| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
608 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"An Outside book." |
| Contents |
Scott's last expedition / Robert Falcon Scott -- The worst journey in the world / Apsley Cherry-Garrard -- South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 / Ernest Shackleton -- Arabia Felix: across the "Empty quarter" of Arabia / Bertram Thomas -- Arabian sands / Wilfred Thesiger -- The fearful void / Geoffrey Moorhouse -- First contact: New Guinea's highlanders encounter the outside world / Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson -- Running the Amazon / Joe Kane -- "Mallory and Irvine's attempt" from The fight for Everest / Noel Odell -- The man who walked through time / Colin Fletcher -- "First bend on the baro" / Richard Bangs -- "The devils Thumb" from Eiger dreams / Jon Krakauer -- Sailing alone around the world / Joshua Slocum -- The shameless diary of an explorer / Robert Dunn -- Alaska wilderness: exploring the central Brooks Range / Robert Marshall -- Beyond the rainbow / Clyde Kluckhohn -- The sea and the jungle / H. M. Tomlinson -- "On foot towards the highlands" from Stranger in the forest: on foot across Borneo / Eric Hansen -- "Hailing the elusory mountain lion" from Walking the dead Diamond River / Edward Hoagland -- The hunt / John G. Mitchell -- "The hidden treasure" from The valleys of assassins and other persian travels / Freya Stark -- "A short walk with Whillans" from One man's mountains / Tom Patey -- A short walk in the Hindu Kush / Eric Newby -- The right stuff / Tom Wolfe -- "Caving in Kentucky" from Jaguars ripped my flesh / Tim Cahill -- That untravelled world / Eric Shipton -- The ascent of Nanda Devi. |
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We die alone / David Howarth -- Alive: the story of the Andes survivors / Piers Paul Read -- Gipsy Moth circles the world / Francis Chichester -- Adrift: seventy-six days lost at sea / Steven Callahan -- The perfect storm / Sebastian Junger -- Everest: the West Ridge / Thomas F. Hornbein -- Minus 148̊: the winter ascent of Mt. McKinley / Art Davidson -- Ishi in two worlds / Theodora Kroeber -- Indeh: an Apache odyssey / Eve Ball -- Venture to the interior / Laurens Van Der Post -- "Down to a sunless sea" from Cave passages / Michael Ray Taylor -- The shining mountain / Peter Boardman -- Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness. |
| Subject |
Voyages and travels.
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Explorers.
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Adventure and adventurers.
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| Added Author |
Roberts, David, 1943-2021
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| ISBN |
0393050009 |
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