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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional travel & adventure books
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A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson
Hardcover: Jun 1998
Paperback: 1 May 1999
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| An adventure, a comedy, a lament, and a celebration, A Walk in the Woods is destined to become a modern classic of travel literature. |
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Ship Of Gold In The Deep Blue Sea
by Gary Kinder
Hardcover: Jun 1998
Paperback: 1 May 1999
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| A great American adventure story of the opening of Earth's last frontier. |
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antartic Expedition
by Caroline Alexander
Hardcover: 1 Nov 1998
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| The Endurance thrillingly recounts one of the last great adventures in the Heroic Age of exploration--perhaps the greatest of them all. |
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
Hardcover: May 1997
Paperback: 1 May 1998
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| Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people to throw caution to the wind, and subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense. |
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Under The Tuscan Sun: At Home In Italy
by Frances Mayes
Hardcover: Oct 1996
Paperback: 1 Oct 1997
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| An enchanting and lyrical look at the life, the traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany, in the spirit of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence. |
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Into The Wild
by Jon Krakauer
Hardcover: Dec 1995
Paperback: 1 Feb 1997
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| Mesmerizing, heartbreaking, Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's storytelling blaze through every page. |
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