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Life On A Very Small Island
by Linda Greenlaw
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by Susan Casey
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsFrom Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devils Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.
by Susan Casey
Published May 2006
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by Ann Bancroft, Liv Arnesen
Published Aug 2004
Read ReviewsChronicles 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.
by G Bruce Knecht
Published Mar 2002
Read ReviewsA page-turner of the highest order, The Proving Ground is more than one of the most exciting adventure stories written in years. It is also an incisive look at the forces that continue to draw men who have triumphed on land to risk everything at sea.
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Published May 2001
Read ReviewsTells perhaps the greatest sea story ever - an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick.
by Sebastian Junger
Published Jun 2000
Read Reviews"Takes readers into the maelstrom and shows nature's splendid and dangerous havoc at its utmost".
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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