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Looking For Adventure is the gripping, inspiring story of how Steve Backshall realised his childhood ambition of being an explorer. A visit to a museum as a boy prompted a lifelong fascination with Papua New Guinea, on of the world's last great unexplored wildernesses. It was here that gave Steve was finally able to follow in the footsteps of heroes like 19th Century naturalist Alfred Wallace. Growing up in Surrey it had seemed unlikely. But, as Steve realised, anything is possible. As well as telling Steve's story, Looking for Adventure is a thrilling, page-turning narrative that weaves in the astonishing history, geography and biology of an extraordinary country. And it is the debut of an exciting new non-fiction author.
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Born in 1973, Steve Backshall was brought up on a farm. He studied English at university before taking a second degree in biology and was once 'Adventurer in Residence' for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.
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Looking for Adventure: A Childhood Dream A Lost Land The Journey of a Lifetime
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Orion Publishing Group, 2011
ISBN 10 : 0857820125
ISBN 13 : 9780857820129
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Softcover
Vendeur : Bookbot, Prague, Rébublique tchèque
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Softcover. Etat : Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren. How do you become an explorer? It's a question every child has asked, and Steve Backshall was no different. After a rainy day visit to an exhibition of artifacts from Papua New Guinea, it was a question that began to obsess the seven-year old Backshall. But surely he'd been born a century too late? And yet through boundless enthusiasm, determination, and a refusal to accept defeat. Backshall was soon carrying business cards from National Geographic describing him as their "Adventurer in Residence." The vast, untamed wildness of Papua New Guinea was where Backshall forged his unlikely path. From crushing lows of early failures to the extraordinary highs of the BBC's Lost Land of the Volcano expedition, it was this dark island which gave Backshall his opportunity. Full of incredible wildlife, extraordinary wilderness, jungles, cannibals, pitfalls, triumph, danger, and excitement, Looking for Adventure is the irresistible, inspiring story of a little boy who let his heart rule his head. N° de réf. du vendeur 6f85ad01-c772-4438-aa94-f093c3240789
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Looking for Adventure
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Swordfish, London, 2011
ISBN 10 : 0857820125
ISBN 13 : 9780857820129
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Couverture rigide
Edition originale
Vendeur : Goldring Books, Eastbourne, Royaume-Uni
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Hard Cover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. First. An As New copy with an AS New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 337 pages. 61 illustrations. 2 maps. Looking For Adventure is the gripping, inspiring story of how Steve Backshall realised his childhood ambition of being an explorer. A visit to a museum as a boy prompted a lifelong fascination with Papua New Guinea, on of the world's last great unexplored wildernesses. It was here that gave Steve was finally able to follow in the footsteps of heroes like 19th Century naturalist Alfred Wallace. Growing up in Surrey it had seemed unlikely. But, as Steve realised, anything is possible. As well as telling Steve's story, Looking for Adventure is a thrilling, page-turning narrative that weaves in the astonishing history, geography and biology of an extraordinary country. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N° de réf. du vendeur 011818
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