Kabloona is a true story of a journey into the North. This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology,...
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The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time по версии National Geographic
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seamusThe 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time по версии National Geographic
This 1955 volume is one of the most remarkable survival stories ever written. Jan Baalsrud was the only survivor of a Norwegian commando team ambushed by the Nazis during ...
It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination ...
Shortly after her tenth birthday, Dervla Murphy decided to cycle to India. Almost 20 years later, she set out to achieve her ambition. Her epic journey began during the co...
'Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this 'volume' down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and...
Tim Cahill has clambered up Mount Roraima in the Guyana highlands, searching for the site of Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World. He's dined on baked turtle lung in the desola...
Ibn Battutah—ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist—was just 21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgramage to Mecca. He ...
In 1967, eight men attempted North America's highest summit: Mount McKinley (now known as Denali) had been climbed before but never in winter.
Plagued by doubts and col...
In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the ...
Roosevelt's popular book Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes his expedition into the Brazilian jungle in 1913 as a member of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedit...
In 1943, Felice Benuzzi and two Italian compatriots escaped from a British POW camp in equatorial East Africa with only one goal in mind--to climb the dangerous seventeen-...
In October 1972 Geoffrey Moorhouse began his odyssey across the Sahara from the Atlantic to the Nile, a distance of 3,600 miles. His reason for undertaking such an immense...
В книге рассказывается история экспедиции, которой удалось в 60-х годах XIX века пересечь Австралийский континент. Сто лет спустя автор - известный австралийский писатель ...
Молодая женщина Робин Дэвидсон с четырьмя верблюдами и собакой прошла более полутора тысяч миль по пустыням Центральной Австралии. Чтобы проделать этот путь, ей пришлось п...
Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face ...
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В ночь на 19 января 1982 г. Стивен Каллахэн поднял паруса на своей небольшой яхте, направляясь с Канарских островов в Карибское море. Так было положено начало самому удиви...
Book DescriptionCaptain William Bligh's account of the fatal voyage of the Bounty, and his subsequent 3,600-mile trip to Timor in an open boat. Bligh was not the tyrant of...
In this twentieth anniversary edition of Annapurna: A Woman's Place, expedition leader Arlene Blum chronicles the dramatic story of leading the American Women's Himalayan ...