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1	River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny more books like this by Jeffrey Tayler One of today's most intrepid writers chronicles a deadly trek through the legendary region that gave birth to the gulag and gave Siberia its outsize reputation for perilous 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Siberian Dawn: A Journey Across the New Russia more books like this by Jeffrey Tayler No guidebook existed for my route; no one had ever done it before", writes Tayler. As the first American to visit many of the places he goes, his reports on a country in transition are timely and unforgettable. It is also the account of one man's love for a fragile, desperately troubled country. see all copies from $3.26! first editions
3	Glory in a Camel's Eye: A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert more books like this by Jeffrey Tayler Marvelously entertaining and frequently harrowing, Glory in a Camel's Eye recounts the American travel writer Jeffrey Tayler's dangerous three-month journey across the Moroccan Sahara in the company of Arab nomads. Glory in a Camel's Eye gives us an intimate, often surprising portrait of Saharan Africa: the cultural conflicts between native ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.25! \| first editions
4	Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey Into the Heart of Darkness more books like this by Jeffrey Tayler Faced with an identity crisis in his work and his life, seasoned traveler and journalist Jeffrey Tayler made a bold decision. He would leave behind his mundane existence in Moscow to re-create the legendary British explorer Henry Stanley' s trip down the Congo in a dugout canoe, stocked with food, medicine, and even a gun-toting guide. But once ... see all copies from $4.82! new only from $8.84! \| SVS
5	Facing the Congo more books like this by Jeffrey Tayler "At thirty-three one's direction in life should be clear, and mine was not". In search of some direction, or at least a new challenge, Jeffrey Tayler gave up his day job of opening rejection letters from publishers and went exploring. Having always been fascinated by Africa and the great age of Victorian exploration he went to Kinshasa in Zaire ... see all copies from $4.15! new only from $22.69! \| first editions
6	Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $12.94! new only from $13.85! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Glory in a Camel's Eye: Trekking Through the Moroccan Sahara more books like this by Jeffrey Tayler A journalist and travel writer joins a tribe of nomadic Muslim Bedouins in Morocco for a trek across the Sahara and learns a great deal about the desert, camels, and the awe-inspiring, fatalistic firmness of the tribe's Islamic faith. The author was inspired by the great English travel writer Wilfred Thesiger, whose book ARABIAN SANDS takes place ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions
8	The lost kingdoms of Africa : through Muslim Africa by trucks, bus, boat and camel by Jeffrey Tayler This is the account of a journey through realms of Africa so remote, so geographically and culturally isolated that their frontiers have rarely been breached. The Sahel region of the lower Sahara - whipped by ferocious winds, shrouded in secrets and home to a vast Muslim population - is the southernmost outpost of Islam's dominance in Africa. ... see all copies from $11.29! new only from $11.95! \| first editions
9	Valley of the casbahs by Jeffrey Tayler Jeffrey Tayler follows the Draa by foot and on camel, recounting stays in casbah homes, visits to mosques and marabouts, and nights in hashish dens. It is a journey marked with extremes - of weather, as Tayler survives intense heat and sandstorms and potentially lethal local tribesmen - and one which he only narrowly escapes to tell this tale. see all copies from $10.99! new only from $99.00!
10	Mathematical Models in Applied Mechanics more books like this by Jeffrey Tayler, Alan B. Tayler This text demonstrates the power of mathematics to solve practical scientific and technical problems by formulating and finding solutions for models of these problems, especially by methods based upon the use of partial differential equations. Designed primarily for final-year undergraduates and graduate students, the book springs from the author ... see all copies from $32.61!
11	Valley of the Casbahs by Jeffrey Tayler The four-hundred-and-fifty-mile long Draa River Valley in the Moroccan Sahara contains some of the most sumptuous oases and searing desert of the Arab world, starting in the moonscape gorges of the Anti Atlas Mountains through to a green sea of date palms over which rise the many-towered casbahs of ochre coloured clay, medieval in aspect and ... see all copies from $12.09! new only from $14.92!
12	The lost kingdoms of Africa: through Muslim Africa by truck, bus, boat and camel by Jeffrey Tayler This is the account of a journey through realms of Africa so remote, so geographically and culturally isolated that their frontiers have rarely been breached. The Sahel region of the lower Sahara - whipped by ferocious winds, shrouded in secrets and home to a vast Muslim population - is the southernmost outpost of Islam's dominance in Africa. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.48!
13	Murderers in Mausoleums: Riding the Back Roads of Empire Between Moscow and Beijing more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $10.99! new only from $10.99!
14	River of white nights by Jeffrey Tayler see all copies from $21.60! new only from $21.60!

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