Adventure Travel http://www.nuovamariciel.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:06:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Kid’s Trip Diary: Kids! Write About Your Own Adventures and Experiences! (Kid’s Travel series) http://www.nuovamariciel.com/kids-trip-diary-kids-write-about-your-own-adventures-and-experiences-kids-travel-series http://www.nuovamariciel.com/kids-trip-diary-kids-write-about-your-own-adventures-and-experiences-kids-travel-series#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:06:27 +0000 admin http://www.nuovamariciel.com/kids-trip-diary-kids-write-about-your-own-adventures-and-experiences-kids-travel-series Kid’s Trip Diary: Kids! Write About Your Own Adventures and Experiences! (Kid’s Travel series)

Kids can record their own traveling adventures and make a treasured memory book with this trip diary. A great travel companion that enhances children’s excitement about new places, this activity book offers plenty of writing and drawing space and supplies a keepsake section for ticket stubs, pictures, or other souvenirs. Helping children become involved in the early planning stages, this journal helps ease anxiety and motivates kids to research their trip so they are excited when they arrive at their destination. Interactive text prompts children to learn more about their travels, and new games and puzzles will add many happy hours to vacations.

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]]> http://www.nuovamariciel.com/kids-trip-diary-kids-write-about-your-own-adventures-and-experiences-kids-travel-series/feed 0 Points Unknown: The Greatest Adventure Writing of the Twentieth Century (Outside Books) http://www.nuovamariciel.com/points-unknown-the-greatest-adventure-writing-of-the-twentieth-century-outside-books http://www.nuovamariciel.com/points-unknown-the-greatest-adventure-writing-of-the-twentieth-century-outside-books#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:57:38 +0000 admin http://www.nuovamariciel.com/points-unknown-the-greatest-adventure-writing-of-the-twentieth-century-outside-books Points Unknown: The Greatest Adventure Writing of the Twentieth Century (Outside Books)

From Robert Falcon Scott’s final journal entry to Jon Krakauer’s reckless solo climb of the Devil’s Thumb, David Roberts and the editors of Outside have gathered the most enduring adventure literature of the century into one heart-stopping volume.

A frigid winter ascent of Mount McKinley; the vastness of Arabia’s Empty Quarter; the impossibly thin air at Everest’s summit; the deadly black pressure of an underwater cave; a desperate escape through a Norwegian winter—these and thirty-six other stories recount the minutes, hours, and days of lives pushed to the brink. But there is more to adventure than hair’s-breadth escapes. By turns charming and tragic, whimsical and nerve-racking, this extraordinary collection gets to the heart of why adventure stories enthrall us.

Includes works by Sebastian Junger, Jon Krakauer, Edward Abbey, Tim Cahill, Edward Hoagland, Ernest Shackleton, Freya Stark, and Wilfred Thesiger.

Rating: (out of 1 reviews)

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]]> http://www.nuovamariciel.com/points-unknown-the-greatest-adventure-writing-of-the-twentieth-century-outside-books/feed 1 Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik: One Woman’s Solo Misadventures Across Africa http://www.nuovamariciel.com/stalking-the-wild-dik-dik-one-womans-solo-misadventures-across-africa http://www.nuovamariciel.com/stalking-the-wild-dik-dik-one-womans-solo-misadventures-across-africa#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:57:37 +0000 admin http://www.nuovamariciel.com/stalking-the-wild-dik-dik-one-womans-solo-misadventures-across-africa Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik: One Woman’s Solo Misadventures Across Africa

Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik is a spirited African adventure of a solo woman traveler whose overland excursion across the continent includes challenges, inevitable mishaps, and more than a few debacles.

Author and world traveler Marie Javins is an unflappable narrator, who takes even the most bizarre and patience-trying situations with a dose of good humor. Javins fell in love with Africa when she traversed the continent in 2001 as part of a larger world tour. She later returned to spend half of 2005 revisiting the people and places that had so impacted her on her first trip. Javins was struck not by the desperation of Africa, but by its hope — the dignity of its people, the vibrancy of its cities, and the inherent adventure that is inherent it offered.

Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik is a funny and compassionate account of the sort of lively and heedless undertaking that could only happen in Africa. Javins’s brushes with wildlife are punctuated with more serious dilemmas. Through it all, Javins’s experience of Africa is life-altering, and her witty observations make for the best kind of travel literature which takes its readers into the heart and soul of the continent.

Rating: (out of 18 reviews)

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A travel writer describes in detail forty of the world’s most singular and offbeat travel adventures, from paddling by sea kayak around the fjords of Greenland to an elephant safari through Botswana, detailing tour outfitters, gear, health tips, and more. Original. 25,000 first printing. Tour.”Adventure travel has become big business; in 1996 alone, 15 million Americans spent roughly billion on adventure travel and related gear, leading outfitters and packagers to carve up the globe into customized adventures. In this compilation of challenging outings to remote corners of the globe, Noland attempts to help adventure travelers hook up with the trips of their dreams.

Three brief sections prime us for travel, advising how to make the basic choices of what trip and how to prepare. What sorts of details does Noland discuss in “Getting Ready”? Not the stuff of Travel 101–more like helicopter evacuation insurance and malaria pills.

Forty arduous adventures across seven continents follow; there are those to inspire fear and trembling– “The Arctic: Skiing to the North Pole”; “Venezuela: Living with the Fierce People”; and “Nepal/Tibet: Climbing Mount Everest”–as well as those for the more sensuously inclined–”Belize: Kayaking the Offshore Islands” and “Portugal: Cycling in Wine Country.” Each excursion is followed by recommendations of appropriate outfitters and reading material, a brief dispatch on what to expect, and a rating of the challenges that lie ahead.

Blessed with an enormous capacity for risk-taking, a sense of humor, and an impressive knowledge of the remote corners of the world, Noland has designed both a paean to the art of travel and, for the daring, an informative how-to guide.

Rating: (out of 7 reviews)

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Price: $ 4.85

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  • ISBN13: 9781550745382
  • Condition: USED – Very Good
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Join the Binkertons — twins Josh and Emma and their pesky little sister, Libby — as they visit the Good Times Travel Agency for a trip unlike any other — to medieval times. The trio quickly discover that medieval life isn’t all knights in shining armor and stately pageants. Things go from bad to worse when the castle they’re in is attacked and flaming arrows and flying cows shower down on them. Kids will love the book’s contemporary comic-book look with its zany illustrations, speech balloons and guidebook. Parents and teachers will love the well-researched story lines and solid factual information.

Rating: (out of 2 reviews)

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