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African Game Trails: The Classic Big Game Safari [Secure Microsoft Reader]
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 Theodore Roosevelt declined to run for reelection as President of the United States in 1908. Partly as a vacation, partly to avoid the press as his friend Taft set up a new administration, (and partly for self-promotion), T.R. set out for Africa to hunt big game and collect specimens for a future exposition at the Smithsonian. Scribner's magazine underwrote the trip by paying $50,000 for twelve articles. It is these articles that eventually became African Game Trails. In April 1909, T.R. and his... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Against All Odds: Shot Down Over Occupied Territory in World War II [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Frederick D. Worthen
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In World War II, ten young men from all over the United States came together to form the "Rosacker" crew in the 93rd Bomb Group of the 8th U.S. Air Force, flying B-24 Liberators based in England. They flew 24 missions together during the closing months of the war. Their last mission was on January 28, 1945. The target was in Germany's Ruhr Valley, also known as "Flak Alley." They lost the #1 engine with the heavy flak, and had to drop out of formation. Another B-24 next to them was blown up by a... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Anson's Voyage Around the World: In the Years 1740-1744 [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Chaplain Richard Walter
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Ye Gods! What were the British thinking?! When Commodore George Anson was sent out in the 1740's to proceed to Manila while harassing the last of the great Spanish Armada in South America, he commanded a fleet of eight small ships. Many of the crew had been pressed into service from Chelsea Hospital: small wonder that half of them had died by the time they reached their destination, having succumbed to scurvy and other diseases. Some of the fleet turned back, the Wager was wrecked off the coast ... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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California Coast Trails: A Horseback Adventure from Mexico to Oregon in 1911 [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by J. Smeaton Chase
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Check out this wonderful book about a solitary, rambling 2000-mile horseback ride from the border of Mexico to Oregon. Well-educated and inclined towards the poetic, Joseph Smeaton Chase loved nature and he loved California. His narrative is both affectionate and scientific, and the reader of California Coast Trails is rewarded with a rich and detailed portrait of early 20th-century California. He gives succinct pictures of the towns he passes through, and we can see what these now-thriving metr... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Camera Trails in Africa: A Photographer's Safari in British East Africa [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Martin Johnson
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Martin and Osa Johnson went to British East Africa in the 1920's in order to photograph wild animals, many of which were disappearing with the advances of civilization. They ended up falling in love with the country and as soon as they got back to the U.S. they wanted to return: "I have been home just four months, and as soon as I can I am going back. I know exactly the spot I will make for. It lies away out in the 'blue,' a good thousand miles' trek from Nairobi ... It is paradise, literally as... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Commerce of the Prairies: Life on the Great Plains in the 1830's and 1840's [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Josiah Gregg
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Josiah Gregg was a sickly intellectual who decided to travel the Santa Fe Trail in order to restore his health. He ended up journeying back and forth along the trail four times in the next nine years, and he compiled Commerce of the Prairies from the experiences of these years as an explorer and trader. It is considered one of the most valuable and interesting chronicles of early American history, and covers a wide range of topics, from buffalo hunting and Indian fighting to gold mining and Mexi... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales: A 1930's Archeological Expedition into Abyssinia [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Bryon Khun de Prorok
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Count Byron Kuhn de Prorok was a popular archeologist active from the mid-1920's through the early 1940's. In Dead Men Do Tell Tales he describes his 1933 African expedition into Abyssinia--the old name for Ethiopia. This is not an academic dissertation. Prorok tells about raiding tombs, flirting with native women, outrunning murderous warlords, spying on magical cults, and getting hip deep in political intrigue in one of the most remote back alleys of the world. Prorok falls into one adventure ... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Death Valley in '49: The Autobiography of a Pioneer [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by William Lewis Manly
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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>> (Published: 2001)
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Digging for Lost African Gods: Five Years' Archeological Excavation in North Africa [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Bryon Khun de Prorok
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Byron Khun de Prorok began excavating Carthage and Utica in 1921. Digging for Lost African Gods is an almost lyrical account of archeology, the passage of time, and connections between people from century to century. "The twelfth tomb was not rich, but it contained a surprise. The objects were near the motionless hands, telling their tale as plainly as though men from the past had been standing by interpreting for us. The little cubes within reach of the dead man's fingers were a pair of dice! T... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Festive Papua: The Story of the Great Dance in New Guinea [Secure Microsoft Reader]
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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>>
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Goa, and the Blue Mountains: Or, Six Months of Sick Leave [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Sir Richard F. Burton
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He was known as a rake, an explorer, and a lover of ancient languages. Sir Richard Burton's complex character is fully on display in his first book Goa, and the Blue Mountains, published in 1851. As a British army officer in India, Burton contracted cholera, and he was sent to the Nilgiri hills to recuperate. Rather than proceed directly there however, he took a leisurely journey down the Indian coast, for he wanted to experience the "exotic East". (Burton later translated the Kama Sutra and pro... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Hands Up: Or, Twenty Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by David J. Cook
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A gory and hair-raising account of the sensational events witnessed by General Cook in 19th-century Colorado, Hands Up is unique among wild west narratives. General Cook was the founder of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association, a secret organization of law enforcement officials that battled crime in a mostly lawless land. Therefore his story focuses not on fighting Indians or hunting buffalo, but on the criminal history of the west. In this book we learn of all the heinous crimes committed by... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Headhunting in the Solomon Islands: Around the Coral Sea [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Caroline Mytinger
