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• The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

  Candice Millard

  
  At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
  
  The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron.
  
  After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever.
  
  Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived.
  
  From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, here is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut.
  
  
  From the Trade Paperback edition.
  
   

• AWOL on the Appalachian Trail

  David Miller

  
  
   

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• Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries

  Tim Anderson

  
  Everyone wants to escape their boring, stagnant lives full of inertia and regret. But so few people actually have the bravery to run -- run away from everything and selflessly seek out personal fulfillment on the other side of the world where they don't understand anything and won't be expected to. The world is full of cowards. Tim Anderson was pushing thirty and working a string of dead-end jobs when he made the spontaneous decision to pack his bags and move to Japan, “where my status as a U.S. passport holder and card-carrying ‘American English’ speaker was an asset rather than a liability.” It was a gutsy move, especially for a tall, white, gay Southerner who didn’t speak a lick of Japanese. But his life desperately needed a shot of adrenaline, and what better way to get one than to leave behind everything he had ever known to move to “a tiny, overcrowded island heaving with clever, sensibly proportioned people that make him look fat?” In Tokyo, Tim became a “gaijin,” an outsider whose stumbling progression through Japanese culture is minutely chronicled in these sixteen howlingly funny stories. Yet despite the steep learning curve and the seemingly constant humiliation, the gaijin from North Carolina gradually begins to find his way. Whether playing drums on the fly in an otherwise all-Japanese noise band or attempting to keep his English classroom clean when it’s invaded by an older female student with a dirty mind, Tim comes to realize that living a meaningful life is about expecting the unexpected…right when he least expects it.
  
   

• Searching in South America

  Uri Pomerantz

  
  Searching in South America is the inspirational story of one man's journey to better understand the world - and ultimately himself – through challenging adventures and chance encounters across six countries in South America.
  
  From finding himself lost amidst the chaos of a midnight journey in the favelas of Rio, to reflecting on life while exploring the Amazon with a group of eighty year-olds, to tasting the bitterness of circumstance with Bolivian miners in the world’s highest city – this is a book filled with excitement, laughter and lessons you won't soon forget.
  
  
   

• The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon

  Robert Whitaker

  
  
   

• True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise

  Terence McKenna

  
  
   

• BIG WHITE CANOE - RIO, THE AMAZON AND POINTS BEYOND

  Margaret Z. Bell

  
  A light hearted and entertaining travel journal of the author’s trip from Rio de Janeiro, up the Amazon river and through the West Indies and Caribbean to Ft. Lauderdale. A must read if you are interested in cruising or travelling in South America.
  
   

• Running the Amazon

  Joe Kane

  
  A firsthand account of the first expedition to travel the entire 4,2000-mile Amazon River from its source high in the Andes to its union with the Atlantic Ocean. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
  
   

• In The Amazon Jungle - Adventures In Remote Parts Of The Upper Amazon River, Including A Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians

  Algot Lange

  
  Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
  
   

• Inside the Giant Machine: An Amazon.com Story (Green Critter Cover) with a Short Introduction in German

  Kalpanik S.

  
  Note: This book is in English, with a brief introduction by the author in German.
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  Behind Amazon's quirky smile logo lurks a cold and calculating giant machine. Author Kalpanik S. reveals his own smile as he tells the somewhat quirky story of his complex, and often hilarious, relationship with Amazon. From the sophisticated wit in his portrayal of the courtship period in "How To Get Hired By Amazon In Ten Days", to the dark humor of the disillusionment period in "The Cold, Calculating Machine", Kalpanik's story is more than just an insider's view of the giant machine known as Amazon.com. It's a modern, universal story of the uneasy relationship between an individual and today's gargantuan corporations. In the end, it is also a story of redemption for creative and free thinking individuals that define America.
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  Hinter schrulligen Lächeln Amazon-Logo verbirgt sich ein kalt und berechnend gigantischen Maschine. Autor Kalpanik S. offenbart seine eigene Lächeln, als er den etwas schrulligen Geschichte seines erzählt, und oft urkomisch, das Verhältnis zu Amazon. Von seinem anspruchsvollen Witz in seiner Darstellung der Zeit seiner Bewerbung in "How To Get Hired By Amazon In Ten Days”, zu dem dunklen Humor der Zeit der Ernüchterung in “The Cold, Calculating Machine”, ist Kalpanik Geschichte mehr als nur ein Insider-Blick in die riesige Maschine die man als Amazon.com kennt. Es ist eine moderne, universelle Geschichte der schwierige Beziehung zwischen einer Person und der heutigen gigantischen Konzernen. Am Ende ist es auch eine Geschichte der Erlösung für kreative und freigeistige Menschen, die definieren, Amerika.
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  About the Author
  
