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“jonathan arlan”

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  • Mountain Lines

    A Journey through the French Alps

    by Jonathan Arlan ...
    A New York Times best summer travel book recommendationA nonfiction debut about an American’s solo, month-long, 400-mile walk from Lake Geneva to Nice.In the summer of 2015, Jonathan Arlan was nearing thirty. Restless, bored, and daydreaming of adventure, he comes across an image on the Internet one day: a map of the southeast corner of France with a single red line snaking south from Lake Geneva, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Walking to Samarkand

    The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia

    by Bernard Ollivier ...
    Translated by Dan Golembeski ...
    Acclaimed journalist Bernard Ollivier continues his epic journey across Persia and Central Asia as he walks the length of the Great Silk Road.Walking to Samarkand is journalist Bernard Ollivier’s stunning account of the second leg of his 7,200-mile walk from Istanbul, Turkey, to Xi’an, China, along the Silk Road--the longest and perhaps most mythical trade route of all time. Picking up where Out ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Same River Twice

    A Memoir of Dirtbag Backpackers, Bomb Shelters, and Bad Travel

    by Pam Mandel ...
    Acclaimed travel writer Pam Mandel's thrilling account of a life-defining journey from the California suburbs to Israel to the Himalayan peaks and back.Given the choice, Pam Mandel would say no and stay home. It was getting her nowhere, so she decided to say yes. Yes to hard work and hitch-hiking, to mean boyfriends and dirty travel, to unfolding the map and walking to its edges. Yes to unknown ... Read more

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  • Walking with Ghosts in Papua New Guinea

    Crossing the Kokoda Trail in the Last Wild Place on Earth

    by Rick Antonson ...
    Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson (Full Moon Over Noah’s Ark) tackles his most challenging adventure yet: a formidable trail through the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea.Rick Antonson has traveled to parts of the world that are not simply exotic but sometimes damned near inaccessible. He has climbed to the summit of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, traveling beyond to Iraq and Iran and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Out of Istanbul

    A Journey of Discovery along the Silk Road

    by Bernard Ollivier ...
    Translated by Dan Golembeski ...
    Acclaimed journalist Bernard Ollivier begins his epic journey on foot across the Silk Road.Upon retirement at the age of sixty-two, and grieving his deceased wife, renowned journalist Bernard Ollivier felt a sense of profound emptiness: What do I do now? While some see retirement as a chance to cash in their chips and settle into a comfy armchair, Ollivier still longed for more. Searching for ... Read more

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  • This Is Cuba

    An American Journalist Under Castro's Shadow

    by David Ariosto ...
    "David Ariosto is a lively and engaging guide to this recent tumultuous period in Cuban history that is so important on both sides of the Florida Straits." ―Lulu Garcia-Navarro, host of NPR's Weekend EditionUSA Today "New and Noteworthy"One of The Washington Post 's "10 Books to Read—and Gift—in December"This is Cub... ... Read more

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  • Songs of the Baka and Other Discoveries

    Travels after Sixty-Five

    by Dennis James, Barbara Grossman ...
    Abandoning the comfort and security of a typical retirement, a couple travels and treks through the most isolated parts of the world.After their retirement, Dennis James and Barbara Grossman decide to travel where tour buses won’t and where the US government says don’t,” incorporating trekking into their travels as a way to see untouched areas of the world considered inhospitable by many.Armed ... Read more

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  • Bering Sea Strong

    How I Found Solid Ground on Open Ocean

    by Laura Hartema ...
    Full of unusual characters, mischief, camaraderie, and testosterone-fueled man gossip.Bering Sea Strong is a tale of adventure and self-discovery. The story portrays a young woman on a solo journey, pushed to the edge of the earth and further from the weight of family—marked by divorce, death, disability, and depression—and a life she desires on land.Locked at sea for ninety days as the lone ... Read more

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  • The Joys of Travel

    And Stories That Illuminate Them

    by Thomas Swick ...
    The Joys of Travel: And Stories that Illuminate Them is a collection of Thomas Swick’s personal essays on what he has identified as the seven joys of travel”: anticipation, movement, break from routine, novelty, discovery, emotional connection and heightened appreciation of home.The Joys of Travel awakens readers to pleasures that, as travelers, they may be taking for granted. It also shows non ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Call of the American Wild

    A Tenderfoot's Escape to Alaska

    by Guy Grieve ...
    A wild adventure.” -IndependentA man, an axe, and a dog named Fuzzy . . . let the adventure begin! Trapped in a job he hated and up to his neck in debt, Guy Grieve’s life was going nowhere. But with a stroke of luck, his dream of escaping it all to live in the remote Alaskan tundra suddenly came true. Miles from the nearest human being and armed with only the most basic equipment, Guy built a log ... Read more

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  • Across the Savage Sea

    The Epic Journey of the First Woman to Row Across the North Atlantic

    by Maud Fontenoy ...
    Translated by Martin Sobolinsky ...
    Over the last century only six men had defied the power of nature and successfully rowed across the Atlantic from west to east. Maud Fontenoy, a 2005 Time (Europe) Hero, changed that forever when she became the first woman to do so. In 2003 Fontenoy, a young woman and seasoned mariner, set out from Newfoundland in her twenty-four-foot-long boat, Pilot, to row across the North Atlantic. Her goal: ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Querencia

    by Stephen Bodio ...
    Born in Boston, Stephen Bodio wandered into Magdalena, New Mexico, in the 1970s while on his way to Montana and never left. He was accompanied by Betsy Huntington, who was twenty years his senior; the couple had been inseparable from the day they met. After stumbling upon a vintage home along the highway, they settled into a country life; it was the perfect way for the two of them to make their ... Read more

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