Forbidden Journey
By: Ella Maillart
3.96
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
Forbidden Journey is the awe-inspiring story of Ella Maillart and Peter Fleming's trip from Peking …
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1. The Whale Rider
By: Witi Ihimaera
3.84
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duti… read more
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"Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
2. My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
By: Alexandra David-Néel
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David-Neel of… read more
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- asia
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3. Birds, Beasts and Relatives (Corfu Trilogy #2)
By: Gerald Durrell
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to My Fami… read more
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5. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Aleida Guevara March
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
6. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
7. Roots: The Saga of an American Family
By: Alex Haley
3.33
Format: None pages,
When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about th… read more
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8. Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
By: Peter Hopkirk
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
s/t: The Search for the Lost Cities & Treasures of Chinese Central Asia The Silk Road, which linked… read more
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- history
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- asia
- nonfiction
- china
9. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
By: Amelia B. Edwards
3.50
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
First published in 1877, this is Amelia Edwards' account of her journey through Egypt. She traveled… read more
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10. The Go-Between
By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley
3.99
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more
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"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
11. The Summit of the Gods Volume 1
By: Jirō Taniguchi , Baku Yumemakura
4.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
"BECAUSE IT'S THERE." George Herbert Leigh Mallory is said to have given this answer in reply to th… read more
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12. News From Tartary
By: Peter Fleming
4.37
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
In 1935 Peter Fleming, an editor for the London Times and, interestingly, Ian Fleming's older broth… read more
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13. Daughter of Fortune
By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-… read more
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"حيث توجد النساء ، توجد الحضارة"-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune
"Quien se complace en pensar en lo malo, acaba por convocarlo"-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune
"Non c'è niente di più pericoloso del demone della fantasia acquattato nell'animo femminile."-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune
"You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell."-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune
14. My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
By: Gerald Durrell , Helma Lapiņa
4.17
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do… read more
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"Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
15. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
By: John Buchan
3.60
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more
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"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
16. Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind
By: David Vandermeulen
4.38
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
A hardcover edition of the first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's smash #1 N… read more
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- history
17. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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18. Afterlives
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. A… read more
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"... the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"He suffered his small share of the unavoidable indignities of childhood."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"I have nothing,’ he said. ‘Nor do I,’ she said. ‘We’ll have nothing together."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
19. Come una notte a Bali
By: Gianluca Gotto
3.74
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
«Trascorri anni a immaginare il momento in cui la tua vita cambierà. Quel momento però non arriva. … read more
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20. Høyt: En reise i Himalaya
By: Erika Fatland
4.34
Format: 634 pages, Hardcover
Bestselgende forfatter Erika Fatland med ny, storslått reiseskildring: fra Himalaya. Erika Fatl… read more
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21. Forbidden Journey
By: Ella Maillart
3.96
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
Forbidden Journey is the awe-inspiring story of Ella Maillart and Peter Fleming's trip from Peking … read more
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- india
- china
- travelogue
