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Gail Pool

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	Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America 3.54 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Among the Baining: Adventure, Marriage, and Other Fieldwork 4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Other People's Mail: An Anthology of Letter Stories 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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In a sense, all travel writers are novelists, with themselves as heroes."
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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl

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First published in 1927 and recently re-issued, The Gentle Art of Tramping, by the British travel writer Stephen Graham (1884-1975) is a terrific and timeless guide, at once practical and spiritual, to tramping. And what, you might well ask, is “tram ...more
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