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Soldiers and sailors, geographers and geologists, submariners and balloonists all flocked to Antarctica during the 'Heroic Age' of Polar exploration. No one better represented this eclectic band than Frank Bickerton, engineer on Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911–14. A true pioneer of Antarctic exploration, he piloted the expedition's 'air-tractor', established the first crucial wireless link between Antarctica and the rest of the world, and discovered one of the first meteorites ever to be found on the continent. Treasure-hunter, explorer, fighter pilot, entrepreneur, big-game hunter and movie-maker, Bickerton not only made a major contribution to the success of the AAE, but was also recruited by Ernest Shackleton for his ill-fated Endurance Expedition, dug for pirate gold on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, survived bloody dogfights over the Western Front during the First World War, and flirted with the glittering world of 1920s Hollywood. In Born Adventurer, historian Stephen Haddelsey draws on unique access to family papers, journals and letters to provide a thrilling account of Bickerton's rich and colourful life.
At the end of his illustrious career as an international adventurer and soldier of fortune, Lord Higford decided he needed to write his memoirs. But he decided he needed to address both his personal life and his adventures abroad, describe in detail his love life as well as his battles. From the start, he identified the key moments in his life, such as the premature death of his mother or his father's decision to send him away from home to boarding school when he was only eight years old. But the most important event in Higford's young life was when a tutor at Eton took an interest in him and applied the effort to teach him to write, and afterward, critically, introduced him to adventure literature. Most important of these was the story of Jason and his quest for the Golden Fleece from Greek mythology. This story captivated him and drove him to read the life adventures of England's greatest soldiers and adventurers, including Sir Richard Burton, Winston Churchill, and Fitzroy Maclean. Inspired by these works, Higford decided that his life's work would also be that of an explorer, adventurer, soldier, and fighter for the British Empire. Instead of going to Oxford, he joined the SAS, England's elite fighting force, and was sent to all corners of the world to fight anti-colonial insurgencies. His career culminated in the quick war against the Argentines in the Falklands. It was a war that ended his SAS career as well as spelled the end of his marriage. Afterward, he participated as a mercenary several times in Africa and decided it was better to run mercenaries than to be one, so he established one of the world's first private military companies supplying mercenaries to causes and regimes in Africa and Asia. This was how he stumbled onto his final, greatest, and most notorious adventure, one that nearly cost him his life, his career, his fortune, and his rank as an English peer.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Destined to become an adventure classic." —Anchorage Daily News Hailed as "gripping" (New York Times) and "beautiful" (Washington Post), The Adventurer's Son is Roman Dial’s extraordinary and widely acclaimed account of his two-year quest to unravel the mystery of his son’s disappearance in the jungles of Costa Rica. In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, the twenty-seven-year-old son of preeminent Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer Roman Dial, walked alone into Corcovado National Park, an untracked rainforest along Costa Rica’s remote Pacific Coast that shelters miners, poachers, and drug smugglers. He carried a light backpack and machete. Before he left, Cody Roman Dial emailed his father: “I am not sure how long it will take me, but I’m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle and a day to walk out. I’ll be bounded by a trail to the west and the coast everywhere else, so it should be difficult to get lost forever.” They were the last words Dial received from his son. As soon as he realized Cody Roman’s return date had passed, Dial set off for Costa Rica. As he trekked through the dense jungle, interviewing locals and searching for clues—the authorities suspected murder—the desperate father was forced to confront the deepest questions about himself and his own role in the events. Roman had raised his son to be fearless, to be at home in earth’s wildest places, travelling together through rugged Alaska to remote Borneo and Bhutan. Was he responsible for his son’s fate? Or, as he hoped, was Cody Roman safe and using his wilderness skills on a solo adventure from which he would emerge at any moment? Part detective story set in the most beautiful yet dangerous reaches of the planet, The Adventurer’s Son emerges as a far deeper tale of discovery—a journey to understand the truth about those we love the most. The Adventurer’s Son includes fifty black-and-white photographs.
Born to Explore is filled with skills, projects, and essential knowledge for the budding adventurer Explorer extraordinaire Richard Wiese's more than one hundred excellent projects show how to have fun with science and nature, how to not always take the most walked path, and how to learn to "read" the natural world. Discovery does not occur just in the Amazon or deep in the ocean. It happens everywhere around us: Navigate by the stars, Tell time without a watch, Start a fire without a match, Make an igloo, Build your own canoe, And be prepared for any challenge.
Born Adventurer tells the story of Frank Bickerton (1889-1954), the British engineer on Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14. The expedition gave birth to what Sir Ranulph Fiennes has called 'one of the greatest accounts of polar survival in history' and surveyed for the first time the 2,000-mile stretch of coast around Cape Denison, which later became Adelie Land. The MBE was, however, only one episode in a rich and colourful career. Bickerton accompanied the ill-fated Aeneas Mackintosh on a treasure island hunt to R.L. Stevenson's Treasure Island, was involved with the early stages of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, and tested 'wingless aeroplanes' in Norway. Born Adventurer follows him through his many experiences, from his flying career in the First World War to his time in California, mixing with the aristocracy of the Hollywood and sporting worlds, and from his safaris in Africa to his distinguished career as an editor and screenplay writer at Shepperton Studios. Stephen Haddelsey draws on unique access to family papers and Bickerton's journals and letters to give us a rich and full account of this incredible adventurer and colourful man.
