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Reuben Gold Thwaites, historian extraordinaire and superintendent of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (1887-1913), A new and revised edition of “Afloat On The Ohio”, “On the Storied Ohio” tells the story of an historical pilgrimage of a thousand miles in a skiff, from Redstone To Cairo made in 1894. Present on this pilgrimage were a company of four, the author, his wife, their ten-year-old son and a Doctor. Thwaites, historian extraordinaire, wan… More >>

On the Storied Ohio: An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo

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Linking East and West, Asia with Europe, the Silk Road was once the most important trading route in the world. A conduit for the exchange of prized silks, spices and jewels as well as philosophies, cultures and religions, the Silk Road was a catalyst for the rise and fall of some of the greatest civilizations in history. This second title in the trilogy–The War, The Road and The Lake–this is the account of Sven Hedin’s 10,000-mile journey along the ancient Silk… More >>

The Silk Road: Ten Thousand Miles through Central Asia

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This exquisite book is a rare jewel in the literature of Mexico and its little-known peninsula, Baja. Describing her adventures on this austere and beautiful slip of land, C. M. Mayo creates a multi-layered map of place filled with daredevil aviators, sea turtle researchers, Stone Age cave painters, and countless other colorful characters. Covering Baja from Cabo San Lucas to Tijuana, Mayo’s wit and curiosity help her weave a story that seamlessly combines history, … More >>

Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles Through Baja California, the Other Mexico

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Canadian poet Karen Connelly was a young woman when she left home to live for one year in Denchai, a small farming community in northern Thailand. This lyrical portrait of her true-life adventures radiates wit and literary charm. The swampy jungles, the lure of hedonistic Bangkok, the austere, ambient Buddhism, and the torrential rains serve as backdrops for Connelly’s carefully crafted prose. Her account combines a keen sense of adventure with an affinity for Thai … More >>

The Dream of a Thousand Lives: A Sojourn in Thailand

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Though the Kurds played a major military and tactical role in the United States’ recent war with Iraq, most of us know little about this fiercely independent, long-marginalized people. Now acclaimed journalist Christiane Bird, who riveted readers with her tour of Islamic Iran in Neither East Nor West, travels through this volatile part of the world to tell the Kurds’ story, using personal observations and in-depth research to illuminate an astonishing history an… More >>

A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan

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They had met and married on perilously short acquaintance, she an American chef and food writer, he a Venetian banker. Now they were taking another audacious leap, unstitching their ties with exquisite Venice to live in a roughly renovated stable in Tuscany.

Once again, it was love at first sight. Love for the timeless countryside and the ancient village of San Casciano dei Bagni, for the local vintage and the magnificent cooking, for the Tuscan sky and the f… More >>

A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure

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“A remarkable life story, reminiscent of Out of Africa.”–VogueIn 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrator living in New York City, accompanied her dashing hunter-explorer husband to what was then the Belgian Congo. When the marriage fell apart, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda, as the manager of a flower plantation.Land of a Thousand Hills is Carr’s thrilling memoir of her life in Rwanda-a love affair with a country and a people th… More >>

Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda

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He saw her across the Piazza San Marco and fell in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; and she, a divorced American chef, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thinks she is incapable of intimacy, that her heart has lost its capacity for romantic love. But within months of their first meeting, she has packed up her house in St. Louis to marry Fernando—“the stranger,… More >>

A Thousand Days in Venice