Author: John Charles FrémontPublisher:
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Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44
Author: John Charles FrémontPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
An Expedition to the Copper, Tanana, and Koyukuk Rivers in 1885
Author: Henry Tureman AllenPublisher: Alaska Northwest Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Captain Benjamin Bonneville's Wyoming Expedition: The Lost 1833 Report
Author: Jett B. ConnerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467148644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
In 1832, Benjamin Bonneville led the first wagon train across the Continental Divide on the Oregon Trail. Financed by a rival of the Hudson's Bay Company, Bonneville and more than one hundred traders and trappers traveled from Fort Osage on the Missouri River, up to the Platte River and across present-day Wyoming. Washington Irving first gave the U.S. Army officer a brand by chronicling the three-year explorations in the 1837 book The Adventures of Captain Bonneville. Historians have long suspected that the captain, under the guise of commercial fur trading, was preparing for an eventual invasion of Mexico's California territory. Bonneville's 1833 report concerning his first year in the Wind River Range and beyond remained lost for almost a century before resurfacing in the 1920s. Author Jett B. Conner examines the intriguing details revealed in that historic document.
Dark Waters (the Expedition Trilogy, Book 1)
Author: Jason LewisPublisher: BillyFish Books LLC
ISBN: 0984915532
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
“This is a delightful and funny adventure ... It is also lonely, dangerous and frightening.”—THE LONDON TIMES He survived a terrifying crocodile attack off Australia’s Queensland coast, blood poisoning in the middle of the Pacific, malaria in Indonesia and China, and acute mountain sickness in the Himalayas. He was hit by a car and left for dead with two broken legs in Colorado, and incarcerated for espionage on the Sudan-Egypt border. The first in a thrilling adventure trilogy, Dark Waters charts one of the longest, most gruelling, yet uplifting and at times irreverently funny journeys in history, circling the world using just the power of the human body, hailed by the London Sunday Times as “The last great first for circumnavigation.” But it was more than just a physical challenge. Prompted by what scientists have dubbed the “perfect storm” as the global population soars to 8.3 billion by 2030, adventurer Jason Lewis used The Expedition to reach out to thousands of schoolchildren, calling attention to our interconnectedness and shared responsibility of an inhabitable Earth for future generations. * * WINNER of the BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AWARD & ERIC HOFFER AWARD * * “Often funny and irreverent, always frank and authentic, Lewis’s first volume of The Expedition series is also marked by the thrills of a first-rate adventure.”—FOREWORD REVIEWS “Skating through Alabama with long hair, duct tape on the nipples, and women’s culottes … What were you thinking?”—JAY LENO, The Tonight Show “A riveting true-life adventure as inspiring as it is thrilling.”—UTNE READER “An extraordinary expedition on an epic scale.”—BEN FOGLE, television presenter and adventurer “Last great first for circumnavigation.”—THE SUNDAY TIMES “Truly a tale for our time. You really smell, taste and breathe this journey in a way that is only possible by travelling more slowly.”—ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Expedition to the Southwest
Author: James William AbertPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803259355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Lt. Abert of the United States Army Topographical Engineers set out from Bent's Fort to conduct a detailed reconnaissance of the Canadian River region of the southern plains. Possessing a great eye for detail, Lt. Abert provided clear, graphic decriptions of birds, plants, animals, and the countryside, as well as details about the Comanches and the Kiowa. Lt. Abert's journal is one of the concluding records of the Anglo-American exploration of the American West begun in 1804 by Lewis and Clark.
Frozen in Time
Author: John GeigerPublisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1771640790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"The amazing true story of a doomed Arctic voyage-- and the secrets preserved in ice"--Cover.
Expedition
Author: Steve BackshallPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473531640
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Shine a light into the unknown There are still dark corners of our planet that are yet to be explored. In this remarkable book, Steve Backshall offers an unflinching account of his adventures into these uncharted territories around the globe, in search of world firsts. Each location brings its own epic challenges - whether it's the first climb of an arctic ice fall in Greenland, the first recorded navigation of a South American river, or the first exploration of the world’s longest cave system in Mexico. But all of them represent new tests of the limits of human endeavour. Accompanying a major 10-part series on BBC and Dave, Expedition is a breathtaking journey into the unknown, and a brilliantly written celebration of the pleasures of genuine discovery.
The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced
Author: Thomas S. LitwinPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813535050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
"Following the ship's route, the book addresses wilderness conservation biology and ecology, American history, natural history and anthropology, and travel and exploration."--Jacket.
The Expedition
Author: Bea UusmaPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1781859612
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
11 July, 1897. Three men set out in a hydrogen balloon bound for the North Pole. They never return. Two days into their journey they make a crash landing then disappear into a white nightmare. 33 years later. The men's bodies are found, perfectly preserved under the snow and ice. They had enough food, clothing and ammunition to survive. Why did they die? 66 years later. Bea Uusma is at a party. Bored, she pulls a books off the shelf. It is about the expedition. For the next fifteen years, Bea will think of nothing else... Can she solve the mystery of The Expedition?
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