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The Irish Male at Home and Abroad is the hilarious sequel to Joe O'Connor's bestsellerThe Secret World of the Irish Male. From flirting lessons in downtown Manhattan to being offered a good ride in Disneyland by the now legendary Wanda, it was a long, strange and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-03-31
ePub
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The Darién Gap is a place of legend.The only break in the Pan-American highway, which runs from Alaska to the tip of South America, it is an almost impregnable strip of swamp, jungle and cloud forest between the vast landmasses of North and South America. Stories of...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-03-30
ePub
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One word. Unlimited consequences.The book that inspired the major film starring Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel'I, Danny Wallace, being of sound mind and body, do hereby write this manifesto for my life. I swear I will be more open to opportunity. I swear I will live my...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2011-03-29
ePub
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In the 1920s, Gordon West and his wife decided they wanted to go somewhere unexplored and unspoiled, right off the beaten tourist route.They settled on the little-known island of Majorca.Travelling via Paris and Barcelona, they finally boarded the small white steamboat...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-03-22
ePub
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Could you ski to the South Pole? That was the challenge that British Adventurer, Felicity Aston put to women from around the Commonwealth as she set out to create the most international all-female expedition ever to the South Pole. The team would not be experienced...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2011-03-07
ePub
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A delightful new twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes readers on a tour fraught with culture clashes but rife with insight and deadpan humour - a charming true story of what happens when Sarah meets a very French Frenchman. Backpacking around Europe,...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2011-03-04
ePub
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My Mercedes Is Not for Sale is a rollicking, witty and insightful tale of an innocent abroad which captures the high-spirited adventure of a young journalist and paints a vivid portrait of West Africa through a surprise-filled journey into its thriving car cult. It has...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2011-03-04
ePub
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On 12 October 2010 the world's attention was fixed on a remote copper mine in the Atacama desert in Chile. Final preparations were underway for a daring rescue to bring to an end the longest underground entrapment in human history.69 days earlier, 33 men were midway...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-03-01
ePub
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How do you find the woman of your dreams when you're nearly forty, living in the middle of nowhere and spectacularly ungifted in the art of seduction?Three years into his solo adventure in rural France, Michael Wright has everything he ever wanted: a ramshackle house,...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-02-28
ePub
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In 1986 Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were forced to take a journey without maps. For the next four years they were incarcerated in a Lebanese dungeon. From the blank outlook of a tiny cell, with only each other and a few volumes of an ancient American encyclopaedia to...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-02-28
ePub
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One day in late summer, Michael Wright gave up his comfortable South London existence and, with only his long-suffering cat for company, set out to begin a new life. His destination was 'La Folie', a dilapidated 15th century farmhouse in need of love and renovation in...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-02-28
ePub
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Richard Grant has never spent more than twenty-two consecutive nights under the same roof. Motivated partly by his own wanderlust and partly by his realisation that America is a land populated by wanderers, he set out to test his theory. AMERICAN NOMADS is the...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2011-02-17
ePub
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PLAYING CARDS IN CAIRO is a fly-on-the-wall account - like THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL - of life (for western readers) in a strange and exotic environment. Hugh Miles lives in Cairo and is engaged to an Egyptian woman. Twice a week he plays cards with a small group of Arab,...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-02-17
ePub
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The wilderness is much closer than you think. Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps. In the same way the Romantic...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-02-17
ePub
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Leslie Thomas's odyssey is a vivid, personal account of the most fascinating islands at the furthest reaches of the globe: to islands as distant and diverse as Saint-Pierre et Miquelon off Newfoundland and Great Barrier Island off New Zealand, and to places more...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-02-08
ePub
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The Danube is Europe's Amazon. It flows through more countries than any other river on Earth - from the Black Forest in Germany to Europe's farthest fringes, where it joins the Black Sea in Romania. Andrew Eames' journey along its length brings us face to face with the...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-02-08
ePub
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4,000 miles of unpredictable ocean. 500 Mars bars. 124 days of physical exertion. 3 Guinness World Records set. 1 incredible journey. On 1 April 2009, twenty-three-year-old Sarah Outen embarked on an ambitious solo voyage across the Indian Ocean in her rowing boat,...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2011-02-07
ePub
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On the 29th of October 1908, a party of four men, led by Ernest Shackleton, set out to be the first to reach the South Pole. Three months later, their mission was in ruins and they faced certain death if they carried on. Just 97 miles from the South Pole, Shackleton...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2011-02-03
ePub
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Hotel K - Bali's most notorious jail - is Hell in Paradise.Welcome toHotel Kerobokan, orHotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side, while on the other it's a dark, bizarre and truly...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2011-02-03
ePub
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Travel journalist Andrew Eames was in the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo when he met an elderly lady who had known Agatha Christie. Fascinated by the exotic history of this quintessentially English crime writer, he decided to retrace the trip from London to Baghdad which...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-01-31
ePub
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