The Best Adventure and Exploration Stories Ever Told

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An exciting collection of dangerous adventures and groundbreaking exploration, The Best Adventure and Exploration Stories Ever Told compiles the works of authors from all over the world and from the very distant past to recent eras. Popular and well-known authors such as Herman Melville, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, and Jules Verne are featured, as well as Homer's mythic tales and Iceland's mesmerizing sagas from the tenth and eleventh centuries. Nonfiction stories add a riveting, realistic aspect of adventure to the collection. These include accounts from Shackleton's p.;Front Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; A Chronicle of the Voyages of Saint Brendan: Stephen Brennan; Jonah: King James Bible; Book XII of the Odyssey: Homer; Northmen Voyage to Vinland: Icelandic Sagas; Drake's Circumnavigation: Richard Hakluyt; The First Lowering: Herman Melville; Youth: Joseph Conrad; The Most Dangerous Game: Richard Connell; A Nightmare of the Doldrums: W. Clark Russell; The Stowaways: Robert Louis Stevenson; The Seed of McCoy: Jack London; Tarzan of the Apes: Edgar Rice Burroughs; Charles Darwin and the Galápagos: V.W. von Hagen. Front Cover Half-Title Title Copyright Contents A Chronicle of the Voyages of Saint Brendan: Stephen Brennan Jonah: King James Bible Book XII of the Odyssey: Homer Northmen Voyage to Vinland: Icelandic Sagas Drake's Circumnavigation: Richard Hakluyt The First Lowering: Herman Melville Youth: Joseph Conrad The Most Dangerous Game: Richard Connell A Nightmare of the Doldrums: W. Clark Russell The Stowaways: Robert Louis Stevenson The Seed of McCoy: Jack London Tarzan of the Apes: Edgar Rice Burroughs Charles Darwin and the Galápagos: V.W. von Hagen. Florence Nightingale in Egypt: Florence NightingaleThe Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight: Lincoln Ellsworth Three Months in an Uninhabited Land: Sven Hedin A Wolf-Hunt in Wisconsin: J.E. Chamberlin Shipwreck: Captain James Riley The Open Boat: Stephen Crane The "Sholah" Tiger: Henrietta A. Hervey Ice Again!: Richard Henry Dana Jr. African Game Trails: Theodore Roosevelt Stanley's Last Great Expedition: Hon. J.T. Headley The Feud of the Wild-Haymen: Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen Down Through Italy by Rail: Mark Twain Fighting the Elephant: George Gordon, Lord Byron. Cavelier de La Salle: Francis ParkmanBoswell and Johnson in the Hebrides: James Boswell An Outpost of Progress: Joseph Conrad South Coast Discovery, 1801: Earnest Scott Chiloe and Concepcion: Great Earthquake: Charles Darwin The Famous Perry Expedition to Japan: John S. Sewall The Travels of Marco Polo: Marco Polo The Town-Ho's Story: Herman Melville The Pirate Crew Set Sail: Mark Twain In Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost Phileas Fogg Dear: Jules Verne Among the Crocodiles: H. Hervey Hippo Hunting in Africa: David Pollock. How the Brigadier Slew the Fox: Sir Arthur Conan DoyleHunting Musk-Oxen Near the Pole: Lieutenant R.E. Perry, USN Lion-Hunting: Alfred H. Miles In a Cuban Cave: Julius A. Palmer Leiningen Versus the Ants: Carl Stephenson.