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  • Dune is a Four-letter Word

    by Griselda Sprigg ...
    "Dune is a four-letter word," said Griselda Sprigg on the first day of her family's attempt to make the first motorised crossing of the forbidding Simpson Desert. "And so is bloody spinifex." "Dune is a Four-letter Word" tells the story of Griselda and Reg Sprigg's pioneering desert adventures - not only in the Simpson Desert but all over the vast Australian outback. Griselda's story is also the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Two Years Before the Mast

    by Richard Henry Dana ...
    "Two Years Before the Mast" by Richard Henry Dana Jr. is a gripping memoir that chronicles the author's adventurous two-year sea voyage from Boston to California aboard a merchant ship in the mid-1830s.This classic work, first published in 1840, offers a vivid, unvarnished glimpse into the life of a common sailor during a bygone era. Dana's journey takes him from the harsh winters of Cape Horn to ... Read more

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  • Nobody Rides for Free

    A Drifter in the Americas

    by John Francis Hughes ...
    Nobody Rides For Free: A Drifter in the Americas chronicles former bike courier John Hughes' rambles through Latin America on a bicycle. In this gripping mosaic-travellogue, readers are introduced to banditos, artists, grifters, would-be wives, dope fiends and attacking monkeys: a cast of characters who conspire to reduce him to alcoholic destitution. His last remaining $400 is spent sailing the ... Read more

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  • The Bounty Mutiny

    by William Bligh, Edward Christian ...
    The names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years. The story of this famous mutiny has many beginnings and many endings but they all intersect on an April morning in 1789 near the island known today as Tonga. That morning, William Bligh and eighteen surly seamen were expelled from the Bounty and began what would be the ... Read more

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  • I Am Just Going Outside: Captain Oates - Antarctic Tragedy

    by Michael Smith ...
    On 17 March 1912, Lawrence 'Titus' Oates crawled bootless from a tent to his death in blizzard conditions of -40°C. Oates, always an outsider on Scott's Polar expedition, died on his 32nd birthday. His parting words were: 'I am just going outside and may be some time.' Oates was the epitome of the Victorian English gentleman: a public schoolboy who became a dashing cavalry officer and hero in the ... Read more

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  • Stone Boat Odyssey

    by Phyllis Nansen, Ralph Nansen ...
    Set against the backdrop of mankinds epic space odyssey is the tale of a dream that wouldnt die and a stone boat that eventually sailed 40,000 ocean miles.Despite false starts, setbacks, and neartragedy, a boat named Fram set sail on its oceangoing adventure in 1987. This is the story of the remarkable couple who dared to dream of sailing the worlds oceans on the spark of an idea planted while ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Alaska Is My Mistress

    Alaska's Allure-Beautiful and Dangerous

    by Jerre Wills ...
    Jerre Wills was in his late teens when he began feeling something tugging at his shirt-tail, and finally pulling with the force of a 300 pound barn-door halibut heading for deep water on the end of a fishing line. Whatever the powerful pull was, its 5,000 mile beckon, brought the young Wills family to Alaska in March of 1959. First it was the homestead; hunting soon followed; commercial fishing, ... Read more

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  • Legendary Explorers: The Life and Legacy of Christopher Columbus

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes Columbus's journal entries of his first voyage to the New World from August-October 1492*Includes maps of Columbus's voyages and pictures depicting Columbus and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Table of Contents. At two o'clock in the morning the land was discovered…As I saw that they were very friendly to us, and perceived that they could be much more easily ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Mystery of Everett Ruess

    by W. L. Rusho ...
    The story of a young artist who walked into the Southwestern desert and vanished, and the legends he left behind—includes his personal correspondence.The story of Everett Ruess, who set out into the desert with two burros in 1934 and disappeared into the wilderness of Southern Utah, has for decades been one of the most intriguing mysteries of western lore. A Californian off on an adventure at the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Man on Fire

    A Stunt of a Life

    by Grant Page, Steve Wright ...
    If you've watched an Australian film, TV show or ad during the past fifty years, chances are you've seen stuntman Grant Page - falling from the sky, jumping off cliffs, crashing motorbikes, rolling cars, hang-gliding over skyscrapers, or setting himself on fire. He's fearless, forensic and there's nothing he won't try - which makes him the go-to man for anyone wanting a spectacular explosion, a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Last Great Australian Adventurer

    Ben Carlin's epic journey around the world by amphibious Jeep.

    by Gordon Bass ...
    In 1948, Ben Carlin set out from New York City with an audacious, lunatic plan to circumnavigate the world in an army surplus amphibious jeep called Half-Safe.Fuelled by cigarettes and adrenaline, the Australian army major pushed his fragile, claustrophobic vehicle through fierce Atlantic hurricanes, across uncharted North African desert, into dense South-East Asian jungle and over the icy dark ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A Life of Pride

    A Story of Adventure from Broken Hill to Cricklewood by way of Darkest Africa

    by Alan G Pride ...
    "Four Wheels - Good!Two Wheels - Better!"Roaring out of the Desert and across the Seas comes the true story of a Broken Hill boy who found thrills, adventure and romance in a life of speed, power and Pride! ... Read more

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