Первое издание: The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures by Lieut.-Col. J. H. Patterson, D.S.O. With a foreword by Frederick Courteney Selous. With illust...
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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
Few men can say they have known Africa as Peter Hathaway Capstick has know it-- leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle pat...
James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was in his teens. He then began an extraordinary rise form farmboy to the hallowed rank of captain of the Royal Nave, leadin...
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Stephen E. Ambrose
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(1)'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Je...
In 1803, the great expanse of the Louisiana Purchase was an empty canvas. Keenly aware that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward—and that a “Voyage of Discovery...
Вселенная Антуана де Сент-Экзюпери огромна и необычайно гостеприимна. Не случайно миллионы читателей, поколение за поколением, совершают все новые полеты по ее бесконечным...
В апреле 1992 года молодой человек из обеспеченной семьи добирается автостопом до Аляски, где в полном одиночестве, добывая пропитание охотой и собирательством, живёт в за...
Книга известного американского журналиста, писателя и альпиниста Джона Кракауэра "В разреженном воздухе" написана по горячим следам трагедии, разыгравшейся во время экспед...
In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the Antarctic continent. ...
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...