29
Aug

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After finishing three years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Jamaica, Brandon went to Cuba to visit his best friend and to learn Spanish. In this memoir he tells how he: …deals with his fears.
Would we make it to the plane on time? Would I be arrested by the U.S. before I got to Cuba? …learns about being poor.
There wasn’t any toilet paper in the shop so I went to the dollar store and bought four rolls for two dollars. I couldn’t believe that in … More >>

85 Days in Cuba: A True Story about Friendship and Struggle

26
Aug

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Tales from Tanzania might be one of the funniest books ever written about an African safari. It chronicles a vacation gone awry as the author dodges hippos and crocodiles, suffers intestinal distress of an epic nature and is repeatedly mocked by British people. The fun begins when an American copywriter drives across Tanzaniain a big truck with a bunch of English tourists; the fun ends when one guest accidentally poisons the group with tainted drinking water. No bod… More >>

Tales From Tanzania: A mostly true story

26
Aug

Product Description
Tales from Tanzania might be one of the funniest books ever written about an African safari. It chronicles a vacation gone awry as the author dodges hippos and crocodiles, suffers intestinal distress of an epic nature and is repeatedly mocked by British people. The fun begins when an American copywriter drives across Tanzaniain a big truck with a bunch of English tourists; the fun ends when one guest accidentally poisons the group with tainted drinking water. No bod… More >>

Tales From Tanzania: A mostly true story

19
Aug

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In the tradition of Eiger Dreams, In the Zone: Epic Survival Stories from the Mountaineering World, and Not Without Peril, comes a new book that examines the thrills and perils of outdoor adventure in the “East’s greatest wilderness,” the Adirondacks…. More >>

At the Mercy of the Mountains: True Stories of Survival and Tragedy in New York’s Adirondacks

05
Aug

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Leaving behind the comforts of civilized life and armed with only a few essentials, award winning author and bush pilot George Erickson captures the exhilarating thrill of roughing it in the wild, as well as evoking the sheer romance of adventuring in the far reaches of North America. The result is a best-selling book that readers-flyers and armchair travelers alike – will not be able to put down. Flying solo in his Piper Cub Special seaplane, Erickson revisits so… More >>

True North: Exploring the Great Wilderness by Bush Plane

04
Aug

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True stories are not often good art. The relations and experiences of real
men and women rarely fall in such symmetrical order as to make an artistic
whole. Until they have had such treatment as we give stone in the quarry
or gems in the rough they seldom group themselves with that harmony of
values and brilliant unity of interest that result when art comes in–not
so much to transcend nature as to make nature transcend herself.

Yet I have lear… More >>

Strange True Stories of Louisiana

26
Jul

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From Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman, the authors of the bestselling Weird U.S. series, comes something a little different, designed to send shivers down the spine: a book on America’s scariest haunted places. Some of these spirit-filled spots are well known and open to the public, while others are private residences that will have to remain intriguing from a distance: No visits allowed! The stories include firsthand tales that have a powerful “creepiness factor”… More >>

Weird Hauntings: True Tales of Ghostly Places

18
Jul

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In this sequel to the wildly successful Hey Ranger: True Tales of Humor and Misadventure from America’s National Parks, former ranger Jim Burnett casts his net globally in search of the most outrageous and humorous stories of man in his eternal quest to experience the natural world. Told in Burnett’s classic, folksy, conversational style, Hey Ranger 2 will not disappoint as the follow-on to what has become a campground classic…. More >>

Hey Ranger 2: More True Tales of Humor and Misadventure from the Great Outdoors

16
Jul

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Whether he’s engaging in mock aerial combat or riding an Iditarod sled, Randy Wayne White is one of America’s most adventurous travelers. In this collection he studies anti-terrorist driving techniques, dives for golf balls in an alligator-infested pond, hunts his fellow man with a paint gun, ice-fishes for walleye with X-ray-stunned night-crawlers, and goes pig-shooting with Dr. Pavlov. With self-effacing optimism, White captures the joys and fears of wandering… More >>

The Sharks of Lake Nicaragua: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Fishing

24
Jun

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Aiming to put as much distance as she could between herself and a dysfunctional relationship, Vanessa Woods left her Pleasantville life in the leafy but safe suburbs of Canberra and headed for the remote, wild, and distinctly unsafe jungles of Costa Rica. She had a research job, a contract with the Disney Channel, and would spend the year working with a small community of dedicated like-minded scientific souls researching the behavior of capuchin monkeys while makin… More >>

It’s Every Monkey for Themselves: A True Story of Sex, Love, and Lies in the Jungle