At a side-of-the-highway diner on a mountain pass, during one extraordinary, windy day in 1977, the paths of an odd assortment of travellers cross. The stories of each circle around points of departure: what sets one on one's journey....
Travelers
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Author:DeGrace, AnneSummary: -
Author:Austin, LynnSummary:Despite Victorian society's strict rules for women, Rebecca and Flora Hawes' desire for adventure has led them to the Sinai Desert. Accompanied by their young butler and their maid, the sisters search for a biblical manuscript. On their...
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Author:Fielder, HankSummary:At 28, Josh Adams has more than a few secrets and personal demons. He’s an international traveler and doesn’t think he’ll ever be ready for the serious attention handsome and heroic airline pilot, Benny Mills, is ready to pay him. Their...
- Author:Stovall, JimSummary:
When Jason Stevens receives the news of his great uncle Red's death, he is greedy with anticipation-- as are Red's other relatives--to divvy up the man's massive fortune. One by one, Red's beneficiaries receive their portion of the...
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Author:Kenner, HughSummary:Acclaimed literary critic Hugh Kenner examines Western culture's insatiable need for stimulation encountered elsewhere - from the eighteenth century's Grand Tour, to the self-imposed exile of modernist writers, to the disembodied global...
- Author:Doig, IvanSummary:
Widower Jick McCaskill, his daughter Mariah, and Mariah's ex-husband Riley take a road trip back and forth across Montana. As Jick recounts his memories of the area, Riley and Mariah fall in and out of love--and Jick unexpectedly...
- Author:Law, Michael JohnSummary:
In the decade of economic expansion following the Second World War, many ordinary Americans travelled abroad for the first time. Those who visited Britain were surprised to find that the people they encountered were not the aristocrats...
- Author:L’Allier, LouisSummary:
Nous sommes en 1453 et Constantinople est assiégée par les Ottomans. Dans le tumulte et la confusion, Nikolaos, un jeune copiste, réussit à s’échapper de la ville afin d’accomplir une mission secrète : transporter un manuscrit qui...
- Author:Nicholson, DeanSummary:
When thirty-year-old Dean Nicholson set off from Scotland to cycle around the world, his aim was to learn as much as he could about our troubled planet. But he hadn't bargained on the lessons he'd learn from his unlikely...
- Mountains so sublime : nineteenth-century british travellers and the lure of the Rocky Mountain WestAuthor:Abraham, TerrySummary:
"Picturesque," "immense," "fantastic," and "sublime" are a few of the ways early British travellers described the landscape of the Rocky Mountains and the surrounding terrain. As part of a long...
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Author:MacIntyre, WendySummary:Wendy MacIntyre creates a fictional dystopian world so dark that her characters’ chances of survival look next to impossible. When art-lover Lucia finds her most precious possession destroyed, she resolves finally to abandon The City....
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Author:Naipaul, V. S.Summary:Two English people take a road trip from an unnamed African capitol to their enclave. The further they travel, the more they cross the line separating privileged outsiders from horrified victims.
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Author:Swift, JonathanSummary:Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters with the crude...
- Author:Woolever, LaurieSummary:
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best. When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had...
- Author:Roberts, JasonSummary:
He was known simply as the "Blind Traveller"--a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon and helped chart the...
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Author:Keillor, GarrisonSummary:A wealthy and depressed man bound for Christmas in Hawaii is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. During his stay, he reaches an epiphany worthy of the season and resolves to...
- Author:Harrison, Carl H.Summary:
Hadrian's Wall. The most heavily fortified border in the Roman Empire. A significant portion of the wall still exists and for much of its length, the wall can be followed on foot by Hadrian’s Wall Path. It is the most popular tourist...
