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Boat Who Wouldn't Float
by Farley Mowat  Publisher Comments Happy Adventure was a schooner with one fatal flaw. It leaked like a sieve. So why would anyone repeatedly expose himself and his friends to the elements of the North Atlantic in a treacherous, stubborn, uncomfortable, unfloatable boat which at last...
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The Summer of My Greek Taverna: A Memoir
by Tom Stone Publisher Comments The story of a man in love with a place, a woman, and a dream. Tom Stone went to Greece one summer to write a novel -- and stayed twenty-two years. On Patmos, he fell in love with Danielle, a beautiful French painter. His novel completed and sold, he...
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A Walk Across France
by Miles Morland Publisher Comments "[A] humorous and effervescent memoir of reflection, revitalization and good wine." -- San Francisco Chronicle<BR>At age forty-five, Miles Morland left his high-paying job at the London office of a Wall Street firm and took a leap -- actually, a...
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East Along the Equator: A Journey Up the Congo and Into Zaire (Traveler / Atlantic Monthly Press)
by Helen Winternitz Publisher Comments In this brilliant mix of political journalism and travel writing, Helen Winternitz and fellow journalist Timothy Phelps witness what few Westerners have: life in the ecologically rich but financially impoverished American-backed dictatorship of Zaire...
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An Innocent in Ireland: Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters
by David Mcfadden Publisher Comments Writer David W. McFadden arrives in Ireland to begin a tour of exploration. The result is a funny, affectionate, and sometimes eccentric look at 'this enchanted, complex, and poorly understood island....
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High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (Extreme Adventures)
by Clint Willis Publisher Comments In this pioneering anthology, Clint Willis presents 75 years of great writing -- from Neil O'Dell to Jon Krakauer -- on the fabled peaks. Here are stories of two British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s; a piece on the 1939 K2 attempt that claimed...
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French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew
by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments Peter Mayle, francophile phenomenon and author of A Year in Provence, brings another delightful (and delicious) account of the good life, this time exploring the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France. The French celebrate food and drink more...
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Seven Words for Wind: Essays and Field Notes from Alaska's Pribilof Islands
by Sumner Macleish Publisher Comments MacLeish's beautifully crafted prose illuminates the unique landscape of a subarctic island in the Bering Sea -- its abundant wildlife, fierce weather, and Aleut inhabitants....
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Roads to Santiago
by Cees Nooteboom Publisher Comments Roads to Santiago is an evocative travelogue through the sights, sounds, and smells of a little known Spain-its architecture, art, history, landscapes, villages, and people. And as much as it is the story of his travels, it is an elegant and detailed...
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Travels
by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments "Curious, sensible, and irrevereent...Crichton comes to see his travles--both in mind and through country--as ways of getting in better touch with himself." LOS ANGELES TIMES Here is a record of Michael Crichton's astonishing adventures. It is a vision...
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Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments Paul Theroux invites you to join him on the journey of a lifetime, in the grand romanttic tradition, by train across Euope, through the vast underbelly of Asia and in the heart of Russia, and then up to China. Here is China by rail, as seen and heard...
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The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of de Long and the Jeannette
by John Muir Publisher Comments By 1880, John Muir had spent two decades wandering in the wilderness and was turning toward settled family life, but a proposed voyage on the steamer Corwin to search for a shipwrecked whaling vessel proved irresistible for this great adventurer. The...
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The Travels of Marco Polo (Signet Classics)
by Marco Polo Publisher Comments His pilgrimage through the East began in 1271 when, still a teenager, he found himself traversing the most exotic lands-from the dazzling Mongol empire to Tibet and Burma. This fascinating chronicle still serves as the most vivid depiction of the...
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Lonely Planet Kingdom of the Film Stars: Journey Into Jordan
by Annie Caulfield 
Publisher Comments Annie Caulfield's honest and humorous account of her relationship with a Bedouin man unravels some western myths about Jordan and the Arab world....
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Ancient Egypt: Its Culture and History
by J E Manchip White Publisher Comments Fascinating account of Egypt, predynastic civilization through Ptolemies: social and political structure, daily life, international relations, religion and cult of the dead, arts and crafts, science and medicine, sacred writing. Full reference to recent...
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by Ernest Shackleton Publisher Comments Comparable to "Into Thin Air" and "Alive, " this first-hand account of the expedition which is the subject of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Arctic Expedition" is written by the leader of the fateful expedition...
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Yukon Alone: The World's Toughest Adventure Race
by John Balzar Publisher Comments In the tradition of Into the Wild, a story of daring and determination in one of nature's harshest, loneliest, and most beautiful places. The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race is among the most challenging and dangerous of all the organized...
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River Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America
by William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher Comments 'In RIVER-HORSE, the preeminent chronicler of American back roads -- who has given us the classics BLUE HIGHWAYS and PRAIRYERTH -- recounts his singular voyage on American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly...
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Slipping Into Paradise: Why I Live in New Zealand
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Under the Tuscan Sun and "A Year in Provence, here is Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's ode to his personal paradise-his adopted home, New Zealand. After living in California, why did Masson settle- out of all the places on earth-in such a...
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Burial Brothers: From New York to Rio in a '73 Cadillac Hearse
by Simon Mayle Publisher Comments On a cold January night in New York City, Simon Mayle and his accomplice Lenny board a '73 Cadillac hearse and set off for Rio de Janeiro in the guise of traveling morticians. While cruising through the sweltering underbelly of Latin America, they...
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