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10 best books like The Glorious Adventure (Richard Halliburton): As the Romans Do: An American Family's Italian Odyssey, One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children, Travels in West Africa, Travels into the Interior of Africa, An Island to Oneself: The Story of Six Years on a Desert Island, In the Shadow of Denali: Life and Death on Alaska's Mt. McKinley, Starlight and Storm, The Spirit of St. Louis, The Home Of The Blizzard: A True Story Of Antarctic Survival, Dark Shadows Falling

As the Romans Do: An American Family's Italian Odyssey
AuthorAlan Epstein
A celebration of the character and style of one of the world's most spectacular cities! This vibrant insider's view of the most mature city on earth is the perfect companion for anyone who loves anything Italian. In 1995, after a twenty-year love affair with Italy, Alan Epstein fulfilled his dream to...
One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children
AuthorDavid Elliot Cohen
ISBN1885211651
A year off from work. A meandering, serendipitous journey around the globe with the people you love most. No mortgage, no car payments, no pressure. Though it sounds like an impossible dream for most people, one day David Cohen and his family decide to make it a reality. With his wife and three children,...
Travels in West Africa
AuthorMary Henrietta Kingsley
ISBN0792266382
In 1893, defying every convention of Victorian womanhood, Mary Kingsley set off alone for West Africa to collect botanical specimens. Unaccompanied except for native guides, she plunged boldly into forbidding jungles, often the first European--and almost always the first white woman--ever to...
Travels into the Interior of Africa
AuthorMungo Park
ISBN0907871046
More than a year of traveling, on foot, sometimes on horseback or mule and enduring tropical rain, heat, hunger and thirst, dysentery and all kinds of fever.

There is a plan to this, to get as far up along the River Niger as at all possible, but with no maps and only relying on what you have heard and...
An Island to Oneself: The Story of Six Years on a Desert Island
AuthorTom Neale
ISBN0918024765
What we have all now and then dreamed of doing, Tom Neale did: go and live alone on a desert island. For years while storekeeping in the South Pacific, he planned, read and talked until the great day when he was landed on his little kingdom, aware of (but undismayed by) the fact that he would have to struggle...
In the Shadow of Denali: Life and Death on Alaska's Mt. McKinley
AuthorJonathan Waterman
ISBN1558217266
The author does a phenomenal job at capturing his and other climbers' experiences on a tireless mountain. He recognizes the trauma that it has left in the minds of those who have come face to face with death on the mountain. Waterman will pull you into the heart of Alaska with this recount of experiences....
Starlight and Storm
AuthorGaston Rébuffat
ISBN0375755063
"One of the great climbers of all time . . . who has discovered through the medium of mountains the true perspective of living." --Sir John Hunt, author of The Conquest of Everest

Known for his lyrical writing and his ability to convey not only the dangers of mountaineering but the pure exaltation...
The Spirit of St. Louis
AuthorCharles A. Lindbergh
ISBN0743237056
The classic, bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Charles A. Lindbergh's historic transatlantic flight

Along with most of my fellow fliers, I believed that aviation had a brilliant future. Now we live, today, in our dreams of yesterday; and, living in those dreams, we dream again…

Charles...
The Home Of The Blizzard: A True Story Of Antarctic Survival
AuthorDouglas Mawson
ISBN1602391440
Outside the bowl of chaos was brimming with drift-snow and, as I lay in the sleeping-bag beside my dead companion, I wondered how I would manage to break and pitch camp single-handed." ~ Douglas Mawson

The Home of the Blizzard is a tale of discovery and adventure in the Antarctic - of pioneering...
Dark Shadows Falling
AuthorJoe Simpson
ISBN0898865905

