Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional travel & adventure books
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by David Grann
Hardcover: Feb 2009
Paperback: Jan 2010
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure ...
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
by Daniel L. Everett
Hardcover: Nov 2008
Paperback: Nov 2009
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
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State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America
by Sean Wilsey, Matt Weiland
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: Oct 2009
Edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey, State by State is a panoramic portrait of America and an appreciation of all fifty states (and Washington, D.C.) by fifty-one of the most acclaimed writers in the nation.
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Blood River: The Terrifying Journey Through the World's Most Dangerous Country
by Tim Butcher
Hardcover: Oct 2008
Paperback: Sep 2009
An utterly absorbing narrative that chronicles Tim Butchers forty-four-day journey along the Congo River, Blood River is an unforgettable story of exploration and survival.
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester
Hardcover: May 2008
Paperback: May 2009
The Man Who Loved Chinatells the sweeping story of China through the remarkable life of Joseph Needham's , a brilliant Cambridge scientist . Here is an unforgettable tale of what makes men, nations, and, indeed, mankind itself greatrelated by ...
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Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
by Rosemary Mahoney
Hardcover: Jul 2007
Paperback: Sep 2008
In 1998 Rosemary Mahoney took a solo trip down the Nile in a seven-foot rowboat. This is the unforgettable story of her trip down the world's most historic river, overcoming both cultural and natural challenges.
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Shadow of the Silk Road
by Colin Thubron
Hardcover: Jul 2007
Paperback: Jul 2008
Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth: Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey.
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
by Richard Preston
Hardcover: Apr 2007
Paperback: Feb 2008
Richard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored: ...
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