Kit Carson
Title | Kit Carson PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Lee Beals |
Publisher | |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2011-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781258089719 |
A Tour on the Prairies
Title | A Tour on the Prairies PDF eBook |
Author | Washington Irving |
Publisher | London : J. Murray |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1835 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN |
Account of an expedition in Oct. and Nov. 1832 through a part of the unorganized Indian country now the state of Oklahoma.
Great American Hunting Stories
Title | Great American Hunting Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Lamar Underwood |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2019-06-26 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 149304043X |
For hunters, listening to the accounts of kindred spirits recalling the drama and action that go with good days afield ranks among life's most pleasurable activities. Here, then, are some of the best hunting tales ever written, stories that sweep from charging lions in the African bush to mountain goats in the mountain crags of the Rockies; from the gallant bird dogs of the Southern pinelands to the great Western hunts of Theodore Roosevelt. Great American Hunting Stories captures the very soul of hunting. With contributions from: Theodore Roosevelt, Nash Buckingham, Archibald Rutledge, Zane Grey, Lieutenant Townsend Whelen, Harold McCracken, Irvin S. Cobb, Edwin Main Post, Horace Kephart, Francis Parkman ,William T. Hornaday, Sc.D, Rex Beach, and more.
Endurance
Title | Endurance PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Lansing |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 2014-04-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0465058795 |
Experience “one of the best adventure books ever written” (Wall Street Journal) in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.
Plymouth Pioneers
Title | Plymouth Pioneers PDF eBook |
Author | Colleen L. Reece |
Publisher | Chelsea House Publications |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780791050422 |
Twelve-year-old John and his ten-year-old sister experience hardship and adventure when they arrive at Plymouth Colony.
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
Title | Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada PDF eBook |
Author | Clarence King |
Publisher | |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1872 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN |
A bona fide classic, originally published in 1872, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada is still exciting reading. It describes the perils and pleasures experienced by Clarence King (1842-1901) while conducting the first geological survey of California in the 1860s. His language was equal to the marvels he found, and here with unfading brilliance are his accounts of scaling such mountains as Tyndall, Shasta, and Whitney. The chapters on the Yosemite Valley and surrounding High Sierras were written while he was surveying the boundaries of a newly designated national park. There are also delightful vignettes of western characters, including a Sierra artist and a family of Pike County hog farmers. &
Great American Adventure Stories
Title | Great American Adventure Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Tom McCarthy |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2017-09-01 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1493030000 |
Created for adventure addicts A carefully curated collection of adventure classics A Lyons American classic Fresh, new series design There has never been a more exciting collection of stories that celebrate the indomitable spirit of the American character. These accounts all have one thing in common: They capture the grit and spirit of adventure that made America what it is today.