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Passport Not Necessary humorous travel memoirs
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by Peter Allison
The lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide who shows the guide's-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the world's fiercest terrain of wild animals and, most challenging of all, managing herds of gaping tourists.
916.88 A439 X
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by Bill Bryson
Bryson is forty and out-of-shape when he decides to walk the Appalachian Trial. His friend Katz agrees to join him, even though they parted ways badly after a walking tour of Europe in college. What could possibly go wrong?
917.4 B9161 1999 also available in alternate format(s)
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by Brady Carlson
Carlson takes readers on an epic trip to presidential gravesites, monuments, and memorials from sea to shining sea.
973.099 C84
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by Jeff Deck
Deck is a man on a mission. From greasy spoon menus to national park signs, he and his cohorts (including co-author Herson) road trip around the nation looking for, and attempting to correct, spelling mistakes, misplaced apostrophes, and other small but apparently significant abuses to the English language.
302.224 D295
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by Tony Horwitz
On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus's sail in 1492 to Jamestown's founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between?
970.01 H824
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by A. J. Jacobs
Jacobs decided to thank every single person involved in producing his morning cup of coffee. The resulting journey takes him across the globe, transforms his life, and reveals secrets about how gratitude can make us all happier, more generous, and more connected.
179.9 J17
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by Jerome K. Jerome
When J. the narrator, George, Harris - and Montmorency the dog - set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats, and tins of pineapple chunks
FICTION JEROME
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by Jack Kerouac
The whole beautiful, groovy deal! The radically hip novel that many consider the heart of the Beat movement. Poetic, open and raw, Kerouac's prose lays out a cross-country adventure as experienced by Sal Paradise, an autobiographical character.
FICTION KEROUAC also available in alternate format(s)
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by Chuck Klosterman
For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock 'n' roll all the way.
.781.66 K66
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by Pete McCarthy
McCarthy takes the reader on an odyssey through Ireland, where he unfailingly obeys his rule: "Never Pass a Bar That Has Your Name On It."
914.15 M1231
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by Larry McMurtry
McMurtry is uninterested in meeting and depicting people in the areas through which he travels. Instead, he tries to "treat the great roads as rivers, floating down this one, struggling up that one, writing about these riverboats as I find them, and now and then, perhaps, venturing a comment about the land beside the road. 917.3 M168
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by Tim Moore
Having no knowledge of Spanish and even less about the care and feeding of donkeys, Moore sets out on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela with a donkey named Shinto, armed only with a twelfth-century handbook to the route and expert advice on donkey management from Robert Louis Stevenson. 914.6 M284
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by P. J. O'Rourke
Deciding after 21 years covering various conflicts, inlcuding the Iraq War that he was "too old to be scared stiff and too stiff to sleep on the ground," (see Holidays in Hell 818.5 O74). O'Rourke switches to travel writing. But these travels involve his family. Maybe war zones weren't so bad.
818.6 O74
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by Michael Paterniti
Albert Einstein's brain floats in formaldehyde in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is a young journalist from Maine. Sitting next to him is an 84-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- and simply removed the brain and took it home.
616.07 P295
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by Brian Thacker
Brian Thacker, bus tour-leader extraordinaire, tells it how it really is, working as a bus tour guide in Europe. The title is a pretty good indication of what a glamorous career it can be.
914 T363
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by Hunter S. Thompson
A savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. Thompson decided to visit Las Vegas and "check it out". The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force.
070.92 T472 X also available in alternate format(s).
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by J. Maarten Troost
Troost had never read Robert Louis Stevenson's In the South Seas, the chronicle of his South Pacific voyage to the Marquesas, Tahiti, and Samoa. But, hey, to Troost's nimble, rather offbeat mind, RLS was boring. He was stuffy. He was probably English. So, obviously, Troost decides to replicate Stevenson's journey.
919.5 T855
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by John Steinbeck
In 1960, Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. He was accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante.
917.3 S819
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by Sarah Vowell
Vowell takes us on a road trip like no other -- a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage.
973.099X V974
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by John Waters
Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash?
791.43 W329
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by Eric Weiner
Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide which takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of un-unhappiness. 910.4 W423
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