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Smoke and ashes : opium's hidden histories

Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- author.

Publication Date

2024

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Call Number

362.29309 GHO

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SD_ILS:708143

Airplane mode : an irreverent history of travel

Habib, Shahnaz, author.

Publication Date

2023

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Call Number

910 HAB

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SD_ILS:693182

Lev's violin : a story of music, culture, and Italian adventure

Attlee, Helena, 1958- author.

Publication Date

2021

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Call Number

787.2 ATT

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SD_ILS:621453

The deepest South of all : true stories from Natchez, Mississippi

Grant, Richard, 1963- author.

Publication Date

2020

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Call Number

976.226 GRA

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SD_ILS:562776

A savage dreamland : journeys in Burma

Eimer, David, author.

Publication Date

2019

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Call Number

915.910454 EIM

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SD_ILS:508565

The four roads to heaven : France and the Santiago pilgrimage

Mullins, Edwin, 1933- author.

Publication Date

2018

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Call Number

263.0424611 MUL

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SD_ILS:462926

Sicilian splendors : discovering the secret places that speak to the heart

Keahey, John, author.

Publication Date

2018

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Call Number

914.5804 KEA

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SD_ILS:472265

The Rhine : following Europe's greatest river from Amsterdam to the Alps

Coates, Ben, 1982- author.

Publication Date

2018

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Call Number

914.3404 COA

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SD_ILS:484930

No friends but the mountains : dispatches from the world's violent highlands

Matloff, Judith, author.

Publication Date

2017

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Call Number

355.009 MAT

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SD_ILS:424915

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Trace [DAISY talking book]: memory, history, race, and the American landscape

Savoy, Lauret E., author.

Publication Date

2016

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Digital

Call Number

917.3 SAV

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SD_ILS:702011

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The hour of land : a personal topography of America's national parks

Williams, Terry Tempest, author.

Publication Date

2016

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Call Number

333.780973 WIL

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SD_ILS:387098

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Shanghai grand : forbidden love and international intrigue in a doomed world

Grescoe, Taras, author.

Publication Date

2016

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Call Number

951.13204 GRE

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SD_ILS:390736

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