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…
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1. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
By: Simon Singh
4.30
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping hist… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Po první světové válce se Spojenci nebáli nikoho."-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
"...říká se, že zkratka NSA ve skutečnosti znamená „Never Say Anything"-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
"„Každý, kdo přemýšlí o kvantové mechanice, aniž by se mu zatočila hlava, jí nerozumí."-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
"Polský úspěch v prolomení Enigmy byl dán třemi faktory: strachem, matematikou a špionáží."-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
2. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
By: Lynne Truss
3.87
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in e-mail and now "txt msgs", we have made … read more
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- nonfiction
- reference
"The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it."-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
"Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point."-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
"I hear there are now Knightsbridge clinics offering semicolonic irrigation – but for many it may be too late."-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
"...punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop."-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
3. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
By: Hampton Sides
4.27
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San… read more
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- survival
- history
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
"We live in weary suspense," DeLong wrote. "Wintering in the pack may be a thrilling thing to read about alongside a warm fire, but the actual thing is sufficient to make any man prematurely old."-Hampton Sides, In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
"When De Long arrived in California with Emma that May, he went straight down to the yard and feasted his eyes upon his new ship. He was smitten by the transformation that had taken place during his a…"-Hampton Sides, In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
4. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
By: John Steinbeck
4.06
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more
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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
5. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
6. The Songlines
By: Bruce Chatwin
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary book, Bruce Chatwin has adapted a literary form common until the eighteenth c… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- adventure
"A journey is a fragment of Hell."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Senza costrizione non si potrebbe fondare nessun insediamento. [...]"-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Quali sono, quindi le prime impressioni che un bimbo nomade ha del mondo? Un capezzolo dondolante e una cascata d'oro."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
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8. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
9. Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide, #3)
By: Douglas Adams
3.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads-so… read more
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10. The Blue Nile
By: Alan Moorehead
4.16
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
In the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into t… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- adventure
11. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
By: Daniel James Brown
3.59
Format: 464 pages,
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more
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12. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
By: Hunter S. Thompson
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S.… read more
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13. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- adventure
"..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
14. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- adventure
15. 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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- history
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
16. The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
By: Jon Billman
3.69
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
The critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman's fascinating, in-depth look at people w… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- adventure
17. Erebus: The Story of a Ship
By: Michael Palin
4.29
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval … read more
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- nonfiction
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18. 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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- nonfiction
19. 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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- history
- adventure
- travel
- short stories
- nonfiction
- reference
- geography
