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Adventurous Travel
Lost on planet China: the strange and true story of one man's attempt to understand the world's most mystifying nation, or how he became comfortable eating live squid by J. Maarten Troost
Into the wild by Jon Krakauer
Sea of glory [Large print]: America's voyage of discovery: the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 by Nathaniel Philbrick
Turn right at Machu Picchu: rediscovering the lost city one step at a time by Mark Adams
No horizon is so far: two women and their extraordinary journey across Antarctica [large print] by Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft with Cheryl Dahle
From the Sahara to Samarkand: selected travel writings of Rosita Forbes, 1919-1937 by edited with an introduction by Margaret Bald
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier
God's middle finger: into the lawless heart of the Sierra Madre by Richard Grant
Death on the barrens: a true story of courage and tragedy in the Canadian Arctic by George James Grinnell
River of doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey by Candice Millard
Between terror and tourism: an overland journey across North Africa by Michael Mewshaw