Wilfred Thesiger: the life of the great explorer
By: Alexander Maitland
4.08
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The author of Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs and The Life of my Choice, he was a legend in his o…
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1. Arabian Sands
By: Wilfred Thesiger
4.19
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty … read more
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"I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness of meat; the taste of clean water; the ecstasy of…"-Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands
"Yet I wondered fancifully if he had seen more clearly than they did, had sensed the threat which my presence implied – the approaching disintegration of his society and the destruction of ‘his belief…"-Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands
"I pondered on this desert hospitality and, compared it with our own. I remembered other encampments where I had slept, small tents on which I had happened in the Syrian desert and where I had spent t…"-Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands
2. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.99
Format: 272 pages,
Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more
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3. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has bee… read more
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4. Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
By: Roger Crowley
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration i… read more
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5. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
By: Anna Funder
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more
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"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
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"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
6. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more
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7. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By: Candice Millard
3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
8. Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
By: Harley Rustad
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, a riveting work of narrative nonfiction centering on t… read more
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9. Wilfred Thesiger: the life of the great explorer
By: Alexander Maitland
4.08
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The author of Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs and The Life of my Choice, he was a legend in his o… read more
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10. Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration
By: Fergus Fleming
4.10
Format: 518 pages, Paperback
On John Franklin's 1820 expedition to find the North-West Passage, Michel Teroahaute cannibalized t… read more
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