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.Into the Wild
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by: Jon Krakauer

August 21, 2007
I would first rate this book 4 * from an objective point of view because I've found that Krakauer's personal mountain-climbing story breaks the flow. It was like interrupting your reading of one book and starting to read a completely different one on a similar subject matter. However the
book is so well written, you can't put it down.

I personally give it 5 stars because I find that it was important to bring out this tragic story to light. This book is not just about a troubled young man who died on his journey mainly by his own fault. It is also about a young person's soul-searching quest, reaching for higher ideals, finding your place in what is becoming an overly unjust world.
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.Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
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by: Nick Heil

April 29, 2008
I would first rate this book 4 * from an objective point of view because I've found that Krakauer's personal mountain-climbing story breaks the flow. It was like interrupting your reading of one book and starting to read a completely different one on a similar subject matter. However the
book is so well written, you can't put it down.

I personally give it 5 stars because I find that it was important to bring out this tragic story to light. This book is not just about a troubled young man who died on his journey mainly by his own fault. It is also about a young person's soul-searching quest, reaching for higher ideals, finding your place in what is becoming an overly unjust world.
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.The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World
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by: Roz Hopkins

September 13, 2005
Wow... all the countries in the world for 30$! Some of the images are breathtaking, and the description that comes with each country is enough to give an overview and want to make you learn more about this country. The only thing that deceived me a bit was that for some countries, all the pictures depict the same city (e.g. Czech Republic, 5 of the 6 pictures are of Prague) It would have been nice to have little more variety.
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.Lonely Planet Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands
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by: Danny Palmerlee, Michael Grosberg, Carolyn McCarthy

August 15, 2006
I found This book a good help and way to get to know about your destination(Ecuador). I read this book and enjoy it. I liked the way the author present his information to the readers about this destination. I have been to Ecuador and comparing the information that the author presented in his book, with some other local and travel guides of Ecuador i can see that there are some important missing information. In the other hand the book provides lot of good information, recomendations of what to do and visit when you visit this country. The author gets you to this trip while you are reading it, and makes you want to be there. I sugguest that anybody that is going to Ecuador to read this book before they go there. The author provides you with lot of information ... Read More:
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.Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
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by: Steven Callahan

September 19, 2002
I read this book in just a couple of sittings. Obviously, you know that somehow he survives, or the book wouldn't have been written- yet you often find yourself thinking "Well, that's it. No one could survive this setback." But somehow he does. And I could relate closely to the way he had the time to look inside, and see his life in a different way, having once spent seventy-nine days immobilized in a cast. An incredible story. Buy the book.
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.Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
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by: Jon Krakauer

May 19, 1997
People have always pushed to accomplish more. When one of my best friends took up mountain climbing well into his fifties after he back wasn't up to golf any more, I began to wonder what the sport was all about. Having remembered that Jon Krakauer is both a wonderful writer and an adventuresome climber, it seemed like I might learn the answers by reading this book. I was more than amply rewarded for my curiosity.

Knowing that adventures are better heard as a story rather than read, I also opted for Philip Franklin's reading for Books on Tape. This was a stunningly good choice. Mr. Franklin makes you feel like you are right there as you look down from dizzying heights of thousands of feet while being held up by a small patch of crumbling ice.

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.A Paddler's Guide to Algonquin Park
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by: Kevin Callan

March 06, 2004
An updated version of "Brook Trout and Black Flies", this book is the best (and worst, think of all the 'newbs' who will be flooding into Canoe and Big Trout Lakes thanks to this book) thing to happen to Algonquin tripping books.
Always worth adding to your collection for ideas about how to mix up trips into APP.....thanks, Kevin....

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.Canoeing, Kayaking and Hiking Temagami
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by: Hap Wilson

May 27, 2004
An updated version of "Brook Trout and Black Flies", this book is the best (and worst, think of all the 'newbs' who will be flooding into Canoe and Big Trout Lakes thanks to this book) thing to happen to Algonquin tripping books.
Always worth adding to your collection for ideas about how to mix up trips into APP.....thanks, Kevin....

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.Trail Food: Drying and Cooking Food for Backpacking and Paddling
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by: Alan S. Kesselheim

February 01, 1998
I've had this book for a few years now, and have read it cover to cover several times.It gives good advice on how to dry everything from plain vegetables to your leftover dinner.I even started to dehydrate my own eggs,and let me tell you they come back wonderfully.Great book that will have you tossing aside those $6.00 nasty premade meals.
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.Deep Survival
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by: Laurence Gonzales

October 10, 2004
This book should be read by everyone.

As I spend allot of time in the wilderness I read this book as it was recommended to me by a friend. I am happy I did.

Having spent many days, weeks and months of my life in the bush I've seen and heard horror stories of when people allow themselves to get into dangerous situations.

This book will give an understanding of why even experienced people get into trouble and often times it is their previous experience that causes the catastrophe.

Deep Survival gives the reader the information necessary to look and correctly analyze the danger spots in everyday life be it in the woods, on the beach or on a downtown street.

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