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White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen’s fearless journey into the heart of the Arctic
By Stephen Bown. 2015
As comfortable in bear-skin pants under the northern lights as in a tuxedo at the theatre in Copenhagen, Knud Rasmussen…
undertook some of the most astounding feats of endurance in the annals of polar exploration. He travelled without the elaborate preparations and large teams employed by other explorers, surviving with only a few Inuit assistants and by living off the land. His crowning achievement, made famous as the Fifth Thule Expedition, was a three-year, 20,000 mile odyssey by dog sled from Greenland to Alaska to reveal the common origins of all circumpolar peoples. Part Danish and part Greenlandic, Rasmussen is renowned not only for his bravery, joyous sense of adventure and the beauty of his writing, but also for his priceless collection and interpretation of Inuit songs, stories and mythology. 2015.War junkie: One Man's Addiction To The Worst Places On Earth
By Jon Steele. 2002
The author worked as an ITN cameraman, living for the adrenalin rush that came as bullets flew around his head…
and bombs exploded at his feet. He filmed scenes of brutality and suffering in Georgia, Moscow, Rwanda, Zaire and Bosnia, before finally realising he had seen and filmed too much. 2002.Walking up & down in the world: memories of a mountain rambler
By Smoke Blanchard. 1985
A professional mountain guide who began his climbing career as a teenager in the depression years relates his many exciting…
adventures in the mountains of California, Alaska, the Yukon, and Nepal. Blanchard offers advice on equipment and technique and discusses the people he has met. 1985.Voyages of discovery: Captain Cook and the exploration of the Pacific
By Lynne Withey. 1987
Voyage of the Stella
By R. D Lawrence. 1982
Voyager
By Phil Patton, Jeana Yeager, Dick Rutan. 1987
Yeager and Rutan, the first people to fly around the world without stopping to refuel, tell of their backgrounds and…
careers, the six years of preparation for the flight, and the research and testing involved. 1987.Vet in a village
By Hugh Lasgarn. 1991
Another Hugh Lasgarn book about the adventures of a Welsh veterinarian. He recounts stories that are humourous, heart-warming, and sometimes…
sad, as he describes the people and animals that he met in his practice. 1991.Vet in green pastures
By Hugh Lasgarn. 1985
One of Lasgarn's early books about his life as a vet in the Welsh Border country. As he recalls stories…
that are humorous, heart warming, and sometimes tragic, the reader experiences his devotion to animals and their sometimes quirky owners. 1985.Underwater man
By Joe MacInnis. 1974
The author learned to dive during his summer vacations in the Maritimes. After earning his medical degree, he used both…
skills in his work on treasure hunting voyages and other expeditions. c1974.Trente ans de captivité: chez les Indiens Ojibwa
By John Tanner, Edwin James, Pierrette Désy. 1983
Pendant 30 ans, Tanner va partager la vie des ojibwa. Les guerres le feront s'affronter aux sioux et les chasses…
lui feront parcourir le Minnesota, le Manitoba et l'Ontario. Ce récit est authentique. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1983.Those were the days that I lived and loved: a biography of Gus d'Aoust, a professional barrenland trapper
By Gus D'Aoust, Alix Harpelle. 1984
An autobiography of Gus d'Aoust, a trapper in the North-West Territories. Known as a resourceful and sometimes wily man, Gus…
was not above trading in tobacco and alcohol to supplement his income from furs. For many years, working though a series of winter line camps, Gus ably survived in the harsh northern wilderness until his retirement in the late 1930's. 1984.They call me Mama Daktari
By Anne Spoerry. 1996
French-born and educated, Dr. Anne Spoerry was incarcerated in the Ravensbruck concentration camp during World War 2, then left Europe…
to practice medicine in Kenya. At age 45 she learned to fly and continued flying to remote parts of the country into her eighties. 1996.The white Masai: my exotic tale of love and adventure
By Corinne Hofmann, Peter Millar. 2007
Corinne, a European entrepreneur, meets Lketinga, a Samburu warrior, while on vacation in Mombasa, Kenya. Despite language and cultural barriers,…
they embark on an impossible love affair. Undaunted by wild animals, hunger, and tropical diseases, she tries to forge a life with Lketinga. But slowly the dream starts to crumble. 2007. Uniform title: Weisse Massai.The voyages of Jacques Cartier
By Ramsay Cook, Jacques Cartier, Henry Percival Biggar. 1993
Translation of Cartier's records of his voyages to New France in 1534, 1535-1536, and 1541. Seeing marvels everywhere, Cartier glimpsed…
the St. Lawrence in the last days before its population and environment began to collapse. 1993. Uniform title: Voyage de Jacques Cartier au Canada en 1534.The voyage of the Northern Magic: a family odyssey
By Diane King Stuemer. 2002
The Stuemers packed up and left Ottawa on a trip around the world in a forty-year-old sailboat, visiting 34 countries…
and covering 35,000 nautical miles. The trip took 4 years and gave the family a set of memories they would hold onto forever. Diane Stuemer eventually succumbed to the cancer that had originally been the reason behind the family voyage. 2002.The voyage of the Matthew: John Cabot and the discovery of North America
By P. L Firstbrook. 1997
Five hundred years after John Cabot sailed from England to "New Founde Land" in the Matthew the anniversary of his…
journey was celebrated with a recreation of the trip. The Matthew was painstakingly reconstructed and sailed across the Atlantic in 1997. Firstbrook tells the story of the first voyage and of the preparations for the second. 1997.The walk west: a walk across America 2
By Peter Jenkins, Barbara Jenkins. 1981
A description of the authors' trip from New Orleans to Oregon. They tell of their experiences and the people they…
met during their 2,000 mile walk, beginning in 1976 and ending in 1979. Sequel to "Walk across America." 1981.The true adventures of the world's greatest stuntman: my life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman and other movie heroes
By Vic Armstrong, Robert Sellers. 2011
You may think you've never heard of Vic Armstrong, but he's been a stunt double for James Bond, Indiana Jones…
and Superman, and he's directed action scenes for three Bond movies, Mission Impossible 3, and Thor. Counting Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger among his friends, Vic is officially credited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the World's Most Prolific Stuntman. Some strong language. c2011.The true adventures of Grizzly Adams: a biography
By Robert M McClung. 1985
Disgusted by society's corruption, John "Grizzly" Adams, 19th century frontier hunter, found a new life in the western wilderness trapping…
and taming giant grizzly bears. For junior and senior high readers. 1985.The tunnel king: the true story of Wally Floody and the great escape
By Barbara Hehner. 2004
Wally Flood, a Canadian miner turned pilot during World War II, was shot down and put in a prisoner-of-war camp.…
Determined to escape, he eventually joined a group that began organizing the largest breakout ever, now called The Great Escape - over 600 men, tunnelling their way out. They took turns digging, inventing tools, forging documents, and hiding the tons of sand they dug from the tunnels, while facing the constant threat of discovery, with key help from Wally, known as the Tunnel King. Grades 5-8. 2004.