Adventure Bookshelf

Stumbling about the long branching hallways of the internet I came across a site filled with wondrous images, tales of foreign lands, libraries stacked to the ceilings with books, cabinets filled with clocks, bones, mysterious paraphenalia and much more.
CuriousExpeditions.org is my kind of place. Their tagline states ‘Travelling and Exhuming the Extraordinary Past‘. Content, [...]

Break, Break, Break,
On thy cold grey stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

October 31, 1968
On the final day of a five month starting window, two sailboats, the last of nine, left the shores of England in competition of a single-handed, non-stop race to circle [...]

“A border is always a temptation.”
-Larry McMurtry
The Peoples Guide to Mexico holds a place of honor amongst the collection of adventure books upon my shelf. It is a book both practical & charming, informative & entertaining, useful whether in Mexico or far from it’s borders.

“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.’

Whatever can go wrong will go wrong.
-Murphy’s Law
Be Prepared.
-Boy Scout Motto
It can be a dangerous world out there for those who dare to adventure past their front doors. Who knows what you might encounter in your travels - Runaway trains, runaway camels, volcanoes, piranha-infested rivers, corrupt officials, plummeting elevators, scam artists or pickpockets [...]