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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $12.00
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Manufacturer: Candlewick
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ian Andrew::Dugald Steer
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Publisher: Candlewick
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Dewey Decimal Number: 932
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Publication Date: 2004-11-04
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Reading Level: 32
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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Description: A new discovery from the publishers of DRAGONOLOGY! Discover the wonders of ancient Egypt through a fascinating journal from a lost expedition - a treasure trove of fact and fantasy featuring a novelty element on every spread. Here are just a few of EYGPTOLOGY's special features: 1) an extravagantly gilded cover, featuring a raised Horus hawk pendant with three encrusted gems 2) a playable game of Senet(ancient Egyptian checkers) including playing board, pieces, original-style dice, and rules 3) a souvenir booklet showing how to read simple hieroglyphs 4) a scrap of "mummy cloth" 5) a facsimile of the gilded mummy mask of King Tut 6) a gilded eye-of-Horus amulet with a "jewel" 7) fold-out maps 8) drawings and photographs 9) period postcards 10) a letter from the former Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum, explaining which parts of this unique tale may be accepted as fact, which are guided by legend, and which reflect the author's delightful sense of fancy.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $13.65
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Manufacturer: DK Travel
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: DK Publishing
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Publisher: DK Travel
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Dewey Decimal Number: 916.2
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Publication Date: 2007-08-20
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Reading Level: 360
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $15.47
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Manufacturer: Grove Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Tim Butcher
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Publisher: Grove Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 916.7510434
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Publication Date: 2008-10-01
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom and named a Richard & Judy Book Club selection—the only work of nonfiction on the 2008 list—Blood River is the harrowing and audacious story of Tim Butcher's journey in the Congo and his retracing of renowned explorer H. M. Stanley's famous 1874 expedition in which he mapped the Congo River. When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the legendary Congo River and the idea of re-creating Stanley's legendary journey along the three-thousand-mile waterway. Despite warnings that his plan was suicidal, Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. Making his way in an assortment of vehicles, including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of characters from UN aid workers to a pygmy-rights advocate, he followed in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurers. An utterly absorbing narrative that chronicles Tim Butcher's forty-four-day journey along the Congo River, Blood River is an unforgettable story of exploration and survival.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $4.92
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Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Peter Allison
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Publisher: The Lyons Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 916.8830432092
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Publication Date: 2007-10-01
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Reading Level: 264
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.13
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Manufacturer: Modern Library
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Isak Dinesen
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Publisher: Modern Library
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Dewey Decimal Number: 967.62
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Publication Date: 1992-09-05
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.
The Random House colophon made its debut in February 1927 on the cover of a little pamphlet called "Announcement Number One." Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the company's founders, had acquired the Modern Library from publishers Boni and Liveright two years earlier. One day, their friend the illustrator Rockwell Kent stopped by their office. Cerf later recalled, "Rockwell was sitting at my desk facing Donald, and we were talking about doing a few books on the side, when suddenly I got an inspiration and said, 'I've got the name for our publishing house. We just said we were go-ing to publish a few books on the side at random. Let's call it Random House.' Donald liked the idea, and Rockwell Kent said, 'That's a great name. I'll draw your trademark.' So, sitting at my desk, he took a piece of paper and in five minutes drew Random House, which has been our colophon ever since." Throughout the years, the mission of Random House has remained consistent: to publish books of the highest quality, at random. We are proud to continue this tradition today.
This edition is set from the first American edition of 1937 and commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of Random House.
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Price: $24.99
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Sale: $15.67
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Manufacturer: Lonely Planet
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Matthew Firestone::Rafael Wlodarski::Anthony Sattin::Zora O'Neill
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Publisher: Lonely Planet
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Edition: 9
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Dewey Decimal Number: 915
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Publication Date: 2008-05-01
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Reading Level: 572
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Description: Discover Egypt
Find a Cairo coffeehouse to suit your own style; unwind, chat and inhale deeply over a sheesha
Forget hot springs: try a hot sand bath in the middle of the desert
Take belly-dancing lessons from the most famous teacher in Egypt
Relax in the soft light of early morning on a Nile cruise
In This Guide:
Five authors, 295 days of research, hundreds of touts and a week-long scuba course
Special chapter on cruising the Nile: choose from timeless feluccas and splendid dahabiyyas, the Rolls Royce of their era
Illustrated Pharaonic Egypt chapter by world-renowned Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher brings the ancient rulers to life
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $7.50
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Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Theroux
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Publisher: Mariner Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 916.04329
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Publication Date: 2004-04-05
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Reading Level: 496
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Description: In the travel-writing tradition that made Paul Theroux"s reputation, Dark Star Safari is a rich and insightful book whose itinerary is Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town: down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda, and ultimately to the tip of South Africa. Going by train, dugout canoe, "chicken bus," and cattle truck, Theroux passes through some of the most beautiful — and often life-threatening — landscapes on earth.
