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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.The third man factor: the secret to survival in extreme environments
By John Geiger. 2009
Trader Ron DiFrancesco in the World Trade Center, diver Stephanie Schwabe, Sir Ernest Shackleton: All shared an experience that an…
unseen being helped them to survive against staggering odds. If it were just a handful of people, it might be dismissed, but in fact, this phenomenon has occurred again and again. Some strong language. 2009.The size of the world: A Global Odyssey - Once Around Without Leaving The Ground
By Jeff Greenwald. 1995
After a lifetime of travel, the author at age 40 set himself a challenge to travel from Oakland, California around…
the world--without ever leaving the ground. As he made his way around the planet, accompanied by various eccentric companions and his faithful laptop computer, Greenwald encountered a spectrum of extraordinary characters. 1995.The sourdough and the queen: the many lives of Klondike Joe Boyle
By Leonard Taylor. 1983
Recounts the life of Joseph Boyle, a sailor, sports promoter, diplomat, soldier and spy. He knew such people as diamond…
Jim Brady, Robert Service, the Rothschilds, King George V, and Queen Marie of Rumania who was the great love of his life. c1983.The sisters of Sinai: how two lady adventurers discovered the hidden Gospels
By Janet Martin Soskice. 2009
Recounts discoveries of twin sisters Agnes Lewis (1843-1926) and Margaret Gibson (d. 1920), Scottish widows who in the 1890s traveled…
to the Sinai Peninsula in search of lost biblical manuscripts. Describes their journey by camel to the libraries of St. Catherine's Monastery, where they eventually unearthed early gospel texts. 2009.The second death of George Mallory: the enigma and spirit of Mount Everest
By Reinhold Messner, Tim Carruthers. 2001
Did George Mallory, who died with Andrew Irvine on Mount Everest in 1924, reach the summit of the mountain? The…
author believes he did not, but makes what he considers to be the real point, that the 'because-it-is-there' spirit of amateur climbing died on the mountain with Mallory. An engrossing portrait of a climber and a spirit no longer with us. 2001. Uniform title: Mallorys zweiter Tod.The search for the North West Passage
By Ann Savours. 1999
Chronicles four centuries of expeditions seeking a sea route west from the Atlantic through the Canadian Arctic archipelago to reach…
China. Excerpts from diaries and letters recount the hardships and courage of these intrepid explorers, including John Barrow, Edward Parry, John Ross, John Franklin, and others. 1999.The sacrament
By Peter Gzowski. 1980
The royal road to romance
By Richard Halliburton. 1969
The author chose to see the world as a vagabond. He relates his adventures: being penniless in Monte Carlo, in…
prison for taking forbidden photographs at Gibraltar, and held by Chinese pirates at sea. 1969.The remarkable world of Frances Barkley, 1769-1845
By Beth Hill, Frances Barkley. 1978
Frances Barkley was the first European woman to set foot on the coast of B.C. In 1786, she embarked from…
Europe on a trade and exploration voyage with her husband, Captain Charles W. Barkley. Her reminiscences contain her descriptions of their life at sea, and visits to South America, India, China, and what is now known as Alaska and British Columbia. 1978.Account of the life of Sir John Kirk, who accompanied explorer David Livingstone on his second expedition to Africa in…
1858. Kirk, a physician and naturalist, sought to bring Christianity to the continent. Appalled by the slave trade, he later returned to Zanzibar to work towards its elimination. Some violence. 1999.The pirate queen
By Emily Arnold McCully. 1995
Portrays the life of the legendary sixteenth-century Irish swashbuckler Grania O'Malley, who was known as the cunning and intrepid "sea…
queen." Her adventures included saving her father's life in battle, bearing a child at sea, and boldly opposing Ireland's English invaders. Grades 2-4. c1995.The motorcycle diaries: notes on a Latin American journey (Che Guevara Publishing Project Ser.)
By Ernesto Guevara. 2004
The story of a road journey, in the words of a 23-year-old medical student known as "Che". There are fights,…
parties, and serious drinking, and moving examples of Guevara's idealism and solidarity with the oppressed. A record of Guevara's thoughts as he journeyed around South America in the early 1950's. 2004. Uniform title: Notas de viaje.The odyssey of C.H. Lightoller
By Patrick Stenson. 1984
Relates the adventurous life of C. H. Lightoller, the son of a British mill owner. Lightoller joined the merchant service…
in 1888 at the age of thirteen and eventually became an officer on the "Titanic" and the only senior crew member to survive its sinking. He also survived being marooned on a desert island to later mine for gold in the Klondike and punch cows in the West. At sixty-six, he took his own cabin cruiser to Dunkirk and rescued 130 British soldiers. 1984.