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Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Oku-No-Hosomichi
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A Mapmaker’s Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno
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7 Greeks
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Atlas of Cyberspace
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Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry
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The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography
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The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa
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The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
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The Great Gatsby: A Study.
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The Odyssey
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Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist
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Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings (Portraits of American Genius #3)
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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Agitations: Essays on Life and Literature
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The Art of the Novel
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The Widening Spell of the Leaves
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The History of Cartography: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, Vol. 1
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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Drawing the Line: Tales of Maps and Cartocontroversy
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How to Lie with Maps
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Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature
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The Annotated Lolita
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Strong Opinions
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Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World
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Seeing and Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds to the Heavens
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Oulipo Laboratory: Texts from the Bibliotheque Oulipienne
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The Whore's Child and Other Stories
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A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing
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Light Years
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
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Sappho: A New Translation
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The Young Oxford Companion to Maps and Mapmaking
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Treasure Island
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Envisioning Information
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
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Anton Chekhov and his Times
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Maps are Territories: Science is an Atlas
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The Flexible Lyric
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The Mercator Atlas of Europe
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The Mapmakers
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Eloquence and Mere Life: Essays on the Art of Poetry
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The Power of Maps
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The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
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Mrs. Dalloway
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