Explore
Subtitle: stories of survival from off the map
By: edited by Jennifer Schwamm Willis
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press; Balliett & Fitzgerald; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York; [Emeryville, CA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781560252788
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Description: First-hand accounts of adventure from the Amazon jungle to the Himalayas.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 374).
Table of contents: title: from The lost tribe  -- Edward Marriott; title: An evening among headhunters  -- Lawrence Millman; title: Lost city of the Lukachukais  -- David Roberts; title: from Antisuyo: the search for the lost cities of the Amazon  -- Gene Savoy; title: Cahill among the ruins in Peru  -- Tim Cahill; title: from Farthest North  -- Fridtjof Nansen; title: from Snow on the equator  -- H.W. Tilman; title: from In trouble again  -- Redmond O'Hanlon; title: Bat from the Ice Age  -- Tim Flannery; title: Birds with no feet  -- Andrea Barrett; title: from Adventures in the unknown interior of America  -- Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; title: from The dogs of paradise  -- Abel Posse; title: Bikpela Hol  -- John Long, Dwight Brooks; title: Crazy in the Congo  -- Michael Finkel; title: from The Indian Alps and how we crossed them  -- Nina Mazuchelli; title: Arctic discovery  -- Lawrence Millman; title: Upland stream  -- W.D. Wetherell; title: from This wild darkness  -- Harold Brodkey; title: from Mountains of Tartary -- Eric Shipton.