As Told at The Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure (Explorers Club Classic)

As Told at The Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure (Explorers Club Classic) Review

Incorporated in 1905, The Explorers Club in its earliest years met in simple rented rooms. In 1965, the Club bought a Tudor-style mansion on East 70th Street in the historic Upper East Side, where it has remained ever since.

Celebrating its centennial anniversary in 2004, today The Explorers Club is an international society dedicated to the advancement of field research, scientific exploration, and the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore.

This volume is dedicated to the spirit of exploration. Assembled by Club member and literary giant George Plimpton, As Told by the Explorer's Club will take you from Amundsen to Lindbergh, from the Arctic to Antarctica, and all points in between.

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone Review

With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily researched account of a thrilling adventure—defined by alarming foolishness, intense courage, and raw human achievement.

In the mid-1860s, exploration had reached a plateau. The seas and continents had been mapped, the globe circumnavigated. Yet one vexing puzzle remained unsolved: what was the source of the mighty Nile river? Aiming to settle the mystery once and for all, Great Britain called upon its legendary explorer, Dr. David Livingstone, who had spent years in Africa as a missionary. In March 1866, Livingstone steered a massive expedition into the heart of Africa. In his path lay nearly impenetrable, uncharted terrain, hostile cannibals, and deadly predators. Within weeks, the explorer had vanished without a trace. Years passed with no word.

While debate raged in England over whether Livingstone could be found—or rescued—from a place as daunting as Africa, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the brash American newspaper tycoon, hatched a plan to capitalize on the world’s fascination with the missing legend. He would send a young journalist, Henry Morton Stanley, into Africa to search for Livingstone. A drifter with great ambition, but little success to show for it, Stanley undertook his assignment with gusto, filing reports that would one day captivate readers and dominate the front page of the New York Herald.

Tracing the amazing journeys of Livingstone and Stanley in alternating chapters, author Martin Dugard captures with breathtaking immediacy the perils and challenges these men faced. Woven into the narrative, Dugard tells an equally compelling story of the remarkable transformation that occurred over the course of nine years, as Stanley rose in power and prominence and Livingstone found himself alone and in mortal danger. The first book to draw on modern research and to explore the combination of adventure, politics, and larger-than-life personalities involved, Into Africa is a riveting read.

88 Pianos: A Recumbent Adventure Across America

88 Pianos: A Recumbent Adventure Across America Review

A fearlessly twisted and hysterically funny narrative, 88 Pianos: A Recumbent Adventure Across America, is a vivid and often bazaar collection of stories detailing the author’s quest to find and play 88 pianos while crossing America on a recumbent bicycle.

His unconventional musical quest takes him into lands where Hell's Angels measure virility with volume (The Meter is Rumbling) and where ghosts crawl under the sheets (Haunted Hotel). At one with nature, broken glass, road kill, and the used condoms sharing the shoulders of American’s highways, the author pedals merrily through spectacular granite peaks draped in silken clouds (In Lolo Land), along stunning river valleys and into canyons haloed in gold (Still Gold in Them Thar Hills) -- then just as often, battles swarms of insects while struggling up infernal inclines like the stark somewhere/nowhere of Idaho’s Hell's Canyon (Where in Hell is Hell’s Canyon?). Exhausted and exhilarated, amused and tortured, the author relentlessly pursues his pianos, and in the process, fills chapters with chronicles of extreme sports (Skiers on the Roof) and odd characters (The Postman Always Cheats Twice).

88 Pianos is a three month, 4,300 mile excursion through the trials and anguish of mental and physical isolation (No Thanks for the Memory), tempered with rye humor and the pure joy of bicycle touring. Along with the rigors one might expect -- the dehydration, the exhaustion, the merciless elements (Three Strikes and You’re Dead) -- the author also encounters some unexpected rigors like hurricanes and inundated trails where dragging the bike through knee deep, snake-infested flood waters become the only path onward (Snakes on a Plain).

What unfolds before the reader is a true story of viewing scenic wonders, layered between fascinating glimpses of everyday Americana, at a pace we rarely see in today’s hectic lives.

Pirates of Savannah: The Complete Trilogy - Colonial Historical Fiction Action Adventure (Pirates of Savannah (Adult Version))

Pirates of Savannah: The Complete Trilogy - Colonial Historical Fiction Action Adventure (Pirates of Savannah (Adult Version)) Review

Pirates of Savannah : The Trilogy includes "Sold in Savannah", "Battle Rats" and "The Rise of April", The trilogy is a historical fiction novel about the birth of liberty in the south. It takes place during pre-Revolutionary War age, truly a fascinating time in history that has been greatly ignored by other authors. At its heart, it is a tale of prisoners, refugees and society’s casts offs all joining together to escape from government tyranny and discover a path to liberty. Find out how a group of oppressed colonists gain the courage to start defying authority and begin planning a revolution from British control. It is a gritty, vivid account of what life was like in the 1700's and is loaded with real, obscure historical events that time erased and buried. Follow the group of freedom seekers as their adventure takes them through Savannah, the Florida Keys, St. Augustine, Charles Towne and Cape Fear, as well as many other towns of the Low Country. Most importantly it is a fun read loaded with action.

Please note: There are two versions of this novel, one for adults and one that has been adapted to be the first in a trilogy of novels for young adults. If you spend your booty on this, you're buying the adult version, yarrr.

Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures

Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures Review

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Review

'Down,
down,
down.
Would the fall never come to an end!'

Since its publication in 1865, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has delighted the world with a wildly imaginative and unforgettable journey, inspiring children of all ages to suspend disbelief and follow Alice into her fantasy worlds. This new gift edition presents Carroll's tale fully unabridged with a unique visual interpretation by renowned artist Camille Rose Garcia.

The Adventures of Captain Horn

The Adventures of Captain Horn Review

Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

The Adventures of Be Boo and Dolly, Indoors

The Adventures of Be Boo and Dolly, Indoors Review

5 stories in 1 book!

Let your little one do the imagining in this new world of fun!

Be Boo is a little blue dragon with green eyes and Dolly is a little pink doll with pink hair and a very pink dress. Find out what they get up to in these adorable read-aloud tales!

Featured stories: All Day in Bed, Uh Oh! Robot!, Hole in the Wall, Lost My Shoe, and The Storm.

This book is a collection of stories and is not illustrated on purpose--specifically designed and written to stimulate unique images. For ages 3 and up.

The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood Of Great Renown, In Nottinghamshire

The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood Of Great Renown, In Nottinghamshire Review

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Note in a Bottle (Tom's Adventures in Alaska)

Note in a Bottle (Tom's Adventures in Alaska) Review

Young Tom is looking for adventure when he steps off the ferry in Kodiak. Even though he is dead tired he quickly finds a job as a greenhorn on a halibut boat and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime. Tom dodges tempers and hooks to find his place in the crew of the boat. His greatest challenge is staying out of the line of fire of the hot tempered Captain Vic. Tom learns the ropes from the old timers on the boat and gains their respect.

The sights and sounds of the Aleutian Islands bring this adventure to life and inspire Tom to endure the hardships and enjoy his time at sea. He jumps from the jaws of a shark and laughs at the antics that follow. Tom seeks out the memories and treasures; the greatest of them is a note in a bottle he picks out of the sand. This book is based on experiences the author had on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska. Coarse Language. 32500 words

Look for Book Two of Tom's Adventures in Alaska - The Bear Claw by Matthew Green also on Amazon!

Book three of the series Tom’s Adventures in Alaska: Ketchican or Bust to be released in January 2012! Look for it now!

About the series; Tom’s Adventures in Alaska

Tom feels the call of The Last Frontier and follows his feet to Alaska. He’d dreams of adventure and fate serves him adventures greater than he could have imagined. His story begins as he travels via ferry to Kodiak Island and starts work as a rooky commercial fisherman. Being a greenhorn not his dream job but because he’s broke and in a foreign land, he doesn’t have any other choice. He takes on the jobs thrust at him and befriends all he meets, well most anyway. Tom earns enough money fishing that he can afford to travel and have more adventures off of the fishing boat (and off of Kodiak Island).

Tom’s Adventures in Alaska takes place around Alaska and northwestern Canada. Tom travels through country so diverse and beautiful that words fail to do it justice. He survives storms at sea, and all of the treachery that fishing throws at him. He travels through amazing wilderness with all of the dangers that lurk in the wild. The people he meets are such a part of his adventures that their antics are a big part of the story. They are true Alaskans who face any challenge with lots of good humor and true friendship as is portrayed in every story. Each book is a continuation of the story but stands alone so characters are introduced and fade away in each; similar to the way it happens in real life.

Tom’s Adventures in Alaska isn’t only about commercial fishing. Tom goes beachcombing, hunting, sport fishing, gold panning and so much more. He fixes up a motorcycle and travels to places unknown. He lies on a picnic table to watch the Northern Lights, watches meteors shoot across the sky, and even has a bath with a moose. Tom falls in love (or lust) and his girlfriend takes him on a whirlwind adventure all on her own. Tom learns that she’s just like Alaska, wild and untamed. She’s sexy, feisty, and outspoken every chance she gets.

Tom’s stories are based on the real life adventures that the author had in Alaska in his youth. The people are real, the places are real, and the adventures are real. The bears are very real. Many of the people that some of the characters are based on are still alive, so names have been changed and events obscured to protect their identities. The series is written as fiction because some of the events described are based on stories told to the author on the fishing boat on which he worked. Some events are pure fiction. Beer stories and bear stories make for good fiction.

Note in a Bottle- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004V4H3RY
The Bear Claw- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0053GB33Y
Ketchikan or Bust- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006Y3GQ14

Hot Anal Adventures: The Complete Collection

Hot Anal Adventures: The Complete Collection Review

This collection contains volumes 1 thru 4 of "Hot Anal Adventures" for one low price. That's 12 incredible anal stories featuring everything from threesomes to foursomes to bondage, a2m and other acts too graphic to describe here. This is simply one of the most incredible collection of anal stories available!

"Pinned Down"
"After Hours Ass Smashing"
"Anal Gang Banged"
"Rock & Railed"
"Ass to Mouth to Vegas"
"Cage Rage"
"Gwen Gets Drilled"
"Mouth Trap"
"Triple Anal"
"Fugitive Anal Threesome"
"Beach Babe Ass Slam"
"Anal Performance"
"Fugitive Anal Threesome"

12 Stories. Over 25,000 words