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Dove

By: Robin L. Graham

Price: $5.95

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: March 1991

Seller ID: 331594

ISBN: 0060920475

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In 1965, 16-year-old Robin Lee Graham began a solo around-the-world voyage from San Pedro, California, in a 24-foot sloop. Five years and 33,000 miles later, he returned to home port with a wife and daughter and enough extraordinary experiences to fill this bestselling book, Dove.
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The Places In Between

By: Rory Stewart

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: May 2006

Seller ID: 305805

ISBN: 0156031566

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving amid the remains of medieval civilizations. By night he slept on villagers' floors, shared their meals, and listened to their stories of the recent and ancient past. Along the way Stewart met heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers, Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers. He was also a...
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The Places In Between

By: Rory Stewart

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: May 2006

Seller ID: 324774

ISBN: 0156031566

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Kipawa River Chronicles

By: Scott Sorensen

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Scott Sorensen: May 1999

Seller ID: 233020

ISBN: 096729830X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

By: Sebastian Junger

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W.W. Norton: May 1997

Seller ID: 284558

ISBN: 039304016X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In October 1991, three weather systems collided off the coast of Nova Scotia to create a storm of singular fury, boasting waves over one hundred feet high. Among its victims was the Gloucester, Massachusetts-based swordfishing boat the Andrea Gail, which vanished with all six crew members aboard. "Drifting down on swimmers is standard rescue procedure, but the seas are so violent that Buschor keeps getting flung out of reach. There are times when he's thirty feet higher than the men trying to rescue him. . . . I]f the boat's not going to Buschor, Buschor's going to have to go to it. SWIM the...
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

By: Sebastian Junger

Price: $6.95

Publisher: W.W. Norton: May 1997

Seller ID: 305828

ISBN: 039304016X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

By: Sebastian Junger

Price: $6.95

Publisher: W.W. Norton: May 1997

Seller ID: 333706

ISBN: 039304016X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

One Watch at a Time: Around the World With Drum on the Whitbread Race

By: Skip Novak

Price: $7.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: March 1988

Seller ID: 328386

ISBN: 0393024989

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Cannibal Queen: An Aerial Odyssey Across America

By: Stephen Coonts

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Pocket Books: June 1992

Seller ID: 129590

ISBN: 067174884X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Spy On The Roof Of The World: Espionage and Survival in the Himalayas

By: Sydney Wignall

Price: $7.95

Publisher: The Lyons Press: July 2000

Seller ID: 271142

ISBN: 1585740691

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints (Modern Library Exploration)

By: Tim Severin

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Modern Library: April 2000

Seller ID: 272004

ISBN: 0375755241

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Could an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medieval text of St. Brendan, award-winning adventure writer Tim Severin painstakingly researched and built a boat identical to the leather curragh that carried Brendan on his epic voyage. He found a centuries-old, family-run tannery to prepare the ox hides in the medieval way; he undertook an exhaustive search for skilled harness makers (the only people who would know how to stitch the three-quarter-...
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Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight

By: William Langewiesche

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vintage: June 1999

Seller ID: 271630

ISBN: 067975007X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Rough Water: Stories of Survival from the Sea (Extreme Adventure)

By: Willis

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Adrenaline Books: January 1999

Seller ID: 344688

ISBN: 1560251743

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd

By: Zacks, Richard

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Hyperion: June 2003

Seller ID: 347142

ISBN: 0786884517

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A literary treasure, The Pirate Hunter is a masterpiece of historical detective work, and a rare, authentic pirate story for grown-ups. Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer, fabulously rich, burying dozens of treasure chests up and down the eastern seaboard. But it turns out that most everyone, even many respected scholars, have the story all wrong. Captain William Kidd was no career cut-throat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain who was hired to chase pirates. His three-year odyssey aboard the aptly named Adventure galley pitted him against a...
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