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Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
by Ranulph Fiennes  Publisher Comments Ranulph Fiennes has traveled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth. In the process he nearly died on several occasions, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, and raised millions of pounds for charity. He discovered the lost...
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Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas
by Gary Geddes Publisher Comments From war-torn Afghanistan, through the snow-capped Himalayas and across the burning sands of the Taklamakan desert, to a rapidly modernizing China and on to the Central American jungles: it seems an impossible journey, but one that Gary Geddes eagerly...
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Desert Sojourn: A Woman's Forty Days and Nights Alone
by Debi Holmes-binney Publisher Comments At age 31, after leaving a stifling, decade-long marriage, Binney set off alone into the harsh Utah desert where she spent an extended sojourn in a place by turns physically terrifying, psychologically invigorating, and gloriously beautiful....
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Into the Crocodile Nest: a Journey Inside New Guinea (UK Edition)
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...
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Incidents on Land and Water, or Four Years on the Pacific Coast - Being a Narrative of the Burning of the Ships Nonantum, Humayoon and Fanchon, Togeth
by D. B. Bates Publisher Comments INCIDENTS ON LAND AND WATER, BEING A NARRATIVE Of THE BURNING OF THE SHIPS NONANTUM, HUXAYOON BND FANCIION, TOGETHER WITII MANY STARTL NG AND INTERESTING ADVENTURES ON SEA AND LAND - 1857 - INTRODUCTION, KIND READER This simple unembellished history of...
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Travel in Syria and the Holy Land
by John Lewis Burckhardt Publisher Comments I had intended to sleep at Om Ezzeitoun, but I found the Druses very ill-disposed towards me. It was generally reported that I had discovered a treasure in 1810 at Shohba, near this place, and it was supposed that I had now returned to carry off what I...
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Gleanings by the Way
by John Clark Publisher Comments An Episcopal clergyman travels through America, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West, and offers a treatise on the Mormons while in northern NY/Ohio....
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Tour in America in 1798, 1799, and 1800
by Richard Parkinson Publisher Comments Profoundly disappointed by his experiences in America, Richard Parkinson's Tour in America 1798, 1799, 1800, originally published in London in 1805, was expressly published to prevent emigration to America, seeking to save those who seek to make their...
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SignSpotting: Absurb & Amusing Signs from Around the World
by Doug Lansky Publisher Comments Subtitled, "The World's Most Absurd Signs". With the help of signspotters around the globe, "Lonely Planet" have assembled a collection of some of the most unintentionally entertaining postings on the planet, that are sure to confuse and amuse the reader....
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On the Ohio
by H. Bennett Abdy Publisher Comments ON THE OHIO BY EL BENNETT ABDY ILLUSTRATIONS BY ROWJBHA MKEKS ABI Y THE PAnnraa LAOT-SKETCHES, KTC., MADE DURING THE VOYAJE NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1919 THE COAL rows ARE THE HEAVY CHORDS IN THE LIFE-MUSIC OF THE GREAT RIVER. COPS-BIGHT, 1V19, nr...
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Meeting the Invisible Man
by Toby Green Publisher Comments Toby Green weaves a mystical narrative of lore and tradition as he searches for, and finds, the secret power of invisibility. Exploring the extraordinarily vibrant spiritual world which underlies the surface of West Africa, this book examines the...
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Recollections of Samuel Breck: With Passages from His Notebooks 1771-1862
by Samuel Breck Synopsis This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional...
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Sideways in Neverland: Life in the Santa Ynez Valley, California
by William Etling Publisher Comments The 'Neverland Valley-Welcome" sign depicts a little boy, bending over to talk to a troll. Opera wafted on the air. Bronze statues of boys and girls dotted the gardens and falls, and an ornate gazebo offered a shady spot to enjoy the stunning tableau...
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Atlas Pocket Classics: Italy: Italian Journey; Rome, Naples, & Florence; Italian Hours
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Publisher Comments An elegant box set of travel classics about Italy, with an introduction from the celebrated author of Out of Egypt and Call Me by Your Name, In this second volume of the Atlas Pocket Classics series, Andre Aciman introduces three masterpieces of travel...
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Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist (Concord Library)
by Gretel Ehrlich Publisher Comments Gretel Ehrlich's path leads her to Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces in western China to climb Emei Shan, one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains. For Ehrlich, a practicing Buddhist, the climb is both a spiritual pilgrimage and a troubling encounter...
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Together on Top of the World: The Remarkable Story of the First Couple to Climb the Fabled Seven Summits
by Susan Ershler and Phil Ershler and Robin Simons Publisher Comments The powerful, inspirational true adventure story of the first couple to climb the highest mountain on every continent--and the life-threatening challenges they faced to reach their dream. 16-page color photo insert....
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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of His Travels in India a
by James Legge Publisher Comments 1886. Legge, British sinologist, was a missionary to China. He lived in Hong Kong for 30 years. Believing in the necessity of missionaries being able to comprehend the ideas and culture of the Chinese, he began a translation in many volumes of the...
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A Short American Tramp
by John Campbell Publisher Comments A Scottish traveler in the United States gives a detailed account of his travels, including tales of hunting and descriptions of hotel menus (p. 390) in addition to social and political observations....
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Among the Himalayas
by Laurence A. Waddell Publisher Comments The soaring peaks of the greatest mountain range on Earth have long drawn visitors from around the globe, and one of the most famous of the 19th century was British adventurer and scholar Laurence Waddell, who spent most of a decade and a half exploring...
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Travels with Macy: One Man and His Dog Take a Journey Through North America in Search of Home
by Bruce Fogle Publisher Comments After a thirty-year career as high profile vet, columnist, presenter and author Bruce Fogle decided to leave urban Britain and take a journey with his dog Macy. Travelling in the footsteps of the great American novelist John Steinbeck, who published...
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