Vintage departures

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Bury me standing

the Gypsies and their journey
1996

The Lost city of Z

a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon
2010
Details English explorer Percy Fawcett's exploration for a lost city in the jungles of South America and relates efforts made by the author and other individuals to find out what happened to him.

Near death in the Arctic

true stories of disaster and survival
2009

The road from Coorain

1990
The memoirs of Jill Conway and her journey into adulthood from a 30,000 acre sheep ranch in Coorain, Australia, to America where she became the first woman president of Smith College.

Toujours Provence

1992
Presents volume two of the author's first-hand account of the joys and oddities of life in Provence, France where he and his wife are fulfilling their dream of living in a restored farmhouse in the countryside.

Inside the sky

a meditation on flight
1999

A year in Provence

Toujours Provence
1991
The author describes the joys and oddities of life in Provence, where he and his wife undertook the task of restoring and living in a two-centuries old stone farmhouse in the French countryside.

Dear exile

the story of a friendship separated (for a year) by an ocean
1999
Kate Montgomery and Hilary Liftin chronicle their post-college lives and changing relationship through a series of letters.

Balkan ghosts

a journey through history
1994
Author's account of his travels through the Balkan countries and a history of the region.

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