1 comments about Exploring with Lewis and Clark: The 1804 Journal of Charles Floyd.

1. Strongly recommended for academic library collections as an American History primary resource, Exploring With Lewis And Clark: The 1804 Journal Of Charles Floyd presents a journal of expeditionary writings by Sergeant Charles Floyd, one of the first three men enlisted in Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery. Born in 1782, Floyd kept a precise diary of the expedition, yet he sadly succumbed to a ruptured appendix and became the only member to die during this epic journey of discovery, losing his life near present-day Sioux City. Exploring with Lewis and Clark photographically reproduces the pages Floyd wrote in his own handwriting, a typeface transcript for easy reading, extensive historical and context notes, and a thoughtfully informative introduction. Skillfully edited by James Holmberg and illustrated with a handful of photographs and artwork, Exploring With Lewis And Clark is a superbly presented primary source of American history, and an impressive contribution to the study of the Lewis & Clark expedition that is not to be missed.

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5 comments about Passport to Danger: The Diary of an Adventurer.

1. After reading Author Nick Mangieri's new offering;"Passport To Danger" I am fully convinced that he is a man you'd follow into a combat situation. Mangieri abducts your mind and interest
   in the first few pages and you can't put it down until you close the rear cover. This true adventure story takes you to the steamy jungles of Central and South America. The author is face to face with a boa constrictor and what happens next I can't share with you in this review. Wow!!The goose bumps take form immediately. The author is a self-motivated individual who blends well in this part of the world and he interacts with various people along the journey's path. He's intdelligent,
   and isn't afraid to ask questions and always ready to accept a challenge.

   When confronted by governmental red tape he handles it well and knows the protocol forward and backward.

   He embraces a search for diamonds and learns the art of mining these precious stones. Diamond mining is hard work and takes great skill and physical endurance in preparing the pits for harvesting. As a reader I learned alot from this true adventure story. You could witness the bonding between Author Mangieri
   and Andrew Shanks in the insect infested jungle heat and I'm certain I felt a couple of stings or bites as I read on. The author marveled at Shanks tenacity and endurance, who was much oldere than himself. Again,I sensed that ever present resolve and courage of the Author as he took on every challenge of this journey.

   When a tiger confronted Mangieri headon, again I will leave that moment of surprise to the reader. The beads of sweat rolled off my forehead and I was only the reader.

   He learned a great deal about the "pork knockers," during his hunt for diamonds.

   Lastly, Mangieri takes on the highest mountain in Mexico, which is the third highest peak in North America. Mount Pico de Orizaba was a challenge and the author experienced oxygen deprivation on his ascent to the top. Mangieri is gutsy and displays courage above and beyond as he accepts this challenge.

   I have read Author Mangideri's three titles. He is a fine writer and the main theme I sense in all three offerings is that he up to any challenger, anywhere and at anytime. This gentleman doesn't give up. Congratulations!! Nick, if I can be a little informnal. Keep up the fine writing.




2. After reading Author Nick Mangieri's new offering;"Passport To Danger" I am fully convinced that he is a man you'd follow into a combat situation. Mangieri abducts your mind and interest
   in the first few pages and you can't put it down until you close the rear cover. This true adventure story takes you to the steamy jungles of Central and South America. The author is face to face with a boa constrictor and what happens next I can't share with you in this review. Wow!!The goose bumps take form immediately. The author is a self-motivated individual who blends well in this part of the world and he interacts with various people along the journey's path. He's intdelligent,
   and isn't afraid to ask questions and always ready to accept a challenge.

   When confronted by governmental red tape he handles it well and knows the protocol forward and backward.

   He embraces a search for diamonds and learns the art of mining these precious stones. Diamond mining is hard work and takes great skill and physical endurance in preparing the pits for harvesting. As a reader I learned alot from this true adventure story. You could witness the bonding between Author Mangieri
   and Andrew Shanks in the insect infested jungle heat and I'm certain I felt a couple of stings or bites as I read on. The author marveled at Shanks tenacity and endurance, who was much oldere than himself. Again,I sensed that ever present resolve and courage of the Author as he took on every challenge of this journey.

   When a tiger confronted Mangieri headon, again I will leave that moment of surprise to the reader. The beads of sweat rolled off my forehead and I was only the reader.

   He learned a great deal about the "pork knockers," during his hunt for diamonds.

   Lastly, Mangieri takes on the highest mountain in Mexico, which is the third highest peak in North America. Mount Pico de Orizaba was a challenge and the author experienced oxygen deprivation on his ascent to the top. Mangieri is gutsy and displays courage above and beyond as he accepts this challenge.

   I have read Author Mangideri's three titles. He is a fine writer and the main theme I sense in all three offerings is that he up to any challenger, anywhere and at anytime. This gentleman doesn't give up. Congratulations!! Nick, if I can be a little informnal. Keep up the fine writing.




3. In Passport to Danger, Nick Mangieri tackles the amazon jungle and its teeming dangers with the tenacity of a pit bull shaking the word adventure for all its worth. Two hundred and ninety pages of a "man's man" truth in search of self. Nick has walked the walk and can talk the talk. You are there with him in the amazon for every breathtaking moment from diamond hunting and wrestling with boa's, to climbing its highest peak. A heart pounding read even better than his biography's in Frozen Shield and Broken Badge.

   "A two thumbs up all the way."
   Joe DeIulio- Writer and Artist




4. I just finished Nick Mangieri's Passport to Danger. What a life of adventure. He is the man who personifies all we wished to be as kids. He is all of our childhood heroes rolled into one. He takes us visiting South American and Central American countries. With Nick we go searching for diamonds as well as big game hunting in the jungles of British Guiana, and live off the same food as the natives. Later we travel to Mexico with Nick to not only write his adventure as would Hemingway and Steinbeck, but we once again go big game hunting. To top it off, we put away the writing material to climb an 18,700 foot high mountain in Mexico, the third highest peak in the North American Continent. Battling altitude sickness, frostbite, snow and winds, will we make the conquest or fail? You'll have to read to find out.

   I'm glad Nick was such a bold adventurer, but I'm even more happy that he wrote about these death defying trips and let me be a part of these sojourns from my chair in my air conditioned house.

   Hurry up and order Passport to Danger - it's a must read.




5. I got a copy of this book whilst in the USA on vacation and was unable to put it down until I had finished reading it!! Great story very well told the ring of truth runs through it all along. Sorry it is unavailable in the U.K. -- frightened to lend it out in case it does not come back!

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1 comments about George Mallory.

1. I have been familiar with both the Robertson biography of Geroge Mallory and its contents since well before its first appearance a generation ago becasue I belong to the Mallory family. With respect and appreciation for all the risk-taking, adventuresomeness and care shown by the 1999 explorers, I think that the Mallory cannot be fully understood without knowing about the family and personal context of George Mallory's life, and this biography, wirtten within the family, provides that larger persepctive.

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