Adventurers and explorers Books

Le ""Journal de voyage du Docteur Charles Cuny de Siout ������ El-Obeid"" est un livre �����crit par Charles Cuny, un m�����decin fran�����ais qui a voyag����� en �����gypte et au Soudan en 1863. Dans ce livre, Cuny raconte son voyage ������ travers les...

""Four Years in Tibet"" is a travelogue written by Ahmad Shah, an Indian Muslim who traveled to Tibet in 1904 and stayed there for four years. The book describes his experiences and adventures in Tibet, including his encounters with the people, culture,...

""Five Months in Labrador and Newfoundland: During the Summer of 1838"" is a travelogue written by Ephraim W. Tucker. The book describes the author's experiences during his five-month journey through Labrador and Newfoundland in the summer of 1838. The...

Das Buch ""Finsteraarhornfahrt"" von Abraham Roth wurde im Jahr 1863 ver������ffentlicht und beschreibt eine Bergtour auf das Finsteraarhorn, den h������chsten Gipfel der Berner Alpen. Der Autor schildert darin seine eigenen Erfahrungen und Erlebnisse...

Cuando mi querida esposa fue diagnosticada con cáncer y tuvo que someterse a una operación, me preocupé mucho. Perdí a mi madre por esta enfermedad cuando tenía la misma edad que mi esposa. A veces la rueda de la vida es traumáticamente cíclica. Tuve un...

"Storie mozzafiato che intrecciano i principali fronti della Prima Guerra Mondiale in una narrativa ampia". La Grande Guerra ha lasciato milioni di civili e soldati mutilati o morti. Segui le orme dei militari britannici, tedeschi e americani mentre...

How an IT czar ran a $ 2 billion company to the ground .The story of the rise and fall of Ramalinga Raju, promoter of the blue-chip software company Satyam, has no parallel in Indian corporate history. He created a $ 2 billion company in a short period...

Beautiful, intelligent, arrogant, avenging - this in her own words, is Ipsita Roy Chakraverti. In this searchingly honest account of her life as a Wiccan, she both proves and dispels notions of the 'wicked witch', bringing to the fore witchcraft's powers...

Photographs of the famous Drayton Bird at 80. Celebrating the story so far of one of advertising's most notorious and incorrigible characters. “Drayton Bird is the senior genius of the copywriting world.” “There is no...

Identical twins Miki and Julie Collins trap, hunt, fish, and garden in Alaska's wilderness just north of Denali National Park in Alaska's vast interior. Their closest companions are loyal sled dogs and Icelandic horses, which eat fish and can...

What does a new diver do when he's left in a cloud of sand and doesn't know where to find his guide? What reaction should he have when he swims over a sand dune only to come face to face with a four-foot barracuda?When I first started scuba diving,...

Leaving Macquarie Island and the 1979 expeditioners was a mixed bag ofemotions. I witnessed the grieving of some of the expeditioners from the loss oneof their mates, a biologist. I felt for them and wondered what wintering on theIsland was going to be...

Walk with Duncan and Chris as they take two journeys along the great Pennine footpath, forty years apart. Has the Way changed over four decades? Have they changed? Over the many days and miles they describe and photograph all that is glorious about the...

Success can be defined as the accomplishment of an aim or achieving what you set out to do. Dustin Teudhope has certainly been successful at what he has set out to do in the forest. After encountering a big hairy predator traveling in a bipedal manner...

In the early 1970s, Curtiss Frank and Jack Underhill, a pair of mismatched thirty-somethings who had been chums since boyhood, decided to ride horseback over the old Santa Fe Trail, or at least over a several-hundred-mile section of the far end of it...

On a Wednesday morning in May of 2010, 42-year-old Rocco Versaci dipped the rear tire of his bicycle into the Pacific Ocean and began to pedal, alone, across the country. He had what he thought was a simple idea-to sort out the story of his life, which...

More than seven thousand Koreans were guest workers in West Germany from 1964 to 1975. Author Joseph Lee was one of them. He worked in the coal mines on a three-year contract with the goal of saving money to earn a doctorate. In What Were Men, Lee shares...

London to Lagos and back to London is a distance of 18,366 kilometres, all covered by road. This is an adventure trip that took the author through eleven countries, which are France, Spain, Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin,...

The Australian Crusoes is a novel written by Charles Rowcroft and published in 1853. The story follows the adventures of an English family who decide to settle in the wilds of Australia. The family consists of a father, mother, and their three children...

Lines From My Logbooks is a collection of travel writings by John Charles Dalrymple Hay, originally published in 1898. Hay was a British naval officer and explorer who spent much of his career in the Pacific, and his logbooks provide a fascinating...

Life On The Lagoons is a book written by Horatio F. Brown and published in 1884. The book is a detailed account of the author's experiences living on the Venetian lagoons in Italy. Brown provides a vivid description of the unique lifestyle, culture, and...

Scouting for Stanley in East Africa is a book written by Thomas Stevens and published in 1890. The book is a first-hand account of Stevens' experiences as a scout for the famous explorer Henry Morton Stanley during his expedition to find the missing...

