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High Crimes
by Michael Kodas  Publisher Comments In the years following the publication of Into Thin Air, much has changed on Mount Everest. Among all the books documenting the glorious adventures in mountains around the world, and the unique perils and challenges of Mount Everest, none details how the...
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The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin Of The Nile And Explorations Of The Nile Sources
by Sir Samuel White Baker Publisher Comments The quantity of ivory in camp was so large that we required 700 porters to carry both tusks and provisions, for the five days' march through uninhabited country. Kamrasi came to see us before we parted; he had provided the requisite porters. We were to...
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28 Days Behind Bars
by Harold Wagoner Publisher Comments Join the author on a bicycle ride that you won¡¯t easily forget. As he leaves behind all the ties of metropolitan Southern California, he rediscovers the simple joys of life, childhood and human nature. He takes you along on his solo tour across the...
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Cycling to the Source of the Mississippi River
by Barbara Mary Johnson Publisher Comments Travel/Adventure: The Mississippi River flows through this book, interlacing with the bicycle adventures of Barb and Ted. The insistent energy, majesty and abundance of the river became a metaphor for the explorers who see what they missed before--their...
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Day by Day to Alaska: Queen Charlotte Islands and Around Vancouver Island
by Dale R. Petersen Publisher Comments The central theme is a 2,500 mile trip taken over 23 days by the author in a 21-foot powerboat, Day by Day, from Puget Sound to Sitka, Alaska and back outside Vancouver Island. Included are side trips from Olympia, Washington to Skagway, Alaska, the...
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Cork Boat
by John D. Pollack Publisher Comments In the late 1990s John Pollack was working as a Washington speechwriter when, frustrated by the cynicism and hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, he quit his job to pursue a boyhood dream: to build a boat made entirely of wine corks and take it on an epic journey....
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Embarrassment of Mangoes
by Ann Vanderhoof Publisher Comments Under the Tuscan Sun meets the wide-open sea . . . An Embarrassment of Mangoes is a delicious chronicle of leaving the type-A lifestyle behind -- and discovering the seductive secrets of life in the Caribbean. Who hasn’t fantasized about chucking...
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General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels Arranged In Systematic Order: Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigatio
by Robert Kerr Publisher Comments Having procured a new guide, we arrived at Nuremburg on the 10th of March. This is a fine city, having a river running through the middle of it, and is defended by an excellent citadel. While here, I inquired of my landlord if there were any travellers...
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The New Mirror For Travellers And Guide To The Springs
by James Kirke Paulding Publisher Comments Three or four miles east of Sing Sing, is the Chappaqua Spring, which at one time came very nigh getting the better of Ballston, Saratoga and Harrowgate, for it is a fact well authenticated that one or two persons of good fashion came very near to be...
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The Maine Woods
by Henry David Thoreau Publisher Comments Anxious to get out of the whale's belly, I rose early, and joined some old salts, who were smoking by a dim light on a sheltered part of the deck. We were just getting into the river. They knew all about it, of course. I was proud to find that I had...
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My Discovery Of England
by Stephen Leacock Publisher Comments In fact you will find that, just as with us in America, the benefit of prohibition is intended to fall on the poorer classes. There is no desire to interfere with the rich....
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Seeing Europe With Famous Authors, V.6
by Various Publisher Comments Once more--perhaps for the last time--I listen to the unnumbered tinkling of the cow-bells on the slopes--"the sweet bells of the sauntering herd"--to the music of the cicadas in the sunshine, and the shouts of the neat herdlads, echoing back from Alp to...
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Around the World on a Bicycle V1
by Thomas Stevens Publisher Comments The first thing I come across is a tunnel burrowing through a hill. This tunnel was originally built the proper size, but, after being walled up, there were indications of a general cave-in; so the company had to go to work and build another thick rock...
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Headhunting in the Solomon Islands
by Caroline Mytinger Publisher Comments Mytinger, a painter and anthropologist, traveled among the Solomon Islands for two years just before WWII with her handywoman friend Margaret. This book is a hilarious and often uncomfortable epic of their quest to paint portraits of the natives....
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The Log Of The Empire State
by Geneve L.A. Shaffer Publisher Comments When we talked to some of the American residents in Japan, they all got on the old familiar subject, the high cost of living, but they seem to agree that it cost just twice as much to live in Japan as any other place in the world. It seems that without...
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California Coast Trails
by J. Smeaton Chase Publisher Comments This is the lyrical journal of Chase's 2,000-mile horseback journey from Mexico to Oregon along the coast trails. A fascinating look at the towns and wilds of California as they were at the beginning of the 20th century....
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Sacred Places Around the World: 108 Destinations
by Brad Olsen Publisher Comments World travelers and armchair tourists who want to explore the mythology and archaeology of the ruins, sanctuaries, mountains, lost cities, and temples of ancient civilizations will find this guide ideal. Detailed here are the monuments and sites where...
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Oaxaca Journal
by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments The best-selling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks is well know as an explorer of the human mind--a neurologist with a gift for complex, insightful portrayals of people and their conditions. However, he is also...
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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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Lost in My Own Backyard
by Tim Cahill Publisher Comments “Let’s get lost together . . . ” Lost in My Own Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of his—and America’s—favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world’s first national park. Cahill has...
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