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Books like Letters from Rifka
Loved Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from travel, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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A Walk in the Woods
Two unfit friends attempt the Appalachian Trail; very funny, with real love for wild places.
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Neither here nor there
Bill Bryson's second, achingly funny book, retracing his own steps as a student backpacking through Europe, twenty years later.Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously accl
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The Seduction of the Mediterranean
Through an examination of forty figures in European culture, The Seduction of the Mediterranean argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing a
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Notes from a Small Island
An American's affectionate, exasperated farewell tour of Britain; warm comic travel writing.
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Edith Wharton abroad
Edith Wharton's seven works of travel have been called "brilliantly written and permanently interesting." For the first time, excerpts from each of these works have been made available to the general
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Into the Wild
A young man walks into the Alaskan wilderness and doesn't come back; a haunting study of an idealist.
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Into Thin Air
A first-hand account of the deadly 1996 Everest disaster; tense, honest and unforgettable.
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With Chatwin
Susannah Clapp was Chatwin's first editor, and she describes in detail her work with him on In Patagonia, a book that changed the idea of what travel writing could be. Her account skillfully describes
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Sir Vidia's shadow
"One year before he published his first book, Paul Theroux met V.S. Naipaul-Vidia, as he was known. For thirty years both men remained in close touch, even when continents separated them. Sir Vidia's
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In the forests of the night
I was born to the name of Rachel Weatere in the year 1684, more than three hundred years ago.The one who changed me named me Risika, and Risika I became, though I never asked what it meant. I continue