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The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
Meriwether Lewis, William Clark
Mariner Books, 1997
Fascinating Story, Can't Stop Talking, Use Google Earth!
+ Excellent!
+ 28 months to the sea and back
+ I can scarcely express how much I love these journals.
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Marketing, 2008 Edition
William M. Pride, O. C. Ferrell
South-Western College Pub, 2007
Engaging and motivating students with diverse backgrounds and varied interests in marketing requires stimulating and effective teaching materials--and Pride/Ferrell continues to be the resource of choice for instructors. Combining contemporary coverage of marketing strategies and concepts with real-world examples, Marketing's text and its outstanding suite of supplements supplies students with ...
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The Best American Travel Writing 2007 (The Best American Series (TM))
Houghton Mifflin, 2007
Fun, Fast, Diverse -- Highly Recommended
+ Excellent collection
This is the fifth in this series that I have read. Only one other (I think it was 2002) was this good. I love this series and give it as Christmas gifts every year. This editor had exactly the right point of view in compiling these stories.
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
Italo Calvino
Everyman's Library, 1993
Italo Calvino's Masterpiece
+ "I read, therefore it (the world) writes"
+ If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
+ Entertaining and Ingenious
+ Creative and Complex
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
Bill Bryson
Broadway, 2000
Laugh out loud funny
+ One of his best
+ It's great to laugh at yourself if you are living in America
+ Very Enjoyable with Only a Few Hiccups
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The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Henry Miller
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1970
'But the ashes are still warm.'
+ Fragments of Brilliance
+ Still true!
In reading Henry Miller's surprisingly contemporary 'The Air-Conditioned Nightmare I experienced the same kind of desire to 'see' America as I did when reading Kerouac's 'On the Road', but for very different reasons.
While Kerouac's narrative was that of his experiences with people he ...
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In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson
Broadway, 2001
A crocodile attack to my funny bone!
+ A good read before going
+ Australia thru the eyes of Bill Bryson
A visit to with an old friend with map in hand and adventure ahead is what I was to discover upon re-reading Sunburned Country. I first read Bryson's book about his trip to Australia when it was first published and recently recommended it to friends who are traveling with us down under later in the ...
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The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard, 1997
One of my all-time favorites; I recommend it to everybody.
+ best book about the worst journey
+ Great Telling of a Great Adventure
+ All time favourite travel book
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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman
Picador, 2007
It's too true the world is flat.
+ Your Guide to Capitalism in the 21st Century
+ Not the easiest read, but an eye-opener
+ Read it or weep!
+ one of the best for human philosophy, value system we live.
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The Best American Travel Writing 2006 (The Best American Series)
Houghton Mifflin, 2006
my travel writting text book--and a good read too!
+ Best of the Best
+ So good I passed it on to others
+ Loved it, as usual!
+ Literary Travels
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Travel Writing (How to)
Janet Austin, David Else, ...
Lonely Planet, 2005
Comprehensive and Realistic Guide to Travel Writing
+ Another travel-writing contender
+ A well researched book
+ Refreshing Treatment of Familiar Subject
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A Brief History of Time from the Big Bang to Black Holes
Stephen W Hawking
Bantam Books, 1988
The Original (has introduction by Carl Sagan and missing Chapter 10)
+ Finally
+ Take a little time to understand time...
+ Cosmology
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
Bill Bryson
Broadway, 2000
Laugh out loud funny
+ One of his best
+ It's great to laugh at yourself if you are living in America
+ Very Enjoyable with Only a Few Hiccups
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The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Henry Miller
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1970
'But the ashes are still warm.'
+ Fragments of Brilliance
+ Still true!
In reading Henry Miller's surprisingly contemporary 'The Air-Conditioned Nightmare I experienced the same kind of desire to 'see' America as I did when reading Kerouac's 'On the Road', but for very different reasons.
While Kerouac's narrative was that of his experiences with people he ...
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
Meriwether Lewis, William Clark
Mariner Books, 1997
Fascinating Story, Can't Stop Talking, Use Google Earth!
+ Excellent!
+ 28 months to the sea and back
+ I can scarcely express how much I love these journals.
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