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Blood River: The Terrifying Journey Through the World's Most Dangerous Country
by Tim Butcher
Hardcover: Oct 2008
Paperback: 1 Sep 2009
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| An utterly absorbing narrative that chronicles Tim Butcher’s forty-four-day journey along the Congo River, Blood River is an unforgettable story of exploration and survival. |
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester
Hardcover: May 2008
Paperback: 5 May 2009
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| The Man Who Loved Chinatells the sweeping story of China through the remarkable life of Joseph Needham's , a brilliant Cambridge scientist . Here is an unforgettable tale of what makes men, nations, and, indeed, mankind itself great—related by one of the world's inimitable storytellers. |
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Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
by Rosemary Mahoney
Hardcover: Jul 2007
Paperback: 15 Sep 2008
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| In 1998 Rosemary Mahoney took a solo trip down the Nile in a seven-foot rowboat. This is the unforgettable story of her trip down the world's most historic river, overcoming both cultural and natural challenges. |
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Shadow of the Silk Road
by Colin Thubron
Hardcover: Jul 2007
Paperback: 1 Jul 2008
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| Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth: Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey. |
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
by Richard Preston
Hardcover: Apr 2007
Paperback: 12 Feb 2008
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| Richard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored: The world of the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained – the coast redwood trees. |
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Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics
by Alexander Frater
Hardcover: Mar 2007
Paperback: 12 Feb 2008
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| From one of the most celebrated travel writers at work today—a vibrantly observant, witty, utterly captivating account of a lifetime’s worth of travel between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. |
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Grayson
by Lynne Cox
Hardcover: Aug 2006
Paperback: 1 Feb 2008
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| The true story of long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox's ocean encounter with an 18-foot baby whale and her efforts to reunite "Grayson" with his mother - part mystery, part magical tale. |
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Underwater to Get Out of the Rain: A Love Affair With the Sea
by Trevor Norton
Hardcover: Jun 2006
Paperback: 30 Jun 2007
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| Eminent marine biologist Trevor Norton takes us around the oceans of the world in this fascinating semi autobiograpical lovefest with the oceans. |
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