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Cortes: The Great Adventurer and the Fate of Aztec Mexico
Richard Lee Marks
Knopf, 1993
I'm surprised that this is out of print already....
+ Amazing!
+ Well done
...and doesn't have more reviews, as it is a damn good book, and drives home what a ballsy swashbuckler and crafty statesman Cortes really was. It's also pretty refreshing in the it doesn't present him as a monster and the Aztecs as innocent victims. The book also disputes the standard notion ...
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The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton
Fawn McKay Brodie
W. W. Norton & Company, 1984
Towering Individual of the 19th Century
+ A Fascinating Life Well Presented in this Biography
+ Indiana Jones in the flesh...
+ Intriquing and Sometimes Painful
+ WONDERFUL BIOGRAPHY - I AM GRATEFUL FOR THIS ONE
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
Dean King
Back Bay Books, 2005
The Desert As Dessert
+ Great Story
+ Terrifying True Story of Survival
+ Skeltons On The Zahara
+ amazing tale of survival
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001
Excellent and Enthralling Book from a most Perspicacious Author
+ horrifying
+ I was cheering for the whales
+ in the heart of the sea
+ Well Done
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The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo
Daniel Liebowitz, Charles Pearson
W. W. Norton, 2006
The Real Better Than Fiction
+ Henry Morton Stanley's bumbling misadventures in Africa make interesting reading.
+ You can't make this stuff up
+ The Darkness of Henry Morton Stanley (nee John Rowlands)
+ "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?"
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The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas
Todd Balf
Random House Audio, 2003
EXCELLENT...I live in Panamá and should know!!!
+ Gringo Arrogance
+ good reading by accident
+ DEATH AND DREAMS
+ Truly the Darkest Jungle
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Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors
Stephen Taylor
W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
Window on a Vanished World
+ Pondoland and colonialists.
+ One of the Better Shipwreck/Seafaring History Books
+ Not your average shipwreck book
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The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold
Frank T. Kryza
Ecco, 2006
Narrows the focus to two men whose goals fostered a heated competition to win
+ The complete story on Timbuktu's less known adventurer
+ Fascinating Adventures
+ Not a Park in the Walk
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)
Laurence Bergreen
Harper Perennial, 2004
Utterly readable, I was held in thrall....
+ Discovering the world, kings fighting, men surviving, women chattel
+ fascinating history
+ very exciting - couldn't put it down
+ One of the better bios I've read recently
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Ice Master, The: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
Jennifer Niven
Hyperion, 2001
ABSOLUTELY ENTHRALLING!
+ Could not put it down!
+ Great Book!
+ Another amazing arctic adventure story
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Cortes: The Great Adventurer and the Fate of Aztec Mexico
Richard Lee Marks
Knopf, 1993
I'm surprised that this is out of print already....
+ Amazing!
+ Well done
...and doesn't have more reviews, as it is a damn good book, and drives home what a ballsy swashbuckler and crafty statesman Cortes really was. It's also pretty refreshing in the it doesn't present him as a monster and the Aztecs as innocent victims. The book also disputes the standard notion ...
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The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold
Frank T. Kryza
Ecco, 2006
Narrows the focus to two men whose goals fostered a heated competition to win
+ The complete story on Timbuktu's less known adventurer
+ Fascinating Adventures
+ Not a Park in the Walk
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The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo
Daniel Liebowitz, Charles Pearson
W. W. Norton, 2006
The Real Better Than Fiction
+ Henry Morton Stanley's bumbling misadventures in Africa make interesting reading.
+ You can't make this stuff up
+ The Darkness of Henry Morton Stanley (nee John Rowlands)
+ "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?"
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)
Laurence Bergreen
Harper Perennial, 2004
Utterly readable, I was held in thrall....
+ Discovering the world, kings fighting, men surviving, women chattel
+ fascinating history
+ very exciting - couldn't put it down
+ One of the better bios I've read recently
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001
Excellent and Enthralling Book from a most Perspicacious Author
+ horrifying
+ I was cheering for the whales
+ in the heart of the sea
+ Well Done
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