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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam Publishing Group, The, 1995. Hard Cover. As New/As New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0399140832. 1st printing. "I had spent nearly all my life traveling in the U.S., but there was one more fanciful journey I had always wanted to make. Now I had the chance, and the prospect thrilled me. I would go alone and without a plan and without a budget. I would drift with the current of life. I'd be footloose and a lit tle irresponsible, and I'd have a perfect year in America." Ever since 1967, when he set off in a battered motor home to explore America and talk to its people, Kuralt has been one of our premier chr o niclers, a man who has helped us to see and celebrate our country in a way we never had before. Though he retired from CBS News in 1994, he never retired from his wanderings. "I keep thinking I wil l f ind something wonderful just around the bend," he explains, and so he took off again to revisit some of his…
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Charles Kuralt's America
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My Love Affair with England : A Traveler's Memoir
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballantine Publishing Group, 1994. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 7th printing. By turns humorous, bittersweet, and wonderfully eccentric, this book will be relished by those of us who dream of knowing another countr y as if it were our own. Ms Toth brings this special England vividly to life as she recalls exploring the countryside, threatre-hopping, ghost-hunting and honeymooning..
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My Quest for the Yeti : Confronting the Himalayas' Deepest Mystery
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New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In a terrifying moment during a solo climb in eastern Tibet, renowned mountaineer Reinhold Messner confronted a large unidentifiable creature that moved upright with astonishing agility. Convinced that he had found living proof of a legend, Messner began a quest to the remote monasteries and isolated villages of Nepal, Bhutan, India, and Tibet, seeking an answer to a mystery that has haunted the imagination for generations. "Traveling to mountainous regious accessible only to someone prossessing his legendary mountaineering and survival skills, Reinhold Messner's quest for the elusive yeti takes us to that most intriguing and inaccesible of realms--she shadow borderland where myth encounters raw geography." - Caroline Alexander. 165 pages. Bottom of front cover near spine has 1/2" rubbed spot on edge. Dust jacket is slightly bumped on top &…
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The Sea Hunters : True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1996. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Contains appendixes and index. In THE SEA HUNTERS Cussler explores the world of undersea adventure that inspire d and has its fictional parallel in the Dirk Pitt novels. He describes his lifelong love for the sea and ships, and how his involvement with the search for John Paul Jones's famous ship, the BONHOMME RICHARD, led to his establishing the NATIONAL UNDERWATER AND MARINE AGENCY FOUNDATION, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and preservation of historic shipwrecks. From the more than s ixty shipwrecks Numa has found Cussler has chosen his twelve favorites and collected them into this book. 364 pages..
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1996. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0684830272. 1st printing. Jacket has some light rubbing streaks. Top & bottom of spine lightly bumped. Otherwise as new. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Contains appendixes and index. ISBN 0684830172 In THE SEA HUNTERS Cussler explores the world of undersea adventure that inspired and has its fictional parallel in the Dirk Pitt novels. He describes his lifelong love for the sea and ships, and how his involvement with the search for John Paul Jones's famous ship, the BONHOMME RICHARD, led to his establishing the NATIONAL UNDERWATER AND MARINE AGENCY FOUNDATION, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and preservation of historic shipwrecks. From the more than sixty shipwrecks Numa has found Cu ssler has chosen his twelve favorites and collected them into this book..
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