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10 best books like Solomon Time: Adventures in the South Pacific (Will Randall): Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman, Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared, Slowly Down the Ganges, Butter Tea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya, The Fellowship of Ghosts: A Journey Through the Mountains of Norway, Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa, The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin, The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule, Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa, Loula Is Leaving for Africa

Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman
AuthorMpho M'Atsepo Nthunya
A compelling and unique autobiography by an African woman with little formal education, less privilege, and almost no experience of books or writing. Mpho's voice is a voice almost never heard in literature or history, a voice from within the struggle of "ordinary" African women to negotiate a world...
Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared
AuthorChristopher Robbins
ISBN0977743381
Closed to foreigners under Tsar and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the world, a remarkable feat for a country the size of Western Europe. Few would guess that Kazakhstan—a blank in Westerners' collective geography—turns out to be diverse, tolerant, and surprisingly...
Slowly Down the Ganges
AuthorEric Newby
ISBN0864426313
On his 44th birthday, Eric Newby, a self-confessed river lover, sets out on a 1200 mile journey down the Ganges River from Hardwar to the Bay of Bengal, accompanied by his wife, Wanda. Things do not start smoothly as they run aground 63 times in the first six days, but gradually India's holiest river, The...
Butter Tea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya
AuthorBritta Das
ISBN1840244984
Often seen as a magical paradise at the end of the world, Bhutan is inaccessible to most travellers. Set against the dramatic scenery of the Himalaya, this beautiful memoir reveals hardships and happiness in a land almost untouched by the West. When Britta, a young physiotherapist, goes to work in a...
The Fellowship of Ghosts: A Journey Through the Mountains of Norway
AuthorPaul Watkins
ISBN0792267990
Acclaimed writer Paul Watkins describes his spellbinding solo trek through the wilds of Norway's Rondane and Jutunheimen mountains—grand but harsh landscapes where myth and reality meet. His adventure takes him through valleys bordered by thousand-foot cliffs, roaring waterfalls wreathed...
Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa
AuthorKatherine A. Dettwyler
This personal account by a biocultural anthropologist illuminates not-soon-forgotten messages involving the sobering aspects of fieldwork among malnourished children in West Africa. With nutritional anthropology at its core, Dancing Skeletons presents informal, engaging, and oftentimes...
The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin
AuthorMukhamet Shayakhmetov
ISBN1585679550
This is a first-hand account of the genocide of the Kazakh nomads in the 1920s and 30s. Nominally Muslim, the Kazakhs and their culture owed as much to shamanism and paganism as they did to Islam. Their ancient traditions and economy depended on the breeding and herding of stock across the vast steppes...
The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
AuthorJoanna Kavenna
A legend, a land once seen and then lost forever, Thule was a place beyond the edge of the maps, a mystery for thousands of years. And to the Nazis, Thule was an icy Eden, birthplace of Nordic “purity.” In this exquisitely written narrative, Joanna Kavenna wanders in search of Thule, to Shetland, Iceland,...
Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa
AuthorPhilip Caputo
ISBN0792263626
1898, Tsavo River Kenya, the British Empire employs native workers to build a railroad. Construction comes to a violent halt when two maneless lions devour 140 workers in an extended feeding frenzy that would make headlines and history all over the world. Caputo's Ghosts of Tsavo is a new quest for truth...
Loula Is Leaving for Africa
AuthorAnne Villeneuve
ISBN1554539412
Loula has had ENOUGH of her TERRIBLE triplet brothers. She's leaving home and going to Africa! Though her quirky parents are too distracted to pay much attention to her plans, Loula has a good friend in the family chauffeur, Gilbert, who gently inquires, ?Mademoiselle, may I ask, why Africa?? ?Because!?...
Struck by Living: From Depression to Hope
AuthorJulie Hersh
Awarded the Mental Health America Ruth Altschuler Community Advocate Prism Award and selected as one of the 2010 Distinguished Women by Northwood University, Julie Hersh is an outspoken advocate for mental health. "Despite medical advances," Julie says, "too many people die by suicide because...
When Invisible Children Sing
AuthorChi Cheng Huang
ISBN1414306164
Expecting to treat some mildly ill children from the streets of Bolivia on a quick “service trip,” an idealistic young medical student gets more than he bargained for when he takes a year off from Harvard Medical School to work at an orphanage in La Paz. As he comes to know the children, and sees how...
Don't Be Afraid, Gringo
AuthorElvia Alvarado
The award-winning oral history of Elvia Alvarado, a courageous campesina (peasant) activist in Honduras, the poorest country in Central America. Trained by the Catholic Church to organize women's groups to combat malnutrition, Alvarado began to question why campesinos were malnourished to begin...
Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria
AuthorKapka Kassabova
ISBN1846271231
Kassabova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and grew up under the drab, muddy, grey mantle of one of communism's most mindlessly authoritarian regimes. Escaping with her family as soon as possible after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, she lived in Britain, New Zealand, and Argentina, and several other places....
On a Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of Southern India
AuthorDervla Murphy
ISBN0006547990
This is a diary style book, with diversions into the local history, the local culture and some of the many people that the author a her five year old daughter come into contact with on their four month travels in Coorg, in 1973/74.

