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Fried Eggs with Chopsticks
Random House Publishing Group 2006; US$ 14.00Polly Evans?s itinerary for China was simple: travel by luxurious high-speed train and long-distance bus, glide along the Grand Canal and hike up scenic mountains. Instead, the linguistically impaired adventurer found herself on a primitive sleeper-minibus where sleep was out of the question; perched atop a tiny mule on a remote mountain pass; and... more...
Adventure Guide to Scandinavia
Hunter Publishing 2006; US$ 15.00Each country - Sweden, Norway and Denmark - is unique, but all three have been bound together by a common heritage since the Viking era. This guide covers the major cities (Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm), as well as the small towns and the beautiful mountains, forests and lakes. The spectacular fjords here are long and usually enclosed by mountains.... more...
On a Hoof and a Prayer
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 14.00The stampeding true story of one woman?s journey from timorous equestrian novice to wildly whooping cowgirl?a madcap ride through Argentina that will fascinate horse lovers, travelers, and armchair adventurers alike. As a girl, Polly Evans dreamed about learning to ride?and in her mid-thirties the obsession returned. Determined to finally bite the... more...
Strangers in the House
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 22.95Dorothy Gallagher?s critically acclaimed memoir, How I Came Into My Inheritance , told of her childhood in 1940s New York as the daughter of left-wing Russian Jewish immigrants. Time magazine called it ?a piercingly funny book . . . unsentimental, breezy, blunt.? In Strangers in the House, this brilliant stylist takes us into her adult life and tells... more...
Mad Dogs and an Englishwoman
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 14.00Polly Evans had a mission: to learn everything possible about the howling, tail-wagging world of sled dogs. Fool?s errand? Or the adventure of a lifetime? The intrepid world traveler was about to find out. In the dead of winter, Polly Evans ventured to Canada?s far northwest, where temperatures plunge to minus forty and the sun rises for just a... more...
Life Stories
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.95Here are two acclaimed memoirs in one remarkable volume. In an extraordinarily compelling voice, Dorothy Gallagher tells stories taking us from her parents? beginnings in the Ukraine to her own childhood in 1940s New York, through the many adventures of her extended family and into her own adult life. Her themes are universal: the fragility of friendship,... more...
The Worst Journey in the World
The Floating Press 1922; US$ 7.99The Worst Journey in the World is the autobiographical account of a disastrous Antarctic expedition by one of its survivors. Cherry-Garrard's account of the expedition is held in high regard, because of his frank, unflinching discussion of the horrors and trials he survived for such perhaps arbitrary goals. more...
My Lead Dog Was A Lesbian
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 13.95The Iditarod may be the only race that awards a prize for last place. But then how many people can even complete a course that ranges across 1,000 miles of Alaska's ice fields, mountains, and canyons at temperatures that sometimes plunges to 100 degrees below zero? In conditions like these, anything can go wrong. For Brian Patrick O'Donoghue, nearly... more...
Stolen World
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 19.00Tortoises disappear from a Madagascar reserve and reappear in the Bronx Zoo. A dead iguana floats in a jar, awaiting its unveiling in a Florida court. A viper causes mayhem from Ethiopia to Virginia. In Stolen World , Jennie Erin Smith takes the reader on an unforgettable journey, a dark adventure over five decades and six continents. In 1965,... more...
Fair Wind and Plenty of It
Knopf Canada 2010; US$ 19.95In the tradition of Godforsaken Sea and In the Heart of the Sea , Fair Wind and Plenty of It is a virtuoso debut by a sailor turned scribe -- a must-read for lovers of nautical adventure. On November 25th, 1997, the barque Picton Castle, a three-masted, square-rigged tall ship, headed out from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on a voyage around the world.... more...









