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The Best Adventure and Exploration Stories Ever Told

✍ Scribed by Brennan, Stephen (editor)

Book ID: 108904254
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Weight: 3 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781620875698

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✦ Synopsis

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 Shackleton's polar expeditions; early American stories from the famed Lewis and Clark; spellbinding accounts of Magellan's perilous expeditions to uncharted areas; and many more no less exciting.
The stories compiled in this priceless collection represent a thousand years of adventure, expedition, danger, and discovery. They inspire as well as awe, and readers will find themselves with an urge to follow in these...

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