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Armchair Travel August 2017
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Different Places, Different Times |
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On trails : An Exploration
by Robert Moor
A groundbreaking exploration of the role of trails in shaping culture, order and history draws on the author's international travels and findings in myriad disciplines while exploring examples ranging from tiny ant trails and continental hiking paths to interstate highways and the Internet.
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Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
by Nell Stevens
After finishing up her MFA, British writer Nell Stevens won a fellowship that allowed her to go anywhere to write for several months. Eschewing well-known spots, she picked Bleaker Island. Part of the Falkland Islands located off the Patagonian coast of South America, the sparsely populated island features inhospitable wind, lots of snow, and not many people. Stevens thought this would keep writing distractions at bay, but what she discovered is that three months of solitude provided its own challenges.
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An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having : Travel Stories from the Hairpin
by Edith Zimmerman
Having is a collection of essays on travel selected by Edith Zimmerman, the founder of the colorfully offbeat women's website The Hairpin. Like The Hairpin, these essays are funny, weird, adventurous, and moving. There are stories about following a mysterious stranger's maps in Mexico, attending endless step aerobics classes in Buenos Aires, faking a terrible British accent in London, and navigating a nude spa in Stockholm. About loneliness, connection, and sunburn. And about daring ourselves to be brave and embracing being scared.
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Undress me in the Temple of Heaven
by Susan Jane Gilman
Traces the author's attempt to travel the world with her friend armed only with the collected works of Nietzsche, an astrology book, and their wits; a misadventure that culminated in astonishing culture shock on the streets of communist China.
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The only street in Paris : life on the Rue des Martyrs
by Elaine Sciolino
The former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times invites readers to join her on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, in a part-memoir, part-travelogue, part-love letter that celebrates the rue des Martyrs' rich history and pays homage to the people who live there. Illustrations.
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The stolen prince : Gannibal, adopted son of Peter the Great, great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, and Europe's first black intellectual
by Hugh Barnes
Part travelogue and part detective story, the book reconstructs the life and times of Abram Petrovich Gannibal, an African slave who claimed to be a prince of Abyssinia who had been kidnapped by Islamic slavers, was rescued by the Russian tsar Peter the Great, and rose to become a powerful, much-feted diplomat, mathematician, soldier, and spy during the eighteenth century.
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Pint-sized Ireland : in search of the perfect Guinness
by Evan McHugh
The Australian columnist-author of The Rot Stuff describes his tour of the Emerald Isle as part of his personal quest to understand the legendary status of Guinness, in a lighthearted account that traces his survival of an encounter with poteen, a windsurfing escapade with a one-armed man, and a boating trip with a German bagpiper.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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