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Wanna get away without leaving your comfy reading chair? These reads will transport you to another place and immerse you in new cultures, foods, and ideas.

Chapel Hill Public Library

31 items

  • The Sex Lives of Cannibals

    Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

    Troost, J. Maarten
    Publishers Weekly calls The Sex Lives of Cannibals a "comic masterwork of travel writing."
    Book, 2004New York : Broadway Books, [2004] — 306.0996 Tro
  • If you enjoy Bill Bryson's humorous memoirs about ex-pats abroad, you should pick up this timeless book.
    Book, 1957New York : Viking Press, 1957 [c1956] — 574.9 Durr
  • Book, 2006New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2006] — BIO Child
  • Book, 2000New York : Random House, [2000] — 944.36 Gopn
  • Book, 1990New York : Knopf, 1990 — 944.9 Mayl
  • Book, 1975Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1975 — 915 The
  • Packing for Mars

    the Curious Science of Life in the Void

    Roach, Mary
    Book, 2010New York : W.W. Norton, [2010] — 571.0919 Roac
  • In the City of Bikes

    the Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist

    Jordan, Pete
    Book, 2013New York : HarperPerennial, [2013] — 796.6094 Jord
  • Book, 1999Boston : Back Bay Books, 1999 — 917.3049 Heat
  • Bill Bryson fans, especially those also interested in African culture or biblical history, won't want to miss this "suspenseful, hilarious, and rollicking" (Library Journal) book.
    Book, 2003New York : Arcade Pub. : Distributed by AOL Time Warner Book Group, [2003] — 916.3047 Sha
  • Lives in Ruins

    Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble

    Johnson, Marilyn, 1954-
    Book, 2014New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014 — 930.1 John
  • Book, 1996New York : Villard Books, [1996] — BIO McCandless
  • Book, 1980New York : Pantheon Books, [1980] — 919.4 Dav
  • Around the World in 50 Years

    My Adventure to Every Country on Earth

    Podell, Albert
    Book, 2015New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2015 — 910.4092 Pode