Books about Trekkers from Amazon.com

This inspirational handbook offers encouragement, travel-tested information and lighthearted anecdotes to help you travel safely and comfortably, all while having the time of your life. Includes ideas for creating your own dream journey, listings for more than 150 essential websites, personal anecdotes and advice from more than 45 women, suggestions for traveling alone without feeling lonely and up-to-date guidance on using the latest technology to enhance your travels..
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For more than a decade, the intrepid team from the award-winning series "Globe Trekker", broadcast on American Public Television and major television networks Worldwide, has journeyed to countries from every continent on the globe. Here we have their insider best-of-the-best list, fully illustrated in lavish colour and organized by month. Readers can plan ahead to experience the most flamboyant festivals, adventurous treks, spectacular beaches, and most happening places. Armed with the "Globe Trekker's World", you'll move your trip from mundane to memorable, whether joining in colourful native celebrations at the Goroka Show in Papua New Guinea in September, hiking through awesome scenery during the fall in New England, luxuriating in solitude on a pristine beach in the Philippines in December, or travelling to London in May for the best events, deals, and least crowds. But this book doesn't just list places to see before leaving this lifetime - it conveys why. Abundant photographs accompany the descriptive text, giving an entertaining introduction to the region. It also offers background history as well as practical information on the event or activity, what to bring, what weather to expect, and other things to do nearby. Additional extensive listings of other great beaches, outdoor activities, and festivals cover every safely traversable country on earth, from Austria and Azerbaijan to the United States and Zambia. As an added bonus, a free, professionally produced DVD, "Great Festivals", is secured inside each book. With a running time of more than one hour, this round-the-world tour delivers a year of fantastic festivals..
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Nothing in Africa is as majestic or fabled as Mount Kilimanjaro Though one of the highest volcanoes in the world and the single highest freestanding mountain in the world, it is nonetheless possible to reach the summit without any technical climbing ability. Over 20,000 people a year tackle the ascent to the Roof of Africa, yet only a fraction of this number succeed in reaching the 5895m Uhuru Peak..
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A companion to the bestselling Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers, this fun and fascinating unauthorized book of bloopers and goof-ups covers all 79 episodes of the original Star Trek series as well as the first six movies..
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Every episode of the first four seasons of equipment oddities, weird science, strange but true observations, and nutty technical difficulties for discriminating fans of Deep Space Nine.

Commanders Log, DS9: Star Date 46379.1:  Bajor below.  The cosmos above. Bloopers Everywhere!

How long is the wormhole?
  In "Emissary," it is 70,000 light years.  Four episodes later Sisko says it is 90,000.  Better check the odometer, Sisko!

Does the Space Station rotate?
  Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't!  Look at the stars in the windows...

Now that NextGen is history, the time has come to take a leap through hyperspace and land on Deep Space Nine.  It's unexplored territory for nitpicking, the ultimate challenge for discriminating fans.  This guide brings you the scoop on Deep Space Nine--the good, the bad, and the Ferengi. Author Phil Farrand (with a little help from his Trekker friends) has had his VCR in warp drive and surveyed every DS9 episode of the first four seasons for the glitches, gaffs, and goofs that neither the station's engineers nor the show's writers have solved.  Sit yourself down with this guide in one hand, your remote control in the other, and see for yourself what the wormhole has wrought:

Plot oversights
Changed premises
Equipment oddities
Continuity and production problems
Strange but true fun facts
Trivia questions
Characters for every show in the first four seasons of Deep Space Nine
And more!.
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Isolated for centuries behind the Himalayas in Tibet is a mysterious and mythical mountain. Mount Kailash is 6714m (22,028ft) high. It is a mountain that captures the imagination and breathes sheer excitement into the soul. Kailash has for more than a thousand years been a central pilgrimage site for some of the world's major religions. It is sacred to Hindus, Buddhists, Bonpo and Jains from India.

The guide provides all the essential planning information for the trip to one of the world's most remote regions, including travel into and within Tibet. It guides the trekker on the journey round the sacred peak, its eerie surreal canyons and its strange and striking contorted rock formations. The highest point on the trek is the Drolma La, the pass of the goddess Tara.

This guide also describes a trip to the ethereal fortress ruins of Tsaparang, the former capital of Guge. This is Tibet's greatest Buddhist treasure house of art and paintings, a fairytale location not to be missed..
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A celebration of the popular television series points out all the bloopers, errors, equipment oddities, and picayune plot discrepancies in the program's 1992-1993 season, as well as trivia questions, fun facts, and memorable lines. .
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How to plan the wilderness experience known as trekking—in the U.S. and around the world.

· This new "how-to" in the Backpacker magazine series, complements the magazine’s trekking guidebooks, also published by The Mountaineers Books
· Contains pre-trip, during the trip, and post-trip strategies for long-distance hiking
· Buck Tilton is well-known as an outdoor writer and contributing editor for Backpacker magazine

Trekking, n.: A wilderness excursion of 5-6 days or more where the focus is on the journey rather than the destination. Trekking is an experience—and distinctly different than thru-hiking long (hundred or thousand-mile) trails in the preparation, lifestyle, and time commitments involved. Buck Tilton takes you from planning the route (linking trails or finding loops) to tactical considerations (menus/ration planning, resupply, going lightweight) to making the most of your journey (life on the trail and the etiquette of section-hiking long trails)..
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