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  • My Unskooled Year

    by Sagarikka ...
    Are grades everything? Is it fair to predict a youngster's future plainly based on some numbers? There's more to life than textbooks, and My Unskooled Year chronicles just that.The book presents a refreshing perspective of reality from the eyes of Sagarikka Sivakumar, an average student, who took a year off after her tenth standard to tread the path less taken. Follow this 15-year-old, as she ... Read more

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    The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak

    by Maurice Herzog ...
    Translated by Nea Morin, Janet Adam Smith ...
    Mountaineer Maurice Herzog gives a gripping firsthand account of one of the most daring climbing expeditions in historyAnnapurna I is the name given to the 8,100-meter mountain that ranks among the most forbidding in the Himalayan chain. Dangerous not just for its extreme height but for a long and treacherous approach, its summit proved unreachable until 1950, when a group of French mountaineers ... Read more

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  • A Fortune-Teller Told Me

    Earthbound Travels in the Far East

    by Tiziano Terzani ...
    Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for a whole year, Tiziano Terzani — a vastly experienced Asia correspondent — took what he called “the first step into an unknown world. . . . It turned out to be one of the most extraordinary years I have ever spent: I was marked for death, and instead I was reborn.”Traveling by foot, boat, bus, car, and train, he visited Burma, Thailand, ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Hundredth Meridian

    John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

    by Wallace Stegner ...
    From the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning–author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling itIn Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and ... Read more

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  • Man-eaters of Kumaon

    by Jim Corbett, GP Editors ...
    Man-Eaters of Kumaon is the best known of Corbett's books, one which offers ten fascinating and spine-tingling tales of pursuing and shooting tigers in the Indian Himalayas during the early years of this 19th Century. The stories also offer first-hand information about the exotic flora, fauna, and village life in this obscure and treacherous region of India, making it as interesting a travelogue ... Read more

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  • After Everest

    Inside the Private World of Edmund Hillary

    by Paul Little, Carolyne Meny-Yee ...
    A fascinating exploration of the life of mountaineer and adventurer Edmund Hillary, penetrating beyond the legend to reveal a character of paradoxesEdmund Hillary is a world icon and a towering figure among adventurers. The interest in him and in his family's dedication to making a contribution to the welfare of the Nepalese people is well known. However, it is the drama of Sir Edmund's later ... Read more

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  • Wildest Dream

    The Biography of George Mallory

    by Peter Gillman, Leni Gillman ...
    * Chronicles all three of Mallory's Everest expeditions* Illuminates how Mallory reconciled his ambitions on Everest with his unquestioned love for his wife and familySince the discovery in 1999 of George Mallory's body on Everest, controversy has raged over whether Mallory and Andrew Irvine could have summitted the mountain. Every detail of the climb has been dissected and Mallory's skill as a ... Read more

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  • Encounters of a Wayward Sailor

    by Tristan Jones ...
    From the acclaimed teller of such classic yarns as A STEADY TRADE, THE INCREDIBLE VOYAGE, and HEART OF OAK, ENCOUNTERS OF A WAYWARD SAILOR is wonderful collection of true stories from one of the great storytellers of the sea.Drawing on experiences from a lifetime at sea, Tristan Jones uses his acute powers of observation and his gift with for telling tales to transport us aboard boats struggling ... Read more

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  • The Adventures Of Captain Bonneville

    by Washington Irving ...
    The Adventures of Captain Bonneville is a rambler through the Back Country, on a trapping scheme. The gallant Captain's employment, however, not being, as in the southern parts of the land of liberty, to trap men, but wolves, foxes, beavers, rats, and, we presume, every thing that wears a skin. The Captain's adventures lead him into the heart of the mountain chain which divides the waters of the ... Read more

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  • A Long Walk South

    by Sean Rothery ...
    Patronising advice by a doctor at a retirement course to 'walk a couple of miles a day' challenges architect Sean Rothery to take a proper walk and so, at the age of sixty-five, he sets out to walk the GR5, the Grande Randonée Cinq. From the steely grey North Sea to the intense blue Mediterranean, Sean's 2,300km-long route follows a network of old trails, forest paths, canal banks, Alpine valleys ... Read more

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  • Desperate Voyage: Donald Crowhurst, The London Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, and the Tragedy of Teignmouth Electron

    by Edward Renehan ...
    Now filmed as The Mercy starring Colin Firth and Rachel WeiszWindcheck Magazine (Nov/Dec 2016): Absorbing and insightful ... utterly unforgettable.Practical Sailor Magazine (January 2017): [DESPERATE VOYAGE] adds a new depth of storytelling to a tale of madness that many sailors are familiar with.Points East Magazine (July 2017): Crowhurst made his own bed, and unfortu... ... Read more

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  • Ashanti Sails South

    by Carola Englert ...
    After three decades of hard work Carola and Elmar, her husband and captain, are about to fulfil their lifelong dream: To sail south on Ashanti, their CS 36T sailboat. Despite their misgivings of abandoning house and family, and whether their boat and 33-year marriage will survive the adventure, they risk storms and gales to traverse the tumultuous Great Lakes to Florida and the Bahamas.This ... Read more

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