This volume is concerned exclusively with biography as a narrative art, comprising essays by ten people who have actually practiced the form.

A personal record of the author's mountain climbing experiences, including the Everest Expedition of 1953.

One man’s quest to make history—and a lot of money: “High entertainment” from the three-time Edgar Award–winning Grand Master of Mystery (Elmore Leonard). Kirby Galway may be a low-level marijuana smuggler in Belize, but the man has a dream—to make lots and lots of money. So when a local official offers him a back-jungle tract of land he swears would make a perfect cattle ranch, Kirby jumps at the opportunity. Unfortunately, he lands himself in a swamp—that he now owns. Kirby begins selling homemade “artifacts” from his property to American museums and witless tourists, even building a fake ancient temple and recruiting a tribe of Mayan Indians who know a good scam when they see one. But his cash-cow paradise soon attracts the attention of two snooping New York reporters, a beautiful archaeologist from UCLA, and a troop of Guatemalan guerillas just itching to shoot somebody. Kirby is going to have to talk fast, move faster, and pull out every dirty trick he knows if he’s going to get out of this alive . . . “I thoroughly enjoyed High Adventure.” —Elmore Leonard “Westlake at his best: intriguing, fast moving . . . Ends with a slam-bang climax.” —Los Angeles Times Praise for Donald E. Westlake “Westlake has no peer in the realm of comic mystery novelists.” —San Francisco Chronicle

MT. MCKINLEY, ALASKA 1932 From the south peak, a hundred thousand square miles of Alaskan wilderness stretched out before his eyes. This was America’s last land frontier. It was the land Grant Pearson had dreamed of as a boy and lived in, full, as a man, when he came to be known as one of Alaska’s most famous 20th century pioneers. This was how to chose to live his LIFE OF HIGH ADVENTURE... “Exciting, vivid...an excellent account.”—Hal Borland, New York Times

Contains a series of adventures eventually culminating with my final one of gaining PhD. The book covers my life in two countries, served in two Air Forces, Gained qualifications from three Universities in three different countries. With each adventure there is a challenge, the bigger the adventure, the bigger the challenge. It covers my life from birth, my job selections, my Air Force and Sporting careers and my educational experiences at University and school teaching. It not only shows the challenges I had but also the many successes. It could serve as an example of a person leaving school at the age of 14 without any qualification because of a disrupted schooling during the War in London but was all able to still embark on personal adventures to overcome any problems of the past and gain much success. It is rather like a traditional story with the hero after much struggling wins the prize and the fair maiden and lives happily ever after. This is what my life is like and my book tries to convey the struggles for success but coming out on top . Any one reading my ‘What’s Next’ book could also find this one very helpful in showing what can be done from a low start.

GPH Publication/AG Missionary.