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020    $a 1620875691 (pbk)
020    $a 9781620875698 (pbk)
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050 14 $a PN6071.A38 $b B48 2013
082  4 $a 910.9 B561 2013
245 04 $a The best adventure and exploration stories ever told / $c edited by Stephen Brennan
260    $a New York : $b Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., $c 2013.
300    $a [v], 564 p. : $b ill., $c 23 cm.
505 00 $g Contents : $t Fighting the Elephant / $r Lord Byron. $t Jonah / $r King James Bible -- $t Book XII of the Odyssey / $r Homer -- $t Northmen Voyage to Vinland / $r Icelandic Sagas -- $t Drake's Circumnavigation / $r Richard Hakluyt -- $t The First Lowering / $r Herman Melville -- $t Youth / $r Joseph Conrad -- $r The Most Dangerous Game / $r Richard Connell -- $t A Nightmare of the Doldrums / $r W. Clark Russell -- $t The Stowaways / $r Robert Louis Stevenson -- $t The Seed of McCoy / $r Jack London -- $t Tarzan of the Apes / $r Edgar Rice Burroughs -- $t Charles Darwin and the Galápagos / $r V. W. von Hagen -- $t Florence Nightingale in Egypt / $r Florence Nightingale -- $t The Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight / $r Lincoln Ellsworth -- $t Three Months in an Uninhabited Land / $r Sven Hedin -- $t A Wolf-Hunt in Wisconsin / $r J. E. Chamberlin -- $t Shipwreck / $r Captain James Riley -- $t The Open Boat / $r Stephen Crane -- $t The "Sholah" Tiger / $r Henrietta A. Hervey -- $t Ice Again! / $r Richard Henry Dana Jr. -- $t African Game Trails / $r Theodore Roosevelt -- $r Stanley's Last Great Expedition / $r Hon. J. T. Headley -- $r The Feud of the Wild-Haymen / $r Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen -- $t Down Through Italy by Rail / $r Mark Twain -- $t Fighting the Elephant / $r George Gordon, $r Lord Byron.
505 00 $t Leiningen Versus the Ants / $r Carl Stephenson. $t Boswell and Johnson in the Hebrides / $r James Boswell -- $t An Outpost of Progress / $r Joseph Conrad -- $t South Coast Discovery, 1801 / $r Earnest Scott -- $t Chiloe and Concepcion: Great Earthquake / $r Charles Darwin -- $t The Famous Perry Expedition to Japan / $r John S. Sewall -- $t The Travels of Marco Polo / $r Marco Polo -- $t The Town-Ho's Story / $r Herman Melville -- $t The Pirate Crew Set Sail / $r Mark Twain -- $t In Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost Phileas Fogg Dear / $r Jules Verne -- $t Among the Crocodiles / $r H. Hervey -- $t Hippo Hunting in Africa / $r David Pollock -- $t How the Brigadier Slew the Fox / $r Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- $t Hunting Musk-Oxen Near the Pole / $r Lieutenant R. E. Perry,   USN -- $t Lion-Hunting / $r Alfred H. Miles -- $t In a Cuban Cave / $r Julius A. Palmer -- $t Leiningen Versus the Ants / $r Carl Stephenson.
520    $a An exciting collection of dangerous adventures and groundbreaking exploration, The Best Adventure and Exploration Stories Ever Told compiles the works of authors from all over the world and from the very distant past to recent eras.Popular and well-known authors such as Herman Melville, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, and Jules Verne are featured, as well as Homer's mythic tales and Iceland's mesmerizing sagas from the tenth and eleventh centuries. Nonfiction stories add a riveting, realistic aspect of adventure to the collection. These include accounts from polar expeditions ; early American stories fromo historic figures mapping new lands ; spellbinding accounts of perilous expeditions to uncharted areas ; and many more no less exciting.
650  0 $a Short stories.
650  0 $a Adventure stories.
650  0 $a Discoveries in geography.
650  0 $a Safaris.
650  0 $a Hunting stories.
700 1  $a Brennan, Stephen Vincent.
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