The greatest adventures of all time
with a foreword by Will Steger
- 1st ed.
- Des Moines, IA : LIFE Books/Time Inc., c2000.
- 176 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Shackleton, Ernest.
Beebe, William.
Cousteau, Jacques Yves.
Heyerdahl, Thor.
Piccard, Jacques.
Walsh, Don.
Severin, Tim.
Peary, Robert E.
Cook, Frederick A.
Amundsen, Roald.
Scott, Robert Falcon.
Hillary, Edmund, Sir.
Messner, Reinhold.
Steger, Will.
Aldrin, Buzz.
Kanellopoulos, Kanellos.
Rutan, Dick.
Yeager, Jeana.
Piccard, Bertrand.
Jones, Brian.
Gagarin, Yuri.
Armstrong, Neil.
The spirit of adventure / foreword by Will Steger --
Introduction: Adventure, an attempt at a definition / Robert Sullivan --
Water: The great survivor (Ernest Shackleton) --
A man of depth (William Beebe) --
The manfish (Jacques Cousteau) --
Divining the progress of man (Thor Heyerdahl) --
Under the ice (William Anderson) --
Into the trench (Jacques Piccard, Don Walsh) --
Saint Brendan's odyssey (Tim Severin) --
Titanic obsession (Bob Ballard) --
Land: The race to the pole (Robert E. Peary, Frederick A. Cook) --
Triumph and tragedy (Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott) --
Everst --
A visit with the world's greatest living adventurer (Edmund Hillary) --
Alone in thin air (Reinhold Messner) --
In the footsteps of Peary and Amundsen (Will Steger) --
Where no man had gone before (Lynn Hill) --
Air: The fliers (Wilbur and Orville Wright) --
The enigma (Richard E. Byrd) --
Lucky Lindy (Charles Lindbergh) --
The daredevil (Amelia Earhart) --
No barriers (Chuck Yeager) --
No more monkey business (Yuri Gagarin) --
To the moon and beyond (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin) --
Man versus myth (Kanellos Kanellopoulos) --
A couple of voyagers (Dick Rutan, Jeana Yeager) --
The adventure of tomorrow (Sojourner) --
Nothing left undone (Bertrand Piccard, Brian Jones).
Stories of amazing accomplishments of such adventurers as Peary, Cousteau and Lindbergh among many others.
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Adventure and adventurers.
Space flight--History.
Mount Everest (Tibet)
Polar regions--Discovery and exploration.
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Shackleton, Ernest.
Beebe, William.
Cousteau, Jacques Yves.
Heyerdahl, Thor.
Piccard, Jacques.
Walsh, Don.
Severin, Tim.
Peary, Robert E.
Cook, Frederick A.
Amundsen, Roald.
Scott, Robert Falcon.
Hillary, Edmund, Sir.
Messner, Reinhold.
Steger, Will.
Aldrin, Buzz.
Kanellopoulos, Kanellos.
Rutan, Dick.
Yeager, Jeana.
Piccard, Bertrand.
Jones, Brian.
Gagarin, Yuri.
Armstrong, Neil.
The spirit of adventure / foreword by Will Steger --
Introduction: Adventure, an attempt at a definition / Robert Sullivan --
Water: The great survivor (Ernest Shackleton) --
A man of depth (William Beebe) --
The manfish (Jacques Cousteau) --
Divining the progress of man (Thor Heyerdahl) --
Under the ice (William Anderson) --
Into the trench (Jacques Piccard, Don Walsh) --
Saint Brendan's odyssey (Tim Severin) --
Titanic obsession (Bob Ballard) --
Land: The race to the pole (Robert E. Peary, Frederick A. Cook) --
Triumph and tragedy (Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott) --
Everst --
A visit with the world's greatest living adventurer (Edmund Hillary) --
Alone in thin air (Reinhold Messner) --
In the footsteps of Peary and Amundsen (Will Steger) --
Where no man had gone before (Lynn Hill) --
Air: The fliers (Wilbur and Orville Wright) --
The enigma (Richard E. Byrd) --
Lucky Lindy (Charles Lindbergh) --
The daredevil (Amelia Earhart) --
No barriers (Chuck Yeager) --
No more monkey business (Yuri Gagarin) --
To the moon and beyond (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin) --
Man versus myth (Kanellos Kanellopoulos) --
A couple of voyagers (Dick Rutan, Jeana Yeager) --
The adventure of tomorrow (Sojourner) --
Nothing left undone (Bertrand Piccard, Brian Jones).
Stories of amazing accomplishments of such adventurers as Peary, Cousteau and Lindbergh among many others.
91868
1929049064 9781929049066
00101247
Adventure and adventurers.
Space flight--History.
Mount Everest (Tibet)
Polar regions--Discovery and exploration.
910.92 Gre 15