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"Based on a series of letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe for San Francisco and New York newspapers as a roving correspondent, The Innocents Abroad (1869) is a caricature of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Mark Twain's fresh and humorous perspective on hallowed European landmarks lacked reverence for the past, and was as mocking about American manners (including his own) as it was about European attitudes. Twain...
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"Following in the footsteps of famed explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer Levison Wood brings us along on his most complex expedition yet: a circumnavigation of the Arabian Peninsula. Starting in September 2017 in a city in Northern Syria, a stone's throw away from Turkey and amidst the deadliest war of the twenty-first century, Wood set forth on a 5,000-mile trek through the most contested region on the planet....
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Levison Wood's most challenging expedition yet begins along the Silk Road route of Afghanistan and travels 1700 miles through five countries over the course of six months. Following in the footsteps of the great explorers, Wood walks the entire length of the Himalayas in an adventure of survival and endurance. In a personal story of perseverance and discovery, Wood forges bonds with local guides, porters, mountain men, soldiers, farmers, smugglers...
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Chronically questioning, funny, and bold, a young American writer explores the majority-Muslim lands that scare him most. Armed only with college Arabic and restless curiosity, Adam Valen Levinson set out to "learn about the world 9/11 made us fear." From a base in globalized and sterilized Abu Dhabi, he sets out to lunch in Taliban territory in Afghanistan, travels under the watchful eye of Aleppo's secret police, risks shipwreck en route to Somalia,...
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"Join host Dave Stotts as he speeds through the ancient world of the Bible, in this second volume of Drive Thru History: Holy Land. Stotts delivers a fast-paced and even humorous encounter with the people, places, and events that have shaped our world and the Christian faith"--Container insert.
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In a style all his own, Dave Stotts speeds through the ancient world of the Bible, delivering a fast-paced encounter with the people, places, and events that have shaped the world and the Christian faith. Episode 1: Mount Moriah, Temple Mount, Al Aqsa Mosque, Dome of the Rock; Episode 2: City of David, Pool of Siloam, Mount of Olives, and the Garden of Gethsemane; Episode 3: Prophecies, Caiaphas, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and the Church of the Holy...