e-artnow presents the new collection of the greatest sea adventure novels, to bring back your lust of voyage, your sense of adventure and the joy of discovery. _x000D_ Content:_x000D_ Captain Charles Johnson: _x000D_ The History of Pirates _x000D_ R. L. Stevenson:_x000D_ Treasure Island_x000D_ Jack London:_x000D_ The Sea Wolf_x000D_ The Mutiny of the Elsinore_x000D_ A Son of the Sun_x000D_ Daniel Defoe:_x000D_ Robinson Crusoe_x000D_ Captain Singleton_x000D_ Tobias Smollett:_x000D_ The Adventures of Roderick Random_x000D_ Walter Scott:_x000D_ The Pirate_x000D_ Frederick Marryat:_x000D_ Mr. Midshipman Easy_x000D_ Masterman Ready; Or, The Wreck of the "Pacific"_x000D_ Edgar Allan Poe:_x000D_ The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_x000D_ James Fenimore Cooper:_x000D_ The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea_x000D_ The Red Rover_x000D_ Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale_x000D_ Miles Wallingford_x000D_ Homeward Bound; Or, The Chase: A Tale of the Sea_x000D_ Thomas Mayne Reid:_x000D_ The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea_x000D_ Victor Hugo:_x000D_ Toilers of the Sea_x000D_ Herman Melville:_x000D_ Redburn_x000D_ White-Jacket_x000D_ Moby Dick_x000D_ Benito Cereno_x000D_ R. M. Ballantyne:_x000D_ The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean_x000D_ Fighting the Whales_x000D_ Jules Verne:_x000D_ The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras_x000D_ In Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant_x000D_ 20 000 Leagues under the Sea_x000D_ Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen_x000D_ An Antarctic Mystery_x000D_ L. Frank Baum:_x000D_ Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea_x000D_ Randall Parrish:_x000D_ Wolves of the Sea_x000D_ Charles Boardman Hawes:_x000D_ The Dark Frigate_x000D_ The Mutineers_x000D_ Joseph Conrad:_x000D_ The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'_x000D_ Lord Jim_x000D_ Typhoon_x000D_ The Shadow Line_x000D_ The Arrow of Gold_x000D_ Rudyard Kipling:_x000D_ Captains Courageous_x000D_ Ralph Henry Barbour:_x000D_ The Adventure Club Afloat _x000D_ Rafael Sabatini:_x000D_ Captain Blood_x000D_ The Sea-Hawk_x000D_ Jeffery Farnol:_x000D_ Black Bartlemy's Treasure_x000D_ Martin Conisby's Vengeance
e-artnow presents this meticulously edited and formatted collections of the greatest sea adventure novels to be enjoyed next to the sound of crushing waves in front of you… or at least with the background sound of calming waves in your home:_x000D_ Content:_x000D_ Captain Charles Johnson: _x000D_ The History of Pirates _x000D_ R. L. Stevenson:_x000D_ Treasure Island_x000D_ Jack London:_x000D_ The Sea Wolf_x000D_ The Mutiny of the Elsinore_x000D_ A Son of the Sun_x000D_ Daniel Defoe:_x000D_ Robinson Crusoe_x000D_ Captain Singleton_x000D_ Tobias Smollett:_x000D_ The Adventures of Roderick Random_x000D_ Walter Scott:_x000D_ The Pirate_x000D_ Frederick Marryat:_x000D_ Mr. Midshipman Easy_x000D_ Masterman Ready; Or, The Wreck of the "Pacific"_x000D_ Edgar Allan Poe:_x000D_ The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_x000D_ James Fenimore Cooper:_x000D_ The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea_x000D_ The Red Rover_x000D_ Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale_x000D_ Miles Wallingford_x000D_ Homeward Bound; Or, The Chase: A Tale of the Sea_x000D_ Thomas Mayne Reid:_x000D_ The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea_x000D_ Victor Hugo:_x000D_ Toilers of the Sea_x000D_ Herman Melville:_x000D_ Redburn_x000D_ White-Jacket_x000D_ Moby Dick_x000D_ Benito Cereno_x000D_ R. M. Ballantyne:_x000D_ The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean_x000D_ Fighting the Whales_x000D_ Jules Verne:_x000D_ The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras_x000D_ In Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant_x000D_ 20 000 Leagues under the Sea_x000D_ Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen_x000D_ An Antarctic Mystery_x000D_ L. Frank Baum:_x000D_ Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea_x000D_ Randall Parrish:_x000D_ Wolves of the Sea_x000D_ Charles Boardman Hawes:_x000D_ The Dark Frigate_x000D_ The Mutineers_x000D_ Joseph Conrad:_x000D_ The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'_x000D_ Lord Jim_x000D_ Typhoon_x000D_ The Shadow Line_x000D_ The Arrow of Gold_x000D_ Rudyard Kipling:_x000D_ Captains Courageous_x000D_ Ralph Henry Barbour:_x000D_ The Adventure Club Afloat _x000D_ Rafael Sabatini:_x000D_ Captain Blood_x000D_ The Sea-Hawk_x000D_ Jeffery Farnol:_x000D_ Black Bartlemy's Treasure_x000D_ Martin Conisby's Vengeance
William Le Queux's Ultimate Collection features an extensive selection of 100+ spy thrillers, detective mysteries, adventure classics, historical novels, war stories, and crime tales, all illustrated to enrich the reader's experience. Le Queux's writing style is characterized by a gripping narrative filled with intrigue, suspense, and intricate plot twists. His works are set in a literary context that reflects the espionage and detective fiction genres of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, providing a glimpse into the political tensions and social issues of the era. Readers can expect a thrilling journey through various settings and time periods, with each story crafted to captivate and entertain.