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Three cups of tea: one man's extraordinary journey to promote peace - one school at a time
By Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin. 2007
An American mountaineer returns to an impoverished Pakistan village to repay the help he received after a disastrous attempt to…
climb K2. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools in remote villages across Pakistan and Afghanistan, just as the Taliban rose to power. 2007, c2006.The walls of India
By George Woodcock. 1985
The traveler's key to Northern India: a guide to the sacred places of Northern India
By Alistair Shearer. 1983
The travels
By Marco Polo. 1958
The 'Tigris' expedition: in search of our beginnings
By Thor Heyerdahl. 1980
The true story of an epic voyage in a boat made of reeds from the Gulf into the Indian Ocean.…
It tells of terrifying encounters with supertankers and bandits, and of the political dispute which led to the ceremonial burning of the boat. At the heart of the expedition is an anthropological theory which gives an added edge to this real life adventure. 1980.The summer game
By Roger Angell. 1972
Recaptures some of the funniest and finest moments of baseball in the 1960s. Includes the rise of California's teams, the…
sufferings of the Mets, the fall of the Yankee empire, the triumphs of the Dodgers, Cardinals, and Orioles, and much more. Bestseller. 1972.The stars my blanket
By Beryl Smeeton. 1995
The author relates the stories of her two remarkable solo journeys before World War Two - a thousand mile horseback…
trek in the Andes, and a hike of several hundred miles through Burma and Siam (now Thailand). 1998.The snow leopard
By Peter Matthiessen. 2003
1973. Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan…
blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest to find the Lama of Shey at the ancient shrine on Crystal Mountain. As the climb proceeds, Matthiessen charts his inner path as well as his outer one, with a deepening Buddhist understanding of reality, suffering, impermanence, and beauty. 2003.The silenced cry: one woman's diary of a journey to Afghanistan
By Anna Tortajada, Ezra E Fitz. 2004
Spanish writer Tortajada hears an Afghan refugee speak at a conference and decides to see the camps herself. In August…
2000, she and two companions journey first to a refugee camp in Pakistan, where they visit clandestine women's literacy classes, embroidery shops, and a brick factory, and then to Kabul, where they view underground schools and women's health and literacy classes, soccer fields where executions still take place, and the ongoing search for land mines, often travelling after dark to avoid discovery by the Taliban. Some descriptions of violence. 2004. Uniform title: Grito silenciado.The shining mountain: two men on Changabang's west wall
By Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker. 1984
Recounts the endurance and determination of two British mountain climbers in making a forty-day ascent up the treacherous west wall…
of Changabang Mountain in the Indian Himalayas. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize. 1984.The sewing circles of Herat: my Afghan years
By Christina Lamb. 2002
The author returns to Afghanistan to find out what had become of the people and places that had marked her…
life as a young graduate. Her journey brought her in touch with the people no one else has written about: the abandoned victims of almost a quarter century of war. Among them are the brave women writers of Herat. 2002.The Russians
By Hedrick Smith. 1976
Former Moscow bureau chief for the "New York Times" offers a portrait of the country today. Smith conveys the texture…
and fabric of the personal lives of the soviet people and what Russia means to them. c1976.In a Siberian village, Turk met a female Koryak shaman who invoked the help of a Spirit Raven to mend…
Turk's fractured pelvis. When the healing was complete, he was able to walk without pain. Turk, finding no rational explanation, sought understanding by traversing the frozen tundra where the shaman was born, camping with bands of reindeer herders, and recording stories of their lives. 2009.The places in between
By Rory Stewart. 2005
This is an account of Rory Stewart's walk through Afghanistan in January 2002. Travelling entirely on foot and following the…
inaccessible, mountainous route, Stewart was nearly defeated by the hostile conditions. With the help of an unexpected companion and the generosity of the people he met on the way, he survived to report back on a region closed to the world by twenty-four years of war. 2005.The northern game: baseball the Canadian way
By Bob Elliott. 2005
Opening at the 2004 Olympic baseball tournament, where the unheralded Canadian team came within an errant throw of the gold…
medal game, the author recounts Canada's rich baseball history, from 1838 to 2004, when the top rookie in both major leagues hailed from the Great White North. 2005.The only way I know: The Diary Of A Retiring Actor
By Cal Ripken, Mike Bryan. 1997
Memoir of Cal Ripken, who in 1995 broke Lou Gehrig's record of playing 2,130 consecutive games. His feat established him…
as a baseball great and earned him new acclaim for his team, the Baltimore Orioles. Traces Ripken's baseball life from the Little League to the majors, highlighting triumphs and setbacks. Also discusses how the sport has changed over the past fifteen years. 1997.The official kids' book of baseball
By G. P Jordan. 1993
A guide for the baseball fan or player who wants to understand all aspects of the game better. It includes…
the rules of baseball, a short history of the game and its stars, plus batting tips, how to use a scorecard and much more. Grades 5-8. 1993.The narrow road to the Deep North and other travel sketches
By Matsuo Basho, Nobuyuki Yuasa. 1966
In his haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. He wrote of the…
seasons changing, of the smell of the rain, the brightness of the moon and the beauty of the waterfall, through which he sensed the mysteries of the universe. These travel writings not only chronicle Basho's perilous journeys through Japan, but they also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world around him. 1966.The lost heart of Asia
By Colin Thubron. 2004
This book charts Colin Thubron's journey through the newly emergent countries of Central Asia. It is the story of his…
encounters with people, landscapes and the past, looking for lost cities, mosques and tombs, as he searches into the regions fragmented identity and discovers the plight of the once-dominant Russians who remain. 2004.