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Author | : Martin Dugard |
Publisher | : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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The author, a freelance journalist, describes his experiences as a reporter and participant in the Raid Gauloises, an annual eight- to twelve-day race designed to test the limits of human endurance.
Author | : Kirk Johnson |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2009-11-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780759525719 |
Download To the Edge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This extreme sports saga, part Plimptonesque narrative, part spiritual journey, explores the limits of personal endurance as a determined journalist takes on the 135 mile Death Valley marathon.
Author | : Jessica Rusick |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2023-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1098278720 |
Download Surviving the Desert Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this title, readers learn how to survive in the desert through the real-life experiences of those who survived. In addition to how to stay warm, find food and water, avoid the sun, make a shelter, and signal for help, this title examines the climate, plants and animals, and dangers of the desert. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. A&D Xtreme is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author | : Martin Dugard |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2001-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0743436393 |
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James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was in his teens. He then began an extraordinary rise from farmboy outsider to the hallowed rank of captain of the Royal Navy, leading three historic journeys that would forever link his name with fearless exploration (and inspire pop-culture heroes like Captain Hook and Captain James T. Kirk). In Farther Than Any Man, noted modern-day adventurer Martin Dugard strips away the myth of Cook and instead portrays a complex, conflicted man of tremendous ambition (at times to a fault), intellect (though Cook was routinely underestimated) and sheer hardheadedness. When Great Britain announced a major circumnavigation in 1768 -- a mission cloaked in science, but aimed at the pursuit of world power -- it came as a political surprise that James Cook was given command. Cook's surveying skills had contributed to the British victory over France in the Seven Years' War in 1763, but no commoner had ever commanded a Royal Navy vessel. Endeavor's stunning three-year journey changed the face of modern exploration, charting the vast Pacific waters, the eastern coasts of New Zealand and Australia, and making landfall in Tahiti, Tierra del Fuego, and Rio de Janeiro. After returning home a hero, Cook yearned to get back to sea. He soon took control of the Resolution and returned to his beloved Pacific, in search of the elusive Southern Continent. It was on this trip that Cook's taste for power became an obsession, and his legendary kindness to island natives became an expectation of worship -- traits that would lead him first to greatness, then to catastrophe. Full of action, lush description, and fascinating historical characters like King George III and Master William Bligh, Dugard's gripping account of the life and gruesome demise of Capt. James Cook is a thrilling story of a discoverer hell-bent on traveling farther than any man.
Author | : Martin Dugard |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 145167757X |
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"In The Explorers, New York Times bestselling author Martin Dugard shares the rich saga of the Burton and Speke expedition. To better understand their motivations and ultimate success, Dugard guides readers through the seven vital traits that Burton and Speke, as well as many of history's legendary explorers, called upon to see their impossible journeys through to the end: curiosity, hope, passion, courage, independence, self-discipline, and perseverance."--www.Amazon.com.
Author | : Jacqueline Ching |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2001-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780823935550 |
Download Adventure Racing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores the do's and don't's of this high-powered and high-risk series of events that take place often in exotic locales.
Author | : Jack Crawford |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2005-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 059532679X |
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The Eco-Challenge is an expedition with a stopwatch. The event that is a mix of an Indiana Jones adventure, a Lewis and Clark expedition and a modern day competition, goes to Fiji Islands. An average guy, Bill Fletcher sets out with his three teammates to explore and race through 500 kilometers of Fiji's most impressive and untouched terrain by bushwhacking through dense jungles, mountain biking on rugged trails, paddling down jungle rivers, trekking on ancient pig hunting trails to remote villages, and climbing fixed ropes up raging waterfalls. Finishing the Eco-Challenge takes more than physical endurance. If a team loses a member due to illness, fatigue, injury, or disagreement, they are disqualified. Fletcher finds the most difficult task is keeping his team together as they experience all these ailments in their quest to find the finish line. If that wasn't tough enough, the team is haunted by spirits from Fiji's cannibalistic past.
Author | : Michael Hurley |
Publisher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1410939723 |
Download Surviving the Wilderness Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Introduces basic survival skills, discusses animal attacks, injury, and accidents, and shares the stories of survivors.
Author | : Martin Dugard |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2008-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780316032537 |
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Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. But less than two decades before they faced each other as enemies at Appomattox, they had been brothers--both West Point graduates, both wearing blue, and both fighting in the same cadre in the Mexican War. They were not alone: Sherman, Davis, Jackson-nearly all of the Civil War's greatest soldiers had been forged in the heat of Vera Cruz and Monterrey. The Mexican War has faded from our national memory, but it was a struggle of enormous significance: the first U.S. war waged on foreign soil; and it nearly doubled our nation. At this fascinating juncture of American history, a group of young men came together to fight as friends, only years later to fight as enemies. This is their story. Full of dramatic battles, daring rescues, secret missions, soaring triumphs and tragic losses, THE TRAINING GROUND is history at its finest.
Author | : Lara Prior-Palmer |
Publisher | : Ebury Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781785038860 |
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Lara Prior-Palmer was seeking the unknown. In search of adventure aged nineteen, she entered the world's toughest horse race - a 1000km. ride through extreme conditions in the Mongolian wilderness.