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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.
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