Slow Boats Home

Slow Boats Home

By
Gavin Young
Gavin Young
1985 • 441 pages

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434 books

Faction

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Geir
A Pilgrimage to Eternity
We Should All Be Feminists
Hersketeknikker: Nyttige og nådeløse
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
God, Human, Animal, Machine

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118 books

Reiselitteratur

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Geir
Ways of Going Home
Eye on the world
Slow Boats Home
In Search of Conrad
Sailing through China
The Imperial Way: By Rail from Peshawar to Chittagong
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

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774 books

Paper Book

Pierke
Pierke
The Keys of Egypt
Becoming Winston Churchill: The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor
September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle
No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money
The mistresses of Cliveden

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152 books

Asia

Pierke
Pierke
Gandhi and Churchill
The Case of the Missing Servant: From the Files of Vish Puri, Most Private Investigator
The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing
The case of the deadly butter chicken
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Case of the Love Commandos

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114 books

Middle East Arab World

Pierke
Pierke
Jerusalem: The Biography
Accusations of Unbelief in Islam A Diachronic Perspective on Takfīr
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Parting the desert
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
The Arabs: A History
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East

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66 books

Travel Exploration

Pierke
Pierke
Walden on Wheels
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
In Search of Conrad
Into the Heart of Borneo
From Sea to Shining Sea

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29 books

Maritime And Naval

Pierke
Pierke
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
To Rule the Waves
The Sea-Wolf

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2,755 books

Owned

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Daren
Two Under the Indian Sun
Sailing with Mohammed
Beowulf
Slowly Down the Ganges
One Lonely Night
Killer Mine
The Snake

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1,513 books

Travel

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Daren
City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
Red Dust: A Path Through China
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Travelling: An Entertainment
The Wrong Way Home
On The Road To Damascus

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1,244 books

Own To Read

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Daren
The Last of the Bedu: In Search of the Myth
27,000 Miles Through Australia
For Love and a Beetle: A Tale of Two Journeys
The World at Their Feet; the story of New Zealand mountaineers in the great ranges of the world
Camps and Climbs in Arctic Norway
A Single Swallow: Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales
Beyond the Last Oasis: A Solo Walk in the Western Sahara

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2,153 books

Non Fiction

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Daren
Days and Nights in Calcutta
The Real "Bravo Two Zero"
Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission
In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Infiltrators: Guns Drugs Deception And Murder Duty Calls
Paddy O'Brien: Whistle While You Work

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179 books

Nautical

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Daren
The Ra Expeditions
The Conquest of the North Atlantic
Slow Boats to China
The China Voyage: A Quest by Bamboo Raft
The Marsh Arabs
Eight Men and a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island
Discovery: The Quest for the Great South Land

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425 books

Multi Continent

Daren
Daren
In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
The Wrong Way Home
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
The Bonesetter's Daughter
On The Road To Damascus

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20 books

Samoa

Daren
Daren
A History of the Pacific Islands
Transit of Venus
In the Wake of Madness
A Tale of Tahiti
Pacific Journeys
Something of Samoa
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

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63 books

Polynesia

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Daren
Man on the Rim: The Peopling of the Pacific
A History of the Pacific Islands
The Tongan: A South Pacific Adventure
Minerva Reef
The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific
Love in the South Seas
Forgotten Islands of the South Seas