In 1935 Peter Fleming, an editor for the London Times and, interestingly, Ian Fleming's older brother, set out from Peking for Kashmir. It was a 3500 mile journey across t...
- 100 книг
The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time по версии National Geographic
seamus100 книг
seamusThe 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time по версии National Geographic
В своей книге неутомимый норвежский исследователь арктических просторов и покоритель Южного полюса Руал Амундсен подробно рассказывает о том, как он стал полярным исследов...
First published in book form in 1849, Life in the Far West describes the amazing true adventures of George Frederick Ruxton as he forges a path through the yet-untamed wil...
A lively, eloquent guide to the Maya ruins of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, as entertaining today as when it was first published in 1843, Stephens' guide recounts his two tr...
True story about how a group of people who survived an airplane crash in the Andes had toresort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.
On October 12, 1972, an Uruguayan...
A great adventure--the first expedition ever to run the entire 4,100 mile course of the world's largest river, the Amazon. They encounter many obstacles: the deadly whitew...
Classic account of great explorer's second journey (1859-1860) to confirm Lake Victoria as source of the Nile. Exciting blend of adventure, exploration, geographic, ethnog...
Удивительное путешествие выпало на долю француженки Александры Давид-Неэль (1869-1969) - пешком из Китая в Индию через Тибет.
"Медленное восхождение к высокогорным пере...
A bona fide classic, originally published in 1872, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada is still exciting reading. It describes the perils and pleasures experienced by Clar...
The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
When Richard Halliburton graduated from college, he chose adventure over a career, traveling the world with almost no money. The Royal Road to Romance chronicles what happ...
This excellent selection is ideally suited to a wide audience of general readers. Written after the author had spent two years wandering among the Bedouin nomads, the rema...
Eric Hansen was the first westerner to ever walk across the island of Borneo.In this book, Hansen provides an intimate look at a vanishing way of life forone of the last s...
When Admiral Richard E. Byrd set out on his second Antarctic expedition in 1934, he was already an international hero for having piloted the first flights over the North a...
Книга Дж. Корбетта посвящена хищникам - людоедам, на которых автор охотился в предгорьях Гималаев. Документально точный и в то же время красочный язык, напряженность и увл...
The Sailor's Classics library introduces a new generation of readers to the best books ever written about small boats under sailWhen 65-year-old Francis Chichester set sai...
The 1953 American expedition to the second highest peak in the world.
The Man Who Walked Through Time is a remarkable account of a journey both physical and spiritual. It is also a record of the Grand Canyon as it was before the massive infl...
O'Hanlon takes us into the bug-ridden rain forest between the Orinoco and the Amazon--infested with jaguars and piranhas, where men would kill over a bottle of ketchup and...