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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional travel & adventure books
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
by Laurence Bergreen
Hardcover: Oct 2003
Paperback: 1 Nov 2004
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| Magellan's unprecedented circumnavigation of the globe is the subject of this gripping story of heroism, discovery, and disaster. |
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
Hardcover: Sep 2003
Paperback: 31 Aug 2004
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| This powerful and inspiring book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. |
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No Horizon Is So Far: An Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica
by Ann Bancroft, Liv Arnesen
Hardcover: Aug 2003
Paperback: 31 Aug 2004
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| Chronicles and celebrates the journey of two modern-day heroines who crossed Antarctic on foot. Though modern technology could not ensure rescue, website transmissions and satellite phone calls enabled more than 3 million school children from 65 countries to bear witness to Ann and Liv's journey. |
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Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids and a Journey to the Ends of the Earth
by Daniel Glick
Hardcover: May 2003
Paperback: 15 Jun 2004
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| For anyone who dreams of traveling to the world's most exotic places, for anyone already navigating that wild journey called parenting, Monkey Dancing is by turns fascinating, funny, and wise. |
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Fish
by L.S. Matthews
Hardcover: Jun 2004
Paperback: 1 Jun 2003
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| When the political situation becomes too grave, a family of foreign aid workers makes a perilous journey to the border of the war-torn nation that they've called home. Fish is a story that will teach those who doubt that, when hope is almost extinguished, miracles can happen. 10 years +. |
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
by J. Maarten Troost
Paperback: 1 Jun 2004
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| The laugh-out-loud true story of a harrowing and hilarious two-year odyssey on the distant South Pacific island nation of Kiribati—possibly The Worst Place on Earth. |
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
by Caroline Alexander
Hardcover: Sep 2003
Paperback: 1 May 2004
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| The bestselling author of The Endurance reveals the startling truth behind the legend of the HMS Bounty. |
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
Hardcover: Apr 2003
Paperback: 1 Apr 2004
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| The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa. |
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