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Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics, this title explores a landscape under sentence of death and soon to be scorched by riots.

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The compelling and inspiring story of Karl Bushby, who is attempting to walk the 36,000 miles from the foot of South America back to Britain (via the Bering Strait and the Channel Tunnel).

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From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a compelling account of her return to the land in which she grew up.

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When Nathan Millward learns that he has just 20 days to leave Australia before his visa expires, he has a choice to make: fly home to England on the return ticket he already has, or set off on the adventure of a lifetime riding a decommissioned Australia Post bike across the world. Nathan hits the road. No time for planning or preparation, just go.

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At the age of 35 Andre Tolme quit his job as a civil engineer and decided that it was time to see something of the world. It was during a brief stop-over in Mongolia that he became struck by two things- he loved the country, but most of all he missed playing golf. A plan began to hatch in his mind...

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Driven by a desire to explore the most remote, barren yet romantic places on earth, Martin Buckley set off on a two-year journey through the world's deserts.

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A fascinating collection of some of Australia's most dramatic journeys from the 19th and early 20th century: epics of exploration, survival and tragedy, stories of mystery and romance, and of discovery and loss.

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Includes ten contributor's writings on 250 years of women travel writers. Travel is a quest, an escape, a passion. Women explorers and travellers are a special breed. This book covers 22 courageous women who encircled the globe, and boldly crossed international barriers often to encounter the most patriarchal cultures of their time.

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Two dozen women describe the country they love and why they have fallen under its spell

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Let's face it, for all its convenience, flying sucks the adventure out of a journey. Check your shoes. Bag your liquids. So when Seth Stevenson decided to embark on the ultimate adventure - circumnavigating the world, no less - he vowed to recapture what he once loved about travel by sticking to one simple rule: no planes, ever.

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A bestselling memoir of a later-life friendship and what happens when two ladies of a certain age decide to test the maxim 'Leap and the net will appear'!

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The story of an awe-inspiring expedition to the North Pole by a group of amputee soldiers.

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Focusing on travel journals by writers, navigators, philosophers, scientists, and anthropologists--from the eighteenth-century grand tour to the modern period--Dennis Porter explores how male authors at different historical moments conceptualized and represented the lands they encountered. Efforts to portray unfamiliar peoples and cultures are show

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What happens when an accomplished adventurer becomes a father Does he continue his solo adventures Is there a way of having it all, family time plus adventures

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Kodas details how the recent infusion of wealth into mountaineering has brought about the age-old lust for glory. Through others accounts, as well as his own, the author illustrates the mountain's ability to reduce climbers to their essential selves--revealing villains as well as heroes.

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In Hold the Enlightenment, one of America's favourite and funniest adventure writers returns with his most entertaining collection of essays yet as he travels the globe and faces down challenges that are animal, topographical - and human.

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A rollercoaster ride through a land of chaos and contradiction with a woman on a mission to save her soul, her love life - and her sanity. ABC journalist spent two years on the sub-continent. This book presents some of her experiences there.

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At the tender age of nineteen the author left Canada to live and work in Europe. In this book, he takes us from Toronto bars to the Yellowknife Golf Club just below the Arctic Circle, from Winnipeg, capital of Manitoba to that fateful day when the Russians invaded and captured Canada's own national sport - hockey.

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In Hope and Glory Stuart Maconie goes in search of the days that shaped the Britain we live in today.

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An intrepid African safari guide sets out to discover all he can about the wildlife of the South American continent in a hilarious book about walking pumas (can be dangerous), chasing jaguars (can be elusive) and finding love (can be tricky).

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