The Ulysses Voyage
By: Tim Severin
4.12
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Attempts to recreate the voyage of Ulysses and identify the likely position of places mentioned in …
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1. Papillon
By: Henri Charrière
4.23
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris i… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- adventure
"The important thing was that we were alive..."-Henri Charrière, Papillon
"You don't have to be a graduate of Saint-Cyr to know that all wrecks end up on shore."-Henri Charrière, Papillon
"Everybody was stark naked, day and night. Luckily it was hot. They let me wear socks."-Henri Charrière, Papillon
"My heart was flooded with warmth: at last I had escaped from the road down the drain, and now it was for good."-Henri Charrière, Papillon
2. 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
3. A Passage to India
By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass
3.68
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more
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- literature
"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
4. Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A DANGEROUS NEW TWIST IN THE GREAT GAME In this gripping narrative Peter Hopkirk tells how Lenin an… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages,
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
6. The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow: A Mirror Odyssey from North Wales to the Black Sea
By: A.J. Mackinnon
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Equipped with his cheerful optimism and a pith helmet, this Odysseus in a dinghy takes you with him… read more
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7. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Hardcover
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more
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8. The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
By: Slavomir Rawicz
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia th… read more
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9. The Continental Op
By: Dashiell Hammett
4.12
Format: 652 pages, Paperback
Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private ey… read more
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10. The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941-1945
By: Leon Degrelle
4.39
Format: None pages,
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11. Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more
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12. Tales of the Alhambra
By: Washington Irving
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving.… read more
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14. Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
By: John Steinbeck , Robert DeMott
4.11
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesda… read more
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- literature
"Und keine Frau lässt sich gern vom Mittelpunkt der Bühne verdrängen, schon gar nicht durch einen Tintenfisch."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
"The doctrine of our time is that man can't get along without a whole hell of a lot of stuff. You may not be preaching it, but you're living treason."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
"Auf dem Kopf hatte er einen Strohhut mit zwei Löchern in der Krempe, die vermuten ließen, dass der Hut ehemals die Kopfbedeckung eines Pferes gewesen war."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
15. The ascent of Nanda Devi
By: H.W. Tilman
5.00
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This book narrates the first ascent of Nanda Devi by the joint British American team lead by H. W. … read more
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16. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
By: John Buchan
3.60
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more
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- adventure
"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
17. The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
By: James Rebanks
4.18
Format: 578 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James … read more
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18. Death of an Author
By: E.C.R. Lorac
3.99
Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition
'I hate murders and I hate murderers, but I must admit that the discovery of a bearded corpse would… read more
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19. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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- literature
"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
20. This Much is True
By: Miriam Margolyes
4.09
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more
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- nonfiction
"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
21. Toujours la France!: Living the Dream in Rural France (The Good Life France Book 3)
By: Janine Marsh
4.35
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Following on from her hugely popular books, My Good Life in France and My Four Seasons in France, e… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
22. Hooked on the Horizon: Sailing Blue Eye Around the World (The Sailing Blue Eye Around the World Series)
By: Tom Dymond
4.58
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
Three vast oceans, two young men and one dubious idea – to sail around the world. When a sailboa… read more
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23. The Last Escape
By: E.C.R. Lorac
4.04
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
In this final detective novel to feature Superintendent Robert MacDonald, we find the police office… read more
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24. Thicker Than Ice: A Sailing Family Finds Their Place at the Edge (Five Oceans)
By: John A Pennington
4.71
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
A true story of poor judgment and questionable parenting, but also of friendship and adventure. A … read more
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25. A Telegram from Le Touquet: With an introduction by Martin Edwards
By: John Bude
3.95
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
With some trepidation Nigel Derry approaches the country house of his enigmatic and unpredictable a… read more
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26. Crossing the Dead Heart
By: Cecil Thomas Madigan
3.92
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
This is the true story of one of the epic adventures of desert exploration. In 1939 Dr Cecil Mad… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Sparta: A History from Beginning to End (Ancient Civilizations)
By: Hourly History
4.12
Format: 62 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the remarkable history of Sparta...Free BONUS Inside!Many of the city-states of Ancient Gr… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
28. The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope
By: Jen Benson
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This book tells the uplifting true story of a family who left their old life behind to spend a year… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Rope’s End, Rogue’s End
By: E.C.R. Lorac
4.05
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
From the dust jacket: Wulfstane Manor, a rambling old country house with many unused rooms, winding… read more
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30. The Ulysses Voyage
By: Tim Severin
4.12
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Attempts to recreate the voyage of Ulysses and identify the likely position of places mentioned in … read more
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- adventure
- literature
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- mythology
- greece
31. Live For Me (Fury #1)
By: Colin Falconer
4.32
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A powerhouse of a novel about the indomitable will to survive – and what evil can do to the soul. … read more
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