Best Amazon Brazil Travel Guides
In 2003, David Miller left his job, family, and friends to fulfill a dream and hike the Appalachian Trail. David Miller's Top Five Items You Might Not Think to Pack for a Long-Distance Trek (But Will Wish You Did). Scissors: Scissors are better than a knife for common tasks like opening food packaging, cutting moleskin, or trimming your mustache. Chafing powder: Hikers disagree about whether hiking uphill or downhill is more demanding, but they all agree that hiking with chaffed, burning skin is less tolerable than the ups and downs.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I feel privileged to have been able to hike vicariously on both coasts by reading the books."
"I read a lot of books about the Appalachian Trail so the subject matter was not at all new to me but I enjoyed the humor interspersed at regular intervals throughout the book."
"If you think you're ready to hike the path this book is a must read. What I learned from such an enjoyable read is what I expect and so this book helped me to realize I need more miles under my boots before attempting the journey. Could I take the time away from home, work, television, and an easy life to hike through, getting back to nature?"
"Enjoyed my vicarious journey."
"This book is not just for hikers or outdoors people."
"If you delight in an author's ability to make the printed page a canvas; if you relish rereading a paragraph just because of how smart it was--you'll love this whether you're a hiker or not. If there is a criticism, I'd offer that he might have left out the few mild obscenities in exchange for broadest appeal."
"Our trips were no longer than 2 or three hours and we experienced no real hardships, but this book awakened the memory of those wonderful imagined hikes into history."
"The author shared his respective periods of pain and elation, as he successfully traversed the almost 2,200 miles on the Appalachian Trail."
Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. The beauty of this story is not just that Roosevelts rich history could spawn a thousand adventure stories, but that Millards experience with National Geographic is evident in her beautiful scenic descriptions and grisly depictions of the Amazons man-eating catfish, ferocious piranhas, white-water rapids, and prospect of starvation. A story deep in symbolism and thick with research, Millard succeeds where many have not; she has managed to contain a little bit of Teddy Roosevelts energy and warm interactions between the covers of her wonderful new book.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"It has everything a reader would want: the mysteries and terror of the jungle, the incredible and deadly complexity of the river, the inept preparations for the adventure, the wild and unknown Indians of the region, needless deaths, murder, history, and the bigger-than-life story of the aging Teddy, his son, Kermit, and the rest of the exploration party. Millard's Churchill book was good, but it suffered from often static setting, mostly in a Boer prison."
"From reading bios of TR, I knew that he had taken an exploration trip to Brazil after he lost the 2012 presidential race as a third party candidate, but i had no idea that it was so harrowing. Finding out when it's too late to turn back that you are missing much needed supplies resulted in a major fustercluck."
"I learned a lot about Theodore Roosevelt and his families’ lives, political and world events during that era , Amazon exploration, geography, and the convergence of “civilized” versus Indian cultures."
"This book tells us the story of his last act of bravado and exploration when, after his political career has ended, he embarks on a perilous journey on an unmapped river in the heart of the Amazon jungle. The river itself, with its impassable rapids and falls, thwart the expedition to the point of despair, disease, exhaustion and very-near starvation. The men are forced to portage, dragging their supplies and heavy dugout canoes, long stretches of the river many times daily. Malaria is rampant, and particularly plagues Roosevelt's son, Kermit, who has accompanied him on the expedition, ostensibly to keep an eye on and protect his father."
"I always hate when I'm reading a book and I can't wait to do the rating because I hate the book."
Crossing rivers, battling illness and injury, and struggling through some of the toughest terrain on the planet, the team and the dog walked together toward the finish line, where Mikael decided he would save the dog, now named Arthur, and bring him back to his family in Sweden, whatever it took. Mikael Lindnord is an adventure racer, race planner, and motivational speaker.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"A stray dog with a a strong will that was willing to pursue a home and transform many lives during the journey."
"Not only is Arthur too cute, he is also the most opinionated pup on the planet -- he knows what he wants."
"IT SITS ON THE ARM OF MY CHAIR FOR ME TO LEARN ALL ABOUT AUTHUR'S ADVENTURES."
"The story is pretty great as anyone who has heard of Arthur would have known in advance."
"The bond developed between Arthur and Mikael."
