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Slow boats to China
By Gavin Young. 1981
The author's love of the sea, inspired by Conrad, led him to set off on a voyage that was to…
take him halfway round the world on small, local boats of every kind. 1981.Sinai: the great and terrible wilderness
By Burton Bernstein. 1979
An account of four trips the author took through Sinai reporting on its past and present. Offers a look into…
Bedouin habits, customs, culture, and a description of the beautiful and forbidding land. 1979.Silver linings: travels around Northern Ireland
By Martin Fletcher. 2001
Martin Fletcher was initially sent to Northern Ireland as a reporter for The Times, but while reporting on the tortuous…
peace negotiations his wife was meeting the ordinary people. Although essentially a tour of the country, the real story is told in endless digressions, with the author hunting rats on an island in the middle of the Strangford Lough and participating in the ancient game of road-bowling, in which players compete to hurl iron balls along two or three miles of country lane. 2001.Secrets of the savanna: twenty-three years in the African wilderness unraveling the mysteries of elephants and people
By Delia Owens, Mark Owens. 2006
The Owenses recount their efforts from the early 1990s to 2005 to conserve wildlife in and around North Luangwa National…
Park in Zambia by offering villagers alternatives to poaching ivory. They describe befriending an orphan elephant, encounters with lions and other African animals, and dangers from poachers. 2006.Sea to shining sea: people, travels, places
By Berton Roueché. 1985
The author presents 18 essays about his travels in the United States and Europe. The reader visits wheat-country Kansas, a…
isolated small-town New Mexican doctor, the last surviving Shakers of Mt. Lebanon, New York, as well as Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and France. Some strong language. 1985.Searching for Crusoe: a journey among the last real islands
By Thurston Clarke. 2001
Fascinated with islands, the author traveled worldwide, visiting small, unique islands. He surveys islands that have inspired famous stories like…
South Pacific and Robinson Crusoe, islands with utopian societies, private islands, prison islands and others. It is filled with unique characters, exotic locales and colourful anecdotes. 2001.Salut au grand Sud (Documents)
By Isabelle Autissier, Erik Orsenna. 2007
Sans bagage: un conte d'amour et de voyage : roman
By Clara Bensen, Fabienne Gondrand. 2016
" Après avoir traversé une phase difficile, Clara Bensen, vingt-cinq ans, décide de s'inscrire sur un site de rencontre. Elle…
y fait la connaissance de Jeff, un professeur d'université débordant d'énergie et réputé pour son rejet des conventions - tout son opposé. À peine se connaissent-ils qu'ils se lancent dans une expérience de voyage unique. La règle du jeu ? Pas de réservation d'hôtel ni de programme, juste les billets aller-retour et, surtout, aucun bagage, rien à part les vêtements qu'ils portent. Comment trouver le courage de sortir de sa zone de confort ? Peut-on aimer en délaissant les schémas habituels ? " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: No baggage : a minimalist tale of love & wandering.Sand dance: by camel across Arabia's great southern desert
By Bruce Kirkby. 2000
In the winter of 1999, three Canadians and three Omani Bedu set out across Arabia's great southern desert in an…
attempt to authentically recreate the 1947 crossing by Sir Wilfred Thesiger. Here they share the adventures and misadventures they experienced while crossing the vast, desolate desert. Winner of the 2001 Torgi Talking Book of the Year Award.Salvador: An Anthology
By Joan Didion. 1983
In 1982 the author went to El Salvador. She describes the situation from the government's standpoint since she was unable…
to spend time with the guerrillas. Even so, the picture of terrorism emerges with fear and political repression. 1983.Salon.com's Wanderlust: real-life tales of adventure and romance
By Donald W George. 2000
40 short pieces written by contemporary travellers for the now defunct award-winning travel site Wanderlust. Writers include Simon Winchester in…
Romania; Isabel Allende in the Amazon; Pico Iyer in Bali; Carlos Fuentes in Zurich; Bill Barch in Italy; Sallie Tisdale in Japan and Po Branson in the Caribbean. 2000.Sand rivers
By Peter Matthiessen. 1981
