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Running the Amazon (Vintage Departures)
by Joe Kane  Publisher Comments The voyage began in the lunar terrain of the Peruvian Andes, where coca leaf is the only remedy against altitude sickness. It continued down rapids so fierce they could swallow a raft in a split second. It ended six months and 4,200 miles later, where...
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Travelers Tales Cuba 1ST Edition
by Tom Miller Synopsis From revolution to embargo, from martyred Che to tenacious Fidel, Cuba is a country of passion and complexity that beckons the traveler and haunts the imagination. These true tales tell of motorcycle runs in search of Guevara's grave, a bus ride that...
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Che Guevara and the Mountain of Silver: By Bicycle and Train Through South America
by Anne Mustoe Publisher Comments In her latest travelogue, intrepid ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe dusts off the bicycle clips once more and embarks on a remarkable journey through South America. Following by bicycle in the tracks of che Guevara, Mustoe retraces the route the iconic...
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Llama for Lunch
by Lydia Laube Publisher Comments Featuring appalling rock overhangs, horrifying chasms, and waterfalls flanked by near-vertical precipices, this tale of travel through the wildest regions of the Andes is no Caribbean cruise story. The Panama Canal and the coasts of Columbia, Peru, and...
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Trail of Feathers: Searching for Philip True
by Robert Rivard Publisher Comments In December 1998, San Antonio Express-News reporter Philip True vanished during a solo backcountry trek in western Mexico, home of the reclusive Huichol Indians and the Chapalagana, the Twisted Serpent Canyon, a 150-mile long gash that twists and plunges...
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A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean
by Melinda Blanchard 
Publisher Comments This is the true story of a trip to the beach that never ends. It's about a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise -- and discover that even paradise has its pitfalls. It's a story filled with...
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Almost an Island: Travels in Baja California
by Bruce Berger Publisher Comments Long frequented by pirates and haunted by pariahs, Baja California has become a favorite destination for whale watchers, hikers, and scuba divers. For Bruce Berger it has been more. In Almost an Island, he takes readers beyond the Baja of guidebooks and...
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The Handsomest Man in Cuba: An Escapade
by Lynette Chiang Publisher Comments An engaging, witty account of the people, customs, food, and culture of Cuba framed by a fascinating approach to travel. With only a folding bicycle and a towable suitcase, Australian Lynette Chiang spent three months touring Cuba, eshewing tourist...
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Incidents of Travel in Yucatan Volume 2
by John Stephens Publisher Comments Volume 2 of two-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways, manners, dress, ceremonies, amusements--all of which makes this...
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Amazon Dream
by Roberta Allen Publisher Comments At last, an alternative to the Harrison Ford-style travel adventure! Amazon Dream is the real story of a woman's journey into the Peruvian Amazon, a mysteriously beautiful region of the world that is also the nexus of calamitous ecological realities...
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Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile (Modern Library)
by Sara Wheeler Publisher Comments Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom...
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Incidents of Travel in Central Amer Volume 1
by John Lloyd Stephens Publisher Comments Volume 1 of two-volume work. Almost single-handed discovery of Maya culture; exploration of ruined cities, monuments, temples; customs of Indians. Total in set: 115 drawings.<BR>...
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Amazon Extreme: Three Men, a Raft, and the World's Most Dangerous River
by Colin Angus Publisher Comments The true story of three enthusiastic (but inexperienced) adventurers who attempt to become the first team to raft the entire length of the Amazon River–all 4,007 miles--and (barely) live to tell about it. To a trio of twenty-something adrenaline...
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Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba
by Christopher Baker Publisher Comments National Geographic Adventure Press presents trade paper editions of four rare and extraordinary expedition accounts from writers who embody the spirit of adventure and discovery for which National Geographic is renowned. The word "adventure" is...
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Off the Map
by John Harrison Publisher Comments This true-life adventure-travel story follows John Harrison and his wife Heather deep into an unexplored region of the Amazon rainforests in the Guiana Highlands that border Brazil. With just a canoe and a shotgun, the newlyweds followed the most remote...
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Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba
by Tom Miller Publisher Comments ”Havana knew me by my shoes”, begins Tom Miller’s lively and entertaining account of more than eight months traveling through Cuba, from coastal cities to mountain villages, from the Bay of Pigs to both sides of the fence at Guantá...
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Can't You Get Along with Anyone?: A Writer's Memoir and a Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradise
by Allan C. Weisbecker Publisher Comments When Allan Weisbecker penned the last sentence of In Search of Captain Zero, most readers assumed the full scope of the tale had been told. But apparently, life had other plans. In his latest offering, Can't You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer's Memoir...
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Sunny Daze: The Humorous Misadventures of a Tropical Island Mom
by Faith R Foyil Publisher Comments A collection of entertaining essays and witty observations that highlight the perils of tropical paradise and motherhood, including delinquent mail service, cockroach infestations, fresh milk shortages, as well as universal parenting challenges like...
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Andes to the Amazon: Seven Journeys in Mexico, Central and South America
by Bruce B Junek Synopsis Join world travelers Bruce Junek and Tass Thacker on a grand tour of seven adventures south of the border: bicycling through Central and South America; kayaking and swimming with whales in Baja; snorkeling with penguins in the Galapagos Islands; hiking...
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Magical Sites: Women Travelers in 19th Century Latin America
by Marjorie Agosin Publisher Comments This intriguing group of travel journals reveals the voices of women who traveled in Latin America during the nineteenth century. From French nuns who left their homelands to establish convents in Latin America to well-bred English women who accompanied...
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