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Garbology
Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of No Matter How Loud I Shout identifies trash as America's largest export, discussing how the nation reached current garbage levels while explaining what families, communities and countries are doing to reverse waste trends.
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In My Father's Country
An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate
Relates the author's decision, years after her father was taken away by the KGB, to relocate to her uncle's home in America, where she pursued an education and worked as an interpreter before becoming a cultural adviser for the U.S. Army.
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Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down
An account of a Francophile's haphazard relocation to Paris in spite of his lack of French fluency describes how the region considerably differed from his expectations and the ways in which he tapped his American optimism to overcome cultural challenges. By the author of You Lost Me There.
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The Sweet Life in Paris
Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious-and Perplexing-City
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North to the Orient
The Lindberghs' experiences on a flight to the Orient via the Great Circle Route in 1931
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Man Seeks God
My Flirtations With the Divine
After a health scare, an atheist travels the world searching for an experience of the divine, from meditating with Tibetan lamas in Nepal and unblocking his chi in China, to studying the Kabbalah in Israel.
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Cannibal Valley
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The Unconquered
In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
A National Geographic writer describes his harrowing journey with 34 other people into the depths of the Amazon rain forest, in an attempt to track one of the last uncontacted tribes on the planet, the "People of the Arrow," a group of deft archers who defend themselves with a vengeance.
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Holidays in Heck
A follow-up to Holidays in Hell, P.J. O'Rourke's latest book collects classic travel pieces written throughout the author's post-retirement years, a period marked by his haphazard journeys with and without family to places like China, Kyrgyzstan and America.
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The Beautiful and The Damned
A Portrait of the New India
This portrait of globalized India is based on the author's undercover assignment for The Guardian, during which he worked at a Delhi call center and traveled through the subcontinent, observing its cultural contradictions and the human cost of monumental changes.
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Nine Lives
In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
Examines how traditional religions are observed in present-day India through the experiences of such individuals as a Tantric practicing middle-class woman from Calcutta, a prison warder from Kerala who is worshipped as an incarnate deity, and a Jain nunwho watched a friend ritually starve.
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Travels in Siberia
The author of Great Plains examines the unforgivable region of Siberia, including its geography, resources, native peoples and history, in a book full of Mongols, fur seekers, tea caravans, American prospectors, prisoners and exiles of every kind and so much more.
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The Snow Leopard
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Decoding Air Travel
A Guide to Saving on Airfare and Flying in Luxury
A former foreign correspondent explains how to save money and improve your travel experience when buying airline tickets.
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In a Sunburned Country
The author takes readers on a tour of the land Down Under that goes far beyond packaged-tour routes.
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Travels With Charley
In Search of America
Steinbeck records his emotions and experiences during a journey of rediscovery in his native land.
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals
Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
The author discusses his two-year stay on a remote South Pacific island, a place where he anticipated a romantic paradise but instead experienced humorous misadventures and a host of environmental challenges.
