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1) In a sunburned country

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Travel writer Bill Bryson chronicles the experiences he had and profiles the people and wildlife he encountered while traveling through Australia.

2) Lands of lost borders: a journey on the Silk Road

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Harris, Kate, 1982

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As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she craved--to be an explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician--had gone extinct. From what she could tell of the world from small-town Ontario, the likes of Marco Polo and Magellan had mapped the whole earth; there was nothing left to be discovered. Looking beyond this planet, she decided to become a scientist and go to Mars. In between studying at Oxford and MIT, Harris set off by bicycle...

3) On the plain of snakes: a Mexican journey

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Theroux, Paul

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"Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux fearlessly drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines."--Provided by publisher.

4) A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

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Bryson, Bill

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body

“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times

Back in America after...

5) Voyage au pays des Tziganes: La Hongrie inconnue

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Tissot, Victor

Publication Date

[2015]

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1 online resource (569 pages)

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Extrait: "Les lecteurs qui ont bien voulu m'accompagner, l'an dernier, dans mon excursion à Vienne, se rappellent peut-être la route que nous primes pour nous rendre de Paris dans la capitale de l'Autriche. Après avoir traversé le Mont-Genis, nous touchâmes barre à Venise et à Trieste, puis nous arrivâmes par le Semmering — ce Mont-Genis autrichien — sur les bords du Danube qui n'est malheureusement bleu que dans le titre de la valse de...

6) The desert route to India: being the journals of four travellers by the Great Desert Caravan Route between Aleppo and Basrah, 1745-1751

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Works issued by the Hakluyt Society volume 2nd ser., no. 63

Publication Date

2010

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1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps.

7) Invisible China: a journey through ethnic borderlands

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Legerton, Colin

Publication Date

c2009

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Traveling more than 14,000 miles by bus and train to the farthest reaches of China, the authors of this narrative explore the minority peoples who dwell there, talking to farmers in their fields, monks in their monasteries, fishermen on their skiffs, and herders on the steppe. Closely observing daily life in these remote regions, they document the many lifestyles and adventures of the Chinese natives they visit an old Catholic fisherman at a church...