Adventure Bookshelf

Source: Wikipedia
Raconteur: One who tell stories and anecdotes with skill and wit.

Author of over 100 novels, storyteller Louis L’Amour is certainly best known for his westerns and that certainly is the genre with which his name will always be remembered. He did venture at times though from his standard, leaving behind his most recognizable [...]

“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.

“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‘ [...]

“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.’