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by Alfred Lansing Experience “one of the best adventure books ever written” (Wall Street Journal) in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned
by Dave Seminara A brilliant, young con artist offered to help the world’s most traveled people reach the planet’s last untouched frontiers; instead, they were taken for a wild ride that turned into a costly lesson on the perils of wanderlust. At twenty-three, William Simon Baekeland was well on his
by Carl Hoffman Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs. Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed those short news bulletins, which seemed about as far from the idea of tourism, travel as the pursuit of pleasure, as it was possible to
Mali used to have a significant tourism industry, attracting hundreds of thousands ofvisitors annually, especially to Timbuktu and the Dogon Country. This industrydramatically declined after 2012,
Moldova is…? Many travelers can’t even venture an answer because they know nothing about the country even though it’s in Europe and easily accessible. Well,
Captain James Cook, in the 1770s, named Tonga the "Friendly Islands" and the moniker stuck because it’s true. People are warm, hospitable and represent a