Himalaya
By: Michael Palin , Basil Pao
4.04
Format: 130 pages, Hardcover
Michael Palin's travel books have repeatedly topped the bestseller lists. In this book he is back a…
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1. Walking the Americas
By: Levison Wood
4.14
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
Walking the Americas chronicles Levison Wood's 1,800 mile trek along the spine of the Americas, thr… read more
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- adventure
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- nonfiction
- travelogue
- audiobook
2. One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
By: None , None , Sam Keith , Richard L. Proenneke
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
To live in a pristine land unchanged by man...to roam a wilderness through which few other humans h… read more
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- travel
- audiobook
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- adventure
"This country makes a man younger than his birthdays."-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
"The more I see as I sit here among the rocks, the more I wonder about what I am not seeing."-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
"There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been."-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
"I enjoy working for my heat. I don't just press a button or twist a thermostat dial. I use the big crosscut saw and the axe, and while I'm getting my heat supply I'm working up an appetite that makes…"-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
3. A Woman in the Polar Night
By: Christiane Ritter
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
For most of us, the Arctic conjures up images of freezing and forsaken solitude. Hence, Austrian pa… read more
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4. Himalaya
By: Michael Palin , Basil Pao
4.04
Format: 130 pages, Hardcover
Michael Palin's travel books have repeatedly topped the bestseller lists. In this book he is back a… read more
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- adventure
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- asia
- nonfiction
- india
- travelogue
- audiobook
5. Kinderen van Moeder Aarde (De Toekomsttrilogie, #1)
By: Thea Beckman
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Zes eeuwen na de Derde Wereldoorlog. De aarde is door een kernoorlog gekanteld en bijna verwoest. H… read more
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6. On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
By: Tim Cope
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Grand Prize Winner, Banff Mountain Festival Book Competition The relationship between man and horse… read more
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7. Annapurna
By: Maurice Herzog , Janet Adam Smith , Eric Shipton , None
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
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8. Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
By: Ewan McGregor , Charley Boorman , None
3.53
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan… read more
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9. Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
By: Jesse Russell , None
4.54
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Around the World in 80 Days is a BBC television travel … read more
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10. Walking The Himalayas
By: Levison Wood
4.43
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest … read more
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11. The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance
By: Mensun Bound
4.12
Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition
"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. ... Bound's account is a triumph. The… read more
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- travel
- audiobook
- nonfiction
- adventure
12. Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth cen… read more
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- audiobook
- adventure
13. Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1)
By: K.J. Parker
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
There’s no formal training for battlefield salvage. You just have to pick things up as you go along… read more
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- audiobook
"The men of Sirupat weren't fighters because they didn't want to be, and in my book there's no higher praise than that--and that's the main reason, when you come to think of it, why women are so infin…"-K.J. Parker, Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1)
"Where you always go wrong is trying to persuade people with facts and arguments. It's why you can only write comedy. What gets people going is stuff that doesn't mean shit but sounds great. Blood, to…"-K.J. Parker, Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1)
14. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
By: Nick de Semlyen
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more
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- audiobook
15. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
16. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
By: Eric Idle
3.90
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
We know him best for his unforgettable roles on Monty Python - from the Flying Circus to The Meanin… read more
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- audiobook
"Laughter is the only sane response to pathological lying."-Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
"I have British teeth. They are like British politics: they go in all directions at once."-Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
"If one of the best ways to appreciate life is to have an unhappy childhood, I was very fortunate."-Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
"Once you’re in the circus you’re all in the circus, and of course it turns out that they are real people too."-Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
17. SAS great escapes
By: Damien Lewis
4.26
Format: 10 pages, Audible Audio
No food. No water. Out of ammo. Safety is south. But between there and here is 150 miles of barren … read more
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- audiobook
18. Gods of the Wyrdwood (Forsaken, #1)
By: R.J. Barker
4.10
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
In a world locked in eternal winter and haunted by prophecy, a young boy trains for years to become… read more
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- audiobook
- adventure
19. Step by Step: The Life In My Journeys
By: Simon Reeve
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
TV documentary maker Simon Reeve has dodged bullets on frontlines, hunted with the Bushmen of the K… read more
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- travelogue
- audiobook
20. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Primary Phase
By: Douglas Adams
4.51
Format: 1 pages, Audio CD
The most useful advice ever given, 'Don't panic', can be found within the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to th… read more
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21. How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
By: Philip Ball
4.28
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to en… read more
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- audiobook
"The growth and maintenance of living things like us is a delicate (but also robust) dance of cause and effect, cascading up and down the hierarchy of scales in space and time. This leads to that, but…"-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
"I don’t anticipate a consensus any time soon on the question of how to define life, but it seems to me that cognition provides a much better, more apt way to talk about it than invoking more passive …"-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
