Adventure Bookshelf

“Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.”
-Eudora Welty
Narrative historian Fergus Fleming brings a collection of vignettes to the page with Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration.
Forty-five different narratives chronicle three separate eras -

The Age of Reconnaissance
The Age of Inquiry
The Age of Endeavor

Opening with Marco Polo in Mongolia in [...]

“..Then the whole fascinating vision vanished,
enveloped in cloud once more..”
Noel Odell
Geologist/Oxygen Officer
1924 Everest Expedition
“We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.” Is a quote attributed to George Mallory and a little less cliche than his enduring catch phrase - “Because it is there.” Whether he did ‘stomp to the top‘ [...]

“Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?”
-Henry Morton Stanley

As our faithful readers are aware, we preface many of our postings with a quotation that feels appropriate to the subject matter. Our critics scoff, claiming the practice to be one of smoke and mirrors, done only to associate our humble scribblings with the words of much greater men [...]

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. “
T.S. Eliot
The staff at Adventure Bookshelf has recently started reading The Adventure Blog. Yeah, were easy - just tack the word adventure to a decent amount of writing and we’ll come shuffling around, like a kid in bunny [...]

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To paraphrase Lao-tzu:
‘A journey of 78,00 miles begins with a single twist of the throttle.’

” I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
Anna Quindlen
Technology everyday is becoming more pervasive in children’s lives. While this is not necessarily a bad thing - movies, television, video games & communication devices all compete for a [...]