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Alarms amongst the Uzbeks - Alexander Burnes Of all the "forbidden" cities (Timbuktu, Mecca, Lhasa, Riyadh and so on) none enjoyed a more... Escape from Riyadh - William Gifford Palgrave A scholar and a solider, a Jesuit and a Jew, a French spy and a British ambassador...
Alone in Africa - Mungo Park Park's 1795-7 odyssey in search of the Niger first awakened the world to the feasibility of a white man... Among the Sudanese - James Bruce Bruce reached the source of the Blue Nile in 1771, a century before the search for the source of the...
Landfall at Botany Bay - James Cook The son of a Yorkshire farm labourer, Cook won distinction as a naval hydrographer but was still a... First Crossing of America - Alexander Mackenzie "Endowed by nature with an acquisitive mind and an enterprising spirit", Mackenzie, a...
Eating Dirt in Venezuela - Alexander von Humboldt Geographer, geologist, naturalist, anthropologist, physician and philosopher, Baron von... Four Years in the Ice - John Ross Disgraced and dishonored for his report of an imaginary mountain range blocking the most likely access...
Farthest South - Ernest Henry Shackleton Born in Ireland, Shackleton joined the merchant navy before being recruited for Captain Scott's... Stranded on Bering Island - Georg Wilhelm Steller As physician and scientific know-all on Vitus Bering's 1741 voyage, Steller shared its...
The country of Colombia, emerging from the fog of its violent past, has been shedding its reputation as a dangerous place. For travel, it... When author John Eyberg announced his plan to bicycle two thousand miles across Texas and back, most people thought he was crazy. But for...
In this extraordinary adventure, a reluctant visitor to the Arctic thrives in the awesome and unforgiving landscape.In 1933, Christiane... The central theme is a 2,500 mile trip taken over 23 days by the author in a 21-foot powerboat, Day by Day, from Puget Sound to Sitka,...
I confess to a great liking for the Indian fashion of name-giving: every man known by that phrase which best expresses him to whoso names... "In the history of the Nile there was a void: its Sources were a mystery. The Ancients devoted much attention to this problem; but in...
"The Vale of Kashmir is too well known to require description. It is the 'happy hunting-ground' of the Anglo-Indian sportsman and... (M. Joubert, frère aîné de l'avocat général à la cour de cassation, homme d'un esprit rare, d'une âme supérieure et...
Je n'ai rien à dire de particulier sur le Voyage en Amérique qu'on va lire ; le récit en est tiré, comme le sujet des Natchez, du... Whether inadvertently smuggling cloth into Istanbul, reading poetry in New Delhi to a crowd expecting a world-famous pianist, or...
In 2001, martial arts-trained biker Glen Heggstad began a journey from California to the tip of South America on his motorcycle and made... The actor Michael Tucker and his wife, the actress Jill Eikenberry, having sent their last child off to college, were vacationing in...
A story about dirt--and about sun, water, work, elation, and defeat. And about the sublime pleasure of having a little piece of French... Ah travel! New scenery, exciting adventures, time alone with a loved one. Truth is, travel can make or break a relationship. Just...
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