Geographical discovery and exploration

The Turk and Caicos Islands were a hotbed of smuggling and intrigue in the 1970s.

Tonio Rocciano was just fifteen.

This story, like all my stories, really happened.

All the stories you will read in this book are true.

summary Gripping and emotional.

While this is not a self-help book, some may find a few of the vignettes within the pages here as helpful if you have an open mind and consider the consequences of ignoring the common-sense rules that guide your personal universe.

"e;You see my glory but don't know my story.

This is a story of a man living an ordinary life, or so he thought.

"e;A while after mom passed, I encouraged dad to actually make a bucket list.

The Price I Paid for a Cup of Sugar is being told by a young woman locked up in a mental institution from having an emotional breakdown caused by heartbreak in her life.

This is the story of the time I spent homeless in Austin, Texas, during the years of 2011 and 2012.

This book is written like a movie scene, past to present.

This story is about a child that was voted by his 4th grade teacher to be the most unlikely person to be successful in life.

Zane Grey visits what he considers to be "e;probably the most beautiful and wonderful natural phenomenon in the world,"e; and "e;also Monument Valley, and the mysterious and labyrinthine Canyon Segi with its great prehistoric cliff-dwellings.

Death Valley was one place that could never be popular with men.

A reporters account of the people, culture, and terrain of Texas in the mid-1800s.

One of the original seventeenth-century historical accounts of the Apaches and the southwestern American Indians.

Four Corners is Kira Salak's riveting account of her epic, solo jungle trek across the remote Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea-often called the last frontier of adventure travel.

A journalists eyewitness account of the explosive 1849 California gold rush and his travels through Mexico.

On the hot Sunday afternoon of June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer decided to go for broke.

The classic Old West narrative of the chase, trial, capture, and execution of outlaw Henry Plummer and his road agent band.

In 1832, Washington Irving, Americas first literary superstar, returned to the United States after seventeen years abroad and swiftly set out to explore Pawnee countrythe wild uncharted territory deep in the young nations interior.

"e;If Outside magazine had been around during the first turn of the century, Fridtjof Nansen would have been its No.

For thousands of years, we have set out sailing for all kinds of reasonsfor battle, for infinite wealth, for the excitement of exploring the unknown, and for escape from the mundane.

In 1914, as Europe braces for an unfathomably deadly war, explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets sail for Antarctica to do the impossible: traverse the continent.

Although the American cowboy has long been a favorite subject for novelists, filmmakers, and illustrators, too often the picture they paint bears little relation to reality.

While floating down on the ice-floe, in the midst of dirt and darkness, hungry and cold I wondered at myself that I could have learned, in a few short months, to have eaten such things, and submitted to such practices, as but few civilized persons have ever been called to endure.

First published in 1906, Geronimo is the collaborative work between Geronimo, chief of the Chiricahua Apache, and author S.

This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known.

Within a generation of Columbus's first landfall in the Caribbean, Spain ruled an empire in Central and South America many times its size, while, in stark contrast, the English had only succeeded in settling the banks of one waterway and several bays.

Without discrediting the expedition's success or Admiral Richard Byrd's leadership, this book makes clear for the first time that the admiral was not the saintly hero he and the press depicted.

In 1524, a man named David Reubeni appeared in Venice, claiming to be the ambassador of a powerful Jewish kingdom deep in the heart of Arabia.

A history of the earlier Southern gold rush and its legends that-for the first time-ties it to the well-known California gold rush of 1849.

The schooner Bowdoin was designed and built in 1921 in Maine under the direction of naval officer and explorer Donald MacMillan.

This richly illustrated book takes a different angle on Robert E.

Alaska in 1900 was unexplored frontier, a land where risk, danger, and ultimate adventure made teamwork essential.

"e;Fanning combines memoir, travelogue, political tract, and history lesson in this engaging account of his 3,000-mile solo walk from Virginia to California"e; (Publishers Weekly).

The excavation of the shipwreck La Belle grabbed public attention in Texas, across the nation, and overseas.

For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Sere Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life.

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The legendary "e;Fighting 69th"e; took part in five major engagements during World War I.

2022 Banff Mountain Book Competition Special Jury Mention"e;A book every thoughtful adventurer and seeker of dreams should read.

* A different sort of true climbing adventure-this one with terrorists, kidnappings, and AK47s* New afterword by the author* First time in paperbackBefore dawn on August 12, 2000, four of America s best young rock climbers Tommy Caldwell, Beth Rodden, Jason Singer Smith, and John Dickey were asleep in their portaledges high on the Yellow Wall in the Pamir-Alai mountain range of Kyrgyzstan.

CLICK HERE to download a sample from Everest 1953In the only book to tell the real story of Everest 1953, Mick Conefrey reveals that what has gone down in history as a supremely well-planned attempt was in fact beset by crises -- both on and off the mountain.

CLICK HERE to download the first two chapters from The Seventymile Kid* A true and complete account of the first successful ascent of Mount McKinleysetting the record straight* The summer of 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the McKinley's first ascent* Features archival photographs, including rare and never-before-published imagesThe Seventymile Kid tells the remarkable account of Harry Karstens, who was the actualif unheraldedleader of the Hudson Stuck Expedition that was the first to summit Mount McKinley in Alaska.

CLICK HERE to download the first chapter from Freedom Climbers(Provide us with a little information and we'll send your download directly to your inbox)One of the most important mountaineering books to be written for many years.

CLICK HERE to download the first chapter of The Challenge of Rainier, 40th Anniversary Edition * Special 40th anniversary edition* Featuring 125 photos, 90 illustrations, and 15 maps* Original cover art by Dee MolenaarOriginally published in 1971, The Challenge of Rainier is a classic in mountaineering reference and literature, long considered the definitive work on the climbing history of Mount Rainier.

* An astonishing tale of perseverance * Wonderful insight into 19th century Tibet * A moving tale of adventure and discoveryIn the late 1800's, when women were bound by both cumbersome clothing and strict Victorian morals, a small band of astonishing women explorers burst forth to claim the adventurous life.

Captain Dynamite Johnny O'Brien sailed the seven seas for over sixty years, starting in the late 1860s in India and ending in the early 1930s on the U.