Never a fan of big cities, Murphy heads out of Bombay relatively...
Stories I Stole
AuthorWendell Steavenson
Fed up with working for Time magazine in London, Steavenson moved to Georgia on a whim. Stories I Stole relates her time there in twenty vodka-fuelled episodes drawn from all over the country – tales of love, friendship and power cuts, of duelling (Georgian style), of horse races in the mountains,...
Lost Paradise
AuthorKathy Marks
ISBN1416597441
"Lost paradise: from mutiny on the bounty to a modern-day legacy of sexual mayhem, the dark secrets of Pitcairn island revealed". Other editions of the same book are entitled 'Pitcairn, Paradise Lost' and 'Trouble in Paradise'.

Pitcairn Island - remote and wild in the South Pacific, a place...
Cork Boat
AuthorJohn Pollack
ISBN0375422579
165,321 corks
1 boat

Most people have childhood dreams; few ever pursue them. At the age of 34, John Pollack quit a prestigious speechwriting job on Capitol Hill to pursue an idea he had harbored since the age of six: to build a boat out of wine corks and take it on an epic journey.

In...
Wine to Water: A Bartender's Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World
AuthorDoc Hendley
ISBN1583334629
The captivating story of an ordinary bartender who's changing the world through clean water.

Doc Hendley never set out to be a hero. In 2004, Hendley-a small- town bartender- launched a series of wine-tasting events to raise funds for clean-water projects and to bring awareness to the world's...
In Search Of Robinson Crusoe
AuthorTim Severin
For nearly three centuries, Robinson Crusoe has been the archetypal castaway, the symbol of survival in uninhabited wilds. In this book, Tim Severin adds this enterprising hero to the roster of legendary figures whose adventures he's replicated and whose origins he's explored. With the signature...
Edmund Unravels
AuthorAndrew Kolb
ISBN0399169148
Edmund is a ball of yarn and a ball of energy! From the time he could roll, he’s been bouncing down his front steps to explore, and his parents have always been right there to reel him in and roll him back up.

But now that he’s bigger, Edmund is ready to discover the wonders of the world. Everything...
A Cowrie of Hope
AuthorBinwell Sinyangwe
Finally checking Zambia off my around the world novel, this slim novel was published in 2000 but is set in the 1990s, when Zambia had an economic crisis going on, and this "new disease" that is causing chaos. "The nineties. The years of the rule of money. The years of havelessness, bad rains and the new...
Paramedic to the Prince
AuthorPatrick (Tom) Notestine
ISBN1424158966
Drive-by shootings, drug overdoses, and multi-car accidentsaas a paramedic, he thought he had seen it all, until he answered a small job advertisement that changed his life forever. Welcome to the mysterious world of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one of the most fundamentalist Islamic countries on...
With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia
AuthorÅsne Seierstad
ISBN0465076025
From beloved international reporter Åsne Seierstad comes a remarkable exploration of the lives of ordinary Serbs under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic-during the dramatic events leading up to his fall, and finally in the troubled years that have followed. Seierstad traveled extensively through...
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