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NEGLECTED TRAVEL CLASSICS

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The Big Red Train Ride

The Big Red Train Ride


by Eric Newby

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 1989
  • PAPER
  • 267 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

Newby's marvelous account of speeding across Russia with wife Wanda on the Trans-Siberian from Moscow to Khabarovsk recalls the joys, frustrations and oddities of remote Russia during the Brezhnev years. (RUS140, $24.95)

An Egyptian Journal


by William Golding

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 1985
  • PAPER
  • 270 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

Golding (of Lord of the Flies fame) captures the many pleasures of a leisurely journey down the Nile from Cairo to Aswan in this travel classic, including this helpful bit of wisdom from the captain, "he who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience." (EGY06, $24.95)

Attending Marvels: A Patagonian Journal


by George Gaylord Simpson

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 1934
  • PAPER
  • OUT OF PRINT

Gaylord Simpson's witty account of fossil hunting adventures in Patagonia in the 1930s. (PAT83, $7.95)

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