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Road Fever: A High-Speed Travelogue by Tim Cahill

"A travelogue with an attitude, a road book with a ragged edge and purely gonzo sensibilities."

—Los Angeles Times Book Review

Tim Cahill, author of Pecked to Death by Ducks and Jaguars Ripped My Flesh, documents his epic road trip—15,000 miles from Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a record-breaking twenty-three and a half days—as part of a valiant attempt to find out how far you can go and how fast you can get there.

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The Road From Coorain by Jill Ker Conway

A remarkable woman's exquisitely clear-sighted memoir of growing up Australian: from the vastness of a sheep station in the outback to the stifling propriety of postwar Sydney: from untutored childhood to a life in academia: and from the shelter of a protective family to the lessons of independence and tragedy.

"A smail masterpiece of scene, memory...this book [is] the most rewarding journey of all."

-John Kenneth Galbraith Autobiography/0-679-72436-2

The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest by Timothy Egan

Traveling from rain forest to English garden, mountaintop to river gorge, the Seattle correspondent for The New York Times reveals the Pacific Northwest as a land of both unparalleled beauty and frenzied exploitation.

"A celebration of natural bounty, a warning that too much has already been lost...Egan is a worthy spokesman for his homeland, a fluent and crafty writer.'

—Richard Nelson, Los Angeles Times Nature/0-679-73485-6

Bad Trips, Edited and with an Introduction by Keath Fraser

From Martin Amis in the air to Peter Matthiessen on a mountaintop, some of the best-known writers of our time recount sometimes harrowing and sometimes exhilarating tales of their most memorable misadventures in travel.

"The only aspect of our travels that is guaranteed to hold an audience is disaster... Nothing is better for survival."

—Martha Gellhorn A Vintage Onginal/Travel/Adventure/0-679-72908-9

The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto by Pico Iyer

Through Pico Iyer's search for the traditional Japan of flower arranging and the silence of temples, he discovers a modern land as comfortable with rock music, shopping malls and Vivaldi as with classical Japanese literature and tea ceremonies.

"A beautifully written book about someone looking for ancient dreams in a strange modern place."

—Los Angeles Times Book Review Travel/Adventure/0-679-73834-7

Looking for Osman: One Man's Travels Through the Paradox of Modern Turkey

by Eric Lawlor

As he traverses Turkey in search of exotic splendor recorded by nineteenth-century romanticists, Eric Lawlor finds instead a modern, professional, sometimes brutal land, with unexpected remnants of the old Turkey to be encountered along the way.

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The Other Side by Ruben Martinez

Martinez's work of cultural reportage and personal memoir provides a vision of a new Latino culture that bubbles from San Salvador to L.A. and that embraces cumbia and hip-hop, anarchists and Catholic priests.

"The Other Side is a brilliant and breathtaking account of the new culture created by guerrillas of San Salvador and performance artists of feverish Tijuana, by young painters of graffiti in Los Angeles and rock 'n' roll singers of Mexico City. It is a revealing, remarkable and timely book."

—Ryszard Kapuscinski Sociology/Current Affairs/0-679-74591 -2

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

An "engaging, funny and richly appreciative" {The New York Times Book Review) account of an English couple's first year living in Provence, settling in amid the enchanting gardens and equally festive bistros of their new home.

"Stylish, witty, delightfully readable." — The Sunday Times (London)

Travel/0-679-73114-8

Maiden Voyages: The Writings of Women Travelers

Edited and with an Introduction by Mary Morris

In this delightful and generous anthology, women such as Beryl Markham, Willa Cather, Annie Dillard, and Joan Didion share their experiences traveling throughout the world. From the Rocky Mountains to a Marrakech palace, in voices wry, lyrical, and sometimes wistful, these women show as much of themselves as they do of the strange and wonderful places they visit.

Travel/Women's Studies/0-679-74030-9

Iron & Silk by Mark Salzman

The critically acclaimed and bestselling adventures of a young American martial arts master in China.

"Dazzling...exhilarating...a joy to read from beginning to end."

—People Travel/Adventure/0-394-75511-1

Low Life: Lures and Snares of New York by Luc Sante

In this "fascinating...entertaining and sobering" (Philadelphia Inquirer) journey through New York City, from 1840 to 1919, Luc Sante discovers the dark heart, wherein dwell pimps, madams, rat-killing dogs, ear-chewing thugs, con men, and extravagantly crooked cops.

"Low Life captures the rollicking atmosphere of city life.... Sante reclaims an essential piece of the city's past."

— The New York Times Book Review History/Sociology/0-679-73876-2

In the Shadow of the Sacred Grove by Carol Spindel

A moving memoir of an American woman's difficult and gradual acceptance into the daily life of a rural West African community.

"I was unprepared for the quietly gathering power of this respectfully inquisitive study of modern life in a small West African village. It poses, and answers, questions about the lives of a proud and shy people."

—Alice Walker A Vintage Original/Travel/Adventure/0-679-72214-9

You Gotta Have Wa: When Two Cultures Collide on the Baseball Diamond

by Robert Whiting

An American journalist gives us a witty close-up view at besuboru— Japanese baseball—as well as an incisive look into the culture of present-day Japan.

"[It] will please baseball fans and enlighten anyone interested in Japanese-American relations."

-James Fallows, Atlantic Monthly Sports/Current Affairs/0-679-72947-X

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Motoring with Mohammed by Eric Hansen

Native Stranger by Eddy Harris

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