Book DescriptionWith the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous en...
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The Essential Adventure Library: 50 Non-fiction Adventure Books
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seamusThe Essential Adventure Library: 50 Non-fiction Adventure Books
In 1932, Peter Fleming joined a search for the celebrated English adventurer Colonel P.H. Fawcett, missing for five years in the jungles of central Brazil.pWith meager sup...
Предлагаем вашему вниманию книгу Джима Корбетта "Кумаонские людоеды".
In the savage winter of 1876 Captain Frederick Burnaby rode 1,000 miles eastwards from Constantinople to see for himself what the Russians were up to in this remote corner...
For nineteenth-century adventures, Tibet was the prize destination, and Lhasa, its capital situated nearly three miles above sea level, was the grandest trophy of all. The...
Произведения, помещенные в настоящем томе, можно смело назвать "юмористическими энциклопедиями" Старого и Нового света.
В "Простаках дома" автор дает блестящие зарисовки ...
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An exciting firsthandaccount of a modern Antarctic whaling expedition and the unusual men who follow one of the world's most unusual occupations.
Over the course of three decades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Sven Hedin traveled the ancient Silk Road, discovered long-lost cities, mapped previously uncha...
The all -time bestselling of the sagas in Penguin Classics, The Vinland Sagas are published here in a vibrant new translation. Consisting of The Saga of the Greenlanders a...
Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Dougl...
A Man on the Moon
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В книге известного американского полярного исследователя, впервые переведенной на русский язык, рассказывается о его путешествии на Северный полюс и последовавшей затем бе...
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was an explorer sent by Spain to occupy North America. His journey went awry, and he was one of the few who remained alive. He traveled througho...
In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers––and fortune hunters––than the lost city of Timbuk...
Based on the vividly detailed log entries of the U.S. Darien Exploring Expedition, this is a rich, utterly compelling historical narrative that will thrill readers who enj...
The 1953 American expedition to the second highest peak in the world.
Впервые на русском - удивительный международный бестселлер, основанный на реальной драме выживания, основа номинированного на шесть "Оскаров" нового фильма Дэнни Бойла - п...
Автор книги - известный французский альпинист - рассказывает о необычайных трудностях и приключениях, которые выпали на долю участников восхождения на восьмитысячник Аннап...