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  • RIVER OF NO REPRIEVE
    JEFFREY TAYLER
    The author of In Putin’s Footsteps chronicles a deadly trek through the icy Russian region known for gulags and isolation. In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles down the Lena River from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, recreating a journey first made by Cossack forces more than three hundred years ago. He is searching for primeval beau...

    $229.00

  • ANGRY WIND
    JEFFREY TAYLER
    Hailed by Bill Bryson and the New York Times Book Review as a rising star among travel writers, Jeffrey Tayler penetrates one of the most isolated, forbidding regions on earth--the Sahel. This lower expanse of the Sahara, which marks the southern limit of Islam’s reach in West and Central Africa, boasts such mythologized places as Mopti and Timbuktu, as well as Africa’s poorest...

    $273.49

  • MURDERERS IN MAUSOLEUMS
    JEFFREY TAYLER
    A gripping journey through some of the planet’s most remote and challenging terrain and its peoples, in search of why democracy has yet to thrive in lands it seemed so recently ready to overtake Across the largest landmass on earth, in lands once conquered by Genghis Khan and exploited by ruthless Communist regimes, autocratic and dictatorial states are again arising, growing w...

    $273.49

  • GLORY IN A CAMEL'S EYE
    JEFFREY TAYLER
    An “amazing” true account of traveling with Bedouins through a drought-stricken North African landscape (The Boston Globe).   Having journeyed in the past across Siberia and up the Congo, Jeffrey Tayler was well accustomed to adventure and danger. But even this experienced travel writer was unprepared for the physical challenges that awaited him in a Sahara desiccated by eight ...

    $229.00