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Bruce Kirkby

Bruce Kirkby Biography

Bruce Kirkby is a Canadian writer, photographer and adventurer whose journeys span 80 countries and include traversing Iceland by foot, Mongolia by horseback, Arabia by camel and the Blue Nile Gorge by raft. Along the way he's been shot at in Borneo, taken hostage in Ethiopia, and imprisoned by Myanmar's army. His writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Outside Magazine. He is listed among 'the nation's top modern day explorers' by Canadian Geographic.



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    William Dalrymple is the author of six previous acclaimed works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; the best-selling ... (more)

    If you enjoyed:
    Blue Sky Kingdom

    Try:
    Nine Lives
    by William Dalrymple

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    Daniel L. Everett

    Daniel L. Everett was born in 1951 into a working-class family in Holtville, a town on the California-Mexico border. As a teenager Everett attended the El Capitan High School in Lakeside, where he met Keren Graham, the ... (more)

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    Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
    by Daniel L. Everett

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