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In One Year Off, you can join the family on a trek up a Costa Rican volcano, cruise the canals of Burgundy by houseboat, and ride ferries through the Greek Islands. Later, as the Cohens wander further off the tourist trail, you can drive through the villages of Rajasthan, traverse the vast Australian Nullarbor, and discover the charms of Cambodia's Angkor Wat and the hidden shangri-las of northern Laos.
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fun filled travellog
- De tarun en 07-22-19
De: David Cohen
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Sahara
- De: Michael Palin
- Narrado por: Michael Palin
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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Michael Palin is off again, this time to the seemingly desolate Sahara Desert. There's no easy way across, as he and his team discover on their most challenging expedition yet.
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A wonderful journey.
- De David en 05-22-05
De: Michael Palin
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The Masked Rider
- Cycling in West Africa
- De: Neil Peart
- Narrado por: Brian Sutherland
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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The prolific drummer for the rock band Rush travels through African villages, both large and small, and relates his story through journal entries and tales of adventure, while simultaneously addressing issues such as differences in culture, psychology, and labels. Literary and artistic sidekicks such as Aristotle, Dante, and Van Gogh join Peart and his cycling companions, reminding the listener that this is not just another travel book - it is a story of both external and introspective discovery and adventure.
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Fascinating Trip Across Cameroon
- De Diann Sedam en 11-26-19
De: Neil Peart
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Around the World in 50 Years
- My Adventure to Every Country on Earth
- De: Albert Podell
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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This is the inspiring story of an ordinary guy who achieved two great goals that others had told him were impossible. First, he set a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world, during the course of which he blasted his way out of minefields, survived a breakdown atop the Peak of Death, came within seconds of being lynched in Pakistan, and lost three of the five men who started with him - two to disease, one to the Vietcong.
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Fantastic Adventure
- De CJ en 09-12-18
De: Albert Podell
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The Naked Don't Fear the Water
- An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
- De: Matthieu Aikins
- Narrado por: Nick Nikon
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler’s road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better future.
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Great story, horrible narration
- De AB en 02-25-22
De: Matthieu Aikins
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Route 66 Still Kicks
- Driving America's Main Street
- De: Rick Antonson
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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This travelogue follows Rick and his travel companion Peter along 2,400 miles through eight states from Chicago to Los Angeles as they discover the old Route 66. With surprising and obscure stories about Route 66 personalities like Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, Al Capone, Salvador Dali, Dorothea Lange, Cyrus Avery (the Father of Route 66), the Harvey Girls, Mickey Mantle, and Bobby Troup (songwriter of “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66”), Antonson’s fresh perspective reads like an easy drive down a forgotten road.
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Best Account of the Old Route
- De Theodore John en 07-16-19
De: Rick Antonson
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Not Afraid of the Fall
- 114 Days Through 38 Cities in 15 Countries
- De: Kyle James
- Narrado por: Aaron Landon
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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After purchasing one-way flights from New York City to Paris, Kyle James and his girlfriend Ashley quit their day jobs, planned futures, and daily paradigms to see as much of the world as they could. In 114 days, they trekked across 15 countries and 38 cities with nothing but their backpacks, their smartphones, and each other. Not Afraid of the Fall is the unvarnished story of their off-the-cuff journey: from cliff-jumping off Croatia's untouched coasts to bathing with rescued elephants in Thailand and far beyond.
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Poorly written, and straight up boring
- De Jon en 06-08-18
De: Kyle James
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Getting Stoned with the Savages
- A Trip through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
- De: J. Maarten Troost
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 25 m
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After two grueling years on the island of Tarawa, Troost was in no hurry to return to the South Pacific until he began to feel remarkably out of place in modern America. He knew it was time to set off again for parts unknown. Here he tells the story of his time on Vanuatu, a cluster of islands where he struggles against typhoons, earthquakes, and giant centipedes but finds himself swept up in the laid-back, clothing-optional lifestyle of the islanders.
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My new favorite author!
- De L. Worthington en 08-28-07
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Visit Sunny Chernobyl
- And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
- De: Andrew Blackwell
- Narrado por: Ax Norman
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth - Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It’s rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada’s oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the world. But in Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell embraces a different kind of travel, taking a jaunt through the most gruesomely polluted places on Earth.
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Better than I predicted
- De Paul Luthi en 08-23-13
De: Andrew Blackwell
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Three Cups of Tea
- One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations
- De: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time: Greg Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban.
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A Fraud
- De Sara en 02-23-16
De: Greg Mortenson, y otros
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To Shake the Sleeping Self
- A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
- De: Jedidiah Jenkins
- Narrado por: Jedidiah Jenkins
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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On the eve of turning 30, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn’t choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent 16 months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. He chronicled the trip on Instagram, where his photos and reflections drew hundreds of thousands of followers, all gathered around the question: What makes a life worth living? In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Jed narrates his adventure - the people and places he encountered on his way to the bottom of the world - as well as the internal journey that started it all.
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Different that I expected
- De Sabrina en 02-21-20
De: Jedidiah Jenkins
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Turn Right at Machu Picchu
- Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
- De: Mark Adams
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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Writer for the New York Times and GQ, Mark Adams is also the acclaimed author of Mr. America. In this fascinating travelogue, Adams follows in the controversial footsteps of Hiram Bingham III, who’s been both lionized and vilified for his discovery of the famed Lost City in 1911—but which reputation is justified?
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Spellbounding, exceptional vocals
- De KLewis en 09-19-15
De: Mark Adams
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Zen and Now
- On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- De: Mark Richardson
- Narrado por: Buck Schirner
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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In 1968, Robert Pirsig and his son, Chris, made the cross-country motorcycle trip that was the basis for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a book that has inspired generations with its searching personal and philosophical narrative. After rereading the book at the onset of middle age, reporter Mark Richardson tuned up his old Suzuki dirt bike and became a "Pirsig Pilgrim".
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Wonderful
- De James en 04-17-09
De: Mark Richardson
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- 10-14-15
Great Story Despite Kyrzygstan
I loved the book even with the political undertones throughout. From the shores of Tasmania all the way back to London it was a fantastic story. I will pick up anything Jamie Maslin writes. Ben Owen did a decent job reading except he did butcher some place names along the way. He did manage to say Kyrgyz people but then almost always say Kyrzygstan... nope Kyrgyzstan. He said that a lot. Sorry the geo nerd in me could not let it go. He also said Kazakhstan wrong adding an I between Kazakh and stan. Yes in grand scheme minor but it would be like someone saying Bitrain or Untied States.
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