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Wine to water
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Doc Hendley |
" The captivating story of an ordinary bartender who's changing the world through clean water. Doc Hendley never set out to be a hero. In 2004, Hendley-a small- town bartender- launched a series of … |
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Short nights of the Shadow Catcher
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Timothy Egan |
How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prizewinning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native … |
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Naked and marooned
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Ed Stafford |
"What do you do after you walk the Amazon? Ed Stafford-adventurer extraordinaire and Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River-likes a challenge. Casting about for an ad… |
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The captain and "the cannibal"
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James Fairhead |
"Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quic… |
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The broken road
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Patrick Leigh Fermor |
"In the winter of 1933 eighteen-year-old Patrick ('Paddy') Leigh Fermor set out to walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople, a trip that took him the better part of a year… |
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The push
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Tommy Caldwell |
"This engrossing memoir chronicles the journey of a boy with a fanatical mountain-guide father who was determined to instill toughness in his son to a teen whose obsessive nature drove him to the top… |
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Endurance
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Alfred Lansing |
"Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. In January 1915, after battlin… |
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A survival guide for life
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Bear Grylls |
The wilderness teaches us lessons about ourselves and the world around us. These lessons can save our lives when we are up a mountain, but they can also improve our daily lives by giving us the skil… |
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Phenomenal
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Leigh Ann Henion |
A "tale of physical grandeur and emotional transformation, a journey around the world that ultimately explores the depths of the human heart. A journalist and young mother, Henion combines her own va… |
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The outsider
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Frederick Forsyth |
"From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever--his own"--
He was the RAF's youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath… |
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Think South
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Cathy De Moll |
"What does it take to move forty dogs, three sleds, twenty tons of food and gear, and six men from all over the world across nearly four thousand of the coldest miles on earth? Cathy de Moll, the exe… |
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Amelia Earhart
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W. C. Jameson |
This "is a biography of the life--and disappearance--of Amelia Earhart, the pioneering aviator who was the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic in 1928. But did Amelia's plane really crash and s… |
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The World's Most Travelled Man
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Mike Spencer Bown |
viii, 372 pages : 24 cm |
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