Sarah Barr Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 I love stories about explorers running off into the big wide Wild, and The Lost World will always be my favourite book, but I really want to read more about real expeditions. The two I like best are: - Endurance by Alfred Lansing (about Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Trans-Antarctic Expedition, compiled from the journals of the team members. Vivid, compelling, harrowing, and will make you eternally grateful for the lack of seal blubber in your diet and/or heating system.) - Last Chance To See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine (in which the writer of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy gets paid by the BBC to fly in exceptionally dodgy planes, search for gigantic parrots that make booming noises, and not get eaten by Komodo dragons. I tried to read it out loud to a friend once and my face seized up from laughing. In a hospital waiting room. Might not have been very appropriate.) I need more! What do you like and why? Quote Sarah Barr - Level 13 Warhobbit STR 18 | DEX 7 | STA 17 | CON 38 | WIS 28 | CHA 12 Challenges: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 (Current) Accountabiddlydoodlies Group Current Weight: 106.1kg Recipe Book "I hold... that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize" - Robert Browning Instagram (Things I have painted or made.) To-Do ListIdiot Jar Limit: £5.00 Current Idiot Jar Total: £0.00 Current Idiot Jar Forfeit: [TBD]. Link to comment
Maj. Bloodnok Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 - Yak Butter and Black Tea by Wade Brackenbury A Mormon mountaineer and chiropractor joins a Frenchman obsessed with going to a particular isolated valley on the Tibetan-Nepali border. The book deals extensively with the asumptions of foreign travelers and the breaking of illusions, both personal and cultural. Great stuff. No seat-gripping action, but very engrossing. -The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin In the 1970s, a team of American and Irish researchers and sailors built a leather boat and successfully sailed it from Ireland to Newfoundland, following the voyage of a 6th-century Irish monk named Brendan. Lots of great storytelling, and good solid history. - Kon-Tiki, The Tigris Expedition, by Thor Heyerdahl. The guy's historical theories are bunk, but his voyages still make for good reading. 1 Quote "If you get into trouble, you can always eat something, blow something up, or throw penguins." - Jim Henson Link to comment
Sarah Barr Posted March 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 Thankyou! I'm going to look those up right now! Quote Sarah Barr - Level 13 Warhobbit STR 18 | DEX 7 | STA 17 | CON 38 | WIS 28 | CHA 12 Challenges: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 (Current) Accountabiddlydoodlies Group Current Weight: 106.1kg Recipe Book "I hold... that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize" - Robert Browning Instagram (Things I have painted or made.) To-Do ListIdiot Jar Limit: £5.00 Current Idiot Jar Total: £0.00 Current Idiot Jar Forfeit: [TBD]. Link to comment
Jakkals Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 I liked the books by Francis Chicester. He was the first pilot to flew from New Zealand to Australia, and also sailed solo around the world. His autobiography is The lonely sea and the sky. 1 Quote Level 8 : Wizard Blacksmith [ STR 6 | DEX 6 | STA 5 | CON 5 | WIS 10 | CHA 4 ] Jakkals, 2019 nommer 3 Spoiler Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. -Marcus Aurelius Link to comment
Glacier Posted July 20, 2014 Report Share Posted July 20, 2014 Ooh, I didn't know there was another Endurance... I have the one by F.A. Worsley, I'll have to look up Alfred Lansing's book. 1 Quote Link to comment
Squeak Posted October 13, 2014 Report Share Posted October 13, 2014 No Shortcuts To the Top by Ed Viesturs the first American to summit all 14 of the 8000 meter peaks without supplemental Oxygen. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer about the 1996 Everest Disaster. 1 Quote Sweat dries, Blood clots, Bones heal. Suck it up Marine.Semper Fi, Do or die! Link to comment
Hong WeiLoh Posted October 13, 2014 Report Share Posted October 13, 2014 Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks -- Andrea Lankford. I may be biased, though, as I work for an agency very closely related to NPS, and can relate personally to a lot of what NPS Rangers do. 1 Quote Insert witty & pithy saying here. Link to comment
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