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Armchair Travels. Readers, beware: These seven new hardcovers
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Cartographia (Little, Brown and Company, US$60) by Vincent Virga will appeal to both curious travelers and history buffs. O Weighing in at over 5 kilograms, Eyes over Africa (teNeues, US$125) is fi lled with color-saturated images from lensman Michael Poliza’s low-flying helicopter tour of Africa. O Equal parts guide and coffee table tome, China (DK Publishing, US$40) includes timelines, annotated 50
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architectural diagrams, Chinese poetry and day-in-the-life snapshots of 14 residents. O In Paris Changing (Princeton Architectural Press, US$40), Christopher Rauschenberg retraces the footsteps of French documentarian Eugène Atget in 1898. The two men’s photos are shown side-by-side, revealing the city’s eternal elegance and its modern developments. O Photographer Lynn Davis offers black-and-white portraits of off-thegrid destinations, such as Nova Scotia
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and Greenland, in Illumination (Melcher Media, US$75). O Novelist Alexandra Lapierre’s Women Travelers (Flammarion, US$45) showcases 31 voyagers from the 19th and 20th centuries, including Gertrude Bell, “the Bell of Baghdad.” O Take a tour of Rajasthan’s ornate palace hotels and gardens in India Sublime (Rizzoli, US$65). Also included: a directory with addresses and phone numbers so that you, too, can live like a maharajah—if only for a night. ✚
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just might send you packing. By SARAH KANTROWITZ