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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
Paul Theroux - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
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In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay, and dismaying... |
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The Ride of Our Lives
Mike Leonard - Bantam
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The Ride of Our Lives is an inspiring narrative of self-discovery and self-fulfillment - and how one unique family found blessings and simple pleasures on the road called life. |
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Radio Shangri-la: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
Lisa Napoli - Crown Publishers
Format: Book
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Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a crisis, dissatisfied with her life and her work as a radio journalist. When a chance encounter with a handsome stranger presented her with an opportunity to move halfway around the world, Lisa left behind cosmopolitan Los Angeles for a new adventure in the ancient... |
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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Hardcover
Dorothy Wickenden - Scribner
Format: Print book
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This exhilarating saga about two intrepid young women who leave the affluence of their New York home to teach school on the Western frontier in 1916 is authentically created using actual letters home and interviews with descendants.Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood attended grade... |
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The Great Northern Express: A Writer's Journey Home
Howard Frank Mosher - Crown
Format: Book
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From bestselling, nationally celebrated author Howard Frank Mosher, a wildly funny and deeply personal account of his three-month, 20,000-mile sojourn to discover what he loved enough to live for. Several months before novelist Howard Frank Mosher turned sixty-five, he learned that he had prostate... |
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Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Robert Kurson - Random House
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE * A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under... |
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The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
Bill Bryson - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot,... |
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