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Kidnapped in Yemen: one woman's amazing escape from captivity
Par Mary Quin. 2005
The author details her experiences as an avid traveler and women's rights advocate. But her vacation in Yemen turned into…
a gripping account of ambush and captivity, violence and imminent death. Her personal journey through militant Islam and clandestine terrorist groups is an unforgettable firsthand account of curiosity, survival, and healing. c2005.Kingfisher days: a memoir
Par Susan Coyne. 2001
One summer, in a hedge near her family's cottage in Kenora, 5-year-old Susan Coyne discovered an old stone fireplace, hidden…
beneath the leaves. Her father recalled a story about an elf who ran a boarding house there. Susan tended the fireplace, hoping that she would meet a real fairy and one day she found a letter from Nootsie Tah, a princess. 2001.King of the confessors
Par Thomas Hoving. 1981
The former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells the cloak-and-dagger story of his quest for an enigmatic medieval…
ivory cross, reputed to be a fake, that turns up in the hands of a shady dealer. Hoving describes the bitter contest among nations and museums for the incomparable cross, his chase through the clandestine world of international dealers, and his own desperate research to establish the authenticity of the artifact. 1981.Journal
Par David Bellos, Helene Berr. 2008
I was abruptly assailed by the feeling that I had to describe reality, writes Bérr midway through this urgent firsthand…
account of the devastation of Paris's Jewish community during WWII. This journal, which begins in 1942 as the record of a young woman's intense and buzzing inner life, becomes over time a record of human suffering. 2008.Journeying: travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus
Par Nikos Kazantzakis, Themi Vasils, Theodora Vasils. 1975
Posthumous account of the novelist's visits to foreign lands in 1926, including interviews with Mussolini and the Greek poet Cavafy.…
Passion, struggle, and spirit are the themes in this travelogue. 1975. Uniform title: Taxideuontas.Journey home (Travel Literature Ser.)
Par John Hillaby. 1983
The author and his wife set out from Ravenglass, a place "that gives the impression it fell asleep on a…
bed of shingle centuries ago" and end their journey on Hampstead Heath. Tapping an inexhaustible seam of natural history, archaeology and folklore, John Hillaby blends his allusions to the past with topical commonplace things to create a unique mixture. 1983.Journeyman: travels of a writer
Par Timothy Findley, William Whitehead. 2003
A record of some of the voyages, real and imagined, that inspired and informed the author's award-winning fiction, non-fiction, and…
theatrical works. Also includes a selection of his many journal entries, letters, poems, speeches, and articles, creating a unique insight into the mind of one of Canada's most beloved writers. Some strong language. 2003.Jessie's journey: autobiography of a traveller girl
Par Jess Smith. 2008
From the ages of 5 to 15, Jess Smith lived with her parents, sisters and a mongrel dog in an…
old, blue Bedford bus. They travelled the length and breadth of Scotland, and much of England too, stopping here and there until they were moved on by the local authorities or driven by their own instinctive need to travel. By campfires, under the unchanging stars they brewed up tea, telling stories and singing songs late into the night. This book describes what it was like to be one of the last of the traditional travelling folk. 2008.Jedediah days: one woman's island paradise
Par Mary Palmer. 1998
A memoir of forty-five years on Jedediah Island, a remote coastal island in British Columbia, by the woman who owned…
and preserved it in its natural state as a provincial marine park. The author includes the history of the island and describes her adventures while living there. 1998.Imagining Canadian literature: the selected letters of Jack McClelland
Par Sam Solecki, Jack McClelland. 1998
Selections from Jack McClelland's correspondence with many of the authors he brought to fame through his publishing house, McClelland &…
Stewart. His correspondents include Margaret Laurence, Farley Mowat, Leonard Cohen, Earle Birney, Irving Layton, Mordecai Richler, Al Purdy, Gabrielle Roy, and Michael Ondaatje. Some strong language.Recounts the perilous and remarkable 1983 journey of the author, who is a naturalist, the poet James Fenton, and three…
native guides to the center of Borneo, an area unvisited by outsiders since 1926. 1984.In trouble again: a journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon
Par Redmond O'Hanlon. 1989
O'Hanlon takes readers on a four-month journey up the Orinoco River and across the Amazon basin in search of the…
Yanomami Indians. His book contains humour, adventure, and a wealth of information. 1989.In Xanadu: a quest
Par William Dalrymple. 1989
This is an account of a quest, a journey which began in the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and took William…
Dalrymple and his companions across the width of Asia, along dusty, forgotten roads, through villages and cities full of unexpected hospitality and wildly improbable escapades, to Coleridge's Xanadu itself. 1989.In the kingdom of the thunder dragon
Par Joanna Lumley. 1997
In 1931 Joanna Lumley's grandparents undertook a three and a half month journey across the small and secret Himalayan kingdom…
of Bhutan, to honour the King with an award. Joanna retraces their steps to meet the King's descendants and discover for herself the charm of this forgotten land. Trekking on foot and pony across remote mountain passes and valleys, she visits the rural villages and the towering monasteries. She finds that little has changed since her forebears passed through, and is overwhelmed by the magic and beauty of Bhutan. 1997.In the center of the night: journey through a bereavement
Par Jayne Blankenship. 1984
A young Rhode Island widow works through the shattering impact of her loss by recording in her diary the course…
of her "apprenticeship as a person." The journal chronicles the intense catharsis, interpolated with dream sequences, of a woman healing herself and, in the process, others. 1984.I thought my father was God and other true tales from NPR's National Story Project: And Other True Tales From Npr's National Story Project
Par Paul Auster, Nelly Reifler. 2001
When the call went out to listeners of National Public Radio's 'Weekend All Things Considered' to submit stories about their…
personal experiences, the results were overwhelming, resulting in editor Paul Auster's pick of the best submissions. The stories, whether fact or fiction, share similar themes of bizarre coincidences, otherworldly intervention, love and loss, life-changing experiences, and mundane pleasures. 2011. Uniform title: Weekend all things considered (Radio program)I drank the water everywhere
Par Charles N Barnard. 1975
Description of the voyages and travels undertaken by a world traveller, a former "Saturday Evening Post" editor. Among the places…
visited are Kwajalein, China's South Coast, the Champagne District of France, and the Greek Islands. c1975.I feel bad about my neck: and other thoughts on being a woman
Par Nora Ephron. 2006
In a series of humorous vignettes, author Nora Ephron obsesses about being a woman in her sixties. Discusses her expensive…
regimen to camouflage signs of aging, her purse and its contents, parenting, ex-husbands, and former presidents. In "Serial Monogamy: A Memoir," Ephron admits her infatuation with famous chefs. Bestseller. 2006.An evening among headhunters: & other reports from roads less traveled
Par Lawrence Millman. 1998
In this collection of essays, an inveterate traveller visits some of the more remote precincts on the planet. Includes stories…
about relaxing in slow-paced Tonga, encountering ghosts in Samoa, dining on boiled walrus north of Hudson's Bay and social faux pas in Ecuador. Some strong language. 1998.Heron Hill chronicle
Par George Reiger. 1994
In 1970 shortly after their wedding, George and Barbara Reiger purchased an old farmhouse on the coastal shores of Virginia…
as a second home. Then, when their lives in Washington, D.C., and New York proved to be too hectic, they forsook their metropolitan lifestyles and moved to the farm permanently. Reiger, a conservation editor for Field and Stream, describes their life at Heron Hill, where they have learned to live off the land. 1994.