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A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

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by: Anthony Bourdain

November 05, 2002
I am a big Anthony Bourdain fan. I couldn't wait to get this book. I thoroughly enjoyed the first half of it, although some of the slaughter descriptions were a bit disturbing (I love animals). There were some truly moving chapters in there and some very interesting stuff. However, it really started to slow down after a while. Each chapter seemed pretty much like the chapter before. I guess that is to be expected, but it really got less interesting. And the descriptions of animals being slaughtered started to get to me after a while. I have maybe 1/4 of the book left and I'm not inclinded to pick it up anymore. Felt like he was just trying to fill pages for some of the chapters.

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A Sand County Almanac

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by: Aldo Leopold

December 31, 1968
Aldo Leopold's book of essays is a good one to pull out every month and remark on the change of seasons, the month gone by and the one to come. It will plant you as firmly on the sandy plains of Adams County, Wisconsin, watching the bright red blackberry bushes in the morning sun, as any text you will ever see.

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Penguins and Antarctica (Magic Tree House Research Guide)

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by: Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce

September 23, 2008
My 11 yrs old boy loves Magic Tree House. We haven't been missing any of the Magic Tree House books. Everytime we have to wait for the next book to come out!

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The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook

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by: King Arthur Flour

September 25, 2003
King arthur flour company offers some of the best baking cookbooks around. I have never been able to make good bread untill now. They have the best (foolproof) bread recipes you could possibly imagine. There cookies are also excellent. I made the cheddar pepper biscuts yesterday and they are all gone. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this and all the other king arthur books!

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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

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by: J. Maarten Troost

June 08, 2004
I had my own picture painted about what I thought life on a remote island in the Pacific would be like. This book is far from my picture. This book is written in a way that gives you a really interesting idea of the reality of remote island living from an outsider's perspective. The author talks about the troubles that he and his girlfriend have adjusting and dealing with such a new type of life. And it's funny. It is really funny. The book is a great escape. You kind of feel involved in the story in a light-hearted way. I recommend this for a good read to just relax with.

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Lonely Planet Thailand

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by: China Williams

2009-08
I went to Thailand for the first time with a backpack and this book. I used it almost daily. It was extremely helpful for my entire trip. Whether I was lost in the middle of town, looking for a cheap restaurant, or needing to kill a giant insect in my hostel this book was there. The writers obviously know what they're talking about. The maps are detailed and easy to read. This book gives you enough information to feel confident traveling in Thailand.

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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

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by: Peter Hessler

March 07, 2002
China is indeed currently undergoing the largest, fastest modernization and transformation of a major country in human history. The scale of change in all areas (buildings, infrastructure, geography, economics, social, cultural) is vast. Yet the current transformation is but one in a series of major historical changes in the past century, as China has gone from empirical rule through civil war to the expulsion of foreign colonial influences, to the excesses of communism including the Cultural Revolution, to the current transformation, officially called "Reform and Opening".

What does this change look like on the "ground level" of average Chinese citizens, and how do they feel about it? What tensions and conflicts arise as the Chinese people are forced to (again) change ... Read More:

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Lost on Planet China or How I Learned to Love Live Squid

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by: J. Maarten Troost

July 08, 2008
I'm a sucker for off-the-beaten-path, tell-it-like-it-is, humorous travelogues, and Maarten Troost doesn't disappoint in "Lost on Planet China." His tales of being a Westerner throughout the vast land of China are alternately gasp-inducing, stomach-churning, and rip-roaring hilarious. Whether he's dealing with the yellowish haze of Beijing or trekking up the country's tallest mountains, Troost takes his readers along and pulls no punches. I would willingly read more of his books, but I really could do without the occasional Bush-bashing that adds nothing to the story and merely makes him look whiny in that "let's throw rocks at the Republicans" sort of way.

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Thailand (Country Guide)

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by: China Williams, Aaron Anderson, Brett Atkinson, Tim Bewer, Becca Blond, Virginia Jealous, Lisa Steer

August 01, 2007
I went to Thailand for the first time with a backpack and this book. I used it almost daily. It was extremely helpful for my entire trip. Whether I was lost in the middle of town, looking for a cheap restaurant, or needing to kill a giant insect in my hostel this book was there. The writers obviously know what they're talking about. The maps are detailed and easy to read. This book gives you enough information to feel confident traveling in Thailand.

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India

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by: Geoff Crowther

1981-10
I've bought three books in the end oh september and untill now (oct 28th) I didn't receive anything. It could be because I live in Brazil and the mail service is not to fast. I hope take it soon.