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  Here Is New York

  E. B. White, Roger Angell

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  Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times named Here Is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and the New Yorker called it “the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.” 
  Included with this essay are two short poems by E. B. White: “Commuter” and “Critic,” both published in the New Yorker in 1925.

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  Islands in the Snow - A journey...

  Mark Horrell

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  Two days east of Lukla was a pleasant yak pasture surrounded by high peaks. When Col. Jim Roberts set out to look for it in 1953, he ended up making the first ascent of Mera Peak and sowing the seeds of Himalayan tourism. 
  Mera Peak has become a popular goal for trekkers and novice mountaineers, but few people climb to its true summit, and fewer still travel beyond it to find the secret yak pasture that sparked Roberts’ journey. 
  The yak pasture was the Hongu Valley, a hidden sanctuary of grassland, lakes and glaciers linking Mera Peak with the Everest region and Island Peak to the north. Fifty years after Roberts, Mark Horrell embarked on a trek through Nepal’s Khumbu region to follow in his footsteps, climb the two trekking peaks at either end of the valley, and resolve a long-standing mystery about Mera Peak’s height. 
  Join Mark on a captivating journey through this enchanting region of high mountains and remote valleys.

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  The Soul of Japan - 151 Strange...

  Annie Atlas

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  🌋 A village of one hundred and seventy people lives inside the crater of an active volcano. 
  ⛩️ The summit of the country's most sacred mountain is privately owned. 
  ⚔️ For centuries, the samurai — Japan's most feared warriors — were paid not in gold, but in rice. 
  Most people think they know Japan. They know the bullet trains, the cherry blossoms, the sushi. But the country keeps its most interesting stories somewhere else entirely — in the details that never make it onto a postcard. 
  This audiobook collects 151 of those stories. Each one is short, self-contained, and built to be listened to anywhere — on a commute, on a walk, in the ten minutes before you fall asleep. Pick up from the beginning or drop in anywhere. Every entry stands on its own. 
  🏮 An ancient belief holds that household tools come to life after one hundred years of service — and must be treated accordingly. 
  🥋 In the sixteenth century, an African man arrived in Japan and rose to become a samurai. His name was Yasuke. His story was almost lost to history. 
  🍗 Every Christmas Eve, millions of Japanese families sit down to a bucket of fried chicken. The reason involves a marketing campaign, a Colonel, and a stroke of accidental genius. 
  These are the facts that make up a nation's soul. 
  Welcome to The Soul of Japan: 
  151 Surprising Facts About Japanese Culture, History, Traditions, and Everyday Life — Stories That Reveal the Real Japan.

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  Adrift [Movie tie-in] - A True...

  Tami Oldham Ashcraft

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  Adrift [Movie tie-in] has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

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  Persian Pictures

  Gertrude Bell

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  In 1892, Gertrude Bell visited Persia (now Iran) shortly after the appointment of her uncle, Sir Frank Lascelles, as British minister in Tehran. Three years later came Persian Pictures, Gertrude Bell’s first written work, which presents a series of vivid sketches of Persian culture and society at the time. Bell explores various cities and landscapes, and encounters local characters along the way, providing a unique perspective on Persian life and customs. While much of what is depicted in Persian Pictures has long since changed, Bell’s writing is a valuable account of the anachronisms and inconsistencies of the dying dynasty of medieval Persia. Her depiction of Muharram – the month of mourning for Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed – and Ramadan, display a mind finely attuned to the differences and similarities between Islam and Christianity, and East and West. Persian Pictures is both travelogue and meditation – an elegiac and beautifully observed account of a spellbinding land.

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  Danger Stalks the Land - Alaskan...

  Larry Kaniut

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  Alaska is like no other state and few countries; men experience greater risk in her arms. This one-of-a-kind anthology captures the spine tingling adventures of daring men and women who venture into Alaska's vast wilderness and look death in the eye. Danger Stalks the Land relates gripping episodes of animal attacks, avalanches, aircraft disasters, fishing, hunting, and skiing accidents, and chronicles risky climbs and reckless mountaineering amid Alaska's fantastic peaks. Through exhaustive research and interviews, author Larry Kaniut has captured in one volume, the terror and beauty of man's attempt to explore a vast and unforgiving land.

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