Tracks is a compilation of personal travel essays that range across three continents, from Italy, where Genni Gunn was born and spent her early years, to Canada and Mexico, and through Asia, where she has travelled many times, both...
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Author:Gunn, GenniSummary: - Author:Monticone, UgoSummary:
Un tracé de voyage réussi empruntera mille détours, suggérés par le hasard et les rencontres. Pour transformer une mésaventure rocambolesque en expérience transformatrice, il suffit bien souvent d'être à l'écoute, disponible....
- Author:Simpson, JoeSummary:
The author relates his nearly fatal adventures mountaineering in the Andes, adventures that included a fall into a crevice, broken limbs, and return to safety.
- Author:Jenkins, JedidiahSummary:
"Thrilling, tender, utterly absorbing ... 'very chapter shimmered with truth. It's an unforgettable debut." 'Cheryl Strayed From travel writer Jedidiah Jenkins comes a long-awaited memoir of adventure, struggle...
- Author:Johan BakkesSummary:
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Author:Hacking, Lawrence, De Clercq, WilSummary:The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who...
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Author:Adams, MarkSummary:From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating and funny journey into Alaska, America's last frontier, retracing the historic 1899 Harriman Expedition. In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman...
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Author:Lewis, Naomi K.Summary:When her marriage suddenly ends, and a diary documenting her beloved grandfather's escape from Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the summer of 1942 is discovered, Naomi K. Lewis decides to retrace his journey to learn about her family...
- Author:Buxton, Lesley, Harper, SuzanneSummary:
Go on… be a time traveller, an anthropologist, an archeologist, an artist, or an explorer! Be everything at once! When you visit a museum, you enter an amazing world where you are limited only by your imagination. The books in the Time...
- Author:Stackhouse, JohnSummary:
After spending years travelling through some of the poorest nations of the world, seeking out the people’s story, award-winning journalist and bestselling author John Stackhouse turns his keen eye toward his own country.
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- Author:Gray Smith, MoniqueSummary:
Winner of the 2019-20 First Nation Communities READ Indigenous Literature Award. An unexpected journey can be powerful medicine. When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket list road trip to...
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Author:Walcott, DerekSummary:Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men. Camille Pissarro, born in 1830, leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris. The poet himself hunts for a detail -- "a slash of pink on the inner thigh...
- Author:Kolb, E. L.Summary:
During the fall and winter of 1911–12, pioneering Grand Canyon photographers Ellsworth and Emery Kolb rowed down the Green and Colorado Rivers through the Grand Canyon. Remarkably, they brought a newfangled motion-picture camera along...
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Author:Kroeker, JeremySummary:Jeremy Kroeker is a Mennonite with a motorcycle. He doesn’t have a funny beard and he’s never even driven a buggy, but his family hails from the same Mennonite community that Miriam Toews fictionalized in A Complicated Kindness. From...
- Author:Booth, MichaelSummary:
There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and...
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Author:Baier, BretSummary:1,000 MILES BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, HE STOOD FOR FREEDOM The #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier reveals as never before Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War. In his...
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Author:Patterson, R. M.Summary:Few men have been as set on isolated adventures and as passionate about the wild landscape of Canada as R.M. Patterson. He spent over 30 years in exploration, from northern rivers such as the Nahanni and the Liard, to the foothills of...
- Author:Richler, MordecaiSummary:
In this memoir, the author recreates the Montreal of his adolescence, of his family, of the friends he hung out with, and reveals their dream of Israel as homeland turned into a reality. Woven throughout are his observations and the...
- Author:Anderson, HeatherSummary:
By age twenty-five, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail-a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical...
- Author:Li, MirokSummary:
As the son of a Korean family of substance the author of this autobiographical sketch grew up, in the early years of the century, among unsettling influences from east and west. Europe, known as "West of the Ocean," supplied...
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