Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781868122394
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
New worlds to conquer book two
Author: New Worlds to Conquer
Author: Richard HalliburtonPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789123801
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
By the early 1930s America had one literary treasure that risked his life to please its readers. Richard Halliburton had already become a best-selling travel author and could have retired comfortably on the immense wealth gained from the sale of his first two books. Yet some men are born to dare, and Halliburton was one these. NEW WORLDS TO CONQUER was Halliburton’s third book and contains a knapsack full of that adventurer’s gold—dreams brought to reality by the alchemy of his courage and daring. The book details how Halliburton set off for Latin America in search of adventure, and find it he did. He dived to the bottom of the Mayan Well of Death, from which hundreds of skeletons had been dredged, then swam fifty miles down the length of the Panama Canal. Not content, he climbed to the crest of Mexico’s lofty Mount Popocatepetl, twice, and roamed over the infamous Devil’s Island. Yet his most amazing adventure occurred when he had himself marooned on the same island which had once held Robinson Crusoe captive. “Somewhere a lizard stirred the leaves...Furtively I looked about me, realizing that in the darkness the boa-constrictors would be abroad creeping forth from the ancient tombs and slinking down the leafy avenues,” Halliburton wrote. This is Halliburton at is best—fatalistic about his own safety, poetic about his chances of survival, and determined to bring home a hair-raising tale of adventure from the Latin lands of legend.
No More Worlds to Conquer: Sixteen People Who Defined Their Time – And What They Did Next
Author: Chris WrightPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008112894
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
What do you do next if you have walked on the moon? How do you follow the first perfect 10 in Olympic history? How do you move on after surviving a plane crash? Some people will forever be defined by a single moment.
Education of Harris Bailley Book Two
Author: Richard SchroederPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 055715135X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The education of Harris continues as he encounters the trials and joys of life as a teacher in small private schools.
New Worlds to Conquer
Author: Edward RamsbottomNew Worlds to Conquer
Author: Eric Wilfred DunlopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
New worlds to conquer book one
Author: The Discovery of New Worlds, Book II of the Story of the World
Author: M. B. SyngePublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602066205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Climb to Conquer
Author: Peter SheltonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743253531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Few stories from the "greatest generation" are as unforgettable -- or as little known -- as that of the 10th Mountain Division. Today a versatile light infantry unit deployed around the world, the 10th began in 1941 as a crew of civilian athletes with a passion for mountains and snow. In this vivid history, adventure writer Peter Shelton follows the unique division from its conception on a Vermont ski hill, through its dramatic World War II coming-of-age, to the ultimate revolution it inspired in American outdoor life. In the late-1930s United States, rock climbing and downhill skiing were relatively new sports. But World War II brought a need for men who could handle extreme mountainous conditions -- and the elite 10th Mountain Division was born. Everything about it was unprecedented: It was the sole U.S. Army division trained on snow and rock, the only division ever to grow out of a sport. It had an un-matched number of professional athletes, college scholars, and potential officer candidates, and as the last U.S. division to enter the war in Europe, it suffered the highest number of casualties per combat day. This is the 10th's surprising, suspenseful, and often touching story. Drawing on years of interviews and research, Shelton re-creates the ski troops' lively, extensive, and sometimes experimental training and their journey from boot camp to the Italian Apennines. There, scaling a 1,500-foot "unclimbable" cliff face in the dead of night, they stunned their enemy and began the eventual rout of the German armies from northern Italy. It was a self-selecting elite, a brotherhood in sport and spirit. And those who survived (including the Sierra Club's David Brower, Aspen Skiing Corporation founder Friedl Pfeifer, and Nike cofounder Bill Bowerman, who developed the waffle-sole running shoe) turned their love of mountains into the thriving outdoor industry that has transformed the way Americans see (and play in) the natural world.
Robert A. Heinlein, Vol 2
Author: William H. PattersonPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765319616
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The second volume of the first authorized biography of Robert A. Heinlein, generally considered the greatest SF writer of the 20th century, a bestselling author, military man, politician, and one of the founding minds of Libertarian politics in the USA.