Books : Explore : Stories of Survival From Off The Map (Adrenaline)
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Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 790
EAN: 9781885408556
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN: 1885408552
Label: Adrenaline Audiobooks
Manufacturer: Adrenaline Audiobooks
Number Of Items: 4
Number Of Pages: 6
Publication Date: 2000-09
Publisher: Adrenaline Audiobooks
Sales Rank: 1845294
Studio: Adrenaline Audiobooks
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Explore: Stories of Survival From Off the Map offers first-hand accounts from the world's boldest explorers, men and women encountering storms, starvation, cannibals, predators and disease in their pursuit of mystery and adventure. Their stories are immediate, passionate and dramatic accounts of contact with the unknown, discovered in the mountains of Africa and the Himalaya, the jungles of New Guinea and the Amazon, the ice flows of the Arctic and the canyon lands of the American southwest.
Featuring selections from Tim Cahill, Redmond O'Hanlon, John Long, Fridtjof Nansen and Harold Brodkey, Explore includes the most thrilling and compelling accounts ever written of exploration. Each will take you off the map to those few refuges where true discovery is still possible.
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EXPLORE adds 18 well-selected tales of adventure to the Adrenaline series. They blend of humor, like Tim Cahill's Peruvian expedition with two eccentric companions; dangerous adventure, including A.N. de Vaca's exploration of America in the early 1500's; and more scholarly accounts, such as David Roberts' search for lost cliff dwellings in New Mexico. The best feature of this book, and the series as a whole, is that it exposes us to writings that we would otherwise never see. Ms Schwamm has cast her net widely and hauled in four centuries of engaging exploration stories. Some are excerpted from works out of print, but the bibliography makes it possible to track these books down if you must hear the rest of the story. So why only four stars? As a collector of the entire series, I find this volume less spine-tingling than the rest, with fewer stories of death-defying danger, which is okay - not all exploration involves a struggle to survive if you go about it properly. If you like National Geographic and the Discovery Channel, this is a book for you.
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