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Pattie's Personal Narrative
by James Ohio Pattie  Publisher Comments An American explores the Southwestern U.S., starting in St. Louis, MO. Considerable drama: members of his team die; there's conflict with Native Americans; and Pattie himself is wounded by arrow....
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Explore: Stories of Survival from Off the Map (Adrenaline Classics)
by Jennifer Schwamm Willis Publisher Comments Explore: Stories of Survival from Off the Map offers first-hand accounts by the world's boldest explorers, who have encountered storms, starvation, canibals, predators, and disease in their pursuit of mystery and adventure. Nunez Cabeza de Vaca writes of...
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Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women's Travel Writing
by Sidonie Smith Publisher Comments As technological advances increased the ease, speed, and reach of transportation, more and more women took to the air, to the road and the rail, and headed for points elsewhere. As they mastered new modes of mobility and then narrated their journeys...
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Alpine Ascents and Adventures: Rock and Snow Sketches
by H. Schutz Wilson Publisher Comments 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 Publisher Comments 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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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 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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Visions of Mughal India: An Anthology of European Travel Writing
by Michael H. Fisher Publisher Comments The Mughal Empire, which conquered and ruled virtually all of today's India, Pakistan and Bangladesh over several centuries, created one of the richest and most colourful of all historical eras. Peoples of different cultures – including Muslims...
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Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers 1800-1900
by Helen Whybrow Publisher Comments This definitive collection of adventure writing contains 35 stories from the most compelling odysseys of the 19th century. 30 illustrations....
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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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The Heartbreak Grape: A Journey in Search of the Perfect Pinot Noir
by Marq De Villiers Publisher Comments 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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Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (Travelers' Tales Guides)
by Sean O'reilly 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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High Endeavours: The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Miles & Beryl Smeeton
by Miles Clark Publisher Comments Miles Clarke's moving and exhilarating biography establishes Miles and Beryl Smeeton as the most accomplished traveling and adventuring couple of the 20th century. It is both a love story and an adventure story beyond compare....
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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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Two Steps Backward (UK Edition)
by Susie Kelly Publisher Comments Subtitled, "The Misadventures Of An English woman In France", this is a compelling prequel to "Best Foot Forward", in which Kelly and her husband first move to a rundown farmhouse in France....
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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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Encounters with the Middle East: True Stories of People and Culture That Help You Understand the Region
by Nesreen Khashan Publisher Comments "Encounters with the Middle East" collects 30 rich, engaging travel stories that capture uplifting scenes from everyday life and deliver sensitive, bittersweet renderings of people and landscapes often shaken by conflict. This book, with black and white...
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Travels of Four Years and a Half
by John Davis Publisher Comments 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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