Great true adventures
"What is an adventure? 'A remarkable or hazardous experience; an unexpected or exciting occurence befalling anyone; as, the adventures of Robinson Crusoe.' Thus reads the unabridged dictionary. While an adventurer is 'One who seeks adventure, or engages in perilous or hazardous e...
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New York :
Hawthorn Books,
[1955]
New York, Hawthorn Books [1955] |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / by Lowell Thomas
- Adventure of the air and sand ; from "Wind, sand and stars" / by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
- Adventure in Tibet ; from "Seven years in Tibet" / by Heinrich Harrer
- Adventure of the mountains ; from "Annapurna" / by Maurice Herzog
- Adventure in Africa ; from "Hunter" / by J. A. Hunter
- Adventure on a small boat ; from "Last voyage" / by Ann Davison
- Adventure in Arabia ; from "Revolt in the desert" / by T. E. Lawrence
- Adventure in Europe ; from "Napoleon" / by Emil Ludwig
- Adventure in Canaan ; from "The holy scriptures" / Numbers
- Adventure in Rome ; from "The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini" / translated by John Addington Symonds
- Adventure in the south seas ; from "Kon-Tiki" / by Thor Heyerdahl
- Adventure in Mexico ; from "History of the conquest of Mexico" / by William H. Prescott
- Adventure in the State Department ; from "Top secret" / by Oscar Schisgall
- Adventure on Devil's Island ; from "Dry guillotine" / by René Belbenoit
- Adventure in ancient Rome ; from "Caesar's war commentaries" / translated by John Warrington
- Adventure in the south Atlantic ; from "Of whales and men" / by R. B. Robertson
- Adventure in India ; from "Man-eaters of Kumaon" / by Jim Corbett
- Adventure of the spirit ; from "A lost commander: Florence Nightingale" / by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
- Adventure in America's "Wild West" ; from "The Oregon Trail" / by Francis Parkman
- Adventure in Jericho ; from "The holy scriptures" / Joshua
- Adventure in a rowboat ; from "New York to France in a rowboat" / by Tom Mahoney
- Adventure on the Matterhorn ; from "Scrambles amongst the Alps" / by Edward Whymper
- Adventure in ancient Greece ; from "Plutarch's Lives" / Dryden translation
- Adventure in Alaska's wilderness ; from "O rugged land of gold" / by Martha Martin
- Adventure in the Rockies ; from "Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains 1842" / by Brevet Captain J. C. Fremont
- Adventure behind the Iron Curtain ; from "We crashed the Iron Curtain in a tank" / by Vaclav Uhlik, as told to Llewellyn Miller
- Adventure at Gettysburg ; from "Return to Gettysburg" / by Richard Barnitz
- Adventure in the Arctic ; from "Farthest north" / by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen
- Adventure of ancient Athens ; from "The expedition of Cyrus" by Xenophon / translated by Edward Spelman, Esq.
- Adventure at sea ; from "The sea devil" / by Lowell Thomas