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Alpine Ascents and Adventures: Rock and Snow Sketches
by H. Schutz Wilson  Synopsis 1878. A collection of Schutz's essays from his yearly high mountaineering holidays in Switzerland that describe the scenery he had seen, the adventures he had met with and the feelings that arose through his contact with the Alps. Contents: An Exalted...
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Life Aboard a British Privateer: In the Time of Queen Anne
by Woodes Rogers Synopsis Most people know their "Robinson Crusoe," and have heard of the author Defoe. But how many of us have heard even the name of Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner? or have read his quaint Journal of a cruising voyage round the world in 1712. Yet it was this...
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The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey
by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments History lies heavily on South Africa, and in an original literary form— half-history, half-reportage—Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country. He looks at the tensions of modern-day South Africa through a...
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Playing the Moldovans At Tennis
by Tony Hawks Synopsis The author, Tony Hawks, and his friend, Arthur Smith were watching the England football team beat Moldova on TV, in September 1997. That was when Arthur bet Tony he couldn't beat all of the Moldovan football team at tennis. So Tony visits Moldova and...
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Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
by John Lewis Burckhardt Synopsis 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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Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers 1800-1900
by Helen Whybrow Publisher Comments RICHARD BURTON makes a forbidden pilgrimage to Mecca; Mary Kingsley wanders alone in the jungles of West Africa; Fridtjof Nansen tries to walk to the North Pole; Mary Mummery describes a harrowing first ascent in the Alps; Francis Parkman hunts buffalo...
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Race to Dakar
by Charlie Boorman Publisher Comments In January 2006, 230 people raced in trucks, cars, and motorbikes from Lisbon to Dakar in the 28th annual Dakar rally, the most challenging race in existence. After his celebrated trip round the world with Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman was keen for...
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Alone Against the Sea: And Other True Adventures
by Jon Bowermaster Publisher Comments Readers will feel the bite of icy waters as Jon Bowermaster careens down the most dangerous sections of the Yangtze River - so treacherous the Chinese government has closed it to boaters - and descends for the first time ever Chile's Futaleufu, one of...
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Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (Travelers' Tales Guides)
by Sean Oreilly Publisher Comments Fifth in a series of award-winning humor books from Travelers' Tales, Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why gathers wide-ranging tales from hardy, hilarious, outrageous — and even reluctant — voyagers. For armchair travelers and...
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The Heartbreak Grape: A Journey in Search of the Perfect Pinot Noir
by Marq De Villiers Synopsis DeVilliers' quest for the 'heartbreak grape' begins with one sip of the superlative Calera Jensen '87. Behind the scenes of one of the world's most fascinating and romantic industries, the author celebrates the tenacity and invention of individuals who...
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Love and Romance: True Stories of Passion on the Road (Travelers' Tales Guides)
by Judith Babcoc Wylie Publisher Comments Travelers' Tales Love & Romance is a collection of literary essays -- all true stories -- of love, lust, and romance encountered while traveling. They range from a tender story of how travel kept the spark in a 50-year marriage, to one woman's story of...
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Time Was Soft There (06 Edition)
by Mercer Publisher Comments Wandering through Paris's Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited him up for tea. Within weeks, he was living above...
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Pearls from Many Seas
by J. B. Mcclure Publisher Comments SEAS. A GALAXY OF THOUGHT FROM FOUR HUNDRED WRITERS OF WIDE REPUTE. EMBRACING 3EAUTIFUL MAXIMS FOR THE CONDUCT OF LIF, LUCID EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY WRIT. CLASSIFIED AND ILLUSTRATED. COMPILED BY REV. J. B. McCLURE. Let tfs t then. be up and doing With a...
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I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger
by Amy Wilentz Publisher Comments From one of our most astute writers comes an irreverent, hilarious portrait of the state of California, its unlikely governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, celebrities she can't place, famous salons, and the neglected office of one very special 9,000-year-old...
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Voices of the Old Sea
by Norman Lewis Publisher Comments After WW II, Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now the Costa Brava....
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
by Alexandra David-Neel Publisher Comments An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David–Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city....
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Two Steps Backward (UK Edition)
by Susie Kelly Publisher Comments The compelling prequel to 'Best Foot Forward'. Moving to France has never been so accessible, and this is a refreshingly different angle on the 'dream home abroad' travel memoir, reflected by the evocative cover....
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Searching for Crusoe: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands
by Thurston Clarke Publisher Comments They inspire feelings of great passion, serenity, and sometimes fear . . . they give people the opportunity to find themselves--or to lose their minds . . . they are revered as paradise or treated as junkyards . . . both haunted by and respectful of...
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Travels of Four Years and a Half
by John Davis Synopsis An English traveler composed this account not for his fellow countrymen but for American readers; he went mostly up and down the Mid-Atlantic coast....
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Dead Men Hike No Trails
by Rick Mckinney Synopsis "Following a friend's suicide in 2003, I faced my own suicidal depression and a choice. Dwell in grief or run gonzo crazy and free in the opposite direction, blazing bright and deep in the jungles of America, hiking and writing until my feet and fingers...
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