Sea, from Alaska's bounty that brought fortunes to some to its wilderness that claimed the lives of others, Tales from the Edge explores the myth, beauty, and peril of the arctic landscape. Editor Larry Kaniut brings together some of the world's best outdoor adventure writers to celebrate the land and the people who have measured themselves against it.
Tales from the Edge is a celebration of Alaska featuring such notable...
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"Cracking the Code: The Confused Traveler's Guide to Liberian English" is the brainchild of John Mark Sheppard, who moved with his family from the United States to Liberia when he was just three years old. He learned Liberian English as a second language as he spent his childhood and teen years immersed in the Liberian culture. After college in the United States, John Mark returned to Liberia and began a more formal study of Liberia's history, customs...
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Tigerfish tells the story of a two-year working adventure on the Niger River in Mali, West Africa by a fish biologist Peace Corps volunteer armed with fishing pole and camera.
This photo-journal contains 140 color photographs. It opens with sport fishing, and details the author's pursuit of tigerfish, Nile perch,and other species including the dubious dodo. The second section is an account of experiences and observations made during the large community...
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By honestly describing her difficult and gradual acceptance into the daily life of a West African rural community -- a world of herders, potters, subsistence farmers, diviners and initiates -- Carol Spindel renders a foreign culture with exceptional immediacy and emotional depth. She is especially drawn to the world of women, and her portraits of that world's beauty and hardship are extraordinary for their precision, warmth, and dramatic power. A...
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Sweet Liberia, Lessons from the Coal Pot is a delightful, painfully honest memoir that chronicles the thick slice of humanity sandwiched between Liberia's April 12, 1980 coup and the Civil War in 1989. Like many others who embraced Black Pride, Afros, African clothing and names in the 70's, Susan and thousands more took it one step further and immigrated to Mother Africa. This touching memoir is set against the author's personal growth, her cultural...
186) Le Japon intime
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Ce livre sur la vie japonaise fut rédigé d'après les notes prises pendant le séjour de quelques mois que je fis au Japon.
Ce n'était pas toutefois dans le dessein d'en pénétrer les mœurs que je m'étais rendue dans ce pays, mais pour étudier de près sa politique. La brusque mainmise du Japon sur la Mandchourie, son agression non moins inattendue à Shanghai, le ton nouveau de sa diplomatie, qu'appuyaient d'impressionnantes démonstrations...
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Filled with full-color photography, instructive commissioned maps, and advice from regional travel experts, Backroads of the Great American West is the best one-stop source for road trips that avoid eight-lane expressways and crowded tourist destinations.
Forget what you think you knew about nation's greatest road trips. “Backroads of the Great American West” gets you off the Interstates and beaten paths with all the necessary information to...
188) Nigeria
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Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME:
Still Becoming by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Nation called Ineba by A. Igoni Barrett
The Niger Delta by Noo Saro-Wiwa
plus: independent cinema and the do-it-yourself society; indiscriminate abductions and discrimination against women; the discrete charm of repair shops and the irresistible fascination with Afrobeat,...
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Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, The Village of Waiting is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of Lavié (the name means "wait a little more") in tiny and underdeveloped Togo, George Packer reveals his own schooling at the hands of an unforgettable array of townspeople-peasants, chiefs, charlatans,...
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Le récit de voyage plein d'humanité d'un jeune globe-trotter de 20 ans.
Pendant deux ans et sur quatre continents, Robin Boogaerts parcourt l'Espagne, le Sénégal, l'Inde, le Népal, la Thaïlande, le Laos, le Cambodge et le Canada. Alimenté par une intense quête de vérité, il observe, explore et rencontre, aime et apprend, trébuche et s'éveille.
Grâce à son récit de voyage, l'auteur nous offre l'intimité de son journal de bord. Agrémenté...
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Partez à la découverte des surprenants paysages de l'Ouest américain
Dans ce court tableau, Jonathan Raban nous entraîne des profondes forêts du Pacifique à la vaste plaine du fleuve Columbia, à la recherche de ce que ces immenses paysages révèlent du rapport de l'homme à la nature.
Lui, l'écrivain bercé par son enfance dans la douce campage anglaise, est frappé par le rapport qu'entretiennent les Américains avec la nature. « En dépit...
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People come to Denver for the nearby mountains and spectacular natural beauty, the craft beer, the outdoor lifestyle and mild climate with abundant sunshine, but what they also discover is how walkable it is as they explore culinary treasures, history that goes from the time of the dinosaurs to the founding of the Centennial state, and unique culture of the west. In Walking Denver, author and local Mindy Sink guides readers-whether they are first-time...
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Veteran travel writer, photographer, and horseman Mark Bedor returns with another breathtaking adventure across the American West. This gorgeous photographic collection showcases twenty-six horseback rides across the United States (with one trip abroad to the great Australian Outback). For each, Bedor offers firsthand descriptions of the people and places, whether they're tagging along on a cattle drive, taking part in a re-creation of Custer's Last...
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The Not For Tourists Guide to Seattle is the manual to the seaport city that no local, or tourist, should be without. This map-based guidebook divides Seattle and the Eastside into 49 mapped neighborhoods that are dotted with user-friendly icons plotting the nearest essential services and entertainment locations, while providing important information on Seattle's restaurants, bookstores, coffee shops, and everything else you need to know about the...
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The Not For Tourists Guide to San Francisco is the urban manual to the city that no San Franciscan should be without. This map-based guidebook organizes the city into 40 mapped neighborhoods and marks each map with user-friendly icons locating all of the essential services and entertainment hotspots.
Want to stroll along breezy Fisherman's Wharf? NFT has you covered. How about rummaging through a vintage thrift shop? We've got that, too. The nearest...
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The Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles is the essential urban handbook that thousands of Los Angelenos rely on daily. The map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood guidebook divides the city into 57 mapped neighborhoods and pinpoints all of the essential services and entertainment hotspots with NFT's user-friendly icons.
Want to drive around the palm tree-peppered concrete jungle like a pro? NFT has you covered. How about sunbathing on a beach?...
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When they first began working on this book, the authors thought they would simply write the story of Linda Killinger's grandparents who, with seven of their thirteen kids, took a fifteen-month trip across the country visiting relatives and the national parks, in their brand new 1930 Model A Ford.
Very quickly, they realized this was not just a simple story. Instead, they began to see it as a reveal of how this moment of history affected not only...
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The land of opportunity, a golden Eden, the last frontier. What is this place that has given rise to countless metaphors but can still quicken the imagination? For Bill Barich, the question became a quest when he realized that home was no longer New York, where he had grown up, but California, to which he had been lured twenty years earlier. Now, in this account of his journey through California, he captures the true nature of the state behind the...
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Read the powerful account of one woman's struggle to reshape her identity when all normality has fallen away.
When lifelong bird-lover Hannah Bourne-Taylor moved with her husband to Ghana seven years ago she couldn't have anticipated how her life would be forever changed by her unexpected encounters with nature and the subsequent bonds she formed.
Plucked from the comfort and predictability of her life before, Hannah struggled to establish herself...
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A reporter's account of the people, culture, and terrain of Texas in the mid-1800s.
Frederick Olmsted was a journalist when he made his journey through Texas. Tasked with covering the state of slavery during the quiet years before the Civil War, he took copious notes about the people, places, and cultures of the Texas of his day. These notes, in the form of a journal, would become his seminal work, Olmsted's Texas Journey.
In Olmsted's Texas Journey,...
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