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  • A Reed Shaken by the Wind

    Travels among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq

    de Gavin Maxwell ...
    The Marsh Arabs were one of the most isolated communities in the world. Few outsiders, let alone Europeans, had been permitted to travel through their homeland, a mass of tiny islands lost in a wilderness of reeds and swamps in southern Iraq. One of the few trusted outsiders was the legendary explorer Wilfred Thesiger, who was Gavin Maxwell's guide to the intricate landscape, tribal customs and ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ring of Bright Water

    A Trilogy

    de Gavin Maxwell ...
    This classic memoir of otters in the Scottish Highlands and the naturalist who cared for them is "one of the outstanding wildlife books of all time" ( New York Herald Tribune).While touring the Iraqi marshes, Gavin Maxwell was captivated by an otter and became a devoted advocate of and spokesman for the species. Maxwell moved to a remote house in the Scottish Highlands, co-habiting there with ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Harpoon at a Venture

    de Gavin Maxwell ...
    In this memoir, the Scottish naturalist and author of Ring of Bright Water recounts his post-World War II life as a shark fisherman in the Hebrides.A shark fishery based on the tiny Hebridean island of Soay was the beginning of Gavin Maxwell's enduring love affair with the west coast of Scotland. This, his first book, tells the whole story—the challenge and drama of the shark hunt, the development ... Leer más

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  • Ein Ring aus hellem Wasser

    Meine Jahre an Schottlands wilder Westküste. Mit einem Nachwort von Robert Macfarlane

    de Gavin Maxwell ...
    Traducido por Iris Hansen, Teja Schwaner ...
    Zeitlos und unvergesslich - mit seinen Schilderungen von der dramatischen Schönheit Schottlands und seiner Freundschaft mit den zahmen Fischottern, die er aufzog, schuf Gavin Maxwell 1960 einen Weltbestseller, der literarische Maßstäbe setzte. Das verlassene ehemalige Cottage eines Leuchtturmwärters, die abgelegene Landzunge, umspielt von einem Ring aus hellem Wasser, das Wechselspiel von ... Leer más

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  • All the Light We Cannot See

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    de Anthony Doerr ...
    *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to ... Leer más

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  • Alone Against the North

    An Expedition into the Unknown

    de Adam Shoalts ...
    **Winner of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario's 2016 Young Authors AwardWinner of the 2017 Louise de Kiriline Award for NonfictionThe age of exploration is not over.**When Adam Shoalts ventured into the largest unexplored wilderness on the planet, he hoped to set foot where no one had ever gone before. What he discovered surprised even him.Shoalts was no stranger to the wilderness. He had hacked ... Leer más

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  • Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak

    The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak

    de Maurice Herzog ...
    Traducido por Nea Morin, Janet Adam Smith ...
    Mountaineer Maurice Herzog gives a gripping firsthand account of one of the most daring climbing expeditions in historyAnnapurna I is the name given to the 8,100-meter mountain that ranks among the most forbidding in the Himalayan chain. Dangerous not just for its extreme height but for a long and treacherous approach, its summit proved unreachable until 1950, when a group of French mountaineers ... Leer más

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  • The Prince of the Marshes

    And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq

    de Rory Stewart ...
    An adventurous diplomat's "engrossing and often darkly humorous" memoir of working with Iraqis after the fall of Saddam Hussein ( Publishers Weekly).In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then ... Leer más

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  • Amazing Sailing Stories

    True Adventures from the High Seas

    de Dick Durham ...
    Series Libro 1 - Amazing Stories
    Set sail on a thrilling journey to discover some of the most exciting tales of adventure afloat. There's every sort of vessel from majestic square rigger to humble homemade yacht. Journey around gale-whipped headlands and survive mountainous seas – or turn the page to discover the delights of cruising among the islands of a tropical paradise. The exploits of sailing's greatest names are recounted, ... Leer más

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  • The First Love Story

    A Journey Through the Tangled Lives of Adam and Eve

    de Bruce Feiler ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham comes a revelatory journey across four continents and 4,000 years exploring how Adam and Eve introduced the idea of love into the world, and how they continue to shape our deepest feelings about relationships, family, and togetherness.Since antiquity, one story has stood at the center of every conversation about men and ... Leer más

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  • The Lost Men

    The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

    de Kelly Tyler-Lewis ...
    The untold story of the last odyssey of the heroic age of Antarctic explorationSir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic endeavor is legend, but for sheer heroism and tragic nobility, nothing compares to the saga of the Ross Sea party. This crew of explorers landed on the opposite side of Antarctica from the Endurance with a mission to build supply depots for Shackleton’s planned crossing of the ... Leer más

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  • The Life of Sir Richard Burton, both volumes

    de Thomas Wright ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he ... Leer más

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