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Caroline Mytinger, an artist and amateur anthropologist, set off in the late 1930's with her friend Margaret Warner on an expedition to paint indigenous people in the Solomon Islands. She wanted to record the different types of people before the "civilizing" process and intermarriage made it impossible to distinguish pure island races. While Mytinger's language does occasionally reveal the prejudices of her time, she respected native people and was very cynical about "civilization" and the pompo... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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In Darkest Africa Volume 1: Or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Henry M. Stanley
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At the turn of the century (the 1890's that is) the interior of the African continent was largely unknown to the American and European public. Accounts of expeditions there meant Danger! Adventure! Intrigue! Readers thrilled by these stories longed to follow in the footsteps of the great explorers and of course one of the greatest was Henry M. Stanley. He had already achieved fame from his quest to find Dr. Livingstone, and in 1888 he led an expedition to come to the aid of Mehmed Emin Pasha. In... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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In Darkest Africa Volume 2: Or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Henry M. Stanley
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At the turn of the century (the 1890's that is) the interior of the African continent was largely unknown to the American and European public. Accounts of expeditions there meant Danger! Adventure! Intrigue! Readers thrilled by these stories longed to follow in the footsteps of the great explorers and of course one of the greatest was Henry M. Stanley. He had already achieved fame from his quest to find Dr. Livingstone, and in 1888 he led an expedition to come to the aid of Mehmed Emin Pasha. In... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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In Quest of Lost Worlds: Five Archeological Expeditions 1925-1934 [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Byron Khun de Prorok
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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>> (Published: 2001)
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Indian Sketches: Taken During an Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes in 1833 [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by John Treat Irving, Jr.
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In 1833 John Treat Irving, Jr., only 20 years old, set off west in the footsteps of his famous uncle, Washington Irving. Indian Sketches chronicles his experiences traversing the prairie and living among the Pawnees, Otoes, and other tribes. Looking at everything with fresh eyes, Irving's sketches of the people and customs he encountered avoid the common stereotypes of Indians. There is a tragically amusing scene of his first encounter with an Indian on that man's native land. The Shawnee stands... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Journal of a Trapper: In the Rocky Mountains Between 1834 and 1843 [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Osborne Russell
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Ever wonder how everyone made it west? They used trails beaten out by such men as Osborne Russell. He wrote this book partially to refute The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie (one of our favorite books) which he claimed contained many inaccuracies. Russell included only information he considered "proved true by experience." Written in an intensely personal style that lacks punctuation at times, The Journal of a Trapper abounds in details about hunting and trapping in the Rockies, including ... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Rev. Samuel Parker
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Rev. Samuel Parker's Journal of an Exploring Tour takes the reader on a journey through the Oregon Territory (what is now Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Utah) and finally to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). In short, Parker goes wherever there are heathen souls to be saved. Parker's attitude towards the natives was considerably kinder than that of many of his white contemporaries: "While we charge the Indians with inveterate ferociousness and inhuman brutality, we forget the too numerous wrongs and ou... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Journal of the Santa Fe Expedition Under Colonel Doniphan: Exploration and Conquest in Northern Mexico [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Jacob S. Robinson
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In the war declared against Mexico in 1846, volunteer troops from the South and West were essential. Jacob Robinson, mainly out of boredom and curiosity, came to Missouri from New Hampshire to enlist with Colonel Doniphan's expedition to Santa Fe and Chihuahua. Although the small army of less than 1,000 men consisted mostly of volunteers with little or no military experience, they ended up playing an extremely important role in American history. It was largely because of Doniphan's conquests tha... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Just Off the Ground: Recollections of an Early Aviator [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Carl Recknagel
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Relive the early days of aviation with Captain Carl "Reck" Recknagel. In this first-hand account he describes his many experiences in flight training: at March Field, California, in the mid-1920s, flying PT-3s and DH-4s, and in Kelly Field, Texas with the Army Air Corps attack flyers. He also tells of his assignment to the Third Attack Group at Fort Crockett, Texas, flying Curtiss Falcon A-3s. He finished second in the Patrick Trophy race in 1930, and had a Depression-era stint at Johnson Flying... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life: As Dictated to Col. and Mrs. D.C. Peters [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Kit Carson
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Christopher Carson was apprenticed to a saddle-maker when "being anxious to travel for the purpose of seeing different countries, I concluded to join the first party for the Rocky Mountains." In 1826 he ran away and joined a party westward bound, and spent many years scouting, trapping, and hunting. He describes travelling in California in 1830: "We found signs of trappers on the San Joaquin. We followed their trail and, in a few days, overtook the party and found them to be of the Hudson Bay Co... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Tom Horn
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Tom Horn spent the majority of his life among the Apache and the bulk of his autobiography is taken up with the campaign against them in the late 1800's. He went west as did so many of the young men of his day, and at sixteen Al Sieber, the chief of the cavalry scouts, employed him: "I was young and active and could travel with him all day and herd the horses at night, and do the cooking and tend to the packs and clean his gun every night; and all of this was fun for me. The San Carlos, or Apach... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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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
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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>>
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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, Vol. 1 [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by David Livingstone
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The Christian missionary and explorer Dr. Livingstone was, in 1849, among the first Europeans to penetrate into the interior of Africa. He faced pestilence, animal attacks, and the brutal traffic in human beings that he was determined to eradicate.
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