| 11. | ![]() | Eight Feet in the Andes
from Overlook Hardcover
Customer Review:
Dervla Murphy always delivers good travel stories, liberally dosed with history lessons. Despite all the decriptions of hardship, privation and poverty, Eight Feet in the Andes is lyrically written and exciting: makes you want to trek through the Andes eating stringy goat meat, which is saying... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 12. | ![]() | The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness (Travel Library, Penguin)
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Customer Review:
Matthiessen's account is an honest travelogue of South America, dedicating much of its time to the Peruvian jungle. His narrative portrays a paradoxical mix of racial insensitivity, ignorance, enlightenment and progressive views. He refers to some cultures as almost subhuman, at one point... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 13. |  | Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile (Modern Library)
from Modern Library
Price: $11.16
Customer Review:
This is a 2006 reissue of a book written more than ten years earlier, and in her introduction to the reissue the author describes it as a young woman's book, but she is too kind: a rather silly and ignorant book would be more accurate. The central problem is that she doesn't seem to have decided... more info | 2.5 / 5.0
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| 14. |  | In Patagonia
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Customer Review:
When a book lacks tension and features extensive quoting, it's bound to be boring. This book is boring, and the main reason is that it lacks a narrative thread, other than "been there, saw somebody, told me a long and winding story about somebody who was here some day". All trips are inner trips,... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 15. |  | Flying South: A Pilot's Inner Journey
from Ten Speed Press
Customer Review:
This book revealed what Barbara was living, not editing out what was politically correct, not covering up the flying mistakes that would be embarrassing to most, not holding back on insights of strong dominate individuals in her life who can make decisions difficult in and out of the cockpit. In... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 16. | ![]() | Through the Brazilian wilderness,
from C. Scribner's sons
Customer Review:
Theodore Roosevelt was a man's man. A New York kid whose taste for adventure was sparked in his boyhood by a dead seal for sale on a Broadway sidewalk. Harvard student, soldier, Rough Rider, youngest President ever and one who survived the assassin's bullet, maverick politician, Nobel Prize winner,... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 17. | ![]() | The rivers ran east
from Funk & Wagnalls
Customer Review:
I'm re-reading THE RIVERS RAN EAST and remain no less amazed than the first read. It has to be one of best, if not the best, nonfiction adventure books. The writing style is captivating and the writer/main character is a true Indiana Jones. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 18. | ![]() | History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America (Latin American Literature and Culture, no. 6)
from University of California Press
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| 19. | ![]() | Colombia : A Travel Survival Kit
from Lonely Planet Publications
Customer Review:
This travel guide was dated and not useful for hotels or dining, however it did provide a fair list of attractions in Cartagena. I would skip over Barranquilla completely, there is little in the centro and it is historically barren. Focus on Bogota, Medellin and Cali. I had an amazing Colombia trip,... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 20. |  | Brazilian Adventure (Marlboro Travel)
from Marlboro Press
Price: $13.22
Customer Review:
This is certainly not an adventure book in the classical sense. The style of writing does not allow for it. Buy it for its British humor and charm, not for adventures which don't take place. | 4.0 / 5.0
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