Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia
By: Bernard Ollivier
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Acclaimed journalist Bernard Ollivier continues his epic journey across Persia and Central Asia as …
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1. Portrait of a Turkish Family
By: Irfan Orga , None
4.22
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
Describes in chilling, yet affectionate, detail the disintegration of a wealthy Ottoman family, bot… read more
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"My head was dizzy, but what of that? Float, stupid wooden head, and care nothing for tomorrow."-Irfan Orga, Portrait of a Turkish Family
"A whole new life at fifty, all because I had become entranced with both the Turkish culture and with Kazim—who one friend called a careening festival of a human being and another called an alcoholic …"-Irfan Orga, Portrait of a Turkish Family
2. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
By: Paul Theroux
3.89
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar… read more
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"There's always a way if you're not in a hurry."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to se…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"I have a hatred of the taming of animals, especially large ones that are so contented in the wild. I abominate circus acts that involve big befooled beasts--cowed tigers or helplessly roaring lions p…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
3. The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
By: None , Judith M. Heimann
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
N ovember 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what should have been an easy mission off t… read more
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4. Morocco: From Empire to Independence
By: None
3.33
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Richard Pennell charts the rich history of Morocco in this accessible account. Tracing the key mome… read more
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5. Dans les forêts de Sibérie
By: Sylvain Tesson
3.26
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Sylvain Tesson, pour rassasier son besoin de liberte, a trouve une solution radicale et vieille com… read more
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6. Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
By: Tom Holland
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In AD 900, few would have guessed that the splintering kingdoms of Christendom were candidates for … read more
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7. Miss Burma
By: Charmaine Craig
4.04
Format: None pages,
A beautiful and poignant story of one family during the most violent and turbulent years of world h… read more
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8. Collected Stories
By: W. Somerset Maugham , Nicholas Shakespeare
1.33
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
31 stories: In a strange land -- Rain -- The Fall of Edward Bernard -- The Pool -- Mackintosh -- Th… read more
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9. The Longest Day
By: Cornelius Ryan
4.25
Format: 131 pages,
The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpa… read more
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10. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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11. La Panthère des neiges
By: Sylvain Tesson
3.65
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
En 2018, Sylvain Tesson est invité par le photographe animalier Vincent Munier à observer aux confi… read more
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12. Same Bed Different Dreams
By: Ed Park
3.77
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more
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13. Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
By: Kenneth W. Harl
4.00
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped … read more
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"Attila, just like every other nomadic conqueror, appreciated the skills of the clever craftsmen and engineers of rival sedentary, bureaucratic empires."-Kenneth W. Harl, Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
14. Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen
By: Erika Fatland
4.40
Format: 623 pages, Hardcover
Forfatteren bak Sovjetistan på en enda mer eventyrlig reise - langs grensen til verdens største lan… read more
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15. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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16. Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail
By: Joan M. Griffin
4.44
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
"Lace up your hiking boots! Let Griffin guide you over granite mountains, through thunderstorms, an… read more
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17. Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories
By: Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
3.99
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
6 hrs. 10 min. Nigerian author Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi makes her American debut with this dazzling… read more
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18. Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia
By: Bernard Ollivier
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Acclaimed journalist Bernard Ollivier continues his epic journey across Persia and Central Asia as … read more
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19. Close Her Eyes (Inspector Thanet #4)
By: Dorothy Simpson
3.93
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
A mystery about a missing girl and a secretive church in a small English village from an author kno… read more
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20. The Trap (Alias Emma, #3)
By: Ava Glass
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
British spy Emma Makepeace races against the clock to stop the Russians from carrying out a high-pr… read more
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21. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more
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