Travel : Adventure

World travelers and armchair tourists who want to explore the mythology and archaeology of the ruins, sanctuaries, mountains, lost cities, and temples of ancient civilizations will find this guide ideal. Detailed here are the monuments and sites where ancient peoples once gathered to perform sacred rituals and ceremonies to worship various gods and to achieve spiritual enlightenment. more...

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Welcome to the daring, thrilling, and downright strange adventures of William Willis, one of the world’s original extreme sportsmen. Driven by an unfettered appetite for personal challenge and a yen for the path of most resistance, Willis mounted a single-handed and wholly unlikely rescue in the jungles of French Guiana and then twice crossed the broad Pacific on rafts of his own design, with only housecats and a parrot for companionship. more...

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Life is not going well for Will Randall, a burned out, thirtyish teacher in an English public school. He's tired of his students, they're tired of him, and his girlfriend wants to call it quits. But things are about to change. Will has a fleeting conversation on a cricket field with a doddering, 84 year-old man known as "the Commander" who has retired to England after running a cocoa plantation in the South Pacific for thirty years. Six months later the Commander has died and his will is read: he wants someone to travel to his lost, long-missed island--where his old plantation has fallen to ruins--and devise a way for the native people to support themselves. This way they might avoid poverty, build a new school, and even fend off the developers. It's a mission of noblesse oblige--yet possibly a fool's errand as well. Will half-willingly agrees to go. Spread lazily across the Tropic of Capricorn, the Solomon Islands are not so much the Pacific archipelago that time forgot, as the one that forgets time. And as Will quickly discovers, it is a place where timekeeping is governed by the sun and moon, where schedules and deadlines do not translate into the local dialect of "pijin" English. Will's new home is Menali, a fishing village so remote it can only be reached by motorized canoe. His house there is constructed of leaves and stilts. The people of the village, some of whose cheeks are engraved with the rising sun, are welcoming, for they remember the Commander, and still practice a pagan Anglicanism in a church he built for them in 1956. They live on fish of every sort, mud crabs, yams, Ngali nuts, even the honeycomb of termites. Here and there in the jungle lurk the mossy skeletons of WWII tanks. Randall decides that the villagers might be able to raise chickens. It's low-tech, low-capital, and environmentally low impact. But--as the attached excerpt shows--finding live chicken eggs for hatching proves wildly difficult. Wil more...

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An illustrated city guide, phrasebook, and maps. Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide on Your PDA. Fully illustrated. Historical overviews. Interesting facts. Street Map, Metro Map, and more. Museums hours and ticket info. Navigate from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway, during a flight. Add Bookmarks. Text annotation and mark-up. Table of Contents. Chapters | A-Z Index. Chapters. General. Maps. Phrasebook. Transport. Attractions. Culture. Landmarks. Eat & Drink. By Area. Netherlands. Units Conversion. About and Navigation. General: About | Tourist Office | History | Weather | Education | Religion | Cope | Stay Safe | Contact | Sleep. Maps: City Map | Metro Map | Train Stations | Boroughs | Defense Line | Netherlands: Provinces. Phrasebook: About | Pronunciation | Phrase List. Transport: Get in | Get around | Schiphol | Schiphol Station | Metro | GVB | Amsterdam Centraal | Tram line 5. Attractions: Shopping | Artis | Yab Yum | Dungeon | Beach | Red-Light Districts. Culture: Architecture | Music & Theatre | Tuschinski | Events | Museums. Landmarks: Buildings | Churches | Bridges | Canals | Squares & Streets | Parks | Windmills. Eat & Drink: Eat | Drink | Dutch cuisine. By Area: Geography | Orientation | Boroughs | Neighborhoods | Get Out. Netherlands: About | Get in | Get around | History | Culture | Buy | Eat | Drink | Smoke | Sleep | Work | Stay Safe | Stay Healthy | Respect | Contact. more...

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An illustrated city guide, phrasebook, and maps. Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide on Your PDA. Fully illustrated. Historical overviews. Interesting facts. Street Map, Transportation Maps, and more. Museums hours and tickets info. Navigate from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway, during a flight. Add Bookmarks. Text annotation and mark-up. Table of Contents. Chapters | A-Z Index. General. Maps. Phrasebook. Transport. Attractions. Culture. Landmarks. By Area. Parks. Eat & Drink. Units Conversion. About and Navigation. General: About | Tourist Info | History | Politics | Climate | Sleep | Stay Safe. Maps: Berlin | Mitte | Boroughs | S-Bahn | U-Bahn | Stadtbahn | Museum Island | Unter den Linden | Germany | Germany Detailed. Phrasebooks: About | Pronunciation | Phrase List. Transport:Get in | Get around | Straßenbahn | S-Bahn | U-Bahn | Airports | Routes | Rail. Attractions: Tours | Zoo | Pfaueninsel | Shopping | Festivals & Parades. Culture: About | Theatre, Opera, Concerts, Cinema | Museum Island | Museums | Architecture. Landmarks: Buildings & Structures | Places of worship | Berlin Wall | Memorials. By Area: Geography | Boroughs | Localities | Squares | Streets | Get Out. Parks: Parks | Botanical Garden | Zoologischer Garten | Cemeteries. Eat & Drink: Eat | Drink | German Cuisine. more...

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