<p>In this work the author describes how, together with her husband, she travelled around the world with a kayak. It tells of adventures in shark-infested waters around the Solomon Islands, along the River Ganges, and on Lake Malawi. Encounters across the language/culture barriers are also described.</p>

A Boat in Our Baggage: Around the World With a Kayak

Sports & Outdoors

maria-coffey

Water Sports

Ragged Mountain Press

A Boat in Our Baggage: Around the World with a Kayak

Travel

Little,Brown & Company

In May 1982, Maria Coffey's lover, Joe Tasker disappeared from a ridge on the East-North-East face with Pete Boardman in a bid for the summit of Everest. This book is an account of Maria's expedition across the world, retracing the steps of Joe's final journey.

Fragile Edge (Coronet Books)

Biographies & Memoirs

Coronet Books

Boat in Our Baggage : Around the World With a Kayak

In 1944, Maria Coffery and her husband, travelled the length of the Vietnam coastline by sampan, a traditional hand-crafted boat, and this book tells of their journey. Starting from the south, a few miles from Ho Chi Minh city in the Mekong Delta, they sailed through Halong Bay and headed into the Red River Delta, to the end their journey at the capital city of Hanoi. En route they made many excursions to well known sites, but the real focus of the tale is on meeting the ordinary people.

Three Moons in Vietnam: A Haphazard Journey by Boat and Bicycle

Asia

ABACUS +

<p>The kindly janitor Victor makes a habit of bringing unwanted pets to his quiet and peaceful home on Cloud Island. Teelo the cat is the first to arrive by kayak. Next, Victor arrives with Ruby the rooster and three hens. The cheerful birds had disturbed their former neighbors so much that they too had to go. Victor's kayak brings home Terry the terrier, who has ruined Mrs. Gripe's curtains; then Sylvie the sashaying snake, who likes to squeeze up to others; and Bonaparte, the parrot, who is just plain bossy. Teelo's island spa has turned into a crowing, barking, skin-shedding, shrieking, over-crowded zoo When Teelo stows away on the kayak for a peaceful reprieve, quiet quickly gives way to chaos as the waves crest and spray, gulls scream and a crab tugs at Teelo's tail. By the time Teelo reaches the beach of Cloud Island, he's glad to return to his friendly home. Eugenie Fernandes' luscious, chimerical seascapes overflow with brilliant purples and primary colors, enriching the fanciful journey.</p>

Cat in a Kayak

Bt Bound

An adventure by kayak through the Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean and the third book in Annick Press' award-winning Adventure Travel series.    The Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean are full of sharks, malaria, giant centipedes and crocodiles, and are also the home to lush jungle, beautiful cockatoos, waist-high orchids, and tropical butterflies.    Maria Coffey and husband Dag love to kayak. Their adventure begins in Honiara, the capital city of the Solomon Islands, where Maria and Dag first encounter Pidgin English and men with mouths stained red from chewing betel nuts and lime. They snorkel incredible reefs alive with the rich blues, greens and reds of hundreds of fish, coral and clamshells -- and the odd lagoon shark! During their travels, they visit Skull Island, which houses the heads of dead chiefs; they learn to cook traditional food like taro and cassava roots; they witness the             incredible, huge leatherback turtles burying their eggs in the sand and making decoy nest holes to fool the local monitor lizards. They even get lost among small, remote, uncharted islands. Yet everywhere Maria and Dag go, the locals welcome them with generosity and kindness.     Ever wonder about giant fruit bats, what a bathroom in the jungle looks like or what are the top ten uses for coconuts? Sidebars recount fascinating cultural facts and information from around the Islands. Maps are dispersed throughout the text with spectacular photography, enabling the reader to follow the kayak along its journey. An index is included for easy reference.

Jungle Islands: My South Sea Adventure

Debora Pearson

Annick Press

Extrem

Piper Verlag GmbH

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