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Finding George Orwell in Burma
by Emma Larkin
Hardcover: Jun 2005
Paperback: 6 Mar 2006
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| A brave and revelatory reconnaissance of modern Burma, one of the world's grimmest and most shuttered police states, using as its compass the life and work of George Orwell, the man many in Burma call simply "the prophet" |
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God Lives In St. Petersburg: and Other Stories
by Tom Bissell
Hardcover: Jan 2005
Paperback: 3 Jan 2006
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| Sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic, but always eerily affecting, these stories show us deeply foreign lands and peoples through our own eyes. |
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Allah's Torch: A Report from Behind the Scenes in Asia's War on Terror
by Tracy Dahlby
Hardcover: Jan 2005
Paperback: 27 Dec 2005
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| Charts a fascinating course through the sprawling land of Indonesia, where the home-bred Jemaah Islamiyah, Asia's answer to Al Qaeda, pursues its deadly ambition to create a Southeast Asia Islamic super-state. |
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
by Aron Ralston
Hardcover: Sep 2004
Paperback: 23 Aug 2005
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| A brilliantly written, funny, honest, inspiring, and downright astonishing report from the line where death meets life which will surely take its place in the annals of classic adventure stories. |
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
by Robert Kurson
Hardcover: Jun 2004
Paperback: 24 May 2005
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| In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery – and make history themselves. |
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
by Dean King
Hardcover: Jan 2004
Paperback: 12 Apr 2005
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| A spectacular true odyssey through the extremes of the Sahara Desert in the early 19th century. Reader and protagonist alike are challenged into new ways of understanding culture clash, slavery and the place of Islam in the social fabric of desert-dwelling peoples. |
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The Land That Never Was: Sir Gregor MacGregor and the Most Audacious Fraud in History
by David Sinclair
Hardcover: Jan 2004
Paperback: 1 Jan 2005
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| The bizarre tale of a 19th century land swindle by 'Sir Gregor MacGregor', who conned hundreds of people into buying land in a country that didn't exist; a fact they didn't discover until they'd traveled half way round the world to Central America to claim their property. |
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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
by Robert Whitaker
Hardcover: Apr 2004
Paperback: 28 Dec 2004
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| Whitaker weaves a riveting tale rich in adventure, intrigue, and scientific achievement. Never before told, The Mapmaker's Wife is an epic love story that unfolds against the backdrop of a great 18th century true adventure. |
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