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EXPLORERS BOOKS
Posted in Explorers (Thursday, August 21, 2008)
Written by Peter Speak. By National Museums Of Scotland.
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No comments about William Speirs Bruce: Polar Explorer and Scot.
Posted in Explorers (Thursday, August 21, 2008)
Written by John Masters. By Gondolier.
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No comments about Secret Riches: Adventures of an Unreformed Oilman.
Posted in Explorers (Thursday, August 21, 2008)
By Artes De Mexico.
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No comments about The Lost Cities of the Mayas.
Posted in Explorers (Thursday, August 21, 2008)
Written by Ann Lindsay and Sid House. By Aurum Press.
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1 comments about The Tree Collector: The Life and Explorations of David Douglas.
- This is a page-turner for gardener and non-gardener alike. It includes many of the journal entries and letters that survive David Douglas' incredible travels, particularly in the Pacific Northwest in the early 19th century. His experiences on a 10,000 mile walk between the Pacific coast and Hudson Bay are unimaginable today. He collected over 200 species -- important sources today of timber as well as ornamental garden plants. This biography suggests that his death at age 35 by falling into a wild-animal trap in Hawaii may have been murder and not an accident as commonly thought.
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Posted in Explorers (Thursday, August 21, 2008)
Written by George Plimpton. By DK ADULT.
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1 comments about Ernest Shackleton (A&E Biography).
- My high opinion of the TV show "Biography" and of DK books dropped after I read this annoying book. As the book's promotion says, George Plimpton chronicles his 2002 trip to Antarctica and interweaves personal comments with text about Shackleton's incredible story. The problem is Plimpton's comments and photos of himself refect self-absorption and often are irrelevant to Shackleton's amazing story. In a bizarre move, Plimpton fails to mention the book "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" by Alfred Lansing -- which is the "bible" of the Shackleton story -- but he mentions lesser works. The excellent photos in this book prompted me to give it two stars instead of one.
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Posted in Explorers (Thursday, August 21, 2008)
Written by Bruno Ronfard and Margo Veillon. By American University in Cairo Press.
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No comments about Margo Veillon: Witness of a Century.
Posted in Explorers (Thursday, August 21, 2008)
Written by Jeptha Root Simms. By J. Munsell.
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No comments about Trappers of New York, or, A biography of Nicholas Stoner & Nathaniel Foster: Together with anecdotes of other celebated hunters, and some account of Sir William Johnson, and his style of living.
Posted in Explorers (Thursday, August 21, 2008)
Written by Carleton Beals. By McGraw-Hill Book Co.
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No comments about Stephen F. Austin, Father of Texas (They made America).
Posted in Explorers (Thursday, August 21, 2008)
Written by Washington Irving. By AMS Press.
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Posted in Explorers (Thursday, August 21, 2008)
Written by Augustus Lynch Mason. By Jones Brothers and Co.
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No comments about The romance and tragedy of pioneer life: A popular account of the heroes and adventurers who, by their valor and war-craft, beat back the savages from ... American forests to the plow and the sickle.
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William Speirs Bruce: Polar Explorer and Scot
Secret Riches: Adventures of an Unreformed Oilman
The Lost Cities of the Mayas
The Tree Collector: The Life and Explorations of David Douglas
Ernest Shackleton (A&E Biography)
Margo Veillon: Witness of a Century
Trappers of New York, or, A biography of Nicholas Stoner & Nathaniel Foster: Together with anecdotes of other celebated hunters, and some account of Sir William Johnson, and his style of living
Stephen F. Austin, Father of Texas (They made America)
Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
The romance and tragedy of pioneer life: A popular account of the heroes and adventurers who, by their valor and war-craft, beat back the savages from ... American forests to the plow and the sickle
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