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Manufacturer: Marshall Cavendish
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
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Publication Date: 2006-11-01
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Price: $19.00
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Sale: $6.74
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Manufacturer: Broadway
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sam Jr Lightner
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Publisher: Broadway
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2002-07-09
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: In March 1945, a smart but rowdy British officer named Tom Harrisson parachuted into the Borneo Highlands and set about organizing an army of headhunters to battle the Japanese invaders. He knew the difficult country a little, having been there on a scientific expedition before the war, but now, "shepherded to the island by the world's most lucrative sponsor, the Dogs of War," he had to learn its secrets, and quickly. In 1958, Harrisson wrote a memoir, World Within, chronicling his time on the island. Looking for new places to explore, Wyoming rock-scrambler Sam Lightner and his German climbing partner happened on Harrisson's book, studied it closely, and, with four other "dirt-bag" climbers, went off to Borneo to find the peak of their dreams in the cloud forests, in country that maps "tinted gray and labeled 'All Elevations Unknown'." Battling unusual elements--including having to "cough up the larvae of echinococcosus" and dodge giant snakes, to say nothing of the area's still-active headhunting bands--they found it, scaled the spire called Batu Lawi, and lived to tell the tale. Their exploits form the heart of Lightner's good-natured narrative, which draws on Harrisson's own account of jungle warfare to become a work of history as much as outdoors travel. Climbers, students of World War II, and armchair adventurers alike will enjoy his report. --Gregory McNamee
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Price: $23.90
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Sale: $19.49
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Manufacturer: Echo Library
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: A.W. Nieuwenhuis
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Publisher: Echo Library
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910
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Publication Date: 2006-10-13
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Reading Level: 392
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Description: Eine Untersuchung des niederlaendischen Einflusses auf die Bewohner von Borneo zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts.
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Price: $7.42
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Sale: $6.53
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Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Wallace Alfred Russel
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Publication Date: 2007-02-01
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: Racked with fever, virtually broke and earning a precarious living through sending back to London the plumes of beautiful birds, Wallace (1823-1913) ultimately became one of the most heroic and admirable of all scientist-explorers. Whether living with Hill Dyaks or hunting Orang-Utans or sailing on a junk to the unbelievably remote Aru islands, Wallace opens our eyes to a now long vanished world. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $9.50
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Manufacturer: Langenscheidt Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Wendey Hutton
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Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishers
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Edition: 4
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Dewey Decimal Number: 915
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Publication Date: 1996
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Description: One of over 400 titles in the Insight series, Pocket Guide Sabah. This 98-page book includes a chapter detailing Sabah's history and culture, 14 itineraries and excursions taking in sights ranging from fresh fern tips and porcelain tea cups in Kota Kinabalu's market to peaceful empty beaches on Pulau Mamutik, leisure-time suggestions, and a comprehensive information section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus many high quality photographs and maps, including a detailed pull-out map.
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: ERIC HANSEN
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Publication Date: 1988
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Reading Level: 296
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Where the strange trails go down: Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits settlements, Malay states, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
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Price: $23.99
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Sale: $23.99
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Manufacturer: Cornell University Library
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: E. Alexander (Edward Alexander Powell
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Publisher: Cornell University Library
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Publication Date: 1922-01-01
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Reading Level: 334
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Description: Originally published 1922. This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Southeast Asia Visions collection.
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Sale: $1.48
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Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Redmond O'Hanlon
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Publication Date: 2005
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Reading Level: 64
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Manufacturer: Picador
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Redmond O'Hanlon
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Publisher: Picador
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Edition: New Ed
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Publication Date: 1994-07-08
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Reading Level: 272
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $10.55
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Manufacturer: Footprint Handbooks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dinah Gardner::Joshua Elliot::James Alexander
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Publisher: Footprint Handbooks
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 915
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Publication Date: 2006-03-01
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: The vast, jungle-covered island of Borneo, the third largest in the world, has always held a fascination for Western travellers. This was where head-hunters ran wild and which, according to romantic myth, was rich in gold and diamonds. Today's attractions are of a different kind: trekking through pristine national parks; whitewater rafting on tropical rivers; and some of the very best dive sites in the world. This new addition to the acclaimed Footprint stable is up-to-date and packed with information and recommendations of where to stay and eat; from native longhouses to six –star hotels. Places to visit and how to get around, as well as a comprehensive background section to help you understand the island's rich and diverse culture.
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