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The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments "Possibly his best travel book...an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took him to 51 Pacific Islands." TIME Renowned travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux has been many places in his life and tried almost everything. But this... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson From Powells.com "Everything, it seems, is interesting to Bill Bryson. The marvel is that he can make it all interesting to us. Three billion year old fossilized organisms off the western coast; a giant lobster on the side of a highway; empty, forbidding spaces... In a... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost Staff Pick When Troost followed his wife to a small island nation he expected Bali Hai. Instead he found an isolated, polluted, boiling hot hellhole. His wonderful tale is both hilarious and thrilling. This original adventure offers enjoyment and also allows... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin Publisher Comments Bruce Chatwin—author of In Patagonia—ventures into the desolate land of Outback Australia to learn the meaning of the Aborginals' ancient "Dreaming-tracks." Along these timeless paths, amongst the fortune hunters and redneck Australians... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl Publisher Comments The story of the Pacific journey by six men on a raft in search of the path taken by Kon-Tiki, a white voyager, 1500 years before.... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Into the Crocodiles Nest by Benedict Allen Synopsis The author convinces a tribe in remote New Guinea to allow him to become initiated along with 15 boys due to undergo the rite of passage into manhood. Their totemic god is the crocodile and crocodile marks are carved onto their bodies with sharpened... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among Aborigines by Julia Blackburn Publisher Comments In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman" (New York Times Book Review) tells a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story by Christina Thompson Publisher Comments “A multilayered, highly informative and insightful book that blends memoir, historical and travel narrative…vivid and meticulously researched.”—San Francisco Chronicle In this involving, compassionate memoir, Christina Thompson tells... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tracks (Vintage Departures) by Robyn Davidson Publisher Comments A cult classic with an ever-growing audience, Tracks is the brilliantly written and frequently hilarious account of a young woman's odyssey through the deserts of Australia, with no one but her dog and four camels as companions. Davidson emerges as a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by J. Maarten Troost Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals, the laugh-out-loud true story of his years on the islands of Vanuatu and Fiji, among cannibals, volcanoes...and the world's best narcotics. With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Four Corners: A Journey Into the Heart of Papua New Guinea by Kira Salak Publisher Comments Following the route taken by British explorer Ivan Champion in 1927, and amid breathtaking landscapes and wildlife, Salak traveled across this remote Pacific island-often called the last frontier of adventure travel-by dugout canoe and on foot. Along the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific by Charles Montgomery Publisher Comments When Charles Montgomery was ten years old, he stumbled upon the memoirs of his great-grandfather, a seafaring missionary in the South Pacific. Poring over the faint text and faded pictures, he was entranced by the world of black magic and savagery the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Resnick Library of Worldwide Adventure #04: White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick Obrien Publisher Comments The very first feature film ever to be filmed on location in Tahiti? The silent, 1927, adaptation of White Shadows in the South Seas ? and it won the Oscar for Best Cinematography. Now, it's back in print!... (read more) List Price $24.25 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Swimming with Crocodiles: The True Story of a Young Man in Search of Meaning and Adventure Who Finds Himself in an Epic Struggle for Survival by Will Chaffey Publisher Comments In the tradition of Into the Wild, here is the riveting story of a young man seeking his own truth and finding adventure in the awesome, unforgiving power of nature. Will Chaffey is eighteen when he boards a plane in New York bound for Australia. Taking... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Discovery: The Quest for the Great South Land by Miriam Estensen Publisher Comments Six centuries before the birth of Christ, people began to imagine an immense land at the bottom of the world, a land of marvels, of enormous wealth and mystery. Discovery is the story of the quest which compelled men in small ships to traverse unknown... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Arch of Kerguelen: Voyage to the Islands of Desolation by Jean Paul Kauffmann Publisher Comments The Kerguelens - isolated French islands in the southern Indian Ocean - were the home of the Arch of Kerguelen, a 1,000-foot-tall stone vault that had confounded navigators for centuries. Jean-Paul Kauffmann finds poetry in the isolation and strangely... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Waltzing the Magpies: A Year in Australia by Samuel F Pickering Publisher Comments Praise for Sam Pickering: "The art of the essay as delivered by Mr. Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble." ---The New York Times Book Review "Reading Pickering . . . is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend." ---Smithsonian "What... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Serpent in Paradise by Dea Birkett Publisher Comments Lost in the surf of the South Pacific lies a speck of volcanic rock. Home to thirty-eight islanders — descendants of the Bounty mutineers — Pitcairn has no cars, no crime, no doctor, and no regular contact with the outside world. For two... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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White Savages in the South Seas by Mel Kernahan Publisher Comments This is a book about Polynesia after the cruise ship has left, the jet has flown off into the sunset, and the mai tai curtain has dropped on a dream that was more performance than reality. This first-hand narrative introduces the reader to the Cook... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bali, Java in My Dreams by Christine Jordis Publisher Comments Relying on atmosphere and sensation over fact and statistic, Christine Jordis has written a deeply personal, vividly impressionistic account of several journeys to the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java. Dazzled, wide-eyed, but always astute, Jordis... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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