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This Is Cuba: An American Journalist Under Castro's Shadow

DAVID ARIOSTO · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An exploration of Cuba's Cold War mindset and a people in the throes of transition, with tales of run-ins with spies, secret backrooms, and empty grocery shelvesFidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump is in the White House. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never been more uncertain....
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Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are

John Kaag · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich NietzscheHiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys -- one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years later, in radically...
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Rain Falling on Tamarind Trees: A Travelogue of Vietnam

C. L. Hoang · Willow Stream Publishing
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback

Have you ever wondered what Vietnam is like some forty years after the war has ended? Then come along with the author as he returns to visit his ancestral homeland for the first time after a decades-long absence.Retrace his steps with him around his former hometown of Saigon in the south,...
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City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris

Rupert Christiansen · Basic Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program of public works in Paris, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine....
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Wilderness, The Gateway To The Soul: Spiritual Enlightenment Through Wilderness

Scott Stillman · Wild Soul Press
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback

Through his deeply poetic and wildly provocative tale of personal transformation, Scott Stillman takes us on a spiritual journey, away from a chaotic world of details, obligations, smartphones and noisy machines, to a place that is unspoiled, untamed, free. Mostly solo, he guides us deeply...
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