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4.6 stars
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SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDHOOD
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid
 
“Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes
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Book cover for "The boy who harnessed the wind"
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5 stars
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INSPIRING STORY FROM A SMALL TOWN IN MALAWI.
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A true story of tenacity and imagination describes how an African teenager built a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his home and his village, improving life for himself and his neighbors. An enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family. The story of how a teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings...
Book cover for "Don't let's go to the dogs tonight"
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4.1 stars
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CHILDHOOD IN ZIMBABWE.
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An autobiographical account of Alexandra Fuller's childhood in Zimbabwe. The author describes her childhood in Africa during the Rhodesian civil war of 1971 to 1979, relating her life on farms in southern Rhodesia, Milawi, and Zambia with an alcoholic mother and frequently absent father.
Book cover for "For the love of Europe"
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5 stars
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RICK STEVE'S FAVORITE EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES.
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"Stow away with America's favorite travel writer as he relives his favorite European experiences. These are stories only Rick Steves could tell. You'll be at Rick's side when he's swept away by a fado singer in Lisbon, learns the dangesr of falling in love with a gondolier in Venice, and savors a near-erotic cheese course in France. Thrill to runners outracing the breath of the bulls in Pamplona, dangle from a cliff in the Swiss Alps, and crowd-surf...
Book cover for "The geography of bliss"
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4 stars
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EXPLORES HAPPINESS IN COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD.
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Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, this book takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Singapore...
Book cover for "In a sunburned country"
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3.8 stars
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THE AUTHOR TRAVELS THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA, OBSERVING AND CHRONICLING HIS EXPERIENCES WITH WIT, SARCASM AND AFFECTION.
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Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia.
His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest,...
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EXPLORING NORTH CAROLINA
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"Bland Simpson, the celebrated bard of North Carolina's sound country, has blended history, observation of nature, and personal narrative in many books to chronicle the people and places of eastern Carolina. Yet he has spent much of his life in the state's Piedmont, with regular travels into its western mountains. Here, for the first time, Simpson brings his distinctive voice and way of seeing to bear on the entirety of his home state, combining storytelling...
Book cover for "South to America"
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2.4 stars
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SOUTHERN USA
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"An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South--and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America"--
Book cover for "Turn right at Machu Picchu"
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4.3 stars
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ADAMS SET OUT TO RETRACE THE EXPLORER'S PATH IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIR
What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?
In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace...
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2.5 stars
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BASED ON CONVERSATIONS WITH THE LATE ANTHONY BOURDAIN.
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"A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain"--