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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. - Charles Kuralt.

The great thing about traveling vicariously is that you can go wherever you like without worrying about passports, airport security checks, pre-trip vaccinations, or struggling to find the words in another language when you really, really need to find a bathroom fast. When security is not an issue, why not travel to Kazakhstan instead of Kansas or to Medieval England instead of today's Britain? The world can be your oyster when you read about it on your Kindle. Here are some places to start:

The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes , by Scott Wallace. Crown, 2011. Print Length: 512 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (23 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the outside world, they are the unconquered, the last survivors of an ancient culture that predates the arrival of Columbus in the New World. In this gripping first-person account of adventure and survival, author Scott Wallace chronicles an expedition into the Amazon’s uncharted depths, discovering the rainforest’s secrets while moving ever closer to a possible encounter with one such tribe - the mysterious flecheiros, or 'People of the Arrow,' seldom-glimpsed warriors known to repulse all intruders with showers of deadly arrows. On assignment for National Geographic, Wallace joins Brazilian explorer Sydney Possuelo at the head of a thirty-four-man team that ventures deep into the unknown in search of the tribe. Laced with lessons from anthropology and the Amazon’s own convulsed history, and boasting a Conradian cast of unforgettable characters..."

The Safari Companion, by Richard Estes. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2011. Print Length: 459 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (36 reviews). Kindle edition $16.50. This title has complex layouts and has been optimized for reading on devices with larger screens such as Kindle DX, Kindle for PC/Mac, and Kindle for iPad. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Anyone who goes on safari will want to make room in his or her suitcase for this treasure. Estes, who is affiliated with Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institute as a research associate, spent over eight years doing fieldwork in Africa and over 17 years leading safaris. His admirable qualifications as an expert on the social ecology of African mammals are reflected in the text, which describes approximately 86 species of African mammals. Essential for any traveler to Africa, any student of animals or behavior, any zoo visitor, and any size public library." - Library Journal.

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay, by John Gimlette. Vintage, 2011. Print Length: 400 p. Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (49 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"A wildly humorous account of the author's travels across Paraguay - South America's darkly fabled, little-known 'island surrounded by land.' Rarely visited by tourists and barely touched by global village sprawl, Paraguay remains a mystery to outsiders. Think of this small nation and your mind is likely to jump to Nazis, dictators, and soccer. Now, John Gimlette’s eye-opening book - equal parts travelogue, history, and unorthodox travel guide - breaches the boundaries of this isolated land and illuminates a little-understood place and its people. It is a wonderfully animated telling of Paraguay's story: of cannibals, Jesuits, and sixteenth-century Anabaptists; of Victorian Australian socialists and talented smugglers; of dictators and their mad mistresses; bloody wars and Utopian settlements; and of lives transplanted from Japan, Britain, Poland, Russia, Germany, Ireland, Korea, and the United States." - Publisher.

Running Away to Home: Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters, by Jennifer Wilson. St. Martin's Press, 2011. Print Length: 336 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (10 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Jim and Jen had always dreamed of taking a family sabbatical in another country, so when they lost half their savings in the stock-market crash, it seemed like just a crazy enough time to do it. High on wanderlust, they left the troubled landscape of contemporary America for the Croatian mountain village of Mrkopalj, the land of Jennifer's ancestors. It was a village that seemed hermetically sealed for the last one hundred years, with a population of eight hundred (mostly drunken) residents and a herd of sheep milling around the post office. For several months they lived like locals, from milking the neighbor's cows to eating roasted pig on a spit to desperately seeking the village recipe for bootleg liquor. As the Wilson-Hoff family struggled to stay sane (and warm), what they found was much deeper and bigger than themselves." - Publisher.

Dork Whore: My Travels Through Asia as a Twenty-Year-Old Pseudo-Virgin, by Iris Bahr. Bloomsbury, 2008. Print Length: 224 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (14 reviews). Kindle edition $8.58. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

"Fresh out of the Israeli Army, twenty-year-old Iris Bahr decides to follow the footsteps of many before her and backpack through Asia. Only unlike the average traveler, she has more in mind than just seeing the sights: she is on a desperate mission to lose her virginity. Dork Whore is a fresh and funny memoir about a young woman whose quirky personality and embarrassing neuroses always seem to get in the way of her getting what she wants. As Iris lands in hotel rooms in Bangkok, rides scooters out of opium-fogged compounds hidden in the jungle, and antagonizes an impromptu tour group in Vietnam, she begins to realize that the greatest obstacle she'll have to overcome isn't losing her virginity, but coming to terms with the reasons for her need to be accepted..." - Publisher.

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