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Wild (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition)
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.95Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection: This special eBook edition of Cheryl Strayed?s national best seller, Wild , features exclusive content, including Oprah?s personal notes highlighted within the text, and a reading group guide. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother?s death, her family scattered and... more...
Without Reservations
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.00Paris Dear Alice, Each morning I am awakened by the sound of a tinkling bell. A cheerful sound, it reminds me of the bells that shopkeepers attach to their doors at Christmastime. In this case, the bell marks the opening of the hotel door. From my room, which is just off the winding staircase, I can hear it clearly. It reminds me of the bell that... more...
100 Things
Random House Australia 2011; US$ 18.08What's on your bucket list? For one man the answer was just the beginning. Have you ever allowed yourself time to think about what's really important to you? Something you have always dreamed of doing? In a moment of reflection after the loss of a friend, Sebastian Terry's answer is a list of 100 things, the things he's always wanted to do. Sebastian... more...
In Trouble Again
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableRedmond O'Hanlon found few experienced adventurers willing to accompany him on his four-month trip up the Orinoco river and across the Amazon Basin. He wondered why... Was it perhaps the fear of contracting dysentery, rabies or river blindness? Or maybe it was a disinclination to meet peckish jaguars, vipers, anacondas and 640-volt electric eels?... more...
The White Death
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2002; US$ 13.00In 1969, five young men from Montana set out to accomplish what no one had before: to scale the sheer north face of Mt. Cleveland, Glacier National Park's tallest mountain, in winter. Two days later tragedy struck: they were buried in an avalanche so deep that their bodies would not be discovered until the following June. The White Death is the... more...
Dark Summit
Henry Holt and Co. 2008; US$ 16.99The inside story of the deadly 2006 climbing season on Everest On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was left for dead near the same spot. Hall?s death... more...
Travels
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 12.95From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park , Timeline , and Sphere comes a deeply personal memoir full of fascinating adventures as he travels everywhere from the Mayan pyramids to Kilimanjaro. Fueled by a powerful curiosity?and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up?Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds... more...
Canoeing the Congo
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2013; US$ 9.99At 2,922 miles, the Congo is the eighth longest river and the deepest in the world, with a flow rate second only to the Amazon. Ex-Marine Phil Harwood embarked on an epic solo journey from the rivers true source in the highlands of Zambia through war-torn Central Africa. With no outside help whatsoever he faced swamps, waterfalls, man-eating... more...
Into Thin Air
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 1998; US$ 15.00When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing... more...
The Land of War Elephants
Nomad Press 2003; US$ 7.98Offering an intimate look at the people and places of Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan, this memoir by adventurer and historian Mathew Wilson recounts journeys into remote areas as a member of the British army and with his family in the late 1960s. Wilson relates stories of crossing the Hindu Kush with his pregnant wife and two-year-old son and running... more...









