The Fearful Void
By: Geoffrey Moorhouse
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An account of a journey across the Sahara, from the Atlantic to the Nile travelling alone and by ca…
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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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- africa
- history
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
"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. The Fall of Berlin 1945
By: Antony Beevor
4.29
Format: 490 pages, Paperback
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Sé practico: regala un ataúd"-Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945
3. Sailing Alone around the World
By: Joshua Slocum
4.15
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas—the first man to circumnavigate the world… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- adventure
"I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books w…"-Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
4. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
By: Paul Theroux
3.89
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar… read more
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- africa
- history
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
"There's always a way if you're not in a hurry."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to se…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"I have a hatred of the taming of animals, especially large ones that are so contented in the wild. I abominate circus acts that involve big befooled beasts--cowed tigers or helplessly roaring lions p…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
5. A Burnt-Out Case
By: Graham Greene , Giles Foden
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A famous architect struggling with a crisis of faith escapes to a leper colony in the Congo, in Gra… read more
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- africa
"The more bare a life is, the more we fear change."-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case
"The cabin-passenger wrote in his diary a parody of Descartes: 'I feel discomfort, therefore I am alive."-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case
"Discomfort irritates our ego like a mosquito-bite. We become aware of ourselves, the more uncomfortable we are"-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case
"He looked around the church, at the altar, the tabernacle, the brass candles, and the European saints, pale like albinos in the dark continent."-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case
6. Seven Years in Tibet
By: Heinrich Harrer
4.10
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
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"The name Kyirong means “the village of happiness,"-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"There are times when visible poverty has its advantages."-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred."-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight.…"-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
7. Jaws
By: Peter Benchley
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
"Relentless terror." The Philadelphia Inquirer. The classic, blockbuster thriller of man-eating ter… read more
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- adventure
8. The Luminaries
By: Eleanor Catton
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On… read more
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9. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge
4.47
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
10. Dispatches
By: Michael Herr
4.22
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"for years now there had been no country here but the war."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?"-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"When all the projections of intent and strategy twist and turn back on you, tracking team blood, 'sorry' just won't cover it. There's nothing so embarrassing as when things go wrong in a war."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
11. Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
By: Paul Theroux
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
In Dark Star Safarithe wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the l… read more
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12. News From Tartary
By: Peter Fleming
4.37
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
In 1935 Peter Fleming, an editor for the London Times and, interestingly, Ian Fleming's older broth… read more
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13. Crossing to Safety
By: Wallace Stegner
3.83
Format: 35 pages,
Called a "magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in "The Wa… read more
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14. The Day of the Jackal
By: Frederick Forsyth
4.27
Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. The Jackal. A tall, blond… read more
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"It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad."-Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal
15. No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb
By: Felice Benuzzi
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
An Italian prisoner of war in equatorial East Africa recounts his escape from a British POW camp so… read more
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16. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
By: Laurie Lee , Leonard Rosoman
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune… read more
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17. 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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18. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
19. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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- history
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
20. Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day
By: James Holland
4.47
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legen… read more
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- history
21. Burma Sahib
By: Paul Theroux
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new… read more
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- travel
22. Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen
By: Erika Fatland
4.40
Format: 623 pages, Hardcover
Forfatteren bak Sovjetistan på en enda mer eventyrlig reise - langs grensen til verdens største lan… read more
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23. The Fearful Void
By: Geoffrey Moorhouse
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An account of a journey across the Sahara, from the Atlantic to the Nile travelling alone and by ca… read more
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- history
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