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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.49
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Manufacturer: Whitehorse Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Glen Heggstad
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Publisher: Whitehorse Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 796
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Publication Date: 2004-07-26
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Reading Level: 276
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Description: Only weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, Glen Heggstad set out from his sunny California home vowing not to return until he had accomplished his life-long goal of riding a motorcycle in a lap around South America. Upon crossing into Mexico, with terrorism on his mind, he wondered if he was riding away from the fire, or directly into it? Not long after, when he was stopped at a roadblock in the remote jungle of Colombia, he found his chilling answer. The Ejército de Liberación Nacional, Colombia's deadliest rebel army, funds its terrorist activities by taking captives for ransom. When the six-foot-four hulking American on a loaded and customized motorcycle rolled up to their roadblock, the terrorists thought they had struck gold. Dozens of dirt covered, sweat-soaked, desperate men with AK-47's frantically grabbed Glen off his motorcycle, and with their new American prisoner, disappeared into the jungle. The weeks of physical and psychological torture Glen is forced to endure push this powerful man to his absolute breaking point. It is the desperate decision he makes one wet night while curled up on a muddy hut floor, panicked for food, and questioning his own sanity, that finally wins him his freedom. Without a second thought, but with more determination than ever, Glen remounts another motorcycle and continues his incredible journey. Heggstad battles kidnapping, mechanical failures, violent protests, and some of the planet's most inhospitable climates, in this American odyssey. Two Wheels Through Terror is the terrifyingly gripping true story of Glen's motorcycle journey to the brink of death, to the edge of sanity, and to the southern tip of the world.
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Price: $22.99
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Sale: $14.48
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Manufacturer: Lonely Planet
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Kohn::Robert Landon
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Publisher: Lonely Planet
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Edition: 4
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Dewey Decimal Number: 918
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Publication Date: 2006-06-01
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Reading Level: 276
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Description: Discover the best kept secret in South America. Colombia is safer than ever, affordable and still blissfully uncrowded - an independent traveler's dream. Laze on palm-fringed Caribbean beaches. Canoe slient rivers through lush rainforest. Stroll Cartagena's colonial old town. Salsa all night in Cali. Packed with practical advice and valuable tips for trouble-free travel, our peerless guide enables you to explore with confidence.
THE BASICS - detailed maps, tailored itineraries and easy-to-use directory help make the most of your trip.
ADRENALINE RUSHES - the best spots for diving, rafting, hiking, rock-climbing and other thrills.
STRAIGHT TALK- honest advice on where to go - and still risky spots to avoid.
DISCERNING REVIEWS- opinionated authors give the lowdown on where to sleep, eat and pain the town.
COLOMBIA 101 - in-depth background chapters provide insight into the country and its people.
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Price: $24.99
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Sale: $15.58
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Manufacturer: Bradt Travel Guides
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sarah Woods
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Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 918
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Publication Date: 2008-07-17
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: Much like neighboring Panama, Colombia is home to a fascinating mix of cultures and wildlife. The country has more plant and animal species per square mile than any other country in the world – over 130,000 endemic plants and 1,900 species of bird – and both coastlines (Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea) are rich in coral reefs and marine life. Sports enthusiasts are catered for with climbing, paragliding, fishing, diving and windsurfing, and for the culture vultures Colombia also boasts historic colonial and six sites with UNESCO World Heritage status. |
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $6.99
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Redmond O'Hanlon
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 918.704633
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Publication Date: 1990-04-14
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: O'Hanlon takes us into the bug-ridden rain forest between the Orinoco and the Amazon--infested with jaguars and piranhas, where men would kill over a bottle of ketchup and where the locals may be the most violent people on earth (next to hockey fans).
