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Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans

David Barrie · Harper Collins Promotion
Pages: 348
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery - an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world.Since...
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

David Sedaris · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A guy walks into a bar car and...From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humor and intelligence and leave you deeply moved. Sedaris remembers his father's...
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Home Sweet Anywhere: How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the World

Lynne Martin · Sourcebooks
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"Nearly every page has some crack piece of travel wisdom ... an accessible, inspiring journey." -KirkusThe Sell-Your-House, See-the-World Life!Reunited after thirty-five years and wrestling a serious case of wanderlust, Lynne and Tim Martin decided to sell their house and possessions...
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Instant Expert: A Visual Guide to the Skills You've Always Wanted

Lonely Planet · Lonely Planet; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The follow-up to Lonely Planet's hit The Book of Everything, Instant Expert contains all that a world traveller needs to know. It's witty and full of brilliant illustrations of all types by noted infographics illustrator Nigel Holmes. Want to know how to dive for pearls, cure toothache,...
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Marking the Sparrow's Fall: Wallace Stegner's American West (A John Macrae Book)

Page Stegner · Henry Holt & Co; 1st edition
Pages: 359
Format: Hardcover

Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, and recipient of both the P.E.N. Center USA West and the California Arts Council award for his body of work, Wallace Stegner is a literary...
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Equator: A Journey

Thurston Clarke · William Morrow & Co
Pages: 463
Format: Hardcover

Thurston Clarke needed twelve visas to travel along the equator and this book is the culmination of the journey. The countries he travelled through include Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore, Nairobi, Quito, Somalia, tha Maldives and Galapagos and Kenya. It is a mixture of humourous anecdotes and political...
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Haunted houses and wandering ghosts of California

Antoinette May · Examiner Special Projects
Pages: 89
Format: Paperback

Book by May, Antoinette
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