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The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest

By Nick Thorpe

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Hardcover:

9780300181654 | Yale Univ Pr, January 28, 2014, cover price $35.00

Paperback:

9780300205459 | Yale Univ Pr, September 30, 2014, cover price $28.00

Urban Worrier: Adventures in the Lost Art of Letting Go

By Nick Thorpe

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Paperback:

9781408700785 | Gardners Books, June 2, 2011, cover price $23.00

89: The Unfinished Revolution: Power and Powerlessness in Eastern Europe

Product Description: The first book to put the last twenty years in Eastern Europe in the context of 1989.

By Nick Thorpe

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Paperback:

9781906702175 | Reportage Pr, October 12, 2010, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The first book to put the last twenty years in Eastern Europe in the context of 1989.

Ancient Inventions

Product Description: "IT'S CHOCKABLOCK WITH CURIOUS LORE....[James and Thorpe] have amassed scores of persuasive testimonials of primeval ingenuity."--The Boston GlobeWe in the twentieth century tend to assume that our era has a monopoly on the inventions of clever machines, labor-saving devices, feats of engineering, and advanced technology...read more

By Peter James and Nick Thorpe

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Hardcover:

9780345364760 | 1 edition (Ballantine Books, November 1, 1994), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A guide to ancient accomplishments and inventions unearths the origins of modern creations, including computers in ancient Greece, plastic surgery in India in the first century B.

Paperback:

9780345401021 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, November 1, 1995), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A guide to ancient accomplishments and inventions unearths the origins of modern creations, including computers in ancient Greece, plastic surgery in India in the first century B.

Prebinding:

9781439505335 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: "IT'S CHOCKABLOCK WITH CURIOUS LORE.

8 Men and a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island

A journalist traces his 2,500-mile journey from South America to Easter Island with an eight-man crew on board an eighteen-meter pre-Incan reed boat as part of an adventure to reopen controversial migration theories by Thor Heyerdahl.

By Nick Thorpe

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Hardcover:

9780743219280 | Free Pr, June 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A journalist traces his 2,500-mile journey from South America to Easter Island with an eight-man crew on board an eighteen-meter pre-Incan reed boat as part of an adventure to reopen controversial migration theories by Thor Heyerdahl.

Paperback:

9780743243094 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, June 1, 2003), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: An award-winning journalist traces his 2,500-mile journey from South America to Easter Island with an eight-man, two-duck crew on board an eighteen-meter pre-Incan reed boat as part of an adventure to reopen controversial migration theories by Thor Heyerdahl, a journey challenged by storms, a rival, sharks, and a Korean freighter.

Miscellaneous:

9780743233255 | Free Pr, November 1, 2007, cover price $9.99

Adrift in Caledonia: Boat-hitching for the Unenlightened

A quirky, off-beat tour boat-hopping around the coasts and canals of Scotland by the author of Eight Men and a Duck

By Nick Thorpe

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Paperback:

9780349117379 | New edition (Gardners Books, May 3, 2007), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A quirky, off-beat tour boat-hopping around the coasts and canals of Scotland by the author of Eight Men and a Duck

9780316726887 | Gardners Books, March 2, 2006, cover price $21.40 | About this edition: A quirky, off-beat tour boat-hopping around the coasts and canals of Scotland by the author of Eight Men and a Duck

Eight Men And a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island

The tale of an unlikely journey from Chile to Easter Island. Travelling in South America with his girlfriend, Nick Thorpe came across an American adventurer planning to sail to Easter Island in a Bolivian reed boat. When a crew member dropped out, the offer of his place was too tempting to pass up.

By Nick Thorpe

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Paperback:

9780349114545 | Gardners Books, May 1, 2003, cover price $16.20 | About this edition: The tale of an unlikely journey from Chile to Easter Island.

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