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These 10 items are available for $194, including U.S. shipping, a 25% discount (Item no. EXTVL14)

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness  •  Alexandra Fuller BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2011 •  HARD COVER  • 256 PAGES In this sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (ZIM15, $15.00), Alexandra Fuller returns to memoir to retell her parents' story of tragedy and renewal through a journey that takes them from Kenya and Rhodesia to Zambia. (ZMB13, $25.95)
Wild Coast  •  John Gimlette TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2011 •  HARD COVER  • 358 PAGES For this latest outing the adventurous Englishman, who has previously written about Paraguay (At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig) and Newfoundland (Theatre of Fish) sets out for the wilds of northeast South America, taking in colonial Georgetown "(...a city of stilts and clapboard, brilliant whites, fretwork, spindles and louvers."), French-inflected Paramaribo in Suriname and, most significantly, out into the unconquered wilderness. Attuned to history and the eccentric characters he meets along the way, Gimlette offers up an enticing portrait of the Guianas-- Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, an appealing land of "head-crushing jaguars, strangling snakes, rivers of stingrays and electric eels." (SAM168, $28.95)
The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott  •  David Wilson EXPLORATION •  2011 •  HARD COVER  • 192 PAGES Drawing on a long forgotten cache of gelatin prints, Wilson turns Scott's beautifully produced images, many a full or double page, into a chilling tale of fortitude and courage, tracing events first around Cape Evans and then, day by day until the top of the Beardmore Glacier, when the bulky camera was returned to base with Scott's first supporting party. This gorgeous book, supplemented by maps and incisive commentary, is a significant contribution to Antarctic history. Wilson's great uncle was expedition artist Edward Wilson, who died with Scott on his way back from the Pole. (ANT343, $35.00)
The Tao of Travel, Enlightenments from Lives on the Road  •  Paul Theroux TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2011 •  FLEXI-BOUND  • 272 PAGES Paul Theroux celebrates 50 years of reading and travel in this inspired and generously illustrated miscellany -- a ready and compulsively readable guide to great authors, great places and, naturally, his own work. He shows off with chapters variously titled: Writers Who Wrote About Places They Never Visited, Travel As An Ordeal and Memorable Descriptions From Travelers. Theroux mixes excerpts from the best of his own work with selections from fellow travelers including Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Johnson, Evelyn Waugh, Susan Sontag, Charles Dickens, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Bruce Chatwin, Freya Stark and Graham Greene. Thereoux calls it a vade-mecum: a "book for ready reference; a useful object, constantly carried on one's person." (TVL513, $25.00)
The Tiger's Wife, A Novel  •  Tea Obreht LITERATURE •  2011 •  PAPER  • 353 PAGES Born in what was then Yugoslavia in 1985, Tea Bajraktarevic (Obrehct is a pen name) draws on family stories for her remarkable debut -- a rich family saga and fable about a young woman and her relationship with her doctor grandfather in war-torn Balkans. Winner of the 2011 Orange Prize. (BLK159, $15.00)
Serengeti, The Eternal Beginning  •  Boyd Norton NATURAL HISTORY •  2011 •  HARD COVER  • 288 PAGES Two-hundred-and-fifty color photographs and Norton's firsthand accounts from Serengeti National Park, Kenya's Masai Mara, and Ngorongoro Crater, as well as memorable stories about encounters with people and wildlife will transport you to East Africa. Chosen as one of the "40 Most Influential Nature Photographers" in 2010, the roving, Colorado-based Norton has worked in the Rocky Mountains, Lake Baikal and Alaska. He is founder and director of Serengeti Watch with Longitude friend and colleague Dave Blanton. (EAF378, $35.00)
The Magnetic North  •  Sara Wheeler TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2012 •  PAPER  • 336 PAGES Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps, camping on the Greenland ice sheet or shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, Sara Wheeler explores the Arctic world. (ARC250, $15.00)
To a Mountain in Tibet  •  Colin Thubron TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2012 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES Now in his eighth decade, the intrepid, soulful Thubron journeys to Kailash, the revered embodiment of life, death, impermanence and the eternal -- "the source of the universe, created from cosmic waters and the mind of Brahma." A NY Times Notable Book of 2011. (TBT134, $15.99)
Paris to the Past, Traveling Through French History by Train  •  Ina Caro TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2012 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES Ina Caro (Road from the Past) invites readers to join her on 25 one-day trips by train from Paris, transporting us back through 700 years of French history. Whether taking us to Orleans to evoke the miraculous visions of Joan of Arc, to Versailles to experience the flamboyant achievements of Louis XIV, or to the Place de la Concorde to witness the beheading of Marie Antoinette, Caro animates history with her lush descriptions of architectural splendors and tales of court intrigue. Organizing her destinations chronologically from 12th-century Saint-Denis to the 19th-century Restoration at Chantilly, Caro appeals not only to casual travelers aboard the Metro or the TGV but also to anyone interested in Franch history. (FRN953, $17.95)
Radio Shangri-La  •  Lisa Napoli TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2012 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES Lisa Napoli writes with easy grace of her colleagues at Radio Kuzoo, the culture and momentous events in Bhutan as it lurches into democracy and the modern world. She's clearly enthralled (as you will be by her insight and warmth), deciding to take up the role of den mother to her youthful colleagues at the fledgling radio station. Napoli is also originally from Brooklyn, which shows in her forthright approach to the contradictions, poverty and reality of the much mythologized kingdom. (BHU35, $15.00)

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