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[1st ed.] |
| Description |
400 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Adventure of the Air and Sand: From "Wind, Sand and Stars" / Antoine de Saint Exupery -- Adventure in Tibet: From "Seven Years in Tibet" / Heinrich Harrer -- Adventure of the Mountain: From "Annapurna" / Maurice Herzog -- Adventure in Africa: From "Hunter" / J.A. Hunter -- Adventure on a Small Boat: From "Last Voyage" / Ann Davison -- Adventure in Arabia: From "Revolt in the Desert" / T.E.Lawrence -- Adventure in Europe: From "Napoleon" / Emil Ludwig -- Adventure in Canaan: From "The Holy Scriptures" Numbers -- Adventure in Rome: From "The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini" / Translated by John Addington Symonds -- Adventure in the South Seas: From "Kon-Tiki" / Thor Heyerdahl -- Adventure in Mexico: From "History of the Conquest of Mexico" / William H. Prescott -- Adventure in the State Department: From "Top Secret" / Oscar Schisgall -- Adventure on Devil's Island: From "Dry Guillotine" / Rene Belbenoit -- Adventure in Ancient Rome: From "Caesar's War Commentaries" / Translated by John Warrington -- Adventure in the South Atlantic -- Adventure in India: From "Man-Eaters of Kumaon" / Jim Corbett -- Adventure of the Spirit: From "A Lost Commander: Florence Nightingale" / Mary Raymond Shipman Addrews -- Adventure in America's "Wind West": From "The Oregon Trail" / Francis Parkman -- Adventure in Jericho: From "The Holy Scriptures" / Joshua -- Adventure in a Rowboat: From "New York to France in A Rowboat" / Tom Mahoney -- Adventure on the Matterhorn: From "Scrambles Amongst the Alps" / Edward Whymper -- Adventure in Ancient Greece: From "Plutarch's Lives" / Dryden Translation -- Adventure in Alaska's Wilderness: From "O'Rugged Land of Gold" / Martha Martin -- Adventure in the Rockies: From "Report of the Wxploring Wxpedition to the Rocky Mountains 1842" / Brevet Captain J.C.Fremont -- Adventure Behind the Iron Curtain: From "We Crashed the Iron Curtain in a Tank" / Vaclav Uhlik, as told to Llewellyn Miller -- Adventure at Gettysburg: From "Return to Gettysburg" / Richard Barnitz -- Adventure in the Arctic: From "Farthest North" / Dr. Fridtjof Nansen -- Adventure of Ancient Athens: From "The Expedition of Cyrus" / Xenophon translated by Edward Spelman, Esq. -- Adventure at Sea: From "The Sea Devil" / Lowell Thomas |
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Adventure and adventurers.
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Adventure and adventurers. |
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