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The Discovery of Guiana
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.99At the turn of the 17th century, English writer and explorer Sir Walter Scott read an account of a great golden city in South America. He set out to explore the area, now Venezuela, and on his return he published The Discovery of Guiana . He is considered to have greatly exaggerated his findings, and his work contributed to the El Dorado legend. more...
Travels in West Africa
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.99Supported by a family inheritance that gave her £500 a year, Mary Henrietta Kingsley traveled to Africa to complete the book her father had started. The subject was the culture of Africa and Kingsley stayed with local people while she learned to survive in the African jungles, studied cannibal tribes, discovered new species of fish, and climbed... more...
The Galapagos Islands Travel Adventures
Hunter Publishing 2009; US$ 6.99There is no other place like these islands on earth! This unmatched archipelago is a world away from the mainland, yet it also helps define the identity of Ecuador. The Galápagos Islands captured the imagination of Charles Darwin and provided the catalyst for developing his theory of evolution, forever altering the written history of life on earth.... more...
Madrid & Surroundings Travel Adventures
Hunter Publishing 2009; US$ 6.99The autonomous community of Madrid occupies the geographical center of Spain. With over three million people, Madrid is the bull's-eye on this mostly dry, rolling high plain that is part of the expansive Meseta Central characterizing much of the province and the country around it. The city's elevation, at 2,100 feet above sea level, makes it... more...
God at the Edge
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00Here is a book about adventure, raw experience, and facing inner demons. Niles Elliot Goldstein is a young rabbi who sets out to find God in tough and often scary situations: dogsledding above the Arctic Circle, taking the Silk Road into Central Asia without a visa, being chased by a grizzly bear, cruising with DEA agents through the South Bronx, and... more...
How I Found Livingstone
The Floating Press 2010; US$ 5.99Livingstone's 1840s expedition into Africa, the "Dark Continent", caught the public's imagination. In 1864 he returned to Africa and all but disappeared. Public interest ran so high, that in 1869 the publisher of the New York Herald commissioned reporter Henry Stanley to go and find him. This book is Stanley's account of his adventure,... more...
Rowed Trip
Doubleday Canada 2009; US$ 21.00Two bestselling authors combine their strengths in a travelogue, a search for roots, a romance ? and a seat-of-your-pants adventure. One sunny day in 2006, Julie and Colin Angus were talking about the future, as newly engaged couples do. More unusually, they were at the time travelling together from Moscow to Vancouver by human power ? boat, bike,... more...
Deadliest Sea
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 12.99Soon after 2:00 A.M. on Easter morning, March 23, 2008, the fishing trawler Alaska Ranger began taking on water in the middle of the frigid Bering Sea. While the first mate broadcast Mayday calls to a remote Coast Guard station more than eight hundred miles away, the men on the ship's icy deck scrambled to inflate life rafts and activate the... more...
Rambles Beyond Railways
ReadHowYouWant 2008; US$ 4.99Wilkie Collins' Rambles Beyond, Railways (1851) portrays the authorâs travels on foot with his friend Henry Brandling. They cover 234 miles from the south coast to the Lizard and Penzance and from northern Cornwall to Tintagel and Launceston. more...
Journal of the Dead
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 12.99I killed and buried my best friend today ... When authorities found Raffi Kodikian -- barely alive -- four days after he and his friend David Coughlin became lost in Rattlesnake Canyon, they made a grim and shocking discovery. Kodikian freely admitted that he had stabbed Coughlin twice in the heart. Had there been a darker motive than mercy? And... more...









