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It's Not about the Tapas: A Spanish Adventure on Two WheelsSingle, stressed, and living amid the hustle and hurry of modern Hong Kong, Polly Evans had a vision: of mountains and orange groves, matadors and promenades-and of a glorious, hassle-free journey across Spain by bicycle. But like any decent dream, Polly's came with its...
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Enduring PatagoniaPatagonia is a strange and terrifying place, a vast tract of land shared by Argentina and Chile where the violent weather spawned over the southern Pacific charges through the Andes with gale-force winds, roaring clouds, and stinging snow. Squarely athwart the latitudes known to...
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Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-GarrardApsley Cherry-Garrard was one of the youngest members of Robert Falcon Scott's legendary expedition to Antarctica, the last man sent out to meet Captain Scott and his men in February 1912, when they were expected to return victorious any day from the South Pole....
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A Tuscan ChildhoodThe sparkling memoir of an idyllic, bohemian childhood in an enchanted Tuscan castle between World War I and World War II. When Kinta Beeevor was five, her father, the painter Aubrey Waterfield, bought the sixteenth-century Fortezza della Brunella in the Tuscan village of Aulla....
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Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of AmericaA New York Times Notable Book "In an era of jet tourism, Jonathan Raban] remains a traveler-adventurer in the tradition of . . . Robert Louis Stevenson." --The New York Times Book Review In 1782 an immigrant with the high-toned name J. Hector St....
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The Snake Swallower of Cochin and Other Odd OccupationsThe poems I wrote from the time I left the Marines to the early 90's including some I wrote specifically for poetry slams, most just specific observations on the human beings and places I visited, loved, hated, fondled and just thought about. Everything for...
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Paris. First Class. International. A Quick Start Guide to The Career of a Flight Attendant and How to Become OneIf you've ever gazed up the sky and wondered what life would be like as a flight attendant.. wonder no more Before you apply for a job as a flight attendant / cabin crew read this quick start guide first This book breaks down...
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Private Pilot Ground Training Lesson PlansThis Private Pilot Ground Training Lesson Plans book is intended to be used with the Gleim ?Private Pilot FAA Knowledge Test Prep? book. In addition to preparing a student for the knowledge test, the Gleim material is also useful in ground training, providing thorough...
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A Tramp Across the Continent: An Adventurer, Journalist and Activist for Native American Rights and Nature's Preservation Journeys Across North AmerCharles F. Lummis tells of an America long departed, when the western and southern frontiers were wilderness, nature untrammeled and settlers rugged in the face of unforgiving conditions. Written as a retrospective of the adventurer's youth, A Tramp Across the Continent, through its varied...
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Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the CongoBook of the Year, The Royal African Society (UK)In the powerful travel-writing tradition of Ryszard Kapuoeci ski and V.S. Naipaul, a haunting memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in one of the world's unhappiest countries. In August 2005, Anjan Sundaram abandoned...
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Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored CaOn September 20, 1998, Jose Vigoa, a child of Fidel Castro's revolution, launched what would be the most audacious and ruthless series of high-profile casino and armored car robberies that Las Vegas had ever seen. In a brazen sixteen-month reign of terror, he and...
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A Life on the Road"A professional memoir of a gifted, good-humored and gracious man...The book has the feel of good conversation on a long trip."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWJohn Charles Kuralt on the journey of his life. From a southern boy bitten by wanderlust and wonder, to...
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Take Me with You: A Round-The-World Journey to Invite a Stranger HomeIt was the dream of a euphoric young traveler awed by the crystalline silence of Afghanistan's Hindu Kush: "Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America." Twenty-five years later, Brad Newsham set out...
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Among Grizzlies: Living with Wild Bears in AlaskaLiving with Wild Bears in Alaska "A heart-stopping eco-adventure, a testimony to both the grizzlies and their courageous protector." --People "The grizzly bear is one of a very few animals remaining on earth that can kill a human in physical combat. It can decapitate...
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At Home in France: Tales of an American and Her House Aboard"As beguiling and delectable as France itself." *Mimi Sheraton "Ann Barry tells her tale directly and clearly, without cloying artifice or guile, so that it has the warmth, honesty, and force of a long letter from an old friend. She makes her reader a...
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Walking the HimalayasFollowing his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet: navigating the treacherous foothills of the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range. Praised by Bear Grylls, Levison Wood has been called the toughest man on...
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300 Tristate Waterfall Hikes of Ohio, Kentucky & IndianaOhio, Kentucky, and Indiana known for sharing the Ohio River and being called the tristate area, has another thing in common...Waterfalls Each area has unique traits that they are known for and waterfalls being one they share equally You will have 300 waterfalls to...
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Hidden Gardens of Paris: A Guide to the Parks, Squares, and Woodlands of the City of LightFor the seasoned Parisian traveller or the novice looking to get off the beaten track Cahill provides a roadmap to parts of the city most visitors will never see In a city that is the destination of millions of travelers every year, it can...
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An Unexpected Light: Travels in AfghanistanWith a New Afterword by the Author Part travelogue, part historical evocation, part personal quest, and part reflection on the joys and perils of passage, this acclaimed synthesis of description and insight remains as relevant today as when it first appeared. Jason Elliot's An...
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Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother CountryOne semitropical Fourth of July, Joe Queenan's English wife suggested that the family might like a chicken vindaloo in lieu of the customary barbecue. It was this pitiless act of gastronomic cultural oppression, coupled with dread of the fearsome Christmas pudding that awaited him...
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