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New Titles - Travel
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Hemingway's Havana: A Reflection of the Writer's Life in Cuba
Robert Wheeler · Skyhorse Publishing Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba for more than two decades, longer than anywhere else. He bought a home -- naming it the Finca Vigia -- with his third wife, Martha Gellhorn and wrote his masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea there. In Cuba, Papa Hemingway found a sense of serenity and enrichment... |
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Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
JAMES FALLOWS · Pantheon Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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A unique, revelatory portrait of the civic and economic renewal already taking place across America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A surprisingly hopeful view of the country between its coasts.For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling... |
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Rain: Four Walks in English Weather
Melissa Harrison · Faber & Faber Pages: 104 Format: Paperback
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An evocative meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison.Whenever rain falls, the English countryside changes. Fields, farms, hills and hedgerows appear altered, the wildlife behaves differently, and over time the terrain... |
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON · Viking Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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A rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking exploration of the human drive to possess natural beauty for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief.On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy... |
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