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  • Imperfect Passage

    A Sailing Story of Vision, Terror, and Redemption

    Turning sixty isn’t the end; it’s only the beginning.Michael Cosgrove had a beautiful family, a successful career, and a lovely Southern California home overlooking the Pacific Ocean. At age sixty, he decided to leave all that behind to sail around the world.With the vision of rugged individualism and salty tales to share with his grandchildren, Cosgrove quickly realized that sailing around the ... Leer más

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  • The Cost of Winning

    Global Development Policies and Broken Social Contracts

    In The Cost of Winning, Michael H. Cosgrove describes how the United States used economic policies to contain the Soviet Union during the post-World War n era and how those policies turned a vibrant American economy into one of broken promises and declining power. Cosgrove defines and examines the five economic building blocks used to contain the Soviets in America's Golden Age: the Marshall Plan, ... Leer más

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  • Riding Sky High

    A Bicycle Adventure Around the World

    Many dream of dropping everything and just traveling around the world. It’s a common dream, but few imagine embarking on that journey by bicycle. Exposed to the elements, legs burning, all your possessions strapped to you and your bicycle—it doesn’t paint a relaxing picture, but this is just what Pierre-Yves Tremblay did.Leaving his hometown of Chicoutimi, Quebec, in July 1994, Tremblay took a ... Leer más

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  • Hurtling Toward Happiness

    A Mother and Teenage Son's Road Trip from Blues to Bonding In a Really Small Car

    The Funny, Wise, Bighearted Story of a Bonding Road Trip—and the Healing Power of Human ConnectionWhen Claudia’s sixteen-year-old son, Ross, announces he’s quitting high school and leaving home a year early, she panics because they’re so disconnected she’s afraid she’ll lose him forever. Then a small miracle happens—they discover they have the same escape fantasy, to head west on I-10 to where she ... Leer más

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  • Songs of the Baka and Other Discoveries

    Travels after Sixty-Five

    Abandoning the comfort and security of a typical retirement, a couple travels and treks through the most isolated parts of the world.After their retirement, Dennis James and Barbara Grossman decide to travel where tour buses won’t and where the US government says don’t,” incorporating trekking into their travels as a way to see untouched areas of the world considered inhospitable by many.Armed ... Leer más

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  • Fractal Worlds

    Grown, Built, and Imagined

    de Michael Frame ...
    A mathematician and a poet explore fractals as they appear in nature, art, medicine, and technology in this "instant classic" introduction (David Peak, Utah State University)." Fractal Worlds portrays math as math lovers know it: a beautiful garden, a place of curiosity and delight, a tribute to human creativity and the wonders of nature." —Steven Strogatz, author of Sync <stro... ... Leer más

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  • Shackleton's Heroes

    The Epic Story of the Men Who Kept the Endurance Expedition Alive

    The Unbelievable Story of Six Men Who Trekked Across the Great Ice Barrier in Support of Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic ExpeditionOne hundred years ago, Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked on the legendary 19141917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, defying the odds and accomplishing one of history’s most remarkable feats of endurance while narrowly escaping death, even though his crew failed in their ... Leer más

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  • The Hour of Land

    A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

    An ode to our national parks, timed for the centennial, by the beloved author of When Women Were Birds.Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearAmerica's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, ... Leer más

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  • Across the Savage Sea

    The Epic Journey of the First Woman to Row Across the North Atlantic

    de Maud Fontenoy ...
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    Over the last century only six men had defied the power of nature and successfully rowed across the Atlantic from west to east. Maud Fontenoy, a 2005 Time (Europe) Hero, changed that forever when she became the first woman to do so. In 2003 Fontenoy, a young woman and seasoned mariner, set out from Newfoundland in her twenty-four-foot-long boat, Pilot, to row across the North Atlantic. Her goal: ... Leer más

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  • Challenging the Pacific

    The First Woman to Row the Kon-Tiki Route

    de Maud Fontenoy ...
    Just two years after rowing solo across the North Atlantic at the age of twenty-five, Maud Fontenoy was ready for a new challenge-crossing the Pacific Ocean. Leaving from Lima, Peru, and traveling 4,400 miles in seventy-three days, Fontenoy landed in Hiva Oa in French Polynesia, becoming the first woman to complete what is known as the Kon-Tiki” route. Alone at sea for days and nights on end, ... Leer más

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  • This House of Sky

    Landscapes of a Western Mind

    de Ivan Doig ...
    National Book Award Finalist: A "beautifully written, deeply felt" memoir about growing up in the American West ( Los Angeles Times).Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us, but also of the ... Leer más

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  • Talking with Bears

    Conversations with Charlie Russell

    **"Extraordinary . . . [this] series of true stories about the authentic nature of bears reveals them as the sensitive and intelligent beings they are." ―Carl Safina, New York Times–bestselling author of Becoming Wild and Beyond WordsGrizzly bears have long been feared as unpredictable and dangerous. But one man, Charlie Russell, was key in breaking down the myths and helping save these ... Leer más

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