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Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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4) The blue
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Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
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"They found paradise... what would they do to keep it? [A] spine-tingling adventure novel about a group of friends whose journey around the world on a yacht turns from a trip to paradise into a chilling nightmare when one of them disappears at sea. Lana and her best friend Kitty leave home looking for freedom-- and that's exactly what they find when they are invited onto The Blue, a fifty-foot yacht making its way from the Philippines to New Zealand....
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
119 p. ; 20 cm.
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Reeling from the news that his doctor is giving him only one month to live, fifty-year-old Ambrose Zephyr and his loving wife, Zipper, embark on a whirlwind tour from A to Z of all the places he has ever loved or has ever wanted to visit.
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Goldhil Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 350 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The adventure of a lifetime begins when two longtime pals, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, set off on their motorcycles taking the 'long way round' the world, covering 20,000 miles before completing their journey in New York City.
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Babar (Brunhoff) volume 69
Publisher
H.N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Description
Babar and his family take a trip around the world.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; cm
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"This is the inspiring story of an ordinary guy who achieved two great goals that others had told him were impossible - first by setting a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world -- in the course of which he blasted his way out of minefields, survived a breakdown atop the Peak of Death, came within seconds of being lynched in Pakistan, and lost three of the five men who started with him, two to disease, one to the Vietcong....
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (182 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Phlegmatic, punctual Englishman Phileas Fogg believes in progress, science, and intellectual deduction. When a member of the Reform Club challenges him on the impossibility of completing a round-the-world tour in eighty days, he wagers his entire fortune to prove that he can do it. He is accompanied by his valet Passepartout, and followed by Mr. Fix, a detective who believes he is a notorious bank robber. Shot in 70mm, using the Todd-AO process...
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Series
Expedition volume 3
Publisher
BillyFish Books
Pub. Date
©2016
Physical Desc
428 pages : maps ; 22cm.
Description
"We rejoin The Expedition for its third and final installment with Jason, now seasoned adventurer, and April, American schoolteacher at sea for the first time, battling to keep their pedal-powered boat Moksha from being dashed against Australia's Great Barrier Reef."
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Expedition volume 2
Publisher
BillyFish Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
245 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Description
When adventurer Jason Lewis regained consciousness beside a busy Colorado highway, lower limbs shattered by a hit-and-run driver, he knew he was lucky to be alive. But would he ever walk again, let alone finish crossing North America by inline skates? So begins part two of The Expedition, a stirring saga of hope, determination, and the kindness of strangers as Jason, taken in by the people of Pueblo, spent nine months in rehabilitation, legs pieced...
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 276 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"As Tsh Oxenreider chronicles her family's adventure around the world--seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way--she discovers what it truly means to be at home. In her late thirties and as a mom to three kids under age ten, Tsh Oxenreider and her husband decided to spend a rather ordinary nine months in an extraordinary way: traveling the corners of the earth to see, together, the places they've always wanted to explore....
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On November 14, 1889, two young female journalists raced against one another, determined to outdo Jules Verne's fictional hero and circle the globe in less than 80 days. The dramatic race that ensued would span 28,000 miles, captivate the nation, and change both competitors' lives forever.
18) The expedition: 1,Dark waters :true story of the first human-powered circumnavigation of the earth
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Series
Expedition volume 1
Publisher
BillyFish Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
224 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Publisher
Pbs
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (415 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down.
20) The mercy
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor competes in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in the hope of becoming the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe without stopping. With an unfinished boat and his business and house on the line, Donald leaves his wife, Clare and their children behind, hesitantly embarking on an adventure on his boat the Teignmouth Electron.
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