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Armchair Travel April 2021
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Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island At age forty, Parker surrendered to her Swept Away meets Swiss Family Robinson fantasy of running an inn far from her home in the Pacific Northwest. For the next twenty-plus years, Parker ran La Finca Caribe, an eco-lodge in Vieques, Puerto Rico. What started as a rough-and-tumble dream grew into a paradise enjoyed by guests from around the world.
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Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival by Yossi GhinsbergFour travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. But when a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of the wildest backdrops on the planet.
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| The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John BaxterFrom the author of Immoveable Feast and We'll Always Have Paris, comes a guided tour of the most beautiful walks through the City of Light, Including some of the favorite walking routes of the many of the acclaimed artists and writers who have called Paris their home. Baxter highlights hidden treasures. |
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Find Adventure in California's Los Padres National Forest From Gaviota Pass to Lake Piru, the southern Los Padres National Forest stretches across a wide portion of Southern California. Hiking & Backpacking Santa Barbara & Ventura details nearly 100 of the finest routes through this section of the second-largest national forest in the state.
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The Girl Explorersby Jayne E. ZangleinAn account of the inspiring achievements of the Society of Woman Geographers organization details how its members were excluded from male-dominated exploration programs and included such luminaries as Blair Niles, Amelia Earhart, Gloria Hollister and Anna Heyward Taylor.
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Voyagers by Nicholas ThomasAlongside a compelling narrative of this remarkable sequence of long-distance migrations, Nick Thomas describes the sea-going technologies that allowed these epic voyages to take place; the nature of the cultures that embarked on them; and the societies that emerged across Oceania in their wake.
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A deeply moving story of the beauty and brutality of life, and death, on the world's most unpredictable and perilous mountain. Sitting just lower than Everest at 8,611 meeres above sea level on the China—Pakistan border, the Savage Mountain claims the lives of even the most experienced climbers. Alongside severe altitude, the weather is notoriously volatile and the climb relentlessly steep. A staggering one in four attempts result in death on the mountain. In One Man's Climb, Adrian Hayes details an intensely personal account of his attempts to climb K2--first in 2013 and again in 2014.
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Life Lessons on the Sierra Trail: 40 Years' experiences in the John Muir Wilderness by Allen ClydeA young man takes a summer job with a horse packer in the Sierra Nevada mountains-and receives a valuable education in the art of living-in a modern-day parable filled with love for horses, nature, and the majesty of the Sierras, based on the author's real-life experience of 40 years horse packing in the John Muir Wilderness.
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