The Explorer's Diary
Author: Kashyap Dhital
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Published: 2021-01-20
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ISBN-13: 9780645081206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kashyap Dhital
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Published: 2021-01-20
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ISBN-13: 9780645081206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Dunn
Publisher: New York : Outing Publishing Company
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1903, aspiring journalist Robert Dunn joined an expedition attempting the first ascent of Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in North America. Led by explorer Frederick Cook (who would later win infamy for faking the discovery of the North Pole), the climbers failed to conquer McKinley, but they did circumnavigate the great peak-an accomplishment not repeated until 1978. The trek also spawned a book unique in the literature of exploration: Dunn's frank, sardonic, no-holds-barred look at day-to-day existence on an Alaskan expedition. Before Dunn, most such accounts were sanitized and expurgated of anything unflattering. Dunn, however, a protege of the muckraker Lincoln Steffens, endeavored to report what he saw, with panache. And what Dunn reported was a journey rife with conflict, missed opportunity, incompetence, privation, and danger. By showing men reduced to their rawest state, the young journalist produced a compelling, insightful, and oddly amusing book that disturbed and riveted his contemporaries. As Hudson Stuck-the Episcopal archdeacon of the Yukon who completed the first ascent of Mt. McKinley in 1913-observed, "[Dunn's] book has a curious undeniable power, despite its brutal frankness. ... One is thankful, however, that it is unique in the literature of travel."
Author: William John Wills
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
Published: 1863
Total Pages: 426
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kari Herbert
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2017-03-28
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781452158273
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks, kept by intrepid men and women as they journeyed perilous and unknown environments—frozen wastelands, high mountains, barren deserts, and dense rainforests—with their senses wide open. Figures such as Charles Darwin and Sir Edmund Hillary are joined here by lesser-known explorers such as Adela Breton, who braved the jungles of Mexico to make a record of Mayan monuments. Here are profiles, expedition details, and the artwork of pioneering explorers and mapmakers, botanists and artists, ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries. Here is the art of discovery.
Author: Emily Caroline Creaghe
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: 2021-02
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781743056660
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As a sole female member of an exploring party, Creaghe was well acquainted with the privations and harshness of travel in Australia's north. Ahead lay territory unknown to Europeans, as well as many tests of endurance and strength. Her diary is a remarkable document of Australian exploration, written by one of the rarest of explorers - a woman.
Author: Katherine Rundell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-09-12
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1481419455
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award-winning author of Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms comes an exciting new novel about a group of kids who must survive in the Amazon after their plane crashes. 5 1/2 x 8 5/16.
Author: Team Explorers Creekside Middle School
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Published: 2010-05
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1608446336
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Tim Fridtjof Flannery
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780802137197
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →" ... the writings of the men and women who traversed, circumnavigated, and settled the continent ..."--Cover.
Author: Robert Dunn
Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS
Published: 2016-02-06
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Robert Steed Dunn's classic tale of his participation in an early attempt to summit Denali (Mt. McKinley) in Alaska is far from the run-of-the-mill heroic mountaineering book. Through all of his years of exploration and work as a war correspondent, his writing was typified by raw honesty and a keen eye toward the foibles and follies of man. Make no mistake, this account is thrilling. But it's also at times hilarious. The 1903 expedition was small and throughout, Dunn exposes the reality of living with and sharing danger with men who become all too familiar. It reads like a modern Krakauer book. Dunn had already been on one very dangerous expedition in 1898. He would go on to explore the Kamchatka River, cover the front lines in World War I for the New York Post, serve as an intelligence officer, and ride with General John "Black Jack" Pershing into Mexico after Pancho Villa. Review "A classic on exploration. Dunn...alone of them all was an artist for art’s sake" --Lincoln Steffens "[Dunn was] a man bent on adventure and ready to face the dangers and hardships that adventure brings." --The New York Times Book Review Amazon.com Review More adventure books should be like this. In a genre rife with overbearing machismo and braggadocio, this book, originally published in 1907, is a refreshing and at times hilarious take on exploration. Robert Dunn reveals the bickering and frayed nerves, petty insecurities and trivial jealousies that existed alongside the courage, discipline, and determination exhibited by each member of the 1903 expedition that attempted the first ascent of Alaska's Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in North America. Without downplaying the difficulty of the task, Dunn's honest assessments of the men involved reveals the complex motivations for undertaking arduous exploration and the human weaknesses that are revealed in the process.--Shawn Carkonen