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Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia George Kennan · 1870 · 425p · ≈ 14h · Challenging An account of a period living in Siberia in pursuit of a plan to carry a telegraph line across land to Europe through Siberia in consequence of the failure of efforts to carry a telegraph line to Europe under the Atlantic. Shares Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

Backwoods of Canada Catherine Parr Traill · 1836 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The toils, troubles, and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded with charm and vivacity on *The Backwoods of Canada*, by Catherine Parr Traill, who, like her sister Susanna Moodie, left the comforts of genteel English society for the rigours of a new, young land. Traill offers a vivid and honest account of her trip to North America and of her first two and a helf years living in the bush… Shares Correspondence, Frontier and pioneer life, Description and travel, Travel

Bitter lemons Lawrence Durrell · 1957 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate With the publication of Justine Lawrence Durrell became, almost overnight, one of the most talked about, widely acclaimed novelists of the decade. Now, in Bitter Lemons, his focus has shifted from the world of his imagination to life itself. Writing in the exquisite poetic prose that critics have hailed as unequalled in contemporary literature, he tells the perceptive, often humorous story of his… Shares Manners and customs, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

The road to Little Dribbling Bill Bryson · 2015 · ★ 4.0 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed -- and what hasn't. Following a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis… Shares Manners and customs, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

On a Chinese screen William Somerset Maugham · 1922 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Moderate On a Chinese Screen was first published in 1922 by Heinemann Publishers, London. Its 58 short vignettes are based on Maugham’s travels along the Yangtze River from 1919 to 1920. Although later editions of the book added the subtitle “Sketches of Life in China,” there are actually only a few descriptions of the places he visited and the local Chinese people he met; rather, Maugham focuses on… Shares Manners and customs, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

China Road Rob Gifford · 2007 · ★ 4.4 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down.In this utterly surprising and deeply personal… Shares Manners and customs, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

Twilight in Italy D. H. Lawrence · 1916 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty. "Twilight in Italy" is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to the twilight of a way of life centuries old. Shares Manners and customs, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

The Lands of the Saracen Bayard Taylor · 1854 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Description and travel, Travel with this book.

Journey Without Maps Graham Greene · 1936 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This is an account of a trip Greene made in 1935 with his cousin, Barbara Greene, through the previously unexplored interior of Liberia. It was an extremely uncomfortable journey, with Greene falling seriously ill halfway through the trip. Possibly as a result of this he also made a point of noting the many illnesses with which the local inhabitants were assailed, particularly malaria and… Shares Description and travel, Travel

Torches Together Emmy Arnold · 1964 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate **Not many people talk about "joy" these days.** Emmy Arnold's memoir radiates just that - an enthusiasm for life and an unflagging optimism grounded in faith. In a genre awash in sordid sex and dysfunctional relationships, she offers a refreshing account of a hard life lived victoriously, of people brought together, despite their own weakness and turbulent times, to experience new levels of… Shares Biography & Memoir, History

Epistolae Ho-Elianae James Howell · 1650 · 510p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Shares Correspondence, Manners and customs, Description and travel, Travel with this book.

Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee Robert E. Lee · 1904 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Correspondence, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Venetian life William Dean Howells · 1866 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Shares Manners and customs, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs with this book.

Our Old Home Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1863 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Our Old Home, a series of English sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This volume of charming sketches was published in 1863, and (in the words of the author) presents “a few of the external aspects of English scenery and life, especially those that are touched with the antique charm to which our countrymen are more susceptible than are the people among whom it is of native growth.” Shares Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs, History

Letters from New York Lydia Maria Child · 1843 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares Correspondence, Manners and customs, Description and travel, Travel with this book.

Autobiography of Lutfullah Lutfullah · 1857 · 429p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares Description and travel, Travel, Biography & Memoir, History

All's Fair in Love and Law Alan Hammond · 2011 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "Dufty Dufty Popple & Dunn is a traditional solicitors' firm in the small Midlands town of Hockam (pronounced Hokum, as the local residents are at pains to point out). This heart-warming collection of stories revolves around the lives, relationships, triumphs and failures of the good people of Hockam and of the lawyers to whom they look for help. We meet the lonely dentist and his noisy… Shares Country life, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt · 1994 · ★ 4.4 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Read John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in Large Print. All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typefaceShots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung… Shares Manners and customs, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

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