Honey, Let's Get a Boat... A Cruising Adventure of America's Great Loop  List price: $19.95 19 new & used available from $11.70. This is the story of a couple's travels on a forty-foot trawler cruising 6300 miles and 145 locks around the eastern part of North America known as America's Great Loop or the Great Circle Cruise. Their nautical ineptitude is evident from the beginning, but pulling from their personal and collective strengths, the authors overcome doubt, a lack of experience, and real and imagined horrors. The ody... |
On Thin Ice: Breakdowns, Whiteouts, and Survival on the World's Deadliest Roads  List price: $24.99 61 new & used available from $4.88. You've watched him battle the odds on History's Ice Road Truckers. Now read Hugh "The Polar Bear" Roland's own storm-by-storm account of surviving and conquering the infamous ice roads of the Arctic. Join Hugh in the front seat of his truck as he shares his most chilling, adrenaline-fueled tales of the world's most dangerous job. Every year, a fleet of truckers travels beyond the northern equa... |
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 List price: $15.00 77 new, used & collectible available from $2.80. Chong tells the story of her grandmother, brought from China as a young concubine by a sojourner to the New World, of the man's wife and children left behind, and of the author's incredible discovery of those children six decades later. "Beautiful, haunting, and wise."--New York Times Book Review. Photos.... |
Complete Works of Winston Churchill  List price: $5.00 BOOK I. THE BORDERLANDI. THE BLUE WALLII. WARS AND RUMORS OF WARSIII. CHARLESTOWNIV. TEMPLE BOWV. CRAM'S HELLVI. MAN PROPOSES, BUT GOD DISPOSESVII. IN SIGHT OF THE BLUE WALL ONCE MOREVIII. THE NOLLICHUCKY TRACEIX. ON THE WILDERNESS TRAILX. HARRODSTOWNXI. FRAGMENTARYXII. THE CAMPAIGN BEGINSXIII. KASKASKIAXIV. HOW THE KASKASKIANS WERE MADE CITIZENSXV. DAYS OF TRIALXVI. DAVY GOES TO CAHOKIAXVII. THE ... |
PASSAGE TO JUNEAU: A SEA AND ITS MEANING  20 used available from $0.84. |
 List price: $14.95 49 new & used available from $5.27. In 1930 two novice paddlers--Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port--launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe into the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitious summer-long journey from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Without benefit of radio, motor, or good maps, the teenagers made their way over 2,250 miles of rivers, lakes, and difficult portages. Nearly four months later, after shooting hundred... |
 List price: $50.00 29 new & used available from $25.25. Over the past decade, Toronto-based chef Susur Lee has built an international reputation with his groundbreaking cuisine, winning raves such as "culinary genius" from critics and chefs alike. Borrowing heavily from French and Chinese traditions, Susur defies the ubiquitous "fusion" label with his wholly original and decidedly bold style of cooking, dubbed nouvelle Chinois. SUSUR: A CULINARY LIFE o... |
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 List price: $18.95 26 new & used available from $1.90. This is a biography and astonishing adventure story of a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packed her five children onto a 25-foot boat and cruised the coastal waters of British Columbia, summer after summer. Muriel Wylie Blanchet acted single-handedly as skipper, navigator, engineer and, of course, mum, as she saw her crew through encounters with tides, fog, storms, rapids, cougars and bears. S... |
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