Книга Марко Поло, одного из самых знаменитых путешественников за всю историю человечества, увидела свет в начале XIV в. В ней наблюдательный и практичный венецианец подели...
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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
Possibly the most interesting aspect of this book is how improbable it seems that Breashears (Mountain Without Mercy) ever lived to write it. An accomplished alpinist, Bre...
Трагическая история открытия Южного полюса вот уже три четверти века не перестает волновать умы людей. О роковом путешествии Р.Скотта к полюсу написано множество статей и ...
In Harm's Way
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(0)The USS Indianapolis was the last ship sunk during the Second World War. Savaged by a salvo of torpedoes from a Japanese submarine, the warship, one of the fastest in the ...
October 1991. It was "the perfect storm" - a tempest that may happen only once in a century - a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not po...
В середине двадцатого века норвежский этнограф Тур Хейердал вместе с пятью бесстрашными товарищами предпринял рискованное путешествие. На простом плоту из девяти бревен, с...
-During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq-long before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam Hussein-Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, ...
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...
В 1925 году британский полковник Перси Фосетт отправился в джунгли Амазонки, чтобы отыскать столицу инков, легендарное Эльдорадо, которое он предпочитал
В 2005 году нь...
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Laurence Bergreen
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(2)Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over t...
Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coa...
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...
The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued.
The sinking of the whaleship ...
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 ...
A classic adventure book in the spirit of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Heart of Darkness. "A thrilling book." ?The Washington PostFour travelers meet in Bolivia an...
В основе сюжета величественной, жизненной и достоверной приключенческой повести лежит история об Антарктической экспедиции сэра Эрнеста Шеклтона, отправившегося к берегам ...
Fear lives among Everest's mighty ice-fluted faces and howls across its razor-sharp crags. Gnawing at reason and enslaving minds, it has killed many and defeated countless...
One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of the most dangerou...
Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed b...
Христофор Колумб открыл не только Америку - он раздвинул границы возможного и дозволенного. Его каравеллы восемь раз пересекли Атлантический океан, чтобы привезти в Европу...