This is travel as discovery and also, in part, a sentimental journey. Almost forty years ago, Theroux first went to Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush. Now he stops at his old school, sees former students, revisits his African friends. He finds astonishing, devastating changes wherever he goes. "Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it," he writes, "hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can"t tell the politicians from the witch doctors. Not that Africa is one place. It is an assortment of motley republics and seedy chiefdoms. I got sick, I got stranded, but I was never bored. In fact, my trip was a delight and a revelation."
Seeing firsthand what is happening across Africa, Theroux is as obsessively curious and wittily observant as always, and his readers will find themselves on an epic and enlightening journey. Dark Star Safari is one of his bravest and best books.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $8.91
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Amitav Ghosh
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 916.2042
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Publication Date: 1994-03-29
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: As he searches for information about the life of an Indian slave in twelfth-century Egypt, the author, a Hindu, comes face to face with the Muslim world and culture of modern Egypt, in a narrative that juxtaposes ancient history and modern travelogue.
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Price: $14.99
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Sale: $8.21
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Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Rosemary Mahoney
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Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Edition: 1 Reprint
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910
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Publication Date: 2008-09-15
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: When Rosemary Mahoney, in 1998, took a solo trip down the Nile in a seven-foot rowboat, she discovered modern Egypt for herself. As a rower, she faced crocodiles and testy river currents; as a female, she confronted deeply-held beliefs about foreign women while cautiously remaining open to genuine friendship; and, as a traveler, she experienced events that ranged from the humorous to the hair-raising--including an encounter that began as one of the most frightening of her life and ended as an edifying and chastening lesson in human nature and cultural misunderstanding. Whether she's meeting Nubians and Egyptians, or finding connections to Westerners who traveled up the Nile in earlier times--Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert among them--Mahoney's informed curiosity about the world never ceases to captivate the reader.
"A pilgrimage about pilgrims and holy places that is not only enlightening but also very funny." -Paul Theroux (on The Singular Pilgrim)
"Mahoney is a wonderfully effective catalytic agent: she goes to Ireland and just makes the country happen around her." -Jonathan Raban (on Whoredom in Kimmage)
"Mahoney, who has been rowing for 10 year, brilliantly juxtaposes an account of her own palm-blistering hours on the Nile....with the diary entries of two Victorian travelers-Gustave Flaubert and Florence Nightingale."
--Lisa Fugard, New York Times Book Review
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Price: $14.99
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Sale: $5.49
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Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dean King
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Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 916.48041
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Publication Date: 2005-04-12
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Some stories are so enthralling they deserve to be retold generation after generation. The wreck in 1815 of the Connecticut merchant ship, Commerce, and the subsequent ordeal of its crew in the Sahara Desert, is one such story. With Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, Dean King refreshes the popular nineteenth-century narrative once read and admired by Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, and Abraham Lincoln. King’s version, which actually draws from two separate first person accounts of the Commerce's crew, offers a page-turning blend of science, history, and classic adventure. The book begins with a seeming false start: tracing the lives of two merchants from North Africa, Seid and Sidi Hamet, who lose their fortunes—and almost their lives—when their massive camel caravan arrives at a desiccated oasis. King then jumps to the voyage of the Commerce under Captain Riley and his 11-man crew. After stops in New Orleans and Gibraltar, the ship falls off course en route to the Canary Islands and ultimately wrecks at the infamous Cape Bojador. After the men survive the first predations of the nomads on the shore, they meander along the coast looking for a way inland as their supplies dwindle. They subsist for days by drinking their own urine. Eventually, to their horror, they discover that they have come aground on the edge of the Sahara Desert. They submit themselves, with hopes of getting food and water, as slaves to the Oulad Bou Sbaa. After days of abuse, they are bought by Hamet, who, after his own experiences with his failed caravan (described at the novels opening), sympathizes with the plight of the crew. Together, they set off on a hellish journey across the desert to collect a bounty for Hamet in Swearah. King embellishes this compelling narrative throughout with scientific and historical material explaining the origins of the camel, the market for English and American slaves, and the stages of dehydration. He also humanizes the Sahrawi with background on the tribes and on the lives of Hamet and Seid. This material, doled out in sufficient amounts to enrich the story without derailing it makes Skeletons on the Zahara a perfectly entertaining bit of history that feels like a guilty pleasure. --Patrick O'Kelley
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