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Castaway in paradise: the incredible adventures of true-life Robinson Crusoes
Par James C Simmons. 1993
Eight true tales about the experiences of people who were stranded in remote locations because of shipwreck, treacherous companions, or…
personal choice. Describes their survival strategies and their lives after rescue. Includes Alexander Selkirk, the model for Defoe's Crusoe, and Herman Melville, who sojourned in the Marquesas in the South Pacific. 1993.An evening among headhunters: & other reports from roads less traveled
Par Lawrence Millman. 1998
In this collection of essays, an inveterate traveller visits some of the more remote precincts on the planet. Includes stories…
about relaxing in slow-paced Tonga, encountering ghosts in Samoa, dining on boiled walrus north of Hudson's Bay and social faux pas in Ecuador. Some strong language. 1998.Hiking the Continental Divide Trail: one woman's journey
Par Jennifer A Hanson. 2011
A grand journey of over 2,000 miles from Mexico to Canada! Avid outdoorswoman Jennifer Hanson and her husband Greg Allen…
set off to thru-hike the Continental Divide Trail. During their hike, Jennifer learned she had lost her father to cancer and, within three weeks, her husband was forced to leave the trail due to injury. Jennifer finished the last nine hundred miles of the trail alone. Includes the thru-hike preparation and timeline, an equipment and clothing list, a food list, itinerary and supply points, a map list and sources. 2011.Flights of a coast dog: a pilot's log
Par Jack Schofield. 1999
By snowshoe, buckboard and steamer: women of the frontier
Par Kathryn Anne Bridge. 1998
Four nineteenth century women: Florence Agassiz, Eleanor Fellows, Violet Sillitoe and Helen Kate Woods, lived and traveled in British Columbia…
very much as a minority - white and female. Bridge looks at each of these pioneering women, first through their writings and then within the historical context of the time. 1998.Escapes! (True stories from the edge)
Par Laura Scandiffio. 2003
From getaway gladiators to runaway slaves, from the endless Sahara to the impassable Bastille, here are ten nail-biting tales of…
escape. Read how six Americans, caught in the 1979 uprising in Iran, found protection at the Canadian embassy, and later, disguised as Canadians, were able to flee the country. Discover Lady Nithsdale's ruse to free her husband from the impenetrable Tower of London in 1716, fall into Douglas Bader's harrowing escape from a plummeting Spitfire in World War II, or hold your breath as two families drift over the Berlin Wall in a homemade hot-air balloon. Grades 5-8. 2003.Bent props and blow pots: a pioneer remembers Northern bush flying
Par Rex Terpening. 2003
Crash landings were part of the job in the early 1930s, when the author started out in arctic aviation. As…
an air engineer for Canadian Airways in the Northwest Territories, he flew "on operations" daily, warming the oil and the engine on winter mornings, refuelling, and inevitably mending both engine and aircraft when things went wrong. From Fort McMurray to the Arctic Ocean, his stories tell of planes wandering lost over unmapped muskeg, perilous rescue missions to retrieve stranded missionaries, dogged searches for downed flyers lost on the Barrens and emergency landings in blizzards on nameless pothole lakes. 2003.Home from the hill: three gentlemen adventurers
Par Peter Murray. 1994
Three Englishmen -- Warburton Pike, Clive Phillips-Wolley, and Martin Grainger -- made their mark on Canada in the early 1900s…
through their wilderness explorations in British Columbia. They wrote about and promoted Canada in Engand, and in different ways they helped to shape the province. 1994.Ghosts of Everest: the search for Mallory & Irvine : from the expedition that discovered Mallory's body
Par Jochen Hemmleb, Larry A Johnson, Eric R Simonson. 1999
Presents research and findings from the 1999 Mount Everest expedition in search of remains from the ill-fated 1924 climb by…
George Mallory and Sandy Irvine. Discusses the latter-day group's reconstruction of Mallory's route, the dramatic discovery of his body, and the conclusions reached from forensic examination. 1999.Hollywood the hard way: a cowboy's journey
