The art of adventure

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Richard Halliburton

When Richard Halliburton graduated from college, he chose adventure over a career, traveling the world with almost no money. The Royal Road to Romance chronicles what happened as a result, from a breakthrough Matterhorn ascent to being jailed for taking forbidden pictures on Gibraltar. Halliburton’s literary career developed out of his meticulous logging of events that occurred on his own adventures. This book, his first, an account of his travels in 1921–23, was a best-seller for three years and was translated into 15 languages.

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Robert M. Bone

"A country as vast as Canada is perhaps inevitably a country of regions. In The Regional Geography of Canada Robert M. Bone identifies six regions, each with a distinctive complex of features - physical, cultural, social, and economic - that determine its place within an overall structure that he explains in terms of a 'core/periphery' model. Examining those features in detail, he shows how the same model may be applied within each region." "This completely revised and updated third edition includes a wealth of new data on population, employment, and economic trends in each region. Expanded resource materials - vignettes, photographs, maps, graphs, and tables - complement the main narrative and facilitate understanding."--BOOK JACKET.

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D.W. Wilson

"It is summer and the Canadian Rockies are on fire. As the forests blaze, Alan West heads into their shadows, returning from university to his grandfather's home in the remote Kootenay Valley, wherethe man who raised him has suffered a heart attack. Confronting his own mortality, the tough and taciturn Cecil West has a dying request for his grandson: track down the father Alan has never known so that the old man can make peace with him. And so Alan begins his search for the elusive Jack West, a man who skipped town before his son could walk and of whom his grandfather has always refused to speak. His quest will lead him to Archer, an old American soldier who decades ago went AWOL across the border into Canada. Archer has been carrying a heavy burden for many years, and through him Alan learns the stories of two broken families who came together, got too close, and then fell apart in tragic ways.Ballistics is a remarkable first novel, about family ties and the wounds that can linger for generations when those relationships are betrayed"--

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Jessica Love

How can your life change when you break the rules every now and then? Hannah Cho is about to find out when she impulsively decides to road trip to Las Vegas, her older sister and BFF in tow, to surprise Nick Cooper and finally declare her more-than-friend feelings for him.