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Risking Adventure: Mountaineering Journeys Around the World

In spite of what Haberl claims in his introduction, Risking Adventure does not explore what motivates people to climb mountains. It chronicles the camaraderie that comes from climbing together. It also chronicles difficulties and hardship ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Island Paddling

By Mary Ann Snowden

It’s difficult to talk about beauty without simplifying or over-romanticizing. There can be beauty in ugliness, a certain sad, ironic beauty of human endeavour represented, say, by a wheelless splay-forked bicycle propped up in a ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Sunshine & Salt Air

By Karen Southern, Bryan Carson, et al., Peter A. Robson, ed.

It’s difficult to talk about beauty without simplifying or over-romanticizing. There can be beauty in ugliness, a certain sad, ironic beauty of human endeavour represented, say, by a wheelless splay-forked bicycle propped up in a ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Paddling the Sunshine Coast

By Dorothy & Bodhi Drope

It’s difficult to talk about beauty without simplifying or over-romanticizing. There can be beauty in ugliness, a certain sad, ironic beauty of human endeavour represented, say, by a wheelless splay-forked bicycle propped up in a ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Kayak Routes of the Pacific Northwest

By Peter McGee, ed.

It’s difficult to talk about beauty without simplifying or over-romanticizing. There can be beauty in ugliness, a certain sad, ironic beauty of human endeavour represented, say, by a wheelless splay-forked bicycle propped up in a ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Southern Gulf Islands of B.C.

By David and Andrea Spalding & Lawrence Pitt and Georgina Montgomery

It’s difficult to talk about beauty without simplifying or over-romanticizing. There can be beauty in ugliness, a certain sad, ironic beauty of human endeavour represented, say, by a wheelless splay-forked bicycle propped up in a ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Road Within: True Stories of Transformation Around the World

By Sean O’Reilly, James O’Reilly and Tim O’Reilly, eds.

Just when a reader of travel books might reasonably think there isn’t anything new to be discovered or a fresh viewpoint to be found, a new spate of engaging books appears on publishers’ lists reflecting ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Where Every Breath Is a Prayer: A Photographic Pilgrimage into the Spiritual Heart of Asia

Just when a reader of travel books might reasonably think there isn’t anything new to be discovered or a fresh viewpoint to be found, a new spate of engaging books appears on publishers’ lists reflecting ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Way Stations to Heaven: 50 Major Visionary Shrines in the United States

By Sandra Gurvis

Just when a reader of travel books might reasonably think there isn’t anything new to be discovered or a fresh viewpoint to be found, a new spate of engaging books appears on publishers’ lists reflecting ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Frommer’s Nepal, 3rd. Ed.

Just when a reader of travel books might reasonably think there isn’t anything new to be discovered or a fresh viewpoint to be found, a new spate of engaging books appears on publishers’ lists reflecting ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

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