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Sailing Alone Around the World
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 5.95As the first person to ever complete a single-handed circumnavigation of the globe, Joshua Slocum recounts his pioneering feat in Sailing Alone Around the World (1899), an engaging memoir of his adventures aboard the sloop Spray . An immediate success, the book has inspired countless later travelers. Slocum, a master of understating his achievements,... more...
A Voyage Round the World, Volume 1
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 5.95The Blind Traveler , James Holman, was a British adventurer who undertook a number of lone journeys unprecedented through history in their distance and methodology. Not only was Holman rendered totally blind from the age of 25, he also suffered from severe pain and restricted mobility. He was a pioneer of "human echolocation", using the sound... more...
Following the Equator
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.99Following the Equator is an account by Mark Twain of his travels through the British Empire in 1895. He chose his route for opportunities to lecture on the English language and recoup his finances, impoverished due to a failed investment. He recounts and criticizes the racism, imperialism and missionary zeal he encountered on his travels - and all... more...
In Search of Captain Cook
I.B.Tauris 2008; US$ 37.00Captain James Cook was the greatest explorer of his age, perhaps of any age. He was a leader of men, a master voyager who journeyed to unknown places, a seeker of knowledge who commanded three demanding scientific expeditions. He and his crews had encounters with peoples of the South Seas which could lead to mutual respect and trade, but also to misunderstanding... more...
"Un uomo è solo al comando ..."
Universitätsverlag Winter 2012; US$ 54.01Hauptbeschreibung Der Straßenradsport erfreut sich in Italien seit seinen Anfängen großer Popularität. Auffallend dabei ist, dass sich die Darstellung dieses Volksports in der italienischen Presse im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts nicht an den prägenden soziopolitischen wie auch kulturhistorischen Veränderungen orientiert hat, sondern sich vielmehr über... more...
Kijana
Allen & Unwin 2005; US$ 29.95Ever since returning home aboard Lionheart, Jesse Martin dreamt of being out on the ocean again. This time he wanted to take a crew of his friends along for the ride. It would be a wild and daring journey of fun, exploration and discovery, a rite of passage ? but what eventually transpired onboard the Kijana was something altogether different... more...
Planes, Trains and Elephants
Allen & Unwin 2002; US$ 22.68More travel adventures from the author of Rule no 5: No Sex on the Bus, from the intrepid to the downright dubious. more...
Flying Cloud
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99Flying Cloud is the riveting and thoroughly researched tale of a truly unforgettable sea voyage during the days of the California gold rush. In 1851, navigator Eleanor Creesy set sail on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud , traveling from New York to San Francisco in only 89 days. This swift passage set a world record that went... more...
Moving Lives
University of Minnesota Press 2001; US$ 72.00In Moving Lives Sidonie Smith explores how women?s travel and travel writing in the twentieth century were shaped by particular modes of mobility, asking how the form of travel affected the kind of narrative written. more...
The Lunatic Express
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 14.00Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs. Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed those short news bulletins, which seemed about as far from the idea of tourism, travel as the pursuit of pleasure, as it was possible to get. So off he went, spending six months circumnavigating the globe... more...









