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003    OCoLC 
005    20131128025410.0 
008    131010s2013    nyua          000 0 eng d 
016 7  016473188|2Uk 
019    816030122 
020    9781620875698|qpaperback 
020    1620875691|qpaperback 
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035    (OCoLC)816030122 
035    (OCoLC)859778344|z(OCoLC)816030122 
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049    CKEA 
082  4 910.9 B561 2013 
245 04 The best adventure and exploration stories ever told /
       |cedited by Stephen Brennan. 
264  1 New York :|bSkyhorse Publishing, Inc.,|c2013. 
300    [v], 564 pages :|billustrations,|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 00 |gContents :|tA Chronicle of the Voyages of Saint Brendan 
       /|rStephen Brennan --|tJonah /|rKing James Bible --|tBook 
       XII of the Odyssey /|rHomer --|tNorthmen Voyage to Vinland
       /|rIcelandic Sagas --|tDrake's Circumnavigation /|rRichard
       Hakluyt --|tThe First Lowering /|rHerman Melville --
       |tYouth /|rJoseph Conrad --|rThe Most Dangerous Game /
       |rRichard Connell --|tA Nightmare of the Doldrums /|rW. 
       Clark Russell --|tThe Stowaways /|rRobert Louis Stevenson 
       --|tThe Seed of McCoy /|rJack London --|tTarzan of the 
       Apes /|rEdgar Rice Burroughs --|tCharles Darwin and the 
       Galápagos /|rV. W. von Hagen --|tFlorence Nightingale in 
       Egypt /|rFlorence Nightingale --|tThe Amundsen-Ellsworth 
       Polar Flight /|rLincoln Ellsworth --|tThree Months in an 
       Uninhabited Land /|rSven Hedin --|tA Wolf-Hunt in 
       Wisconsin /|rJ. E. Chamberlin --|tShipwreck /|rCaptain 
       James Riley --|tThe Open Boat /|rStephen Crane --|tThe 
       "Sholah" Tiger /|rHenrietta A. Hervey --|tIce Again! /
       |rRichard Henry Dana Jr. --|tAfrican Game Trails /
       |rTheodore Roosevelt --|rStanley's Last Great Expedition /
       |rHon. J. T. Headley --|rThe Feud of the Wild-Haymen /
       |rHjalmar Hjorth Boyesen --|tDown Through Italy by Rail /
       |rMark Twain --|tFighting the Elephant /|rGeorge Gordon,
       |rLord Byron. 
505 00 |tCavelier de La Salle /|rFrancis Parkman --|tBoswell and 
       Johnson in the Hebrides /|rJames Boswell --|tAn Outpost of
       Progress /|rJoseph Conrad --|tSouth Coast Discovery, 1801 
       /|rEarnest Scott --|tChiloe and Concepcion: Great 
       Earthquake /|rCharles Darwin --|tThe Famous Perry 
       Expedition to Japan /|rJohn S. Sewall --|tThe Travels of 
       Marco Polo /|rMarco Polo --|tThe Town-Ho's Story /|rHerman
       Melville --|tThe Pirate Crew Set Sail /|rMark Twain --|tIn
       Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to 
       Cost Phileas Fogg Dear /|rJules Verne --|tAmong the 
       Crocodiles /|rH. Hervey --|tHippo Hunting in Africa /
       |rDavid Pollock --|tHow the Brigadier Slew the Fox /|rSir 
       Arthur Conan Doyle --|tHunting Musk-Oxen Near the Pole /
       |rLieutenant R. E. Perry,   USN --|tLion-Hunting /|rAlfred
       H. Miles --|tIn a Cuban Cave /|rJulius A. Palmer --
       |tLeiningen Versus the Ants /|rCarl Stephenson. 
520    An exciting collection of dangerous adventures and 
       groundbreaking exploration, The Best Adventure and 
       Exploration Stories Ever Told compiles the works of 
       authors from all over the world and from the very distant 
       past to recent eras.Popular and well-known authors such as
       Herman Melville, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, and Jules 
       Verne are featured, as well as Homer's mythic tales and 
       Iceland's mesmerizing sagas from the tenth and eleventh 
       centuries. Nonfiction stories add a riveting, realistic 
       aspect of adventure to the collection. These include 
       accounts from polar expeditions ; early American stories 
       fromo historic figures mapping new lands ; spellbinding 
       accounts of perilous expeditions to uncharted areas ; and 
       many more no less exciting. 
650  0 Short stories. 
650  0 Adventure stories. 
650  0 Discoveries in geography. 
650  0 Safaris. 
650  0 Hunting stories. 
700 1  Brennan, Stephen Vincent. 
938    Baker and Taylor|bBTCP|nBK0012404043 
938    Brodart|bBROD|n103815058 
938    YBP Library Services|bYANK|n9902238 
994    92|bCKE 
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 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  808.83 B75    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  910.9 BEST    Check Shelf