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Author: John Keay Publisher: John Murray ISBN: 9780719561641 Category : Adventure and adventurers Languages : en Pages : 219
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This is a classic account of obsessives abroad. Madder than the maddest scientists, eccentric travellers made exploration popular. Who could resist the naturalist who wrestled with boa constrictors, or the evangelist who stomped the Hindu Kush stark naked?
Author: John Keay Publisher: John Murray ISBN: 9780719561641 Category : Adventure and adventurers Languages : en Pages : 219
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This is a classic account of obsessives abroad. Madder than the maddest scientists, eccentric travellers made exploration popular. Who could resist the naturalist who wrestled with boa constrictors, or the evangelist who stomped the Hindu Kush stark naked?
Author: Michael Gfoeller Publisher: Outskirts Press ISBN: 1977236227 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 312
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The Eccentric Traveler is a selection of photographs illustrating some of the cultures and traditions that the author has encountered in the course of his travels over the last forty years. He continues to travel the world and search out new wonders of art, archeology, and architecture.
Author: John Keay Publisher: Tarcher ISBN: 9780874772760 Category : Adventure and adventurers Languages : en Pages : 216
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Traces the exploits of seven extraordinary explorers, from Father Gifford Palgrave, the first Westerner to reach Riyadh, to Thomas Manning, the first European to visit the forbidden mountain fortress of Lhasa
Author: Benedict Le Vay Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides ISBN: 9781841621227 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 316
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A delightful romp around the British Isles searching out the mad marquess, the eccentric earl, the barmy baron, and the daft duke and gathering a fair collection of crackpot inventors, weird adventurers and fascinatingly and not to mention insanely curious customs along the way. All of which make this rainy little island home to that remarkable breed of individual - the British eccentric.This expanded book still doesn't tell you where Stonehenge is, but it does tell you where ten spookier stone circles are where there will be no crowds, no admission charges and no parking problems... This is a book for the intelligent, humorous, curious tourist who doesn't go with the crowd. It is also a great armchair read that has been known to have readers weeping with mirth at the weird ways of the British.
Author: Jan Friedman Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides ISBN: 9781841621265 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 220
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Jan Friedman's Eccentric America proved that the most unlikely events and landmarks could become tourist attractions. This award-winning title is dedicated to the sheer lunacy of California and her citizens, covering the biggest, the best, the wackiest and weirdest of the state's people and places. From art-car and golf-cart parades to the Valentine's Day Sex Tour at the San Francisco Zoo; from a festival that moons Amtrak to a town with its own language; from obsessed collectors of Pez, yo-yos, and bananas to kitschy theme motels and a man who built a three-storey mountain out of hay, adobe, and old paint. Eccentric California takes an in-depth look at one very peculiar place.
Author: John Keay
Author: John Keay
Author: Michael Gfoeller
Author: John Timbs
Author: John Timbs
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Author: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Author: Benedict Le Vay
Author: Jan Friedman