Travel, Special Interest, Adventure
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Monkey Tales and Other Short Stories
by Mahmoud Hirji
Monkey Tales and other Short Stories is a collection of 14 short stories based on the author’s life growing up in East Africa, his global travels, experiences working in Canada and abroad, and more. Hirji deftly blurs the boundaries between memoir ...
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Sailing Bear Cub
While Navigating the Ebb & Flow of Life by Paula C. Vickery
Using offshore sailing as an analogy to sailing ones’ own life, the author reflects back on her life-long affiliation with water and boats and how they are intertwined with relationships in her life. From one woman’s perspective, this memoir ...
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Rafting the Great Northern Rivers
The Nahanni, Firth, and Tatshenshini by W. J. Becker
Though modern science and technology have given us comfort and security, for many people, something deeper is also needed; something that takes us closer to our evolutionary roots in nature. This book will allow the reader to experience, from the ...
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Living On the Edge
by Neil Selinger
This fascinating travel guide and memoir recounts author Neil Selinger’s journey through more than 40 countries over a 22-year period of time. The anecdotes and reflections he shares are from photos and from memories, as few notes were kept. The ...
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Twenty Years at Sea
The World as my Classroom by Laura Goor
Do you know, deep in your heart, that there’s more to life — but you don’t know what to make of that feeling? Why not travel the world, and learn just how right you are. Laura Goor believed that there were dreams, and there was reality, and the two ...
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The Ultimate Belize Bucket List - 101 Insider Tips on What to See and Do
101 Insider Tips on What to See and Do by Larry Waight
The Ultimate Belize Bucket List is more than a compilation of exciting things to see and do in Central America’s fastest growing tourism hotspot. Offering an insider glimpse into the nation’s most coveted and awe-inspiring experiences, it goes ...
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Time and Tides
One Woman's Inward Journey and Outward Adventure by Carol A. Heppenstall
It began with the idea of north... Twenty-five years later the author leads us on her odyssey into the Arctic wilderness, the rainforests of the west coast and further afield. From the totems of Haida Gwaii to the flickering light of a kudluk in a ...
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The Most Adventurous, the Most Arduous, and the Longest Way to Canada
A Documented Travel Adventure because of love for MEDICINE! by Birgit Kobold
A thrilling true story that follows the adventures of three medical professionals and their dog as they leave behind a thriving practice and head off on the journey of their lives aboard a 52-foot yacht named Nessie. With little experience aside ...
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Around the World in Six Years
My mostly solo circumnavigation in a 35 foot sailboat by Henry Holt
At the age of 67, Henry Holt struck off on a sailing adventure that would become a six-year voyage unlike any other way of seeing the world. The people he met and the challenges he faced along the way – from bureaucratic headaches at ports, to truly ...
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The Good Life
Sailing in the South Pacific in the good ship Mah-lish by Mallory Eaglewood
This book narrates the fascinating and sometimes dangerous but always thought-provoking adventures of the good ship Mah-lish. In a lighted-hearted and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny way, we enjoy Don and Esther Brown's odyssey around the South ...
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