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1. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville: Digested from his journals by Washington Irving by Captain Benjamin L.E. Bonneville [Travel] 2. The Cruise of the Snark: Jack London's South Sea Adventure by Jack London [Classic Literature] 3. The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia: And the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs by Sir Samuel W. Baker [History] 4. Headhunting in the Solomon Islands: Around the Coral Sea by Caroline Mytinger [Travel/History] 5. Digging for Lost African Gods: Five Years' Archeological Excavation in North Africa by Bryon Khun de Prorok [History] 6. Wanderings Among South Sea Savages: And in Borneo and the Phillippines by H. Wilfrid Walker [History] 7. In Darkest Africa Volume 1: Or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria by Henry M. Stanley [History] 8. In Darkest Africa Volume 2: Or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria by Henry M. Stanley [History] 9. The Life of Buffalo Bill: Or, The Life and Adventures of William F. Cody, as Told by Himself by William F. Cody [People] 10. Against All Odds: Shot Down Over Occupied Territory in World War II by Frederick D. Worthen [History/People]

1. Against All Odds: Shot Down Over Occupied Territory in World War II by Frederick D. Worthen [History/People]

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1	In Quest of Lost Worlds: Five Archeological Expeditions 1925-1934 [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Byron Khun de Prorok		Our intrepid archeologist hardly stops to draw a breath as he tells the stories of five of his expeditions: his discovery of Tin Hinan's tomb in the Hoggar Mountains of the Sahara (1925-26), his excavation of the temple of Jupiter Ammon in Libya (1926-28), a short trip into Tripolitania, Libya (1931), his search for the stone-age Lacandon Indians in Chiapas, Mexico (1932-33), and his quest for King Solomon's mines in Ethiopia (1933-34). Tin Hanan was the queen of an ancient "white" race in north... more info>> 2001 Category: History
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2	Mysterious Sahara: The Land of Gold, of Sand, and of Ruin [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Byron Khun de Prorok		In Mysterious Sahara Prorok, a popular archeologist and adventurer of the time, describes his 1925-28 expeditions into north Africa. He goes south from Algeria, across the Sahara, and into the mountains of the Hoggar. The first chapter of this book is a rather grim but fascinating roll call of early Saharan explorers. The list goes on and on, and almost all of them died horribly. Sometimes it was thirst or hunger, but usually it was at the hands of the Taureg, the giant "white" race of the Sahar... more info>> 2001 Category: History
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3	The Journals of Alexander Mackenzie: Exploring Across Canada in 1789 & 1793 [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Sir Alexander Mackenzie		Alexander Mackenzie was the first man to cross continental North America, a trip he accomplished by canoe in 1793--twelve years before Lewis and Clark. Mackenzie's journal of his explorations appeared in 1801. Both the Lewis and Clark and the Mackenzie expeditions were conceived as waterborne explorations and owed their strategy to the French explorers, who had proposed, sixty years earlier, that the North American continent could be crossed by going west on either the Saskatchewan or the Missou... more info>> 2001 Category: Travel
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4	Death Valley in '49: The Autobiography of a Pioneer [Secure Microsoft Reader] by William Lewis Manly		If you ever wondered how Death Valley earned its ominous name, here are dreadful stories aplenty to satisfy your curiosity. William Manly traversed the area for twelve months around 1849, and was one of the few who lived to tell the tale. The book starts out chronicling the author's early life, including his childhood on a farm on the East Coast, and his subsequent travels to the frontier colonies of Michigan and Wisconsin. He earned a living doing odd jobs, hunting and trapping, and made his wa... more info>> 2001 Category: History	1 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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5	The Cruise of the Corwin: Muir's Final Great Journey [Secure Microsoft Reader] by John Muir		The renowned naturalist John Muir married in 1880, but the lure of one last grand adventure proved too great. In the spring of 1881 he sailed for the Arctic aboard the Corwin, whose sad task it was to search for the Jeannette, lost during a polar expedition. Muir had already written about the effects of glaciation, and welcomed the chance to get a first hand view of Alaskan glaciers farther north than he had ever been. This journey was not without its own perils; the Jeannette was later found to... more info>> 2001 Category: Classic Literature
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6	Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard: Five Years as a Mountain Man in the Rocky Mountains [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Zenas Leonard		Zenas Leonard left his parents' home in Pennsylvania in the early 1830's to seek his fortune in the west. They did not hear from him for more than five years, and he was presumed dead. Then one day he showed up at their door, fresh from the Rocky Mountains. Everyone was eager to hear his story, so he wrote it down, first publishing part of it in a local newspaper, and later the entire account as a book. Leonard had been living as a mountain man, completely cut off from civilization, surviving fo... more info>> Category: People
