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What sort of person offers up their couch to complete strangers And how can said strangers be sure that the owner of that couch is not an axe-wielding psychopath Intrigued by this fast-growing phenomenon, Brian Thacker set out on a couch-surfing tour of the globe.

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* The popular cyclist, Josie Dew, cycles the perimeter of England and Wales and shares her unique and entertaining perspective of the Coast and its people in the perpetual adventure of her life on wheels.

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When the author and her husband, Gary, attempt to break away from the conventional 9-to-5 routine, they go on an epic year-long 5000-kilometre walk from Trafalgar Square in London to Morocco and the threshold of the Sahara Desert. This book tells a true tale of an ordinary woman achieving something extraordinary.

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Steve Strevens explores Australia's great waterways - the Murray - from its source in Victoria's high country to its mouth in the Great Southern Ocean. He tells the story of the people and communities who have lived along its banks and how the river has changed since European settlement.

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A bumper volume chock full of Paul Carter's hugely entertaining stories of his seriously crazy, sometimes terrifying, always hilarious adventures. Strap yourself in for a wild ride.

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Echoing the experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson - who spent several years in the South Pacific - here is the story of a contemporary writer who lived in and came to love the Solomon Islands.

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A novel set along the old slave route in the footsteps of Gordon of Karthoum.

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Enticing account of a 1970s expedition across Middle East and South Asia

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A thrilling memoir of the spectacular high-altitude mountaineering achievements of Andrew Lock: the only Australian to have summited all fourteen 8000-metre peaks in the world, including Mount Everest - twice. Here Andrew Lock gives us a gripping account of his death-defying ascents and explains his passion for climbing in small teams, or solo, without Sherpas or bottled oxygen.

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A collection that ranges from sketches to critical essays. Each piece marks a new 'confrontation with the world' and throws new light on the political and social climate of diverse cultures such as those of New York, Singapore, Ireland and Malawi. It is a perspective on two decades of travelling, writing and living away from home.

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In a story that even she will admit borders on the surreal, Angela Gilltrap, ex-'Strictly Dancing' star finds herself living in Sugar Hill in Harlem, New York City. She suddenly has to adjust, not only to her new city, but to the nuances of her new surroundings, which happen to include the occasional drive-by, drug deals and daily arrests.

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This time the author has found the perfect antidote for a broken heart: to pick up his backpack and trek from the southernmost tip of Africa to the pyramids of Egypt by any means possible. But of course! Needless to say, almost every country along the way is in a state of political agitation and he must grapple with wild animals.

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Shares the highs and lows of long distance love. The author ponders if its better to leave or be left and considers abandoning her near perfect life for one of chaos and uncertainty.

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'Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America.'

Brad Newsham was a twenty-two-year-old travelling through Afghanistan when he wrote this in his journal.

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In 'Five Cities' ('Be ehir'), Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar focuses on cities significant in Anatolian history and his own emotional life. Part history, part autobiography, a part poetic meditation on time and memory,

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A follow-up book to "On Rue Tatin", in which Susan Loomis shares more stories of how she, her husband and two children settled into life in a small French town. Here they learned about their neighbours and how to be accepted as inhabitants of the town.

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Based on a holiday from hell that the author once experienced in Thailand and Burma, this work tells the story of how he got ripped off by cunning gangsters in Bangkok. After this nightmarish experience, he travels to Burma to meet some friends and ends up trapped in a rebel training camp under fire from the military.

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The tale of a series of journeys through Albania in the period between Communism and anarchy before it was again closed to Western travellers.

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Tales of derring-do from adventurer extraordinaire Robert Pelton Young. Weaving together dispatches of mayhem in such exotic locales as Africa, the Philippines, and Borneo, "The Adventurist" spans six continents and four decades of hard living. Photos.

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Originally published in 1976 in Portuguese as O turista aprendiz by Duas Cidades, Sao Paulo.