"A very nice story for those dog lovers out there!"
"This is a lovely story."
"GREAT BOOK IT REALYY TOUCHES YOR HEART."
Best Brazil Travel Guides
In 2003, David Miller left his job, family, and friends to fulfill a dream and hike the Appalachian Trail. David Miller's Top Five Items You Might Not Think to Pack for a Long-Distance Trek (But Will Wish You Did). Scissors: Scissors are better than a knife for common tasks like opening food packaging, cutting moleskin, or trimming your mustache. Chafing powder: Hikers disagree about whether hiking uphill or downhill is more demanding, but they all agree that hiking with chaffed, burning skin is less tolerable than the ups and downs.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I feel privileged to have been able to hike vicariously on both coasts by reading the books."
"I read a lot of books about the Appalachian Trail so the subject matter was not at all new to me but I enjoyed the humor interspersed at regular intervals throughout the book."
"Enjoyed my vicarious journey."
"This book is not just for hikers or outdoors people."
"If you delight in an author's ability to make the printed page a canvas; if you relish rereading a paragraph just because of how smart it was--you'll love this whether you're a hiker or not. If there is a criticism, I'd offer that he might have left out the few mild obscenities in exchange for broadest appeal."
"Our trips were no longer than 2 or three hours and we experienced no real hardships, but this book awakened the memory of those wonderful imagined hikes into history."
"The author shared his respective periods of pain and elation, as he successfully traversed the almost 2,200 miles on the Appalachian Trail."
"Kudos to Awol for thru-hiking the AT, and kudos to Awol for writing a story that convinced me that I need to add a thru-hike of the AT to my bucket list."
Best General Brazil Travel Guides
Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. The beauty of this story is not just that Roosevelts rich history could spawn a thousand adventure stories, but that Millards experience with National Geographic is evident in her beautiful scenic descriptions and grisly depictions of the Amazons man-eating catfish, ferocious piranhas, white-water rapids, and prospect of starvation. A story deep in symbolism and thick with research, Millard succeeds where many have not; she has managed to contain a little bit of Teddy Roosevelts energy and warm interactions between the covers of her wonderful new book.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"It has everything a reader would want: the mysteries and terror of the jungle, the incredible and deadly complexity of the river, the inept preparations for the adventure, the wild and unknown Indians of the region, needless deaths, murder, history, and the bigger-than-life story of the aging Teddy, his son, Kermit, and the rest of the exploration party. Millard's Churchill book was good, but it suffered from often static setting, mostly in a Boer prison."
"From reading bios of TR, I knew that he had taken an exploration trip to Brazil after he lost the 2012 presidential race as a third party candidate, but i had no idea that it was so harrowing. Finding out when it's too late to turn back that you are missing much needed supplies resulted in a major fustercluck."
"I learned a lot about Theodore Roosevelt and his families’ lives, political and world events during that era , Amazon exploration, geography, and the convergence of “civilized” versus Indian cultures."
"This book tells us the story of his last act of bravado and exploration when, after his political career has ended, he embarks on a perilous journey on an unmapped river in the heart of the Amazon jungle. The river itself, with its impassable rapids and falls, thwart the expedition to the point of despair, disease, exhaustion and very-near starvation. The men are forced to portage, dragging their supplies and heavy dugout canoes, long stretches of the river many times daily. Malaria is rampant, and particularly plagues Roosevelt's son, Kermit, who has accompanied him on the expedition, ostensibly to keep an eye on and protect his father."
"I always hate when I'm reading a book and I can't wait to do the rating because I hate the book."
Best Historical Latin America Biographies
Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. The beauty of this story is not just that Roosevelts rich history could spawn a thousand adventure stories, but that Millards experience with National Geographic is evident in her beautiful scenic descriptions and grisly depictions of the Amazons man-eating catfish, ferocious piranhas, white-water rapids, and prospect of starvation.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"It has everything a reader would want: the mysteries and terror of the jungle, the incredible and deadly complexity of the river, the inept preparations for the adventure, the wild and unknown Indians of the region, needless deaths, murder, history, and the bigger-than-life story of the aging Teddy, his son, Kermit, and the rest of the exploration party. Millard's Churchill book was good, but it suffered from often static setting, mostly in a Boer prison."
