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Teak-wallah
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Reginald Campbell |
autobiography of young brit in the 1920's who worked as a forester in the Siam jungles and spent months on end with just himself and chinese workers. |
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Gipsy Moth circles the world
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Chichester, Francis Sir |
the first solo circumnavigation of the world with only one stop in Australia,He was knighted by the Queen for the feat. |
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Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell |
[Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, trades unionists, and socialists keen to help the Span… |
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As I walked out one midsummer morning
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Laurie Lee |
It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune. He was to live by playing the violin and by labouring on a London building site. Then, knowing one… |
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Roads
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Larry McMurtry |
As he crisscrosses America -- driving in search of the present, the past, and himself -- Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation's great trails and the culture that has developed aroun… |
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Picasso
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Pierre Daix,Jean-Louis Andral,Pablo Picasso |
In 1946, when Picasso received the offer to use one of the great rooms in the castle at Antibes as a studio, he exclaimed enthusiastically: “I'm not only going to paint, I'll decorate the museum too.… |
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The trouser people
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Andrew Marshall |
Part travelogue, part history, part reportage, The Trouser People is an enormously appealing and vivid account of Sir George Scott, the unsung Victorian adventurer who hacked, bullied, and charmed hi… |
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The incredible voyage
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Tristan Jones |
Follow the supreme adventurer Tristan Jones as he takes a solitary and intrepid six-year voyage on his small craft, The Sea Dart. Covering a distance twice the circumference of the globe, from the l… |
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Endurance
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Janice Marriott |
Describes how the men of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic Expedition survived when their ship was crushed by ice. Suggested level: primary. |
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Tales of a Female Nomad
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Rita Golden Gelman |
The true story of an ordinary woman living an extraordinary existence all over the world.
“Gelman doesn’t just observe the cultures she visits, she participates in them, becoming emotionally invol… |
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The Iron Ring
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Lloyd Alexander |
Driven by his sense of "dharma," or honor, young King Tamar sets off on a perilous journey, with a significance greater than he can imagine, during which he meets talking animals, villainous and nobl… |
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The road to McCarthy
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Pete McCarthy |
"Determined to pin down mythical tales of his own clan history and pursue other far-flung Irish connections to their illogical conclusions, Pete McCarthy is thrust into a world-wide adventure that re… |
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Ripe for the Picking
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Annie Hawes |
During the course of Annie Hawes' new book, local culinary superstar, Ciccio, gradually takes over as Annie's constant companion. How irresistible is a man who first demonstrates his affection and es… |
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The passing of the Great West
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George Bird Grinnell |
Account of a naturalist who was hired as a camp meat hunter on expeditions into Indian country with Gen. George A. Custer. Illness prevented him form joining Custer's last expedition. Interesting… |
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De Golf
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Lieve Joris |
Een journaliste verhaalt over haar verblijf in landen aan de Perzische Golf waar traditie en moderne ontwikkeling botsen. |
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The Dream of Water
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Kyoko Mori |
In an extraordinary memoir that is both a search for belonging and a search for understanding, Japanese-American author Kyoko Mori travels back to Kobe, Japan, the city of her birth, in an unspoken d… |
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Serpent in Paradise
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Dea Birkett |
Author Dea Birkett is inspired to go to Pitcairn Island and contrives a reason and wrangles a grant from the Royal Mail to fulfill her dream of paradise. What she finds is a tiny community of hardy … |
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Ren zai Ouzhou
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Yingtai Long |
Ben shu shou " gei wo yi ge zhong guo wa wa ", " tao se zhi wai ", " guo po shan he zai " deng 30 yu pian san wen. |
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The journeys of Sir Richard Colt Hoare through Wales and England, 1793-1810
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Hoare, Richard Colt Sir |
288 pages : 23 cm |
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Le Corbusier in America
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Mardges Bacon |
"In this first major study of Le Corbusier's American tour, Mardges Bacon reconstructs his encounter with America in all its fascinating detail. Through extensive archival research and interviews, sh… |
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