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The Shishapangma Expedition
by Doug K. Scott  Publisher Comments Now in paperback comes a lively adventure narrative of the first ascent of the southwest face of Shishapangma--a classic which captures details from the historical to the personal. 45 photos....
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Renascent Mexico
by Hubert Herring Publisher Comments RENASCENT INDIA BY K. S. VENKATARAMANI SVETARANYA ASHRAMA MYLAPORE. MADRAS PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. Sometime ago I laid aside pretty dreams and fancies and began to think of the live problems of my Motherland. While writing Renascent India, The Next...
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The Road Gets Better from Here
by Adrian Scott Publisher Comments With virtually no experience and absolutely no support, Adrian rides a basic stock motorbike 20,000kms across nine countries in three months to fulfill a lifelong dream. He sets off from the bleak, windswept former gulag gateway city of Magadan in a...
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Travels Along the Edge: 40 Ultimate Adventures for the Modern Nomad--From Crossing the Sahara to Bicycling Through Vietnam (Vintage Departures)
by David Noland Publisher Comments From crossing the Sahara to bicycling through Vietnam, David Noland details ultimate expeditions for the modern nomad, rating each trip according to its strenuousness, comfort, and required skills. Each adventure is enriched with background information...
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Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays
by Charles Kingsley Publisher Comments Work by Charles Kingsley, a prolific English novelist and author whose main power lay in his descriptive faculties. Kingsley wrote poetry and political articles, as well as several volumes of sermons....
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Return from the USSR
by Andre Gide Publisher Comments RETURN FROM THE U. S. S. R. Also by Andre Gide THE COUNTERFEITERS THE IMMORALIST TRAVELS IN THE CONGO These are Borzoi Books published by ALFRED A. KNOPF I DEDICATE THESE PAGES TO THE MEMORY OF EUGENE DABIT, BESIDE WHOM, WITH WHOM, THEY WERE LIVED AND...
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Watermark
by Joseph Brodsky Publisher Comments In this brief, intense, gem-like book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of 48 short chapters-- each recalling a specific episode from one of his many...
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Join the Revolution, Comrade: Journeys and Essays
by Charles Foran Publisher Comments The author of Carolans Farewell and The Last House of Ulster brings to the essay form the same restlessness and originality that marks his novels and non-fiction. Whether exploring the waterways of Thailand or the streets of his childhood in suburban...
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Holy Cow : Indian Adventure (04 Edition)
by Sarah Macdonald 
Publisher Comments In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India?and for love — she screamed...
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All the Clean Ones Are Married: And Other Everyday Calamities in Moscow
by Lori Cidylo Publisher Comments In 1991, Lori Cidylo shocked her parents when she left her reporter's job on an upstate New York newspaper to live and work in the rapidly dissolving Soviet Union. For six years she lived on a shoe-string budget in Moscow, in tiny, run-down apartments...
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History and Travels of a Wanderer
by Amanda E. Bates Publisher Comments Light memoirs of a woman traveling, mostly in the Western U.S., as a young single woman and then as a married woman, with different sorts of experiences....
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Lost Cosmonaut (UK Edition)
by Daniel Kalder Publisher Comments Follow Kalder's travels through the bizarre and mysterious worlds of Russia's ethnic republics in this profane yet wise, utterly honest and yet full of lies, eye-opening, blackly comic tour of the most alien planet in our cosmos: Earth....
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Canyon Solitude: One Woman's Solo River Journey Through the Grand Canyon
by Patricia McCairen Publisher Comments "It's well known that Mother River doesn't like a smart aleck," says Patricia McCairen. Accordingly, she plies her oars with reverence and skill on a sometimes hair-raising solo rafting trip along the Colorado River that winds though the stupendous stone...
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Bradbury's Travels
by John Bradbury Publisher Comments A thorough, detailed description of travel along the Mississippi Valley, done with an eye toward settling in New Orleans. Considerable commentary on life in that part of America....
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Quicksand and Blue Springs: Exploring the Little Colorado River Gorge
by Stephen West Cole Publisher Comments In May 2001, Stephen Cole and his brother hiked the Little Colorado River Gorge from the town of Cameron, Arizona to its confluence with the Colorado River, and out by way of the Beamer and Tanner trails in the Grand Canyon. He found the desert landscape...
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Voyager's Tales
by Richard Hakluyt Publisher Comments But, notwithstanding, the king weighed not his said promise, and as an infidel that hath not the fear of God before his eyes, nor regard of his word, albeit he was a king, he caused the said Sonnings to pay the custom to the uttermost penny; and...
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Blue Is the Colour of Heaven: A Journey Through Afghanistan
by Richard Loseby Publisher Comments This is the story of an astonishing adventure that began in the mind of an eight-year-old boy, obsessed with 'looking for the Afghan' and ended with a perilous dash to safety. Avoiding land mines and bullets, he spent months travelling through Iraq and...
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Eight Men and a Duck: an Improbable Voyage By Reed Boat To Easter Island (UK Edition)
by Nick Thorpe Publisher Comments British journalist, Nick Thorpe, takes a last minute place on a crew sailing from Chile to Easter Island in a boat made of reeds. An hilarious and touching adventure. Illus....
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Very Charleston: A Celebration of History, Culture, and Lowcountry Charm
by Diana Holli Gessler Publisher Comments Cobblestone streets leading to perfectly preserved historic homes. Intricate wrought-iron gates opening to lush, fragrant gardens. A skyline of steeples and a river harbor bustling with schooners and sailboats. Charleston is one of America's most...
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All Elevations Unknown: An Adventure in the Heart of Borneo
by Sam Jr Lightner Publisher Comments “Sam Lightner, Jr., combines two tales of adventure, one historic and the other modern-day in his page-turner . . . With its rich sense of place and history, All Elevations Unknown offers a surprisingly fresh twist to an adventure-climbing tale...
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