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Price: $75.00
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Sale: $47.25
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Manufacturer: Villegas Editores
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Andres Hurtado Garcia
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Publisher: Villegas Editores
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Dewey Decimal Number: 779.991861
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Publication Date: 2003-11-15
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Geography is a mirror: every nation sees itself in its natural places. Here are a naturalist-photographer's most beautiful faces: These are Andrés Hurtado Garcia's best images of a half-century of looking intensely at the land that is Colombia; a wilderness tour that includes close photographic details like cryptic aboriginal hyeroglyphics on giant rocks as well as sweeping views of the alta montana. Hurtado is a South American Edward Weston, a self-taught, nomadic photographer. Here are the most exciting places he has discovered in decades of wandering: hidden beaches, remote lakes, and unnamed volcanic craters; the little-explored rivers of the Amazon; seductive landscapes of the Orinico. Naturalists and travelers will discover here a South America only Hurtado knows intimately: photographs that capture all the seductive landscapes of Colombia
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Price: $65.00
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Sale: $44.17
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Manufacturer: Villegas Editores
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Enrique Pulecio Marino
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Publisher: Villegas Editores
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Edition: 3rd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 986.1
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Publication Date: 1998-03-15
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Reading Level: 260
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Description: Probably no country in the world enjoys greater geographical variety than Colombia. And as in so many places, the country's political jurisdictions, drawn up arbitrarily, have little relation to natural or human boundaries. Here, then, we look beyond man-made frontiers at the rich mixture of landscape, people and cultures which make up present-day Colombia. We meet, amongst others, the fun-loving inhabitants of the Caribbean coast, the forthright, hard-working paisas of Antioquia, the quiet-mannered country folk of the Boyacá highlands-- each one so different from the other, and all of them conditioned by their own particular history and the very contours of the land from which they have sprung. It is, above all, the land that interests us here-- the panorama.
The photographs which illustrate Panoramic Colombia have been taken by a Roundshot 360-degree camera which revolves so as to take in everything anyone might observe by standing still and slowly turning full circle. The effect is to place the viewer at the very centre of the picture. In fact, the book's intention is to take its stance at the heart of each event (or scene) depicted here, as a silent and permanent witness to what is taking place. Light and shade converge at the centre. Earth and water mingle there. So does Man and the sky above him. Here the One meets the Many, city streets fuse into the countryside, and we perceive those centrifugal forces which spin outwards and the centripetal ones which draw back in again, both searching for a larger, more luminous Colombia, a place of strange contrasts, a land that is ancient but ever new.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $16.47
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Manufacturer: Footprint Handbooks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Charlie Devereux
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Publisher: Footprint Handbooks
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Edition: 3rd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 918
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Publication Date: 2009-02-01
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Reading Level: 464
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Description: Colombia is back on the tourist map. This land of coffee, emeralds, and Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism is emerging from decades of drugs and violence to wow visitors with its vibrant culture and little-known attractions, plus mud volcanoes to bathe in, acres of flowers, coffee farms to visit, and a CD library’s worth of music festivals. But fear not: Footprint’s 3rd edition of Colombia is now at hand to make sense of it all and help you get the most from this vivacious country. |
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $17.95
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Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Alan Weisman
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Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.9861
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Publication Date: 1998-05
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Reading Level: 227
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Description: Los Llanos—the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia—are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian development worker named Paolo Lugari wondered if the nearly uninhabited, infertile llanos could be made livable for his country’s growing population. He had no idea that nearly four decades later, his experiment would be one of the world’s most celebrated examples of sustainable living: a permanent village called Gaviotas.In the absence of infrastructure, the first Gaviotans invented wind turbines to convert mild breezes into energy, hand pumps capable of tapping deep sources of water, and solar collectors efficient enough to heat and even sterilize drinking water under perennially cloudy llano skies. Over time, the Gaviotans’ experimentation has even restored an ecosystem: in the shelter of two million Caribbean pines planted as a source of renewable commercial resin, a primordial rain forest that once covered the llanos is unexpectedly reestablishing itself.Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez has called Paolo Lugari “Inventor of the World.” Lugari himself has said that Gaviotas is not a utopia: “Utopia literally means ‘no place.’ We call Gaviotas a topia, because it’s real.”Relive their story with this special 10th-anniversary edition of Gaviotas, complete with a new afterword by the author describing how Gaviotas has survived and progressed over the past decade.
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Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Krzysztof Dydynski
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Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 918.6104
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Publication Date: 2003-06
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: - the intrepid traveler's survival guide to safe travel in this volatile but spectacular destination - insider tips on the best & safest trekking & diving - fiesta: where to let loose to sexy salsa sounds & marvelous cumbia - our essential Spanish language section facilitates secure travel & friendly chitchat
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Manufacturer: Sourcebooks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Tammy L. Kling
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Publisher: Sourcebooks
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Publication Date: 2002-11
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Reading Level: 288
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