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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Across the savage sea Across the savage sea Maud Fontenoy Traces the 2003 journey of the female rower, who crossed the Atlantic in a twenty-four-foot-long boat over the course of one hundred and seventeen days, facing near-freezing water, exhaustion, sharks… OL15841336W
The Malay Archipelago The Malay Archipelago Alfred Russel Wallace CLASSIC TRAVEL WRITING. Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some e… OL19720944W
Rowing for my life Rowing for my life Kathleen Saville By the first woman to row across the North Atlantic and to row across two oceans, an account of seeking adventure and fulfillment on the high seas in a twenty-five-foot rowboat, of her Guinness Book … OL20058576W
The Outlaw Ocean The Outlaw Ocean Ian Urbina There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense re… OL20092310W