Par Patti Dickinson. 1999
In 1945 Oklahoma rancher Rolla Goodnight bet his friend Jimmy Wakely, a singing cowboy star, that Rolla's grandson could ride…
1,500 miles in less than fifty days to Hollywood, California. The author recounts twenty-year-old Jerry Van Meter's grueling trek on horseback across mountains and deserts to his destination. 1999.Fresh-air fiend: travel writings 1985-2000
Par Paul Theroux. 2000
A collection of essays and articles written over a fifteen year period about the author's various experiences on five continents.…
In addition to the travel pieces, Theroux also includes his reminiscences, experiences as a kayaker and cyclist, readings from books of travel, profiles and appreciations of other writers, and works on the practices of other cultures. 2000.High times in the middle of nowhere: the misadventures of Murray Laurence, compulsive traveller
Par Murray Laurence. 1986
A bizarre collection of travel tales. As the author travels, he looks for and enjoys the unexpected and unusual: "I…
quite like being lost... I find that the travel is often more absorbing than the arrival." c1986.High exposure: an enduring passion for Everest and unforgiving places
Par David Breashears. 1999
Autobiography of American mountaineer and cinematographer who made the IMAX film, Everest, in 1996. Discusses his motivation and recounts many…
of his hazardous exploits climbing vertical cliffs and scaling the world's highest peaks. Provides details about his film-making expedition on Everest during the notorious blizzard that took nine lives. Bestseller. 1999.Great heart: the history of a Labrador adventure
Par James West Davidson, John Rugge. 1988
An account of Leonidas Hubbard and Dillon Wallace's canoeing expeditions across the barrens of Labrador in the early 1900s. Describes…
the ill-fated expedition in which Hubbard died, and the 1905 trip which turned into a race between Wallace and Hubbard's widow, Mina. 1988.Full circle: Pacific Journey
Par Michael Palin. 1997
The author circumnavigated the Pacific Rim, travelling through the eighteen countries bordering this ocean. Volcanoes marked the journey, as well…
as mountains and gorges, glaciers and icebergs, great rivers and windswept beaches. From visiting a Gulag camp in Siberia to eating maggots in Mexico, rustling camels in Australia to singing with a choir in Vladivostok, he reveals a colourful, often hair-raising but almost always beautiful world. 1997.Home and away
Par Ronald Wright. 1993
Author Ronald Wright takes the reader on journeys of adventure: a mythical bullfight in the Peruvian Andes; the cities of…
Anatolia, carved eight stories into the earth; the jungles of Belize; the bars of southern Mexico; and the deceptive beauty of the tropical Marquesas Islands. 1993.Halfway around the world: an improbable journey
Par Gavin Young. 1981
The author, a correspondent for the London "Observer," embarks on the fulfilment of his long-held romantic dream in 1977: port-hopping…
to the other side of the world. His adventure takes him from Piraeus to Jedda, from Dubai to Singapore, and from there to Canton, scrambling his way on board an assortment of twenty-three ships, one of which nearly sank in the Arabian Sea. 1981.Frontier spirit: the brave women of the Klondike
Par Jennifer Duncan. 2003
The story of women in the Klondike, including First Nation woman Shaaw Tláa, whose experience and traditional skills were critical…
to the survival of her white prospector husband. The others who later joined the Klondike Stampede came from all walks of life, and include socialite Martha Black, who became a miner, mill manager, and politician, and Irish farm girl Belinda Mulrooney, who arrived in Dawson with only a quarter to her name. 2003.Freya Stark (Lives Of Modern Women Ser.)
Par Caroline Moorehead. 1985
Born in Paris in 1893, Freya Stark could speak three languages by the time she was five years old. With…
a high regard for the traditions of Empire, yet also flamboyant, unorthodox and independent, she set out in the 1930s to explore the East. Freya's expeditions in Persia and Hadharmaut established her reputation as a great traveller and writer. 1985.First dive to shark dive
Par Peter Lourie. 2011