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"Young and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fiancé Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti under brilliant blue skies, with Tami's hometown of San Diego as their ultimate destination. But the two free spirits and avid sailors couldn't anticipate that less than two weeks into their voyage, they would sail directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. They found themselves battling pounding rain, waves...
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"Jim Gaffigan meets Cheryl Strayed in this blisteringly funny memoir about the call of the wild, from one of Scandinavia's biggest comedians. Sometime around his forties, Are Kalvø starts losing his friends ... to the mountains. Friends who used to meet him at the pub are now hiking and skiing every weekend, and when they do show up, all they talk about is feeling at one with nature (without a hint of irony). When Are realizes he's the only person...
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Any reader who has spent some time with Robert Louis Stevenson's body of work won't be surprised to learn that the Scottish author was an inveterate traveler and world explorer from early adulthood. Later in life, the chronically ill author lived in locales around the globe in an attempt to find a home that was amenable to his ailing health. The collection Essays of Travel brings together some of Stevenson's finest essays, short memoirs,
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Mark Twain toured the British Empire in 1895, during which time he began concocting a travelogue about the experience that was published in 1897. Twain's narrative spans the globe, from Australia to Hawaii. Full of tall-tales and real-life criticisms of imperialist arrogance, "Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World" is written with Twain's characteristic wit and enthusiasm for a good, entertaining story.
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Joshsua Slocum spent a lifetime at sea. He ran away from his Nova Scotia home at the age of fourteen and for the next thirty-five years he sailed the world holding every shipboard rank. When a ship under his command was wrecked on the coast of Brazil in 1887, it seemed that his maritime career had ended in disgrace. Not one for retiring to earthly pastures, Slocum rebuilt a hundred- year-old sloop and set off for Boston in 1895 on the first single-handed...
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"Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. When a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of the wildest backdrops on the planet. Stranded with no equipment,...
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"In this fascinating journey through the human body and across the globe, Dr. Reisman weaves together stories about our insides with a unique perspective on life, culture, and the natural world. Jonathan Reisman, M.D.-a physician, adventure traveler and naturalist-brings readers on an odyssey navigating our insides like an explorer discovering a new world with The Unseen Body. With unique insight, Reisman shows us how understanding mountain watersheds...
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Universally generations have been captivated by Mississippi River Legends and mystique, however no one can truly know the great river unless they clutch a paddle for 2,300 miles or read "Willow Sieve Chronicles." One can read Twain and everything written since or perhaps take an expensive excursion on Delta Queen, however, one will never come to know the sight, sound, smell, taste and touch of the "Mighty Muddy" unless they climb aboard the battered,...
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Two middle-aged men, fast friends, make eleven foreign trips-pilgrimages you might call them -to parts of the world rich in the history of Christianity. The trips combine adventure, strenuous physical activity, exhilaration, discovery, and friendship. Three of the journeys were to Western Europe; six were to Eastern Europe and the Balkans and two to the Middle East. The trips were spontaneous and unplanned, often requiring improvisation along the...
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"Bom Bom" is an adventure story of living in and surviving the seventies. A young Aussie and his mate leave their rock'n'roll lifestyle to campervan around Europe and then backpack the "hippie trail" home. Twelve months later they arrived in Bangkok broke, and set off in very different directions. One to life back home, and the other to further adventure. Join them on their amazingly crazy road trip through places and head spaces that defined a time....
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"101 Culinary Secrets Unveiled" is a comprehensive guide that takes you on a journey into the world of culinary arts. Discover the hidden techniques, tips, and tricks that professional chefs use to create extraordinary dishes. Whether you're a beginner cook or an experienced home chef, this book will empower you to take your culinary skills to the next level. Inside, you'll find a treasure trove of culinary knowledge, from knife skills and flavor...
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Sometimes tragic, sometimes uproariously funny, This Place a Stranger is a diverse collection of Canadian women writing about their experiences of travelling alone. From the deceptiveness of the everyday to the extremes of geography, weather and violence, these stories go beyond the usual tales of intrepid male explorers and reveal the varied and unique circumstances in which women travellers find themselves when "going solo."
For one woman, the...
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Inaccessible for most of its history, the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has long fascinated the West. Today, wealthy travelers are admitted in small groups, but in 1987, when Ken Haigh arrived as a volunteer to teach in a small high school, foreign travelers were as hard to find in the kingdom as telephones or toilet paper. Under the Holy Lake describes a two-year sojourn in the valley of Khaling in eastern Bhutan. Ken learns to cope with leeches,...
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When nine friends set out from England in 1969 to travel the world in a double-decker bus called 'Hairy Pillock', little did they know that they would become honorary citizens of Texas, hold the keys to New York, release a record in Australia, perform for the Shah and Empress of Iran, and appear on countless television and radio shows around the world. Their epic three-year journey, which began as a bet with the landlord of their local pub, took them...
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Diana Fletcher's first book is an exciting adventure set in Tunisia. Beautiful sketches and photographs accompany this enchanting autobiographical tale, transporting the reader to a land of mystical desert landscapes, sunshine, camels and nomads. Diana, a single woman now in her mid-seventies, decided to buy her own camel in 2008, and has kept him with the same Bedouin family ever since. Under their care and guidance, she has been able to introduce...
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In the press, on the radio, in the cinema and in books, a lot has been, said of the hippie adventure, and a lot still needs to be said. On the famous Silk Road through Turkey and ancient Persia, young people drop out of their bourgeois background to conquer paradises of ancient India.
The stories told are always romanticized or second-hand accounts. But here, a young girl tells without justification or glorification, in all its humorous, sometimes...
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Les Dotson shares Stories of Love, Laughter, Near Tragedy, Spiritual Encounters, Intense Moments, Partnerships, and Much More. When one of the events in Les' book happened, he decided that he would act accordingly. Now that Les is fully awake and aware, he feels it is the right time to use every opportunity he gets to try to remember that incident and to understand what life is truly about. Meetings at 35,000 Feet and What Are Their Meanings? Is a...
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Extrait: "La réception faite à Son Altesse Impériale Louis-Napoléon dans les départements de l'Est avait été un grand événement politique. À Bar-le-Duc, à Nancy, à Lunéville, à Strasbourg, dans ces grandes villes et dans ces belles campagnes de la Meuse, de la Meurthe et du Bas-Rhin, le cri de Vive l'Empereur! avait retenti avec éclat et réveillé des échos dans la France entière. On pouvait pressentir dès lors l'enthousiasme qui...
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