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The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific
by Julia Whitty Publisher Comments In The Fragile Edge, documentary filmmaker and deep-sea diver Julia Whitty paints a mesmerizing, scientifically rich portrait of teeming coral reefs and sea life in the South Pacific. She takes us literally beneath the surface of the usual travel...
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Toward the Setting Sun: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, and the Race for America
by David Boyle Publisher Comments The untold story of the rivalries and alliances between Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and John Cabot during the Age of Exploration.When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, the long-established trade routes to the East became...
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Explorers Club Classics #04: South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance
by Ernest Shackleton Publisher Comments The legendary expedition leader eloquently narrates his torturous two-year odyssey after his ship Endurance was crushed by a sea of ice in 1915. Shackleton and his crew confronted the most desolate place on earth--the frozen Antarctic wasteland and a...
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Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle
by Mike Horn Publisher Comments In August 2002, Mike Horn set out on a mission that bordered on the impossible: to travel 12,000 miles around the globe at the Arctic Circle - alone, against all prevailing winds and currents, and without motorized transportation. Conquering the...
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
by Samuel Johnson Publisher Comments Poet and essayist Samuel Johnson spent the autumn of 1773 touring the coast of Scotland with his future biographer, James Boswell. Each author produced an account of their sojourn, providing not only excellent travelogues and splendid historical records...
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The Ridiculous Race
by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran Publisher Comments The most absurd, hilarious, and ridiculous travelogue ever told, by two hit-TV comedy writers who raced each other around the world—for bragging rights and a very expensive bottle of Scotch It started as a friendly wager: two old friends from The...
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Stalin's Nose: Across the Face of Europe
by Rory Maclean Publisher Comments This surreal and darkly comic tale is based on the author's journey from Berlin to Moscow, through Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania, only weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall....
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Dreaming of Jupiter: In Search of the World--Thirty Years on
by Ted Simon
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