"From reading bios of TR, I knew that he had taken an exploration trip to Brazil after he lost the 2012 presidential race as a third party candidate, but i had no idea that it was so harrowing. Finding out when it's too late to turn back that you are missing much needed supplies resulted in a major fustercluck."
"I learned a lot about Theodore Roosevelt and his families’ lives, political and world events during that era , Amazon exploration, geography, and the convergence of “civilized” versus Indian cultures."
"I always hate when I'm reading a book and I can't wait to do the rating because I hate the book."
"I have no doubt that Candice Millard's "River of Doubt" is one of the best books of the decade. In all of this author Millard's scholarship is impeccable."
"It is a fascinating, detailed account of this robust former president and his attempt to overcome nature."
Best Expeditions & Discoveries World History
From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day , the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. A biography of Meriwether Lewis that relies heavily on the journals of both Lewis and Clark, this book is also backed up by the author's personal travels along Lewis and Clark's route to the Pacific. Ambrose, his wife and five children have followed the footsteps of the Lewis and Clark expedition for 20 summers, in the course of which the explorer has become a friend of the Ambrose family; the author's affection shines through this narrative. Jefferson hand-picked Lewis for the great cross-country trek, and Lewis in turn picked William Clark to accompany him.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Honestly, I prefer reading paper books to listening to books or reading on a Kindle, but Mr. Whitener makes me forget that I'm listening instead of reading."
"Stephen Ambrose almost makes the reader feel like she/he is there while all the decisions are being made and our Congress of the day debates funding the trip as well as approving the funds for the Louisiana Purchase which they thought would be a bust."
"Lewis was instructed in astronomy and finding latitude/longitude so he could make accurate maps, botany so he could describe and protect specimens of new plants, biology so he could describe and protect specimens of new animals/birds, medicine so he could treat injuries and illnesses along the way, engineering so he could build boats and makeshift shelters, as well as plans for dealing with the various Indian tribes he would encounter in order to bring them under the authority of the new Father in Washington."
"Normally, I'm not one to read much nonfiction, but my sister recommended that I read this book, because it is among her favorite books."
"Took an extended cross country drive following the Lewis & Clark trail - listening to this marvelous account of their journey along the way!"
"If you are going to pick one non-Yellowstone title for perspective, As usual Ambrose is easy to read and Undaunted Courage is a lot easier than reading the journals themselves, which can be a labor of love."
Best Rio de Janeiro Brazil Travel Guides
This second guide presents 927 bird species, 863 illustrated, that occur in just the southeastern Atlantic Forest biome (Mata Atlântica in Portuguese).
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"On the other hand, it is smaller than Ber van Perlo's excellent and comprehensive Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil (Oxford University Press), and the illustrations are larger. Also a consideration, the Princeton guides are a handy size, but the range maps are at the back of the book, separated from the species entries and pictures. In addition, there are individual guides for SE Brazil, for example, a very nicely produced book by Honkala and Niiranen A Birdwatching Guide to South-east Brazil, which has photos of the species and extensive information on the best birding sites in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, and Sao Paulo (mainly in the Mato Atlantico) and what you might find there. In short, there are now several excellent references for birders chasing the close to 1900 species in Brazil, but there is still a need for small field guides, or even an app of this series of books."
"great book, nice artwork and very good descriptions of birds and habitats in the Atlantic forests."
"An extraordinary book."
"This was a gift and they loved it!"
"It is a great solution to the dilemma existing for comprehensive single-country field guides with respect to the many species-rich South American countries: either they are too large and heavy for field use because they have to cover so many species, or they give abbreviated species accounts, often lack range maps, and use small illustrations with twenty or more species crammed together on a single page. With the regional guide approach, you can have the best of both worlds: guides that are light enough to carry in the field and which have fully informative species accounts and large, high-quality illustrations. This guide follows the same format, has the same high-quality text and illustrations, and large range maps, as the first guide in the series, covering the Pantanal and Cerrado. –First, the guides lack any quick index to the birds; all field guides become much more useful with such indices, and every field guide needs one. Hence, serious birders may want to supplement this guide with other books, e.g. the van Perlo guide, which at least has more male and female plumages illustrated."