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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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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
by Paul Theroux
Hardcover: Mar 2003
Paperback: 1 Apr 2004
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| A rich and insightful book whose itinerary is Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town: down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda, and ultimately to the tip of South Africa. |
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Sea Hunters II: More True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks
by Clive Cussler, Craig Dirogohas
Hardcover: Dec 2002
Paperback: 1 Jan 2004
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| Cussler and NUMA (The National Underwater & Marine Agency) demonstrate again that truth can be stranger than fiction. True adventures told in this volume include the 2000 raising of the Confederate submarine Hunley, The Mary Celeste, the Carpathia, and the L'Oiseau Blanc, the airplane that almost beat The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic before disappearing. |
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Another Day In Paradise: International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories
by Carol Bergman
Hardcover: 1 Oct 2003
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| Humanitarian workers define courage in the 21st century. This book gives voice to their stories, to their ability to survive
in the face of death, to their humanity to one another and to those they seek
to serve. |
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The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
by Ken Alder
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: 1 Oct 2003
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| The astonishing story of one of history's greatest scientific quests, a mission to measure the Earth and define the meter for all nations and for all time. |
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
by H.W. Brands
Hardcover: Aug 2002
Paperback: 1 Oct 2003
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| Tells the stories of the great fortunes made and of great fortunes lost by hundreds now forgotten by history; and reveals the profound effect of the Gold Rush on the way Americans viewed their destinies, as the Puritan ethic of hard work and the gradual accumulation of worldly riches gave way to the notion of getting rich quickly. |
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Blue Latitudes
by Tony Horwitz
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: 1 Aug 2003
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| 'Thoroughly enjoyable. No writer has better captured the heroic enigma that was Captain James Cook than Tony Horwitz in this amiable and enthralling excursion around the Pacific.' |
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The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire
by Andrew Marshall
Hardcover: Mar 2002
Paperback: 1 Jul 2003
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| An offbeat and thrilling journey through a lost colonial heritage--and a powerful expose of Burma's modern tragedy. |
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