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OFFSHORE A North Sea Journey
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New York NY: Houghton Mifflin. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0395399726 . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket . more information
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JUNGLE DAYS
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New York NY: Garden City Publishing. 1925. Hardcover. 0848273907 . Very Good with no dust jacket; Owner stamped; 201 pages . more information
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EVEREST The Hard Way
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New York: Random House. 1976. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0394407865 . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; Color Photographs; 303 pages . more information
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QUEST FOR ADVENTURE 21 Stories of the Men and Women Who Challenged Oceans, Mountains, Deserts, Snow and Space
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New York: Clarkson N. Potter. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 0517546965 . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. Previous owner's name; B&W Photographs; 448 pages . more information
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AFRICAN ODYSSEY
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New York, NY: Living Books, Inc.. 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; 20, 000 journey across Africa in a small car with a camera.; B&W Photographs; 224 pages . more information
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CANNIBAL QUEEN An Aerial Odyssey Across America
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New York NY: Pocket Books. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 067174884X . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; The author recounts his three-month, forty-eight-state flight into the heart of America in a 1942 Stearman bi-plane, describing the panorama of forests, mountains, rivers, and valleys beneath him.; Color Photographs; 344 pages . more information
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TWILIGHT OF THE PRIMITIVE
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New York, NY: Macmillian Co.. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0025284606 . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; World renowned explorer revists primitive people of Artic, Africa, New Guinea and Upper Amazon. ; Ex-Lib . more information
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LIVING SEA
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New York: Pocket. 1964. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear; B&W Photographs; 239 pages . more information
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LIVING SEA
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New York: Harper & Row. 1963. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; B&W and color Photographs; 325 pages . more information
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HEART OF THE FOREST
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New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1961. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Villas Boas brother's expedition to the geographical center of Brazil, the Xingu jungle. . more information
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MY HEART LIES SOUTH The Story of My Mexican Marriage
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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. 1953. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Previous owner's name marked out on front endpaper. ; B&W Photographs; 248 pages . more information
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SAFARI BY JET Through Africa and Asia
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1962. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edges bumped; B&W Photographs; 308 pages . more information
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STRANGE LANDS AND FRIENDLY PEOPLE
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New York NY: Harper & Brothers. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Bookplate . more information
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POST TRUE STORIES OF DARING AND ADVENTURE
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Cleveland, OH: World Publishing. 1967. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Exlibrary with markings.. ; Outstanding true stories of Man's quest for Challenge and Adventure; Ex-Lib; 213 pages . more information
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GOLDEN BOATS FROM BURMA
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Philadelphia, PA: Macrae Smith Co.. 1961. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; The story of Ann Hasseltine Judson, the first American woman missionary in Burma . more information
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ANNAPURNA First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak
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New York NY: E. P. Dutton. 1953. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear; Translated from the French by Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith. Introduction by Eric Shipton; 316 pages . more information
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KON-TIKI ACROSS THE PACIFIC BY RAFT
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New York: Washington Square Press. 1984. Eighteenth Printing. Paperback. 0671726528 . Very Good with no dust jacket; Translated by F. H. Lyon; Mass Market PB; 240 pages . more information
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RA EXPEDITIONS
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New York: Signet. 1972. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good with no dust jacket; Previous owner's name. Slight soiling on front cover. ; Trans. By Patricia Compaton. ; Mass Market PB; Color Photographs; 365 pages . more information
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KON-TIKI ACROSS THE PACIFIC BY RAFT
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Chicago, IL: Rand Mcnally. 1950. Seventh Printing. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. ; Translated by F. H. Lyon; 304 pages . more information
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HEADS AND TALES
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1936. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. ; B&W Illustrations; 416 pages . more information
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BEASTS BEYOND THE FIRE True Encounters with Man- Killing Denizens of Land and Sea
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New York: E. P. Dutton. 1980. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 0525061770 . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; B&W Illustrations; 248 pages . more information
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GOING INSIDE A Couple's Journey of Renewal Into the North
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Toronto: Mcclelland & Stewart. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 077104450X . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; The author recounts the perilous thirteen-month, two-thousand mile journey he and his wife took from Montana to the Northwest Territories of Canada in an effort to rescue their troubled marriage through the power and beauty of nature.; Color Photographs; 282 pages . more information
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THE REALM OF THE GREEN BUDDHA
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New York: Pyramid Books. 1966. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good with no dust jacket; Wear at edges. Slight staining at top edge of pages. ; The charming story of the author's visit to the jungles of Thailand in search of birds and animals for his private zoo.; Mass Market PB; B&W Photographs; 207 pages . more information
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YANKEE DOCTOR IN PARADISE
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New York NY: Grosset & Dunlap. 1941. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Owner stamped . more information
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THREE TICKETS TO TIMBUKTU Global Adventures of America's Most Famous Traveling Family
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New York NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1966. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ has some wear at edges creased at edges; DJ is price clipped. Book is owner inscribed . more information
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EASTWARD SWEEPS THE CURRENT A Saga of Polynesian Seafarers
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Chicgao: John C. Winston. 1937. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Previous owner's name. Boat and fish on endpaper have been colored in. Edges worn. ; 394 pages . more information
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NO ROOM IN THE ARK
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New York NY: Harper & Brothers. 1959. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; 227 pages . more information
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NO ROOM IN THE ARK
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New York NY: Harper & Brothers. 1959. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; 227 pages . more information
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HEADHUNTING IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS AROUND THE CORAL SEA
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New York NY: Macmillan. 1942. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. DJ is split at spine. ; B&W Illustrations; 416 pages . more information
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MAN AGAINST NATURE Tales of Adventure and Exploration
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New York: Bantam. 1963. Abridged Edition. Paperback. Very Good with no dust jacket; Wear at edges. ; New and abridged edition; Mass Market PB; 176 pages . more information
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LETTERS FROM STEVEN Stories from the First Solo Walk around the World
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Topeka, KS: Capper's Books. 1987. First Edition. Softcover. 0941678091 . Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear and creases. ; SIGNED by author.; Trade PB; B&W Photographs; 368 pages; Signed by Author . more information
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SEARCH The Personal Story of a Wilderness Journey
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Garden City , NY: Doubleday. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. DJ is missing pieces at and bottom edge of spine. ; 198 pages . more information
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ROVING SOUTH Rio Grande to Patagonia
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New York NY: John Day. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; 373 pages . more information
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PEDDLER IN PARADISE The Personal Story of the World's Most Widely Traveled Salesman
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New York: E. P. Dutton. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; B&W and color Photographs; 240 pages . more information
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ALIVE
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New York NY: Avon. 1974. Thirteenth Printing. Paperback. 038000321X . Very Good with no dust jacket; Back cover has crease in upper corner; Mass Market PB; 318 pages . more information
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LAST HERO Charles A. Lindbergh
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New York NY: Harper & Row. 1968. Hardcover. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket; DJ is water damaged; 402 pages . more information
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PAGEANT OF ADVENTURE
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Cleveland, OH: World Publishing. 1942. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Owner inscribed. Pages yellowing; 284 pages . more information
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MORE GREAT TRUE ADVENTURES
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New York NY: Hawthorn Books. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Owner stamp on fore edges, and pastedowns . more information
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BUSHRANGERS A Yankee's Adventures During His Second Visit to Australia
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Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard Publishers. 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket; Edges bumped and worn. Spine edges are worn and torn. Top and bottom edges of spine covering are missing. Spine weak. Foxing. ; 480 pages . more information
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