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The Bird Call of the Ri Beni is a story that blends scientific exploration, jungle adventure, and a young man's coming of age into a single narrative. In the fall of 1934, the author, an 18-year-old high school graduate from New Jersey, sailed with his ornithologist father to the jungles of western Bolivia on a bird collecting expedition. "We did not arise until 7: 00 a.m., unusual for us! We breakfasted, finished skinning the five birds left ...

David Livingstone (1813-1873) was a Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa. Missionary Travels in South Africa is his account of his second expedition, in 1853. His purpose was to abolish the slave trade by opening the continent to Christian commerce and missionaries. Livingstone walked over 4, 000 miles, from Cape Town, South Africa through the Kalahari Desert and west to the coastal town of Loanda. He then turned east, followed the Zambe...

Worsley was a naval officer and polar explorer, best known as the captain of Shackleton's Endurance. In this book, Worsley tells of his trip as co-leader of the 1926 British Artic Expedition.

Horn fought the Apache, and like many scouts of the day, he displays a mixture of admiration and contempt for the Indians he knew, among them Geronimo, who is a major figure in this book.

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Shackleton tells the story of his last expedition (1914-1917) when his ship, the Endurance, was crushed by pack ice.

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Mr. Robinson was with Colonel Doniphan's expedition against Mexico in 1846 and being an easterner, saw the Mexicans and Navajo and the landscape with fresh eyes. He felt the entire expedition was ill managed. While the military significance of the expedition is indisputable, he was often more captivated with the scenes and the people he encountered than by their war with Mexico.

Wallis's lively, decidedly feminist, opinionated, yet humorous account of five years wandering about the islands from 1844 to 1849.

The story of 24-year-old Cherry-Garrard's experience on Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910.

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The story of Bishop's journey in a 58-pound paper canoe in the 1870s.

Slocum's first book about his trip from Brazil to America on the Liberadade, a 35-foot cross between a dory and sampan.

Two decades wandering around the South Seas, island hopping, and exploring.

Darwin's journal of his voyage around the world in 1831-1836.

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The story of Burton's journey from Liverpool to Fernando Po (Equatorial Guinea) in the early 1860s.

A personal narrative of the seaman's life in the age of sail: 1815-1882.

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