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Author | : Helen Winternitz |
Publisher | : Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780871131621 |
In this brilliant mix of political journalism and travel writing, Helen Winternitz and fellow journalist Timothy Phelps witness what few Westerners have: life in the ecologically rich but financially impoverished American-backed dictatorship of Zaire, the former Belgian Congo.
Author | : Helen Winternitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Congo (Democratic Republic) |
ISBN | : 9780340497258 |
Author | : Ian Strathcarron |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2013-07-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0486315800 |
In 1895 Mark Twain conducted a year-long around-the-world lecture tour that formed the basis for Following the Equator. A modern-day journalist recounts Twain's passage through India and offers his own intriguing observations of the same sites a century later.
Author | : Gianni Guadalupi |
Publisher | : Constable |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
ISBN | : 9781841196091 |
The Equator has no tangible existence beyond maps, but yet it lives, a hugely significant symbol in the minds and hearts of navigators, travellers, poets, madmen and dreamers of all eras. It is the world's girdle, its 24,000 miles or 38,640 kilometres passing through the Ecuadorian Andes and the mist-shrouded Ruwenzori Mountains, running along the courses of both the Amazon and the Congo rivers, and cutting through Africa's vast Lake Victoria, and the coral atolls and volcanic hulk of Krakatoa, in the Indian Ocean. The eminent Italian historian Gianni Guadalupi, and writer Antony Shugaar, have put together this inspirational collection of amazing equatorial adventures. Many have responded to the challenge of the Line, setting out to discover the mysterious source of the Nile, the perils of the Doldrums ('the living death in life' Coleridge called it') or the powerful force of El Niño, the quest for a lost Eden and for El Dorado. Others have sought a new life, like Elisa the 'nude Baroness' of the Galapagos, or Robert Louis Stevenson, for whom the fearsome King Tembinok built at Latitude Zero in the Gilbert Islands, an enclave named Equator City. So many grand expeditions and projects, so many great explorers and eccentrics, make this anthology a joyous voyage of discovery.
Author | : Thurston Clarke |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2014-09-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1497676479 |
Widely considered a jewel of contemporary travel literature, Equator is Thurston Clarke’s magnificent, witty account of his solo journey along the earth’s torrid midsection—a grueling twenty-five-thousand-mile odyssey that spanned three years and as many continents. His was a perilous trek across an almost surreal landscape—where a first-class hotel appeared smack in the middle of a leper colony and a one-time Pacific island paradise stood as a hideous, bomb-blasted testament to nuclear folly. Along the way Clarke encountered the world’s heaviest rat, the earth’s highest volcano, and the king of a Micronesian island, wearing flip-flops and a novelty T-shirt. Throughout, Clarke’s unflagging sense of humor and wonder make Equator a classic of its kind.
Author | : Barry Newman (Journalist) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : 9789627022046 |
Author | : Von Williamson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Panos Photinos |
Publisher | : Morgan & Claypool Publishers |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1627056815 |
Visual Astronomy introduces the basics of observational astronomy, a fundamentally limitless opportunity to learn about the universe with your unaided eyes or with tools such as binoculars, telescopes, or cameras. The book explains the essentials of time a
Author | : H.W. Tilman |
Publisher | : Vertebrate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1909461156 |
'To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult.' For H.W. 'Bill' Tilman, the solution lay in Africa: in gold prospecting, mountaineering and a 3,000-mile bicycle ride across the continent. Tilman was one of the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering climber and sailor who held exploration above all else. He made first ascents throughout the Himalaya, attempted Mount Everest, and sailed into the Arctic Circle. For Tilman, the goal was always to explore, to see new places, to discover rather than conquer. First published in 1937, Snow on the Equator chronicles Tilman's early adventures; his transition from East African coffee planter to famed mountaineer. After World War I, Tilman left for Africa, where he grew coffee, prospected for gold and met Eric Shipton, the two beginning their famed mountaineering partnership, traversing Mount Kenya and climbing Kilimanjaro and Ruwenzori. Tilman eventually left Africa in typically adventurous style via a 3,000-mile solo bicycle ride across the continent—all recounted here in splendidly funny style. Tilman is one of the greatest of all travel writers. His books are well-informed and keenly observed, concerned with places and people as much as summits and achievements. They are full of humour and anecdotes and are frequently hilarious. He is part of the great British tradition of comic writing and there is nobody else quite like him.
Author | : Carl O. Bowin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Gravity |
ISBN | : |