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| Canning, John ( Editor): 100 Great Adventures
Book Number: 37068
Souvenir Press 8vo. hardcover. 671pp. index, b/w illus. good. / very good d/w.
Keywords: true adventure stories
Price: $18.00 |
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| Shekhdar, Jim: Bold Man of the Sea - My Epic Journey
Book Number: 38869
Hodder and Stoughton 2001 8vo. Trade paperback. 255pp. In the tradition of the great and maybe eccentric travellers he overcame endless obstacles in reaching his goal, from the blank refusal of Chilean officials to let him start because they believed he had no chance of success, to forgetting a can opener and taking only two towels. He had to fend off sharks with a makeshift harpoon, most of his navigation and communication equipment failed, he came within ten metres of being crushed by an oil tanker and Hurricane Paula threatened to overwhelm him.
Keywords: Row across the Pacific
Price: $15.00 |
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| Shekhdar, Jim: Bold Man of the Sea - My Epic Journey
Book Number: 38991
Hodder and Stoughton 2001 8vo. Trade paperback. 255pp. In the tradition of the great and maybe eccentric travellers he overcame endless obstacles in reaching his goal, from the blank refusal of Chilean officials to let him start because they believed he had no chance of success, to forgetting a can opener and taking only two towels. He had to fend off sharks with a makeshift harpoon, most of his navigation and communication equipment failed, he came within ten metres of being crushed by an oil tanker and Hurricane Paula threatened to overwhelm him.
Keywords: Row across the Pacific
Price: $15.00 |
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| Brucker, Roger W.: The Longest Cave
Book Number: 40322
Southern Illinois University February 16, 1987 8vo softcover 352pp very good. The Longest Cave makes the reader get down on hands and knees, to crawl through the tight spots and the false leads and the boulder slides. But somewhere in the rocks and mud under central Kentucky, the reader becomes self-reliant, begins crawling around the next twist of cave, begins to care. . . This spare and underwritten book is a primer in self-reliance and self-worth.
Keywords: The Longest Cave Brucker Roger W
Price: $20.00 |
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| Books: Going the Distance: A Walk Accross Austraila
Book Number: 40399
The Radiant Coaching Company 2003 8vo softcover 283pp very good. Deanna Sorensen had a dream, made a plan, and walked 5000KM accross Austraila. She walked alone, without a support crew, pushing her tent, food and water in a Baby Jogger. For 180 days she battled against rain, gale-force winds and sub-zero tempratures, covering a marathon distance a day from Perth accorss the desolate plain of Nullarbor, through the exposed landscapes of Southern Australia and over the hills of Victoria, before finishing her walk on the golden sands of Sydney's Bondi Beach. Deannas solos crossing the continenet is an inspiring tale of self-motivation, proving that you don't have to be an elite athlete to achieve the extraordinary, you just need elite determination.
Keywords: Going the Distance A Walk Accross Austraila Books
Price: $12.00 |
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| Horwitz, Tony: Into the blue: Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before
Book Number: 42871
Allen & Unwin 2002 8vo softcover 480pp very good. More than two centuries on, Tony Horwitz travels the world in the Captain's wake in a quest to uncover Cook's legacy. Along the way, he narrowly avoids shipwreck on the Bora Bora reef, travels to remote beer-swilling cyclone-wracked corocodile-infested outposts, uncovers the conspiracy of the red banana, dons a wig and britches in Tahiti, and survives turkey curry in Middlesborough and gale force winds on the deck of a week-long Alaskan ferry ride. "Thorougly enjoyable. No writer has better captured the heroic enigma that was Captain James Cook than Toney Horwitz in this amiable and entrhralling excursion around the Pacific" Bill Bryson.
Keywords: Into the blue Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before Horwitz Tony
Price: $15.00 |
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| James, Bill: Top Deck Daze: Adventures on the Frog and Toad
Book Number: 42889
Halbooks 2001 8vo softcover 344pp very good. Signed and inscribed by Bill James. Index. In Top Deck Daze Bill James tells the hilarious true story of how Graham Screw Turner establishes a bus touriing company using old converted double-decker buses. From humble beginnings in 1973 London, Screw, together with a gang of colonial larrikins, builds up a 100-strong fleet of deckers. Graham Screw Turner is currently one of Australia's wealthiest men and CEO of Flight Centre.
Keywords: Top deck daze adventures on the frog and toad James Bill
Price: $15.00 |
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| Man, Tim the Yowie: The adventures of Tim the Yowie Man: Cryptonaturalist
Book Number: 42915
Random House Australia 2001 8vo softcover 299pp very good. Illustrated with b&w photo's. Adventures include The Yowie, The Alien Big Cat, The Hawaiian Lava-tube monster, Sasquatch, Bunyip, Loch Ness Monster, Aquatic Beastie, Ghosts of Old Parliment House, Alkimos Shipwreck, Cryptic Earthworks, Stonehenge, Min Min Light, Little Green Men, The Alien Starchild.
Keywords: The adventures of Tim the Yowie Man Cryptonaturalist Man Tim the Yowie
Price: $15.00 |
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