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Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson (Full Moon Over Noah's Ark) tackles his most challenging adventure yet: a formidable trail through the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea. Rick Antonson has traveled to parts of the world that are not simply exotic but sometimes damned near inaccessible. He has climbed to the summit of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, traveling beyond to Iraq and Iran and Armenia. He has undertaken an improbable overland jo...

Part memoir, part travelogue, part history, Train Beyond the Mountains takes readers on a journey through Canada's sublime Rocky Mountains. International appeal: Rick Antonson reflects on train travel not just in Canada, but abroad, too, with a particular focus on the world-famous Orient Express. An essential gift for train-enthusiasts and travel-lovers alike.

Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson (Full Moon Over Noah's Ark) tackles his most challenging adventure yet: a formidable trail through the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea. Rick Antonson has traveled to parts of the world that are not simply exotic but sometimes damned near inaccessible. He has climbed to the summit of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, traveling beyond to Iraq and Iran and Armenia. He has undertaken an improbable overland jo...

Timbuktu: the African city known to legend as a land of scholars, splendor and mystery, a golden age in the Sahara Desert. But to many it is a vaguely recognizable name - a flippant tag for "the most remote place on earth.” With this fabled city as his goal, author Rick Antonson began a month-long trek. His initial plan? To get a haircut. Aided by an adventuresome spirit, Rick endures a forty-five hour train ride, a swindling travel agent, "Th...

You'll never understand America until you've driven Route 66—that's old Route 66—all the way, ” a truck driver in California once said to author Rick Antonson. "It's the most famous highway in the world.”With some determination, grit, and a good sense of direction, one can still find and drive on 90 percent of the original Route 66 today. This travelogue follows Rick and his travel companion Peter along 2, 400 miles through eight states from C...

Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson sets his adventurous compass on Mount Ararat, exploring the region's long history, religious mysteries, and complex politics.Mount Ararat is the most fabled mountain in the world. For millennia this massif in eastern Turkey has been rumored as the resting place of Noah's Ark following the Great Flood. But it also plays a significant role in the longstanding conflict between Turkey and Armenia.Author Rick A...

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Chronicles what is possibly Canada's greatest lost-mine story. This book searches out the truth behind a Salish man's hanging for murder in 1891, and tracks the birth and growth of a legend: the man's death turned into a drama of international fascination when Slumach - the hanged criminal - was linked to gold nuggets 'the size of walnuts'.