  Kalpanik S. is the pen name of a foreign-born technologist. He came to the USA on a fellowship from the University of California to do research in Computer Science. After completing his Graduate studies, Kalpanik worked at several technology companies in various parts of the United States including Silicon Valley in California and Se. He has been writing a journal about his "journey'" through the US, and he finally decided to get it published.
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  BEKENNTNISSE EINES IM AUTOR
  
  Ich muss gestehen, dass Englisch meine dritte Sprache ist, und, obwohl ich drei professionelle Englisch-Editoren zum Preis von Tausenden von Dollar einsetzte, ist es offensichtlich - auch zu mir, dass dieses Buch von einem im Ausland geboren Autor geschrieben wurde.
  
  Im Ausland geboren oder nicht, ich glaube, ich habe ein Talent fürs Geschichten erzählen, und ich habe ein dumpfes Thema - die Umwandlung von Amazon von einem Einzelhandelsunternehmen Website zu einem Marktplatz - in eine interessante und lebendige Geschichte verwandelt.
  
  Also, wenn Sie für eine tausend-seitige Abhandlung über Amazon, die als Beispiel für perfekte Grammatik in der Hohen Schule der englischen Grammatik Klasse verwendet wird suchen, dann wird dieses Buch vielleicht nicht das richtige für Sie sein. Halten Sie hier - es gibt viele andere Bücher über Amazon mit perfekter Grammatik, die auch perfekt langweilig sind!
  
  Nun, ein Buch über Amazon kann ziemlich trocken sein, deshalb habe ich versucht, etwas Humor hinzuzufügen. In meinem Versuch dieses Buch lustig zu machen, kann ich ein paar Fakten gestreckt haben. Die Herausforderung mit Humor ist, dass nicht alle Versuche, witzig zu sein erfolgreich sind, und nicht jeder versteht alle Witze. Im Allgemeinen, wenn etwas wirklich merkwürdig oder seltsam klingt, dann ist das mein Versuch witzig zu sein.
  
  Schließlich, zitiere ich diese Passage aus „ 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com“ von Mike Daisey, ein gemeinsamer Amazon Alumnus, der zum Autor wurde: "Einige Fakten wurden bei der Erzählung dieser Geschichte verletzt. Die Wahrheit aber bleibt unverletzt. "
  
  Das gilt ebenso für dieses Buch.
  
  Kalpanik
  
   

• Letters From Brazil (Making the Adjustment)

  Nathaniel Hines

  
  As Brazil becomes more prominent as a growing economy, people from all over the world realize that the dynamic of this huge South American country is more than Rio and Carnival. What do you really know about this growing behemoth of a country?
  
  Brazil's history, culture and resource make for interesting discoveries for those wondering about this exotic expanse. What shines the brightest about Brazil from a perspective of an American driven to succeed is how the culture in Brazil champions the family atmosphere and disdains individual chest pounding.
  
   

• Walking the Jungle: An Adventurer's Guide to the Amazon

  John Coningham

  
  By turns and anecdotal and practical, this book tells the tales of the jungle and most of its dark secrets. Armchair travelers and true Indiana Joneses will benefit equally from Coningham's unique expertise on life in one of the most dangerous natural habitats on earth.
  
   

• White Rock

  Hugh Thomson

  
  The lost cities of South America have always exercised a powerful hold on the popular imagination. The ruins of the Incas and other pre-Colombian civilisations are scattered over thousands of miles of still largely uncharted territory, particularly in the Eastern Andes, where the mountains fall away towards the Amazon. Twenty-five years ago, Hugh Thomson set off into the cloud-forest on foot to find a ruin that had been carelessly lost again after its initial discovery. Into his history of the Inca Empire he weaves the story of his adventures as he travelled to the most remote Inca cities. It is also the story of the great explorers in whose footsteps he followed, such as Hiram Bingham and Gene Savoy.
  
   

• The Andes And The Amazon: Or, Across The Continent Of South America

  James Orton

  
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