A noted naturalist describes a safari into Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve, one of the largest and most remote strongholds of…
wild animals left on earth. Mattiessen's portrait includes the human and social realities of the Selous as well as its natural magnificence. 1981.Saved by beauty: adventures of an American romantic in Iran
By Roger Housden. 2011
Housden traveled to Iran to meet with artists, writers, film makers and religious scholars who embody the long Iranian tradition…
of humanism, the belief in scholarship and artistry that began with the reign of Cyrus the Great. From the bustle of modern Tehran to the paradise gardens of Shiraz, Housden met Iranians who were welcoming and intellectually curious. He was brought face to face with the reality that beauty and truth, deceit and violence, are inextricably mingled in the affairs of human life. 2011.Sacrés français!: un Américain nous regarde
By Theodore Stanger. 2003
Les Américains, leur hyper-puissance, leur arrogance, leur McDo... Les Français ne se privent pas de dire tout haut et fort…
ce qu'ils pensent d'eux. Mais les Américains, eux, qu'en pensent-ils? C'est à cette question que se propose de répondre Ted Stanger, un journaliste américain qui vit à Paris depuis dix ans et ne cesse d'être étonné par leurs moeurs, qu'il trouve toujours aussi exotiques. En une quinzaine de chapitres, il se penche sur leurs habitudes, modes de vie et de pensée : des 35 heures à la cuisine, du french lover à la contestation comme esthétique de vie, de la bureaucratie aux dîners en ville... 2003.Ryan and Jimmy: and the well in Africa that brought them together (CitizenKid)
By Herb Shoveller. 2006
When Ryan's first-grade teacher told his class about countries where people didn't have clean drinking water, he became determined to…
change things. His first well was built in Uganda, and a local orphan named Akana Jimmy longed for a chance to thank Ryan. When they finally meet, an unbreakable bond unites these boys from very different backgrounds, and a long and sometimes life-threatening journey begins. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 3-6. 2006.Sable Island: the wandering sandbar
By Wendy Kitts. 2011
Though it was discovered almost 500 years ago, few people have visited Sable Island. Despite modern navigational tools, excessive fog…
and stormy weather still make travelling to Sable a challenge. But the island is part of Maritime lore--dubbed the "graveyard of the Atlantic" because of the number of ships wrecked on its shores. Sable Island also hosts wild horses, thousands of seals, and enchanting "singing" sands and "wandering" dunes. Sable Island is as dangerous as it is alluring. Grades 2-4. 2011.Sahara: a natural history
By Marq De Villiers, Sheila Hirtle. 2003
Description of the world's largest desert landscape and its inhabitants. Discusses the geography, natural cycles, and resilient life-forms of the…
sandy wilderness stretching across the broadest part of Africa. Covers the history of the Sahara's indigenous people--Berbers, Moors, and Tuareg--and the ancient kingdoms of past civilizations. 2003.Sahara unveiled: a journey across the desert
By William Langewiesche. 1996
The author chronicles his journey through the Sahara Desert, south from Algiers to Senegal, mostly by public transportation. Describes his…
grueling travel across a harsh terrain, the region's colonial history and current political unrest, and the hardscrabble life of the indigenous Tuareg nomads. 1996.Sailing through China
By Paul Theroux. 1983
American novelist and travel writer sails down the Yangtze River in China along with thirty-three Americans, mostly millionaires, on an…
exclusive Lindblad tour. Theroux offers prose pictures of the river's industry-fouled cities and villages, the countless junks and sampans, the spectacular gorges, the endless views of Chinese people tilling the half-dead fields, plus acerbic sketches of his rich companions. Some strong language. 1984, c1983.Rowed trip: from Scotland to Syria by oar
By Colin Angus, Julie Angus. 2009
2006. Adventurers Julie and Colin Angus were checking a map of Europe when Julie noticed an interconnected water route from…
Colin's parents' homeland of Scotland past her mother's homeland, Germany, and on to her father's, Syria. What started as a funny idea of rowing to visit relatives resulted in an odyssey by oar (and bike) where Julie and Colin tested their relationship while exploring their roots. Some strong language. 2010, c2009.