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  The Voyage of The Aegre - From...

  Nicholas Grainger

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  The Voyage of The Aegre is a dramatic true account of how a plan to sail a little fishing boat from the Highlands of Scotland down the coast to England turned into a trans-oceanic odyssey for Nick and Julie Grainger. It was the 1970s and their simple wooden boat was equipped with none of the aids modern yachts enjoy. Navigation was by sextant and compass, food cooked on a Primus, and weather forecasting by guesswork. Diligent preparation before they set sail eventually saved their lives in the violent storms and dangers they encountered, vividly described in this absorbing narrative. Their capsize at night in a fierce storm south of Tahiti and subsequent survival makes a gripping climax to the story. A born storyteller, the author has produced a stirring tale that ranks among classic sea adventures. 
  From a simpler age of sailing when you were led across oceans by the sun and the stars, this book deserves to join the classics. It is simply a top class read - Paul Heiney, Royal Cruising Club. 
  A terrific adventure - John Ridgway, 1966 North Atlantic rower, Round the World sailor, Adventurer, Author. 
  One of the greatest sailing stories I have ever read - John Quirk, Afloat magazine.

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  Befriending China

  Dee Knight

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  Befriending China tells the story of China's current effort to "open up" to a flood of visitors, as part of a campaign of "People-To-People Peacemaking." The story is partially based on three visits to China from late 2023 through late 2024. It describes the impressive achievements China has made in infrastructure, education, health care, and poverty alleviation. It includes an in-depth eye-witness account of visiting Xinjiang, debunking official rumors in the US of abuse of the Uyghur population there. It also highlights exciting tourism opportunities, with closeup looks at the mountainous Guizhou and Shanxi provinces, and the amazing "megacities" of Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Hangzhou and Suzhou. It includes a preface by Carlos Martinez, editor of the Friends of Socialist China website. It also examines China's democratic system, and its successful foreign policy based on common prosperity and a shared future. Finally, it details ongoing US efforts to slander China and prepare for war against it, arguing that China is not our enemy.

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  Reluctantly to Kunzum La -...

  Madhuri Z K Akin

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  In July of 1993 a particularly heavy monsoon drenched the foothills of the Himalayas, and extended even into the ‘rainshadow’ – the area beyond the lush hills and into the drier mountains. Roads collapsed into rivers, new lakes formed behind landslides, and people generally got wet! A little band of motor-bikers rode up into that weather and that wild country, and met with delays, discomforts, and… well... relationship troubles! 
  This is the diary of the girlfriend of the ‘leader of the pack’, as she suffers, and bounces on the bike, and gasps for air at high altitudes... and argues with her man. Funny, adventurous, precise, and honest, this is an entertaining little read about three weeks in a long-ago summer, when quite a few things went wrong - and all of it, the grubby and the spectacularly scenic, being held within the timeless majesty of the biggest mountains on earth.

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  The Boy Travellers in the Far...

  Thomas Wallace Knox

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  The two youths go on from China to Siam, Cambodia and Java: elephant kraals, the ruins of Angkor, a volcano and the ways of the Dutch colonial trade. Thomas Wallace Knox was a war correspondent who had travelled the routes he describes, and he wrote the series so that a boy could learn geography without noticing. The prices, distances and steamer schedules are real. Its 283 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.

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  William Stanek's Badlands Black...

  The Editors of Our American...

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  The Northern Plains are not flat emptiness surrounding more dramatic places.
  
  Prairie rises into wooded hills. Eroded badlands break open the ground. Cave systems extend beneath landscapes that appear complete from above. Rivers, wildlife, overland routes, Indigenous homelands, monument-making, fossil beds, and enormous sky create one of America's most underestimated travel worlds.
  
  William Stanek's Badlands, Black Hills & the Northern Plains connects these landscapes without flattening their differences.
  
  Badlands asks the eye to read erosion and grass together. The Black Hills changes ecology and scale. Underground worlds introduce another dimension entirely. The surrounding plains restore distance and history.
  
  For road travelers, families, couples, solo explorers, photographers, hikers, wildlife watchers, and readers drawn to American landscape history, this guide turns the region into a coherent journey of prairie, stone, forest, cave, memory, and sky.

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  Up the Orinoco and Down the...

  J. A. Zahm

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  Across South America by river - up the Orinoco, over the divide and down the Magdalena - by a Catholic priest and scientist who made the journey in his late fifties. Zahm traveled with Theodore Roosevelt on a later expedition and wrote his own account of this one with a naturalist's attention. This edition binds 60 plates after Church, Bierstadt, Turner and others, and restores all 17 in-text illustrations in colour.

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