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  • Rising from the Dust ~ India's Hidden Voices

    by Mark Helyar ...
    Rising from the Dust ~ India's Hidden VoicesNew, updated edition.Quitting his job and selling his house, Mark travels to India. He lands in Delhi, belted, braced and prepared for all eventualities. Or so he thinks. Though he craves the ultimate travel adventure, a load of western baggage weighs him down: a rucksack rattling with medication, reams of 'to do' lists and a mobile phone loaded with ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Absent Friends ~ The Hidden Dangers of Being an Indian Girl

    by Mark Helyar ...
    Absent Friends is a 5,500 word article that places the reality and impact of gender discrimination in the context of daily life in the Himalayan foothills, told through the stories of the girls and women who live there."India is the most dangerous place in the world to be a baby girl," reported The Times of India in February 2012.According to a report published by the United Nations in 2011, an ... Read more

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    Glimpses of a Himalayan Village

    by Margaret Roche, Sally Wendkos Olds ...
    After trekking in Nepal, Sally Wendkos Olds and Margaret Roche both fell in love with this mountainous Himalayan country and her people. They returned four times between 1993 and 1998 and spent time in Bedel, a remote hill village without electricity, telephone or roads. They helped establish a library there, and on each visit Olds, a writer, and Roche, an artist, were welcomed enthusiastically as ... Read more

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  • Bombay to Beijing by Bicycle

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    "Congratulations," said Dr Chawla. "You are having the malaria."And so begins Russell McGilton's comic adventure as he attempts to cycle from Bombay to Beijing in the quest of writing his travel opus.Pedalling furiously for China, McGilton's tour de force rides the reader through an honest handlebar view on the absurdities and fragile wonders of travel from the saddle. He rides, he falls, he gets ... Read more

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  • High Road to Tibet: Travels in China, Tibet, Nepal and India

    Round The World Travels, #3

    by John Dwyer ...
    Series Book 3 - Round The World Travels
    "John Dwyer might be just the ticket to fill [Michael] Palin's well worn shoes" - HungryFeet.comOverland adventurer John Dwyer has less than three months to cross China, Tibet, Nepal and India and he has a to-do list:- Drink snake blood- Get smuggled into Tibet- Hike to Mount Everest- Watch the dead burning by the Ganges- Get from China to India in ten weeksFrom the Great Wall of China to the Taj ... Read more

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  • The Waiting Land

    A Spell in Nepal

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    The Waiting Land is an exploration of Nepal by a feisty, generous-hearted young Irish woman in the spring of 1965. The third in a series of books tracing Dervla's involvement with the self-sufficient mountain cultures of the Himalayas, she is lured by the chance to work again with Tibetan refugees - this time a group of five hundred lodged in tents in the remote Pokhara valley. Once established in ... Read more

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  • Riding into The Sunrise - Recollections of A Bicycle Journey across Russia

    by Gregory Yeoman ...
    Spring 1993. 14 months earlier the USSR had collapsed and with Russia accessible once more Gregory Yeoman and his expedition companions set off on their bicycles to ride from the Baltic to the Pacific. Over 153 days they encountered wild landscapes, wild people, crumbling hotels and Siberia's two cheeses on an extraordinary adventure through a nation finding itself after 70 years of Communism. ... Read more

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  • Walking to Singapore

    A Year off the Beaten Path in Southeast Asia

    by Britt A. Bunyard ...
    [Buy this book now only at the iUniverse.com bookstore. Order from bookstores everywhere in 4-6 weeks!]Southeast Asia is a world filled with mystery and intrigue, and one that doesn't give up its secrets easilyas the author and his wife soon found out! Walking To Singapore is an often hilarious, but always informative look at the daily lives and disparate cultures of the region, and provides ... Read more

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  • Two Laps Around the World

    Tales and Insights from a Life Sabbatical

    by Bob Riel ...
    One life sabbatical. Two laps around the world.After being married for a year, Bob Riel and his wife, Lisa, decided to take a chance in life. They took time off from their careers and embarked on a round-the-world journey, intent on having an adventure before starting a family. Then, two-and-a-half years later, when the children hadn't arrived and the travel bug hadn't left, they set out on ... Read more

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  • How Katie Pulled Boris - Travels with an American Motorhome (RV) in Europe

    by Keith Mashiter ...
    Keith’s wife Gail is looking forward to travelling the world and staying in comfortable hotels when Keith takes early retirement from his high-pressure job. But he has a shock in store for her. He unexpectedly decides to buy a huge American Winnebago-type motorhome (RV), tow a car behind ‘so they can bugger off for months on end around Europe’. Their only experience a brief episode 30 years ... Read more

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  • The Long and Whining Road

    A man and a van, a wife and three kids, and their round-the-world road trip as the world's worst Beatles tribute band.

    by Simeon Courtie, Sim Courtie ...
    Series series A man and a van, a wife and three kids, and their round-the-world road trip as the world's worst Beatles tribute band.
    London Book Festival Grand Prize Winner 2012‘I’d convinced her we should travel the world. She imagined posh flights and swanky hotels. Then I said the three words every girl longs to hear: Volkswagen camper van.’This frank and funny true story of a 'family gap year' like no other shows how the passing comment of a bored 9-year-old can snowball into an absurd expedition into strange lands, ... Read more

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  • The SolarCycle Diaries : "So, um, tell me again why we're cycling through the Sahara in June..."

    by Susie Wheeldon ...
    In 2010 Susie Wheeldon and Jamie Vining rolled back into London complete with stings, bites, leathery skin and thighs of steel. With their co-rider, Iain Henderson, they had set out nine months earlier on a 12,000 mile round the world bike ride, promoting solar power and being tracked using solar nanotechnology.Only, as Google maps and your thumb are not the most precise tools with which to plan a ... Read more

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