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  • Accidentally Istanbul

    Decoding Turkey for the enquiring Western traveller

    by Nancy Knudsen, Audrey Larsen ...
    Nancy Knudsen never meant to go to Istanbul.Maybe she might have included it as part of a holiday along with other dazzling European cities such as Venice, Paris or Salzburg. But the idea of actually living in a Muslim country as an ordinary citizen rather than tourist or expat corporate executive, would never have occurred to her.Knudsen’s story is vivid, lively and sometimes hilarious, full of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • Travels

    by Michael Crichton ...
    From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a deeply personal memoir full of fascinating adventures as he travels everywhere from the Mayan pyramids to Kilimanjaro.Fueled by a powerful curiosity—and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up—Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling—swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Nobody Rides for Free

    A Drifter in the Americas

    by John Francis Hughes ...
    Nobody Rides For Free: A Drifter in the Americas chronicles former bike courier John Hughes' rambles through Latin America on a bicycle. In this gripping mosaic-travellogue, readers are introduced to banditos, artists, grifters, would-be wives, dope fiends and attacking monkeys: a cast of characters who conspire to reduce him to alcoholic destitution. His last remaining $400 is spent sailing the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last of the Donkey Pilgrims

    A Man's Journey Through Ireland

    by Kevin O'Hara ...
    A newly-wed American Vietnam vet goes on a journey of self-discovery, circling Ireland's coastline on foot with a donkey and cart in this memoir.Kevin O'Hara's journey begins as a mad lark: who in their right mind would try to circle the entire coastline of Ireland on foot—and with a donkey and cart no less?But Kevin had promised his homesick Irish mother that he would explore the whole of the Old ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Down and Out in Patagonia, Kamchatka, and Timbuktu

    Greg Frazier's Round and Round and Round the World Motorcycle Journey

    by Gregory Frazier ...
    The first-ever firsthand chronicle of Dr. Gregory W. Frazier’s never-ending motorcycle ride.A little over 40 years ago, a man named Gregory W. Frazier got on his motorcycle, went for a ride, and never returned. He’s still out there, circumnavigating the globe: exploring the jungles of Asia in the winter, trout fishing in Alaska in the summer, and covering all points in between during the rest of ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition

    by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca ...
    Translated by Fanny Bandelier ...
    The New World story of the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca in his own wordsThis riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition sent to claim for Spain a vast area of today's southern United States. In ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Dashing for the Post

    The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend.The letters in this collection span almost seventy years, the first written ten days before Paddy's twenty-fifth birthday, the last when he was ninety-four. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Amelia Earhart

    The Sky's No Limit

    by Lori Van Pelt ...
    Series Book 2 - American Heroes
    A exciting new biography of America's first lady of flight.As a tomboy growing up in Kansas, Amelia Earhart delighted in trying new and risky things, once even building a roller-coaster in her grandparents' backyard. In her 20s she fell in love with flight while watching an aerobatics exhibition and grew even more enthralled when she took her first airplane ride.At age 24 she earned her pilot's ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Pizarro

    Conqueror of the Inca

    by Stuart Stirling ...
    Establishing Francisco Pizarro firmly as a man of his time, Stuart Stirling shows that there was little difference in moral terms between Elizabeth I's political expediency in ordering Mary Queen of Scots's execution and Pizarro's killing of the Inca Atahualpa - a deed for which his name has been regarded with infamy. ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Raindrop in the Ocean

    The Extraordinary Life of a Global Adventurer

    by Michael Dobbs-Higginson ...
    A unique memoir in which a young adventurer from colonial Rhodesia charms his way around the world, sleeping in stately homes and public toilets, smuggling drugs across several borders, and losing a $50 million fortune to the CIA, before settling into a stellar banking career. Looking back on a life well lived as he faces terminal illness, he swears that the key to his success was his grueling ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Descent

    The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss

    by Brad Matsen ...
    In Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss, Brad Matsen brings to vivid life the famous deep-sea expeditions of Otis Barton and William Beebe. Beebe was a very well-connected and internationally acclaimed naturalist, with the power to generate media attention. Barton was an engineer and heir to a considerable fortune, who had long dreamed of making his mark on the world as an adventurer. ... Read more

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  • To The Hebrides

    Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour

    by Samuel Johnson, James Boswell ...
    Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring through the Lowlands and Highlands of Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Inchkenneth and Iona. Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published separate accounts of their journey. These works contain some of the finest pieces of travel writing ever produced: they are also magnificent ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus