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Old 12-05-2008, 09:20 PM
 
Location: Nome
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Shopping for porcupine by Seth Kantner
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart

I have read these 2 books just recently and both were pretty good
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Old 12-08-2008, 09:00 PM
 
Location: Southern Illinois
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First of all, tell me about your trip. Round the world? How many months? What type of adventures are you going for? We all went on a RTW last year, and we mainly read what we could get our hands on, though to our dismay, folks in Europe and Australia are just as much suckers for trashy chick lit as we are. These recommendations aren't all strictly adventure, but are about travel:

Out of Africa by Isak Dineson
The Serpent and the Rainbow (I forget the author, but the movie they made out of this was horrible--read the book)
Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond
any books by Gerald or Lawrence Durrell--LD's books are lit, and Gerald's tend to be directed towards a younger audience and he was a naturalist, but they're delightful.
Looking for a Bluebird This was an obscure little book I found at a book exchange in Oz and maybe you can find it somewhere; it's about 60 years old and very, very funny--about a man who took off when he was young to go travel, but the only way he could afford it was to get a job as a violinist on a transatlantic ship--maybe his name was Joseph Wechsler
Rascals in Paradise by James Michener a book of non-fiction shorts about pirates and bad people in the South Pacific
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Old 03-11-2009, 11:22 PM
 
Location: Northern Minnesota
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This is a list National Geographic came up with of the "100 best adventure books of all time."

National Geographic Adventure Mag.: 100 Greatest Adventure Books (1-19)
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Old 05-02-2009, 11:04 PM
 
Location: I will be escaping Suck City and landing in Tampa in December
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Look up Sebastien Junger. He writes nonfiction adventure stuff, similar to Krakauer.
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Old 01-04-2012, 06:03 PM
 
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Still Living a Dream is by a courageous woman who dared to be different. She had a dream and they told her she couldn't, she wasn't strong enough, but she looked them in the eye and said JUST WATCH!
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Old 01-04-2012, 06:05 PM
 
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Still Living a Dream can be found at www.outdoorhikerbooks.com
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