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Freewheeling Through Ireland
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2006; US$ 14.99When Edward decided to cycle around Ireland, he was enchanted by prehistoric fortresses, rugged landscapes, and landladies who insisted on washing his shirts. He takes readers with him on a ride up the west coast, eating fresh fish and enormous breakfasts along the way, and stopping to chat to peat-cutters, fishermen, tourists and a matchmaker. more...
Sacred Places North America
CCC Publishing 2008; US$ 15.95This revised and updated comprehensive travel guide examines North America?s most sacred sites for spiritually attuned explorers. Important archaeological, geological, and historical destinations from coast to coast are exhaustively examined, from the weathered pueblos of the American Southwest and the medicine wheels of western Canada to Graceland... more...
The Lost Fleet
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 11.99On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy. Tracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, and Jean Comte d'Estrées, The Lost Fleet portrays a dark age,... more...
Race for the South Pole
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 27.95In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica , each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on. 2010 marks the centenary of the last great race of terrestrial discovery. For the first time Scott's unedited diaries run alongside those of both Amundsen and Olav Bjaaland, never before translated... more...
The Man Who Ate His Boots
Random House 2011; US$ 26.69Dozens of missions set out for the Arctic during the first half of the nineteenth century; all ended in failure and many in disaster, as men found themselves starving to death in the freezing wilderness, sometimes with nothing left to eat but their companions' remains. Anthony Brandt traces the complete history of this noble and foolhardy obsession,... more...
The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 40.00Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world's truly great travellers. Born in fourteenth-century Morocco, and a contemporary of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta has left us an account in his own words of his remarkable journeys throughout the Islamic world and beyond: journeys punctuated by adventure and peril, and stretching from his home in Tangiers... more...
Venezuela Alive
Hunter Publishing 2006; US$ 9.99Packed with in-depth information. -- Philadelphia Inquirer. "Written in a highly readable style, this guide seems to have omitted nothing." -- Pittsburgh Post. Written by an author who has visited the country over 40 times, Venezuela Alive offers a wealth of practical information for the discerning traveler. The focus is on shopping, hotels, dining... more...
The Abaco Islands of the Bahamas
Hunter Publishing 2011; US$ 4.99Often referred to as Abaco, this cluster of islands, islets, and rocky outcrops forms an archipelago that stretches for more than 100 miles, from Walker's Cay in the northeast Bahamas, all the way down to Hole in the Wall in the southwest. It is the second largest grouping of islands in the Bahamas. Abaco, aside from being the most affluent and most-visited... more...
Gap Year Volunteer
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2006; US$ 7.99There have never been so many opportunities on every continent - how do you find the one that's right for you and have experiences that you'll remember forever/tell your grandkids about? This guide will help you find a way to make a difference while exploring new cultures during your gap year. more...
Climbing The Equator
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2006; US$ 10.99Creatures from another time, volcanic mountains five million years old, Indian tribes surviving from the pre-Inca period, jungles and rainforests: Ecuador has all this and more. Only in its Galapagos Islands did Charles Darwin discover such a variety of extraordinary fauna that on his return to England he wrote his groundbreaking On the Origin of Species.... more...









