Adventure Bookshelf

“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated.”
Sir Edmund Hillary
Mountaineering legend & humanitarian Edmund Hillary has passed on at the age of 88. Hillary, who alongside sherpa Tenzing Norgay, was first to climb Mount Everest, the world highest mountain [...]

Although decried by many as another step in the downfall of the printed word, the internet is a excellent tool for those who love books and reading. Modern databases offer cool opportunities for readers to catalog, interact and share. Here are three book related websites we like:

“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 [...]