From 2009 to 2016, my husband worked for a humanitarian aid organization based in Kabul, Afghanistan. In 2011 I joined him there, and fell in love with this dusty, violent, confusing, beautiful country. My brain floods with memories from that time, but I...

Backsheesh! Or Life And Adventures In The Orient is a book written by Thomas Wallace Knox in 1875. The book is a collection of stories and experiences of the author during his travels in the Orient, which includes Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, and other...

Autobiography Of James Silk Buckingham V2 is a book written by James Silk Buckingham in 1855. It is a detailed account of his life, including his voyages, travels, adventures, speculations, successes, and failures. The book is divided into chapters, each...

""A Few Months In New Guinea"" is a travelogue written by Octavius C. Stone in 1880. The book details the author's experiences during his brief stay in New Guinea, an island in the South Pacific. Stone describes the geography, climate, flora, and fauna...

A Dash To The Pole is a book written by Herbert Dickinson Ward in 1892. The book is a true account of the author's journey to the North Pole in 1891. The book describes the author's experiences and challenges during the journey, including the harsh...

The Voyages And Five Years������� Captivity In Algiers, Of Doctor G. S. F. Pfeiffer is a book written by G. Simon Friedrich Pfeiffer and first published in 1836. The book is a personal account of Pfeiffer's travels and experiences while he was held...

Author Wendy Hoke describes this book as "an insightful look into the family dynamics of shame, secrets, and silence.' It is all of that and more. This is an honest account of her efforts to deal with trauma within her family. During that journey, she...

Island Solitaire is a journey into the pros, cons, and quirks of life on an exotic, distant island. With vivid descriptions and a penchant for diving head-on into history, author John Burgman chronicles a year spent on South Korea’s subtropical...

Roger Robinson has been Denali mountaineering for over forty years and has worked as a ranger for most of this time. Robinson has climbed Denali, at 20,310 feet, numerous times, leading patrols on the mountain, organizing clean climb efforts on the...

'Our day's route led us through snow and ice scenery of deathless beauty. This lives strong in mind, while physical pains and trials, the so-called realities of defeat and victory, have long been forgotten.'Mountaineering in...

Many Are Cold But Few Are Frozen: Plain Tales from Antarctica are short stories based on real incidents that occurred during the author's two-year stay as a meteorologist at Halley 3, a British Research base in Antarctica located about 500 miles from the...

The Tales of Captain Robbie Mack - Up the Creek His attention wavered. The man was having an epileptic fit right in front of him, no-one else about. And yet his eyes were drawn to that damn chicken stoating around seasick drunk in the shower. Robbie Mack...

This is about one man's review of his early adult life experiences which he wishes to share with his sons and future generations. He wishes to point out how his military experiences shaped his understanding of life and the spiritual influences of his...

This is the story of a child of Italian heritage, brought into this world from January 7, 1935, to 2020.Feel the joy the pain, the tears, the fears through five significant emotional events and period in a life that was lived to the fullest, not always...

<p>A true story about living the dream, seizing the day, and pioneering a path into new horizons. Later in life, John and Lyza fall in love with a classic ketch, establish a charter business on the mystic BC coast, and sail out of their...

As her head thrusts back violently, I put my hands around her neck to support it. Every three seconds she would experience another jerk until they gradually reduce in frequency and force. As they subside, they become less forceful, extend to one every...

Lure of the Trade Winds: Two Women Sailing the Pacific Ocean transports readers to a place where few have gone before: aboard a thirty-four-foot boat, cruising the Pacific Ocean. Join author Jeannine Talley, as she and her sailing partner, Joy Smith,...

Originally published in 1913, this early works is a fascinating and detailed look at Sir Robert Falcon Scott's journey to the South Pole. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and...

The Landsman's Logbook, written by John Hayter in 1842, is a memoir of his experiences as an emigrant at sea. The book provides a detailed account of the journey from England to South Australia, including descriptions of the ship, the crew, and the other...

An entertaining look into both sides of the glass counter in a gun store, CONFESSIONS OF AN EX-GUN DEALER details the memoirs of Ludwig Sawicki who, in the 1980s owned one of the largest gun stores in the United States. Here you will meet memorable...

Le livre ""Lettres De A. E. Nordenskiold: Racontant La Decouverte Du Passage Nord-Est Du Pole Nord, 1878-1879 (1879)"" est une compilation de lettres �����crites par Adolf Erik Nordenskiold, un explorateur su�����dois, qui raconte sa d�����couverte du...

Le Livre de Marco Polo, Partie 1 : Citoyen de Venise, Conseiller Priv����� et Commissaire Imp�����rial de Khoubilai-Khaan (1865) est un livre �����crit par Marco Polo. Il raconte l'histoire de sa vie en tant que citoyen de Venise, conseiller priv����� et...

Le livre de Marco Polo, Partie 2 : Citoyen de Venise Conseiller Priv����� et Commissaire Imp�����rial de Khoubilai-Khaan (1865) est un ouvrage historique �����crit par Marco Polo. Ce livre est la suite du premier livre de Marco Polo, qui raconte ses...