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46 Days Adrift: A True Story
Imagine yourself... adrift in a four-metre tinnie in the shark-infested waters of the Pacific Ocean - lost and seemingly forgotten - shark bait! Ben Tooki, his uncle and a friend were caught in a storm off the island of Kiribati and swept out to sea. For ...more |
Barry Donnelly |
13 Feb 2013 |
$14.99 |
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A Dip in the Ocean: Rowing Solo Across the Indian
Four-thousand miles of unpredictable ocean, 500 chocolate bars, 124 days of physical exertion, three Guinness World Records, and one incredible journey On April 1, 2009, brave 23-year-old Sarah Outen embarked on an ambitious solo voyage across the |
Sarah Outen |
17 Jul 2012 |
$11.99 |
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A Full Life
Charles Reed had enough life experiences for two men, with an exciting career and the heartbreak of a failed marriage. After bouts with multiple sclerosis and alcoholism, he triumphed over the slings and arrows of adversity. ...more |
Charles L. Reed |
18 Sep 2010 |
$6.00 |
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A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa
A true story that rivals the travels of Burton or Stanley for excitement, and surpasses them in scientific achievements. In 1849 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one |
Steve Kemper |
6 Sep 2012 |
$28.95 |
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A Place Beyond: Finding Home in Arctic Alaska
In A Place Beyond, Nick Jans leads us into his "found" home-the Eskimo village of Ambler, Alaska, and the vast wilderness around it. In his powerful essays, the rhythms of daily arctic life blend with high adventure-camping among wolves, traveling with ...more |
Nick Mr. Jans |
23 Nov 2012 |
$16.95 |
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A Will to Be Free Vol. 1
Collected here in this omnibus edition are three influential autobiographies of prominent men who rose up from slavery to greatness. Essential reading for anyone interested in African American Heritage. Included are Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, ...more |
Booker T. Washington |
21 Feb 2013 |
$1.99 |
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A Zoologist on Baffin Island, 1953
The author spent four months in Baffin Island during 1953 as zoologist on a big expedition by the Arctic Institute of North America, where he concentrated on studying birds and mammals. With Inuit hunter Samo he travelled by dog-sledge on the sea-ice of ...more |
Adam Watson |
30 Dec 2011 |
$44.99 |
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Ada BlackJack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
Now available as an ebook, the gripping and inspiring tale of a woman's survival alone in the Arctic.In 1921, four men and one woman ventured deep into the Arctic. Two years later, only one returned. When 23-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed on as ...more |
Jennifer Niven |
18 Jan 2013 |
$14.99 |
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Adventures in Europe and Central America: Travel Stories and Personal Reflections
Dennis Cleasby has an insatiable curiosity for people, photography, art, cultures, and distant lands. Join the author and his wife as they travel through fifteen countries exploring ancient ruins and modern metropolises. This is a memoir reflecting the ...more |
Dennis Owen Cleasby |
1 Sep 2011 |
$2.00 |
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Adventures in Research
Howard J. Wiarda is one of the leading global scholars of international relations, comparative politics, and foreign policy, and the author/editor of more than sixty books. Now in this highly personal and swashbuckling account, Professor Wiarda tells |
Howard J. Wiarda |
2 Mar 2010 |
$6.00 |
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African American Journalists
In the last decade of the 20th century, during a time when African Americans were starting to take inventory of the gains of the civil rights movement and its effects on the lives of black professionals in the public sphere, the memoirs of several journalists ...more |
Calvin L. Hall |
6 May 2012 |
$39.99 |
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Alby Mangels: Beyond World Safari
At the height of his fame Alby Mangels was more than just an international household name - he was a legend! His blockbuster travel documentaries - The World Safari series - blazed a path into untamed territories. He explored the world and took us along. ...more |
Lynn Santer |
13 Feb 2013 |
$9.99 |
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Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
His two companions dead, food and supplies vanished in a crevasse, Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp. On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge |
David Roberts |
18 Dec 2012 |
$27.95 |
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Beryl Markham: Never Turn Back
Markham, an early pioneer in aviation, was a passionate, free-spirited girl struggling to come to terms with her identity and her place in the world. This biography tells of the obstacles she faced and how she overcame adversity to follow her dreams of ...more |
Catherine Gourley |
8 May 2013 |
$11.95 |
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Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo
A largely untold story of an extraordinary historical figure, this biography sheds light on the life of William Sheppard, a 19th-century African American who, for more than 20 years, defied segregation and operated a missionary run by black Americans |
Pagan Kennedy |
1 Apr 2013 |
$10.99 |
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Blue-Collar Wings
Flying airplanes for sport is expensive. Many recreational pilots are businessmen or executives with sufficient income that allows them to fly. But this recreational community also includes a smaller group-the blue-collar workers.With little disposable ...more |
Robert J. Keith |
8 Dec 2009 |
$6.00 |
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Bradford Washburn, An Extraordinary Life: The Autobiography of a Mountaineering Icon
Here at last is the thrilling memoir of the legendary mountaineer Bradford Washburn, one of the last surviving explorers and adventurers of the twentieth century. Drawing from decades of memories, journals, and an exquisite photographic collection, Washburn ...more |
Bradford Washburn &
Lew Freedman |
23 May 2013 |
$19.99 |
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Captain Cook
The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with heroic adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these explorers was navigator and cartographer Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy.
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Frank McLynn |
27 Jul 2011 |
$35.00 |
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Crossing The Gates of Alaska
The snow forms the beginning of a near vertical chute that falls at least a thousand feet. My feet, shaking, manage to hug the thin edge of solid rock. I feel my heart creep to my throat and warm sweat drip down my back, defying the subzero Arctic air. ...more |
Dave Metz |
22 Jan 2010 |
$13.00 |
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Dare to Take the Next Step - Adventures of a Refugee
This book contains inspirational stories from the life of a man who led a colorful life, daring to take the next step in search for adventures. These stories include: - Experiences as freedom fighter in the 1956 Hungarian student revolution, narrowly escaping ...more |
Frank Hegyi |
2 May 2009 |
$9.00 |
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