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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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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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Take a breath. Push aside those spreadsheets. Take a fresh look at the world around you: Slow Adventures will open your eyes to a wealth of new affirming experiences. Why rush through life when you could stop, ponder and truly experience the world around you? This unhurried exploration of the great outdoors encourages you to engage all of your senses and fully appreciate the beauty of your surroundings. With the emphasis on experiencing, rather than...
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In Dance Life: Movin' & Groovin' Around the Globe, Alpine combines her three all-encompassing passions- writing, travel, and dance- into a bouquet of stories that span her lifetime and the globe. From twerking with a nun in an Albanian orphanage to salsa-ing with a hottie under the burning sun in Cuba, to braving an attempt at flamenco on a Parisian tabletop, these toe-tapping tales will inspire you to follow the call of a wildlife, leaving home with...
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This book is a collection of twenty-nine articles, most of which have been published in American travel magazines. The plethora of stories within each article is personal, informative, entertaining and timeless. In Latin America you will travel across rural Guatemala and socialistic Venezuela by minivan, visit the driest area on earth (in Chile), travel on a shoestring around Patagonia in Argentina, and explore mysterious Easter Island-the most...
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Adventure can mean so many things. For some, it means climbing the peaks of Tibet, sailing the open seas or cycling through Europe. For others, adventure is conquering a fear or pushing yourself to a whole, new level. And, for many, adventure means bravely stepping into the unknown of a new culture, language or setting. Adventure travel, in its essence, means pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone to experience something novel and worthwhile....
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Gaia Calls compiles memoirs and descriptions of Wade Doak's life as a young man in the Solomon Islands living among the islanders, to years of dolphin research, diving adventures, and more. Wade's adventures begin with his wife, Jan, living with atoll dwellers and the shark callers of Laulasi in the Solomon Islands, move to his discovery that interspecies communication can exist with patience, focus, and respect for the natural world, then lead to...
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Viajé al Ártico en el verano de 2018. Compré un pasaje en un crucero que escogí cuidadosamente, tras descartar los barcos grandes que arrojan diariamente a centenares de turistas en las playas. Mi barco era el Rembrandt van Rijn, una goleta holandesa de tres mástiles provista de un motor, construida en 1924, con una tripulación de diez personas y camarotes para solo una treintena de pasajeros. El Rembrandt zarpó de Longyearbyen, en el archipiélago...
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Baltasar Montaño, prestigioso periodista económico antes de embarcarse en este viaje, propone en las páginas de Sin billete de vuelta un cambio radical en la manera de estar en el mundo. Un viaje que tiene tanto de aventura como de reconocimiento interior, porque implica ampliar los horizontes, borrar los prejuicios y las grandes certezas y entender tanto que la resignación es una forma de derrota como que nunca es tarde para romper con un destino...
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Avalanche and Gorilla Jim is a true picture of what it's like to hike over 1,300 miles of fun-filled, gut-wrenching, awe inspiring trail. It is filled with the humor of two guys on a long trek over grueling terrain. You actually live and feel Appalachian trail life, its exciting adventures and fun... and, in a sometimes crappy world, meet people who enrich your faith in humanity. This is the Appalachian Trail with all its beauty and flaws, written...
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Se incluyen en un mismo volumen, por primera vez, los dos textos a partir de los cuales Herman Melville concibió Moby Dick, quizá la más grande de las novelas escritas en lengua inglesa.
Melville admiró profundamente y releyó una y otra vez la Narración del naufragio del Essex, de Owen Chase, primer oficial del barco, hundido por el ataque de un cachalote, cuyos náufragos vivieron una odisea asombrosa, narrada magistralmente por uno de los...
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A wonderfully immersive collection of short stories describing the otherworldly beauty of Norway's arctic fjords and villages seasoned with the comedy of an inexperienced group of international volunteers trying to run a remote island hotel.
The shockingly turquoise, almost tropical, water of the Norwegian Sea provides the background to these stories as they crash into the dark and foreboding mountains that form Norway's famously rugged fjords....
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For ten years the editors of Travelers' Tales have run a writing competition to find the best travel story of the year: The Solas Awards. Over those years, thousands of stories have come across their desks, from writers famous and unknown, covering all corners of the globe with stories of adventure and discovery, love and loss, humor and absurdity, grief and joy. In this collection appear all of the top prize winners of the last ten years, stories...
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Travel along with Steve as he visits 100 countries and all 7 continents. From a middle-class family in Brooklyn, New York he left the corporate world to explore the rest of the world - and found amazing people, places, and experiences from the Tropics to Antarctica. A fascinating read whether you aspire to travel, have been places, or are well-traveled. You'll learn and grow with the author, who presents his story in a light, easy-to-follow perspective...
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Have you ever looked out of the window and thought to yourself, "Wouldn't it be amazing to just get on the next flight out of here and travel the world?"
Well, the good news is you can do just that if you're brave enough to let go of your excuses and make the most of your life. By pulling apart all the things that hold us back, world-traveler Philipp Gloeckl will, take you on an exhilarating journey towards your heart's most desired, most sought-after...
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These short travel essays from around the globe get to the heart of what the words travel and adventure really mean. In Search of Adventure explores the good, the bad, and the ugly of what traveling the world has to offer. The "Trampled Underfoot" section features tales of woe on the road-the worst of the worst, or making the best of the worst. In "Global Issues & Viewpoints," authors explore the changing world, oppressive governments, and the homogenizing...
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A delightful memoir of a later-life friendship and what happens when two ladies of a certain age decide to test the maxim Leap and the net will appear! When two old school friends reconnected unexpectedly after 35 years, they discovered that they both love traveling-and the more exotic and far-flung the location, the better! Not having a clue whether they would get along, the eccentric pair embarked on a trial journey to Morocco. That tentative...
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«Habíamos estado excavando (en el Valle de los Reyes) durante seis temporadas enteras... habíamos trabajado durante meses en una franja de tierra sin encontrar nada y solo un excavador sabe lo desesperantemente deprimente que eso puede resultar... nos estábamos preparando para dejar el Valle cuando en un último esfuerzo desesperado hicimos un descubrimiento que sobrepasaba con mucho nuestros sueños más audaces.»
Este descubrimiento, equiparable...
20) Mystical Places
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Discover 25 mystical destinations from around the globe in this enchanting guide full of magic, folklore and exquisitely beautiful places.
Travel writer Sarah Baxter expertly curates the world's most wonder-filled sites where magic is made manifest. Discover the history and geography of each site and learn their most significant and spellbinding stories, with suggestions of features to look out for and information...
Travel writer Sarah Baxter expertly curates the world's most wonder-filled sites where magic is made manifest. Discover the history and geography of each site and learn their most significant and spellbinding stories, with suggestions of features to look out for and information...
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