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Вселенная Антуана де Сент-Экзюпери огромна и необычайно гостеприимна. Не случайно миллионы читателей, поколение за поколением, совершают все новые полеты по ее бесконечным...
Трагическая история открытия Южного полюса вот уже три четверти века не перестает волновать умы людей. О роковом путешествии Р.Скотта к полюсу написано множество статей и ...
WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham -- aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinati...
A book of travel and natural history, recounting a journey into the Himalayan massif in search of the snow leopard.
When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abb...
You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets," repl...
"Один под парусами вокруг света" - занимательный рассказ Джошуа Слокама о его кругосветном путешествии. Плавание продолжалось три с лишним года (апрель 1895 г. - июнь 1898...
В апреле 1992 года молодой человек из обеспеченной семьи добирается автостопом до Аляски, где в полном одиночестве, добывая пропитание охотой и собирательством, живёт в за...
This is the story of Alaska and the Alaskans. Written with a vividness and clarity which shifts scenes frequently, and yet manages to tie the work into a rewarding whole, ...
Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed b...
Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face ...
Bonatti is one of the greatest mountaineers of all time, a man who continually reset the benchmark of human possibility by ascending routes that others dared not even cont...
"В Патагонии" - первая книга Чатвина, которая принесла начинающему писателю широкую известность и несколько литературных премий. Каждая маленькая глава этой книги могла бы...
Winner of the National Book Award and a best-seller upon publication in 1986, Arctic Dreams is now acknowledged as a classic, a book that re-defined the genre of nature wr...
A classic of travel writing, ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on ea...
Молодая женщина Робин Дэвидсон с четырьмя верблюдами и собакой прошла более полутора тысяч миль по пустыням Центральной Австралии. Чтобы проделать этот путь, ей пришлось п...
The Long Way recounts the incredible story of Bernard Moitessier's participation in the first Golden Globe Race a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great ...
A great adventure--the first expedition ever to run the entire 4,100 mile course of the world's largest river, the Amazon. They encounter many obstacles: the deadly whitew...
On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, The Smoke Jumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire ...
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With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up an...