Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional travel & adventure books
Travel & Adventure
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The Third Wave: A Volunteer Story
by Alison Thompson
Hardcover: Jul 2011
The Third Wave tells the inspiring story of how volunteering changed Thompsons life, and provides an invaluable inside glimpse into what really happens on the ground after a disasterand a road map for what anyone can do to help.
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Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
by William Dalrymple
Hardcover: Jun 2010
Paperback: Jun 2011
A mesmerizing book that illuminates the remarkable ways in which traditional forms of religious life in India have been transformed in the vortex of the regions rapid change.
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Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
by Vanessa Woods
Hardcover: May 2010
Paperback: Jun 2011
A young woman follows her fiancé to war-torn Congo to study extremely endangered bonobo apes - who teach her a new truth about love and belonging.
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
by Susan Casey
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: May 2011
From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devils Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.
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Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution
by Iain McCalman
Hardcover: Aug 2009
Paperback: Nov 2010
Darwin's Armada tells the stories of Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Joseph Hooker and Alfred Wallace, four young amateur naturalists from Britain who voyaged to the southern hemisphere during the first half of the nineteenth century in search of ...
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The Lassa Ward: One Man’s Fight Against One of the World’s Deadliest Diseases
by Dr. Ross Donaldson MD, MPH
Hardcover: May 2009
Paperback: Jul 2010
Ross Donaldson is one of just a few who have ventured into dark territory of a country ravaged by war to study one of the world's most deadly diseases.More than just an adventure story, it is a portrait of the Sierra Leone people and the struggle of ...
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Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled - and Knuckleheaded - Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
by Mark Obmascik
Hardcover: May 2009
Paperback: May 2010
When Mark Obmascik's twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug, he can't resist the opportunity for some father-son bonding. But after their first joint climb, Obmascik decides to scale all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains - and to ...
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A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
by Tori Murden McClure
Hardcover: Apr 2009
Paperback: Apr 2010
In June 1998, Tori McClure set out to row across the Atlantic Ocean by herself in a twenty-three-foot plywood boat with no motor or sail. It was a journey that affected her life in unexpected ways for years to come.
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