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7	Festive Papua: The Story of the Great Dance in New Guinea [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Father Andre Dupeyrat		Father Andre Dupeyrat, a Catholic missionary in New Guinea, went to those remote islands before World War II to convert the "natives." But the good father had a scientific eye as well. His book depicts the Gabe ('Great Dance'), the greatest ritual of the Fuyugheans, the native peoples among whom he lived. He managed to offend the Fuyughean emissaries who came to invite him to the Gabe by returning the tobacco leaves they had offered him, calling them insultingly inferior. To them this meant he w... more info>> Category: History
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8	Wanderings in West Africa: From Liverpool to Fernando Po, Volume II [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Sir Richard F. Burton		Sir Richard Burton's Wanderings in West Africa is a rare book. There are not many narratives that deal with the West Africa of the 19th century, especially in so much detail. Written a few years after the famous journey Burton describes in Lake Regions of Central Africa, this book takes the reader on a port-by-port tour from Liverpool to Morocco and then as far south as Fernando Po (Equatorial Guinea). Like Burton's other books, this one contains a wealth of information on subjects as varied as ... more info>> Category: History
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9	The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California in 1844 [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Lansford W. Hastings		Tired of cold Atlantic Winters? Where would you like to be? In the 1840's readers were gobbling up books like Lansford Hasting's The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California. Here is his description of California: "It is milder on the Pacific coast, in latitude 42 degrees north, than it is in 32 degrees north on the Atlantic coast, being a difference of more than ten degrees of temperature, in the same latitude. No fires are required, at any season of the year, in parlors, offices or shops, hen... more info>> Category: History	1 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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10	Voyage of the Liberdade: A Journey from Brazil to America in a Hand-Built Boat [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Captain Joshua Slocum		Joshua Slocum is widely known for his Sailing Around the World Alone, the story of his solo circumnavigation. The Voyage of the Liberdade, his first book, is equally compelling. In it he recounts his journey to Brazil and back--he sailed down on the Aquidneck, his own ship, and returned on the Liberdade, which he built there. What happened? Slocum describes sailing from port to port in Brazil, trying to take in and deliver enough cargo on the Aquidneck to make her voyage profitable. Through a se... more info>> Category: People
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11	The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky: The True Wild West of New Mexico and California [Secure Microsoft Reader] by James Ohio Pattie		In June of 1824, James Ohio Pattie, then in his early 20's, left Kentucky with his father, Sylvester, and headed west. They reached Taos, New Mexico, traveled down the Rio Grande, fought with Indians, rescued two white women who had been captured by Comanches, crossed over the Mogollon Mountains (they had to eat one of their horses; later they had to eat their dogs also), and for a while ran a mine and fought more Indians for the Mexicans near Silver City. In southern New Mexico, a party of Fren... more info>> Category: People
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12	Shackleton's Boat Journey: The Narrative from the Captain of the 'Endurance' [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Frank Arthur Worsley		"The Weddell Sea might be described as the Antarctic extension of the South Atlantic Ocean. Near the southern extreme of the Weddell Sea in 77 degrees south latitude Shackleton's ship Endurance, under my command, was beset in heavy pack ice. The temperature in February fell to 53 degrees of frost--an unusually cold snap for the southern summer of 1914-15. The pack ice froze into a solid mass. We were unable to free the ship and she drifted northwest, 1,000 miles during the summer, autumn, and wi... more info>> Category: People
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13	Missionary Travels in South Africa, Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, Volume II [Secure Microsoft Reader] by David Livingstone		When Missionary Travels was first published in 1857, reviewers noted that the existing ideas about south central Africa would have to undergo a radical transformation. Land thought to be dry and mountainous was discovered to be fertile grassland with a wide variety of animal life, and the peoples that lived there, while sometimes suspicious, were often welcoming to an outsider. And great rivers existed as well; the Zambesi River was unknown to Europeans until Livingstone's visit. Dr. David Livin... more info>> Category: History
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14	Wanderings in West Africa: From Liverpool to Fernando Po, Volume I [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Sir Richard F. Burton		Sir Richard Burton's Wanderings in West Africa is a rare book. There are not many narratives that deal with the West Africa of the 19th century, especially in so much detail. Written a few years after the famous journey Burton describes in Lake Regions of Central Africa, this book takes the reader on a port-by-port tour from Liverpool to Morocco and then as far south as Fernando Po (Equatorial Guinea). Like Burton's other books, this one contains a wealth of information on subjects as varied as ... more info>> Category: History
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15	The Traveller's Tree: Island-Hopping in the Caribbean During the 1940s [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Patrick Leigh Fermor		The Caribbean as Fermor experienced it in the 1940's was a world of incredible fusions and contradictions that didn't exist anywhere else in the world--the mix of indigenous, African and European cultures, the juxtaposition of American advertisements with ancient cannibal practices, the incredible richness of the natural environment coupled with the decaying state of the colonial cities. Although Fermor had travelled extensively, he found the West Indies to be unlike anything he could have imagi... more info>> Category: History
