After many years together Katrina and Mike's marriage has unravelled. In a quest to mend their relationship they embark on a year long, 13,000 kilometre cycling tour with the hope of strengthening their commitment to one another....
Voyages around the world
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Author:Rosen, KatrinaSummary: - Author:Darwin, CharlesSummary:
Charles Darwin was just twenty-two when he went on his first voyage around the world in 1831. Darwin's father at first refused to allow his young son to go on the voyage. Fortunately, his father relented, and Darwin's journal...
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Author:Hill, Beth, Converse, CathySummary:Frances Barkley was just eighteen when she became the first European woman to set foot on the west coast of North America. After a sheltered upbringing in England, Frances found herself boarding the Imperial Eagle in 1786 to set sail on...
- Author:Ferguson, WillSummary:
The world is filled with wonders, lost objects--all real--all still out there, waiting to be found: the missing Fabergé eggs of the Romanov dynasty, worth millions; the last reel of Alfred Hitchcock's first film; Buddy Holly's iconic...
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Author:Belczyk, RenateSummary:Renate Belczyk was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932. When she was three years old her family moved to Berlin, where they settled into a small apartment building on the outskirts of the city. It was in this building that she met another...
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Author:Heggstad, GlenSummary:In November of 2001, Glen Heggstad decided to ride his motorcycle to the tip of South America. His journey was interrupted when he was kidnapped at gunpoint by Colombian rebels and held captive for five weeks. Yet even after his...
- Author:Nicholson, DeanSummary:
When thirty-year-old Dean Nicholson set off from Scotland to cycle around the world, his aim was to learn as much as he could about our troubled planet. But he hadn't bargained on the lessons he'd learn from his unlikely...
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Author:Gilles ProulxSummary:La vie de Gilles Proulx est un formidable périple. Avide de découvertes, ce reporter dans l'âme n'a cessé de parcourir le vaste monde pour en rapporter des récits palpitants. Conteur intarissable, il nous présente des...
- Author:Williams, GlyndwrSummary:
In this course, University of London history professor Glyndwr Williams will discuss one of the most dramatic periods in world history, the age of Europe's discovery of the world from Columbus and da Gama in the late fifteenth century...
- Author:FitzSimons, PeterSummary:
The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to...
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Author:Bedford, S.Summary:A laugh-out-loud travel memoir that reveals backpacking’s awkward side. Sue, a disenchanted waitress, embarks upon a year-long quest around the world with her friend, Sara—who’s exasperatingly perfect. Expecting a whimsical jaunt of...
- Author:Sedgman, SamSummary:
From Adventures on Trains author and British Book Award 2021 winner Sam Sedgman comes a beautiful and fact-filled book encapsulating the excitement and wonder of adventure and travel - all seen through the world's most epic train...
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Author:Robinson-Smith, TonySummary:Inspired by travel writer Ted Simon, Tony Robinson-Smith quit his job in Japan, returned home to England, and then set out once more with only a a knapsack, a map, and a dream to travel the world with both feel on the ground. Nearly six...
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Author:Verne, JulesSummary:The adventure begins in London on Tuesday, October 1st, 1872, when rich British gentleman Phileas Fogg gets in an argument with a group of friends. He enters a wager that sets him on a race to make it around the world in eighty days....
- Author:Verne, JulesSummary:
Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet...
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Author:Fink-Jensen, Christian, Eustace-Walden, RandolphSummary:In 1922, a 15-year-old girl, fed up with life in a French convent school, answered an ad for a travelling secretary. Tall, blonde, and swaggering with confidence, she might have passed for twenty. She also knew what she wanted: to...
- Author:Nichols, PeterSummary:
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later...
