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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Since Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910-1912, controversy has raged about the correct interpretation of and explanation for the tragedy. Some writers have drawn a picture of Scott as a bumbling incompetent, whose lack of experience and preparation condemned his men to their deaths. Aspley Cherry-Garrard's account The Worst Journey in the World...
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Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
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In 1526 Carlos I of Spain granted Pánfilo de Narváez a license to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States. Pánfilo de Narváez set sail in 1527 to conquer and settle present day Florida. Setting out with a crew of approximately 600 members ultimately only four members would survive the ill-fated expedition. The journey would take these four survivors from Spain to Hispaniola and Cuba and then onto Florida. Sailing through a hurricane...
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Lawrence and the Arabs by Robert Graves is a compelling biography of T.E. Lawrence, better known as "Lawrence of Arabia," and his role in the Arab Revolt during World War I. Graves, a friend and contemporary of Lawrence, provides a unique perspective on Lawrence's complex character and his legendary involvement in Middle Eastern history. With keen insight and vivid storytelling, Graves follows Lawrence's transformation from a British officer and archaeologist...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. “The Oregon Trail” offers a critical view of the Conestoga wagon generation. The result of the notes Parkman took along the newly-developed roads to the West, the book put an end to the sentimentalized portrait of pioneer travel. Altering the course of American history and shaping early views of Native Americans, it denounces, in its descriptions of the Oglala...
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I hope you will learn through reading this that my decision-making skills sometimes need a bit of help, but, that it all works out fine in the end.
I feel I have been tremendously lucky and privileged to have had the lives (yes, it does feel like more than one) I've had. I've loved all of the 103 countries I have visited.
The people who have had walk-on or more starring roles in my story have helped shape me into the Buddha lookalike I've grown...
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A Brown Man in Russia describes the fantastical travels of a young, colored American traveler as he backpacks across Russia in the middle of winter via the Trans-Siberian. The book is a hybrid between the curmudgeonly travelogues of Paul Theroux and the philosophical works of Robert Pirsig.
Styled in the vein of Hofstadter, the author lays out a series of absurd, but true stories followed by a deeper rumination on what they mean and why they matter....
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Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with "womanizer". He associated with European royalty, popes and cardinals, along with luminaries such as Voltaire, Goethe...
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"Un pueblo antiguo, el primero y legítimo dueño del continente americano, se deshace día a día como la nieve bajo los rayos del sol y, a la vista de todos, desaparece de la faz de la tierra. En sus propias tierras, y usurpando su lugar, otra raza se desarrolla con rapidez aun mayor; arrasa los bosques y seca los pantanos; lagos grandes como mares y ríos inmensos se oponen vanamente a su marcha triunfal."
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Skipp heard the squeak and strain of the taut rope as it pulled on the pier holding the forty-foot schooner wobbling in the Santa Cruz Harbor. He had just finished sanding a ten-foot section of wooden rail, and he was dipping the hog's hairbrush into the varnish when he heard the sound of a young woman's voice calling his name.
He had dreamed about meeting a beautiful woman in such a place. "So you live on a boat," she said. "Oh, we have got to see...
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This is memoir of the many adventures of Jim Miles a prospector, hunter, real estate speculator, a state government official, a private investigator, a spiritual seeker, a stock broker, a policeman, a gem stone collector and trader, and many more. This book is a selection from a few of his adventures.
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El asombroso y descomunal entorno que describe el autor en esta magnifica novela embauca al lector tanto que, como nos dice su protagonista, uno se siente fundir con el extraordinario paisaje del altiplano boliviano. Las montañas nos enseñan que la línea que separa el éxito del fracaso es muy tenue, quizá demasiado, y también que el verdadero triunfo, en ese mundo de paredes y abismos, es volver para contarlo.
Esta novela, inspirada en un hecho...
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When I think of what Julie and I did, it humbles me. We were right out of college, just married, working in a job I didn't care for. She got the invitation, I took a test, and we both accepted. I was of draft age, but there would be no deferment. Can you imagine joining the Peace Corps, where you would train to teach in segregated Macon County, Alabama? You and your wife, northern whites, in 1967, would train to teach in a segregated all-black school....
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Surfaces & Souvenirs is about avoiding the "standard" experience for children. It is about learning to see beyond the obvious. It about watching things evolve. Every outing should incite wonder. Every excursion should grab their attention, and sharpen their sensibilities. Every experience must attend to their inclinations and spur development of their interests. Every outing, that reveals a multitude of materials, textures and interactions, nurtures...
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Composed at the turn of the century by A No. 1, the famous tramp, The Ways of the Hobo presents a United States where losing one’s self in the landscape of America was truly possible. This is a world where identities are re-imagined in seconds and travel is as thrilling as it is dangerous. Follow A No. 1 as he travels amid the foothills of the Alleghenies, Lake Erie, Kansas City, San Diego, Oceanside and all points in between. The Ways of the Hobo...
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Some might describe Peter Kirk's story as one of riches to rags, but it is more like, top hat and tails to smart casual. This biography begins with a short introduction to the English iron mogul and how he arrived in Seattle, Washington Territory in 1886. It explains his family's 100-year history in the iron industry, riding the wave of success during the Industrial Revolution through Britain's successful Victorian era rail expansion. Transferring...
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After being stuck journaling, Steve decided the best way to capture his feelings with what he saw was to write it in a poem. On the Path of the Lone Wolf, it compiles interesting thoughts, poems, and pictures. This book is a must read for those who have hiked the Appalachian Trail and understand those feelings, as well as those who would like it.
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This is the story of the fifty-year adventure of one man's shooting and wilderness education and how it evolved into what it is today. It started in 1958 on the south shore of Long Island, advanced through Upstate New York, North Carolina, Georgia, Alaska, California, Africa, New Zealand, and, currently, back to California. Every incident in this book is true, thus allowing the author the luxury of being both opinionated and, perhaps, a little unorthodox...
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More of his life experiences are documented in My Personal Memoir, Volume Two. Ohio River Trekking on a Small Budget: A 981-Mile Adventure. A True Appalachian Story. Russ' lifelong dream of trekking the entire 981 mile Ohio River by boat became clear to him when he was 12 years old. From the time he was old enough to understand that books could take him along with frontiersmen, he read countless records of their travels and exploits. Personal experience...
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This book allows the reader to experience a foretaste of what life is like on the Appalachian Trail. The daily journal entries of all 162 days, along with photos of each of those days, shares the reality of what the AT can and will throw at you each-and-every day.
The anticipation is that this book could be used as a guide for any individual who is thinking and/or planning a hike on the Appalachian Trail, whether it be a short weekend outing, a two...
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