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16	The Voyage of the Paper Canoe: A 2,000-Mile Journey Down the Inland Waterways of the Eastern Seaboard [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Nathaniel Bishop		When he was 17, Nathaniel Bishop hiked 1,000 miles across South America. Later in life, he became interested in canoes. In 1874, he set off with a friend in an 18-foot wooden canoe, determined to find the most direct passage along natural and manmade waterways from the cold and rocky Gulf of St. Lawrence to the semitropical waters of the Gulf of Mexico. When he arrived in New York, he encountered a manufacturer of paper boats, and he decided these crafts were much superior to the one he had. Dit... more info>> Category: History	1 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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17	The Saga of Cimba: A Journey from Nova Scotia to the South Seas [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Richard Maury		The Saga of Cimba is an enchanting tale of adventure on the sea. Told in hauntingly beautiful prose, it recounts the journey of two young men in a 35-foot schooner sailing from Nova Scotia to New York to the Caribbean and through the Panama Canal to the islands of the South Pacific. The author clearly loves the sea and his ship, and any nautical enthusiast will appreciate the book's balance of romance with practical information. Intermingled with the adventure on the high seas and descriptions o... more info>> Category: History	1 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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18	Milford's Memoir: Or, a Cursory Glance at My Different Travels and My Sojourn in the Creek Nation [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Louis LeClerc de Milford		In 1775 Louis LeClerc de Milford traveled from France to America, where he explored the thirteen colonies for more than a year. He spent much of this time in the Carolinas, among the Creek Indians. Milford became a member of the Creek Confederacy, and eventually rose to Grand War Chief, commander of all Creek forces (five or six thousand men) in time of war. Rather than fight in the American Revolution, Milford led a band of 200 young warriors to the Red River to search for the origin of the Cre... more info>> Category: History
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19	The Worst Journey in the World: A Tale of Loss and Courage on Scott's Antarctic Expedition [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Apsley Cherry-Garrard		At 24, Apsley Cherry-Garrard was the youngest man chosen to join Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910. He was also one of the men to find Scott's body. When Scott realized that he was dying, he wrote this in his journal: "Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale..." The tale that Cherry-Garrard tells ... more info>> Category: History
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20	Uncle Dick Wootton: The Pioneer Frontiersman of the Rocky Montain Region [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Richens Wootton		"Uncle Dick" Wootton's unsurpassed adventure tale spans a broad chunk of the history of the American frontier. As Uncle Dick himself states in the first paragraph of his autobiography, "The man who has been fifty years in active life in any part of the world must necessarily have had some interesting experiences, but the man who has lived for half a century along the border line of civilization which we call in this country the frontier has had fifty years of adventure." In his eyes, the frontie... more info>> Category: History
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21	What I Saw in California: By Wagon From Missouri to California 1846-1847 [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Edwin Bryant		Edwin Bryant made the journey from Independence, Missouri to California in the years 1846-47, through the southern pass of the Rocky Mountains and across the desert. As a medical student, he became an unofficial doctor along the way, and witnessed some gruesome scenes, like the amputation of a little boy's gangrenous leg, which he describes in painful scientific detail. He is equally explicit when portraying the daily life of the wagon trip, and his prose illuminates the trials of the traveler: ... more info>> Category: History
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22	Zambesi Expedition: To the Zambesi and its Tributaries [Secure Microsoft Reader] by David Livingstone		"I propose to go inland, north of the territory which the Portuguese in Europe claim--to ascend the Rovuma, or some other river North of Cape Delgado, and, in addition to my other work, shall strive, by passing along the Northern end of Lake Nyassa and round the Southern end of Lake Tanganyika, to ascertain the watershed of that part of Africa. In so doing, I have no wish to unsettle what with so much toil and danger was accomplished by Speke and Grant, but rather to confirm their illustrious di... more info>> Category: History
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23	Three Years in the Klondike: A Gold Miner's Life in Dawson City 1898-1901 [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Jeremiah Lynch		Jeremiah Lynch was a successful businessman and politician who went from San Francisco to the Klondike in 1898, two years after gold was discovered. Life in the town of Dawson City, which flourished and declined in tune with the fortunes of the gold miners, was difficult and dramatic, but there were definite rewards. "...one did not go to the Klondike for ordinary chances--those could be taken or had anywhere; but the man who ostracized himself from the world, who was ready to live on bacon and ... more info>> Category: History
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