The Dolphin's Tooth: A Decade In Search of Adventure

The Dolphin's Tooth: A Decade In Search of Adventure

2005 • 416 pages

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37 books

Saudi Arabia

Behind the Veil: An Australian Nurse in Saudi Arabia
Wanderings in Arabia
To the Holy Shrines
Revolt in the Desert
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
The Road to Mecca
With Passport and Parasol

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39 books

Switzerland

Husky Be My Guide
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
North Wall
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
Our Kind of Traitor
Dear Abroad
The Letters of Gertrude Bell: Volumes 1 and 2

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24 books

Oman

The Last of the Bedu: In Search of the Myth
Sailing with Mohammed
Across the Empty Quarter
Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767
My Life and Travels
The Customs of the Kingdoms of India
The Sindbad Voyage

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201 books

5 Star

Vurt
The Marsh Arabs
Who Wanders Alone
My Kenya Days
Samarkand and Beyond: A History Of Desert Caravans
First Overland
Madman's Island

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238 books

China

In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Red Dust: A Path Through China
The Bonesetter's Daughter
Mao: The Unknown Story
The Great Wall
The Terracotta Army

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77 books

Tibet

Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Return to Tibet
From Heaven Lake : Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
Prince Borghese's Trail: 10,000 Miles over Two Continents, Four Deserts, and the Roof of the World in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge
In the Himalayas: Journeys through Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan
Alone to Everest
Tibet, Tibet

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91 books

Nepal

Man of Everest: The Autobiography of Tenzing
The Ascent of Everest
Schoolhouse In the Clouds
Touching My Father's Soul: In the Footsteps of Sherpa Tenzing
Sir Edmund Hillary and the People of Everest
Prince Borghese's Trail: 10,000 Miles over Two Continents, Four Deserts, and the Roof of the World in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge
A Day To Die For: 1996: Everest's Worst Disaster - One Survivor's Personal Journey to Uncover the Truth

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70 books

Myanmar

Where the Dawn Comes Up Like Thunder
With My Back to the East
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
Song of India
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
In Quest of a Mermaid
First Overland

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57 books

Canada

Forest of Memories
The Five Pound Look
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalaya
Due North
A Vagabond Journey Around the World
Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada

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111 books

Pakistan

Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Broken Bangles
The Age of Kali
Prince Borghese's Trail: 10,000 Miles over Two Continents, Four Deserts, and the Roof of the World in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge
Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game
Return Ticket
First Overland

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40 books

Ethiopia

High-Ho to London: Incidents and interviews on a leisurely journey by air from Australia to Britain
The Coronation of Haile Selassie
Cult of the Sacred Spear: The Story of the Nuer Tribe in Ethiopia
From The Roof Of Africa
In Ethiopia with a Mule
The Mountains Of Rasselas
In Search of King Solomon's Mines: A Modern Adventurer's Quest for Gold and History in the Land of the Queen of Sheba

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2,746 books

Owned

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

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7 books

Belize

A View of the World: Selected Journalism
Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization
The Lost World of Quintana Roo
In the Temples of My Fathers
The Changing Sky: Travels of a Novelist
The Dolphin's Tooth: A Decade In Search of Adventure
From Alaska to Tierra del Fuego: Across the Americas in Two Years

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1,507 books

Travel

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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2,142 books

Non Fiction

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