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The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed by Michael Meyer | 10 | 25.64% | |
Wild by Cheryl Strayed | 10 | 25.64% | |
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson | 13 | 33.33% | |
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce | 7 | 17.95% | |
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne | 13 | 33.33% | |
In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale by Amitav Ghosh | 9 | 23.08% | |
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer | 10 | 25.64% | |
Endurance by Alfred Lansing | 7 | 17.95% | |
River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard | 8 | 20.51% | |
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin | 6 | 15.38% | |
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02-26-2013, 09:30 AM | #76 |
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Project Gutenberg has the 1991 unabridged translation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Frederick Paul Walter.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2488 EDIT: Oops, it looks like Harry's epub here at mobile read is this translation. Last edited by BenG; 02-26-2013 at 12:51 PM. |
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Now we get to have a run-off vote.
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02-26-2013, 05:30 PM | #82 |
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Well - it was firstly because Issybird said up front that she wasn't interested in "navel gazing" travel books and many of the reviewers seemed to criticise this book for exactly that reason.
Also - the woman herself. Now I gravitated to the more negative reviews which was possibly a bit unfair, but sometimes I like to read the trash on something first. Some of the emphatic complaints about this woman and what she didn't manage to learn, her convenient self-justifications for her poor choices and her apparent lack of control when it came to - well - anything, combined with an lacklustre writing style had me thinking that I could hear something. I couldn't work out what it was for a while, but I eventually realised it was the sound of Issybird grinding her teeth. Of course it may be a brilliant book - I don't have any argument there. It's just what came to mind when I was reading some of the criticisms. |
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I, Robot here we come.
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I'm an experienced backpacker and wanderer of wilderness. Few people are as frustrating as those who go ignorant and unprepared into back country expecting to be rescued by the kindness of strangers. They put at risk anyone who stumbles across them. I'm afraid the author may actually encourage fools to follow her example. After years of working in Death Valley NP I am perhaps over-sensitive to this type of idiot. But I'm so happy this book lost. Maybe this should have gone into the Rant thread. |
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