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The time traveler's wife - Audrey Niffenegger
SUMMARY: A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through ti... -
The ode less travelled_ unlocki - Stephen Fry
SUMMARY: I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small... -
The Wrong Man - John Katzenbach
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Bestseller Katzenbach (_The Traveler_) manages the impressive feat of taking a thriller cliché and using it as the basis for a powerful and c.... -
The Virgin in the Ice_ The Sixt - Ellis Peters
SUMMARY: In the winter of 1139, raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester, among them an orphaned boy and his beautiful 18-year-old sister. Traveling with a y... -
The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
The book's protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends usi... -
The Tao of Travel_ Enlightenmen - Paul Theroux
From Publishers WeeklyTravel maestro Theroux (The Great Railway Bazaar) conducts a rambling tour of the genre in this diverting meditation on passages from his own and other writer... -
The Real Story_ The Gap Into Co - Stephen R. Donaldson
Amazon.com ReviewThe Real Story is a short but intense tale set in a future in which humans travel between the stars using "gap drives," controllable brain implants are punishable.... -
The Network - Jason Elliot
FromThis intriguing first novel takes another look at the world of espionage in Afghanistan. A travel writer with firsthand knowledge of the area, Elliot effectively combines actio... -
The Middle Passage - V. S. Naipaul
Review“The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.”–_The New York Times Book Review “Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence’s books on Italy, ... -
The Masque of Africa_ Glimpses - V. S. Naipaul
SUMMARY: Like all of V. S. Naipaul’s “travel” books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, t...