books about: expeditions

books about: expeditions

books:

Expeditions

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

Basic Books, 1999

Just Incredible Account ,Absolutely Incredible
This account of Shackelton's expedition to Antarctic is a read like no other. I could not put this book down,nor could I believe the constitution each person on the crew had to continue forth under such insurmountable odds. The author, Lansing has provided a compelling ...

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

Candice Millard

Broadway, 2006

A Magnifent Portrayal Of An American Hero
How delightful to read of a former president who was truly a man of honor. In Teddy Roosevelt's treacherous expedition down the River Of Doubt, a previously unchartered tributary of the Amazon River, you see a man who consistently could have used his status to gain ...

Thunderhead

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Grand Central Publishing, 2000

The first of many for me by these authors...
I was searching for good, new (to me) authors, when I realized I had read all of James Rollins' books and was waiting for my "to be sent when published in paperback" copy of Rollins' The Judas Strain. I read the reviews on Amazon and decided Preston and Child offered ...

A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World

Tony Horwitz

Henry Holt and Co., 2008

Horwitz writes another winner.
I was a big fan of Tony Horwitz's other works and this new offering did not fail to disappoint. He is able to weave history and humor into a volume that is hard to put down. It should be on every high school history students' reading list (or college for that ...

Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

Stephen Ambrose

Simon & Schuster, 1997

A Story of True Courage
Wow! This was the first Stephen Ambrose book I ever read. Now I'm hooked. His attention to detail is incredible. How those guys survived attacks by savages, grizzly bears, and other forces of nature is hard to imagine. Ambrose takes the reader step-by-step through ...

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

Jon Krakauer

Anchor, 1999

Who's got more credibility?
It's interesting to read all of the articles criticizing Jon Krakauer, saying he painted himself in a heroic light, that his book is a giant ego trip, and that Anatoli Boukreev's book is so much more accurate. Many of these so called experts seem to assume that the ...

The Fire: A Novel

Katherine Neville

Ballantine Books, 2008

More Than Satisfactory Sequel
You know how you find a great book and then you hear a sequel is coming and you wait and wait only to be disappointed. You won't have that experience with The Fire. I have a few minor quibbles but over all it was worth the twenty year wait. I will start with the ...

1421: The Year China Discovered America (P.S.)

Gavin Menzies

Harper Perennial, 2008

Excellent history
A must read and a corrective of the present history of the discovery of America by Columbus. The cruelness of the emperor and his vision of a great "market" and "friends" across the seas are truly fascinating and understandable, yet frightening. The "proofs" and ...

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

Kate Summerscale

Walker & Company, 2008

Sense and Prejudice
If you enjoyed Daniel Stashower's "The Beautiful Cigar Girl," or either of Erik Larson's books, "The Devil in the White City" or "Thunderstruck," you should find "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" good reading. Like those other books, the author treats the story of a ...

The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)

Meriwether Lewis, William Clark

Mariner Books, 1997

Fascinating Story, Can't Stop Talking, Use Google Earth!
I read books in a wide variety of topics. I decided to read about Lewis and Clark because I felt I just did not know enough about it and I felt that I should. When I received the book, I opened it and was fearful that I made a mistake because it was made up of journal ...

Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History

Patrick Hunt

Plume, 2007

DISCOVERING GREAT HISTORY
To read this book is to take journeys where few people go. And, they are journeys to some of earth's most fascinating corners of history. Patrick Hunt brings them alive as he leads us concisely through "Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History", leading us across Europe, ...

In the Footsteps of Marco Polo: A Companion to the Public Television Film

Denis Belliveau, Francis O'Donnell

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008

It's THE travel/expedition/adventure book of the decade
Denis and Fran live the French proverb: "leap, and the net will appear." And so they begin...in the spring of 1993 when the friends were both 30, with a dash of reckless bravado and a lot of testosterone, they read The Travels of Marco Polo -- finding his ...

DragonQuest (Dragon Keepers Chronicles, Book 2)

Donita K. Paul

WaterBrook Press, 2005

Excellent series for young teens
This is a Christian fantasy sequel to DragonSpell. Set in the mythical land of Amara, Kale Allerion has a new quest. She is summoned from her training at the Hall to help train the meech dragon. From there she embarks on a quest involving the evil wizard Risto, good ...

Big Book of Breasts

Dian Hanson

Taschen, 2006

A Massive Collection of Great Photos!
This is the ultimate coffee table book! A big, beautiful book of big, beautiful, all-natural breasts. This giant collection of nudes (420 pages!!!) runs the gamut from 1940's cheesecake to 1980's glamour. And every model is all-natural and silicone-free. This book is ...

Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

Tony Horwitz

Picador, 2003

Bad Day at Black Rock
In my research for Wai-nani, High Chiefess of Hawaii, I read a dozen accounts of Captain James Cook's deadly encounter with the natives of Hawaii in 1779. This included not only the Captains' journal, but that of seaman, John Ledyard, and that of first mate, Lt. King. ...