* Concise, objective account of the 1996 Everest debacle
* One of Simpson's most controversial and challenging books
* Short listed for the 1997 Boardman Tasker Award
In 1992, an Indian climber was left to die alone high on the South Col of Mount Everest by other climbers who watched...
The Scarlet City
AuthorHella S. Haasse
ISBN0897333721
In The Scarlet City, Hella Haasse takes us to 16th-century Italy, which is torn by savage violence of war and sinister intrigues for power.
The novel centers around Giovanni Borgia, a mysterious figure known in history as the infans Romanus, or child of Rome. Although he bears one of the most notorious...
The Siege and Fall of Troy
AuthorRobert Graves
ISBN0385026684
Uno de los libros más hermosos de Graves, La guerra de Troya es la recreación de uno de los hechos esenciales para la comprensión del mundo clásico griego y de la literatura épica. Los conflictos entre Aquiles y Agamenón, el escenario de la guerra, la personalidad de Héctor, son explicados con...
Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America
AuthorJonathan Raban
In 1782 an immigrant with the high-toned name J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur--"Heartbreak" in English--wrote a pioneering account of one European's transformation into an American. Some two hundred years later Jonathan Raban, arrived in Crèvecoeur's wake to see how America has paid off for...
Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Man Behind Them: How America Went to War in Iraq
AuthorBob Drogin
ISBN1400065836
Curveball answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was America’s intelligence so catastrophically wrong? In this dramatic and explosive book, award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Bob Drogin delivers a narrative that takes us to Europe, the Middle East, and deep inside the...
Savages
AuthorJoe Kane
ISBN0679740198
I was a slap-happy travel writer looking forward to experiencing the most bio-diverse country on the plant for its size. Ecaudor is touted as a paradise for nature lovers with 46 different eco-systems, home to 1,600 bird species, 250 mammals, 358 amphibians 345 reptiles and 4,500 butterflies. Then...
Art of the Renaissance
AuthorPeter Murray
ISBN0500200084
The Renaissance began in Italy, but it grew out of European civilization, with roots in Antiquity, in Christian dogma, and in Byzantium. The artistic ferment which had taken hold of Florence by 1420 was also reflected in the regional schools of Siena, Umbria, Mantua and Rome; and the new ideas spread...
Keep the River on Your Right
AuthorTobias Schneebaum
ISBN0802131336
Completely dissatisfied with the 1999 documentary of the same name, I decided to pick up Tobias Schneebaum's book "Keep the River on Your Right" to learn more about his experiences in Peru myself.

In the mid-1950's Schneebaum walked into the jungle in search of acceptance and became a member...
A Traveller in Rome
AuthorH.V. Morton
ISBN0306811316
H.V. Morton's evocative account of his days in 1950s Rome—the fabled era of La Dolce Vita—remains an indispensable guide to what makes the Eternal City eternal. In his characteristic anecdotal style, Morton leads the reader on a well-informed and delightful journey around the city, from the...
A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond
AuthorJim Whittaker
ISBN1594856664
There have been many "firsts" in Jim Whittaker's life. He was the first North American to summit Mount Everest. As the first manager and employee, and ultimately the CEO, of fledgling Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), he guided the company through years of record-setting growth. He guided Bobby...
A Life of Her Own: The Transformation of a Countrywoman in 20th-Century France
AuthorEmilie Carles
ISBN0140169652
I came upon this title from a reference in the book SYLVIA'S FARM. Am I ever glad I followed up. This is the story of a French peasant woman, born in 1900, who became a teacher. She wrested her education from nuns and in the direst of living circumstances, always going back to her father's farm to work on weekends....
The First World War: An Illustrated History
AuthorA.J.P. Taylor
A. J. P. Taylor was one of the most acclaimed and uncompromising historians of the twentieth century. In this clear, lively and now-classic account of the First World War, he tells the story of the conflict from the German advance in the West, through the Marne, Gallipoli, the Balkans and the War at Sea...
In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign
AuthorLeon Wolff
ISBN0141390794
Of all the grim, gallant, and inglorious battles of the Western Front, Passchendaele is the name uniquely evocative of the "mud and blood" that pervaded the First World War. The total gain--a few thousand yards of indefensible slough--cost many tens of thousands of Allied lives. In this now-classic...
The Murderers Among Us
AuthorSimon Wiesenthal
ISBN0330300539
In a drab Vienna office, a very ordinary - looking man pours over the letters and documents strewn across his desk. His name is Simon Wiesenthal. He is balding, slightly paunchy, and usually dressed in a plain, gray business suit. Yet, this man is the most feared avenger in the world, and his inconspicuous...
On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined
AuthorDavid Roberts
ISBN0743255186
By the time David Roberts turned twenty-two, he had been involved in three fatal mountain climbing accidents and had himself escaped death by the sheerest of luck.

At age eighteen, Roberts witnessed the death of his first climbing partner in Boulder, Colorado. A few years later, he was the...
Vroom with a View: In Search of Italy's Dolce Vita on a '61 Vespa
AuthorPeter Moore
ISBN1933572019
It was love at first sight--the Vespa had everything he wanted--a few dents and scratches, saddle seats and temperamental electrics. When Moore sat on it for the first time, he felt like a sharp-suited, Ray Ban wearing young Marcello Mastroianni. Riding the back roads, visiting small towns, sleeping...
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