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A Cure for Serpents
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Alberto Denti di Piranjo

Memoir of an Italian doctor in North Africa during the war. Wonderful writing.

Impressions of Africa
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Raymond Roussel

Beyond the normal limits of human imagination.

Life: A User’s Manual
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Georges Perec

Essential reading for those in the object business.

Love and War in the Apennines
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Eric Newby

The story of a master travel writer.

The Marsh Arabs
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Wilfred Thesiger

Or any book by this author.

The Periodic Table
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Primo Levi
Translated from Italian by Raymond Rosenthal

A life told through the author’s involvement with the elements.

The Roots of Modern Design: Functional Tradition in the 19th Century
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Herwin Schaefer

Good to stay in touch with one’s roots!

Voices of the Old Sea
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Norman Lewis

A master travel writer.

What Am I Doing Here?
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Bruce Chatwin

Short and beautiful essays.

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
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Haruki Murakami

Japanese genius storyteller.

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