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 [...]

…”I’ve always thought,” said Rainsford, “that the Cape buffalo is the most dangerous of all big game.”
For a moment the general did not reply; he was smiling his curious red-lipped smile. Then he said slowly, “No. You are wrong, sir. The Cape buffalo is not the most dangerous big game.” He sipped his wine. [...]

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 [...]

“September 30, 1659. I , poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked, during a dreadful storm, in the offing, came on shore on this dismal unfortunate island, which I called the Island of Despair, all the rest of the ship’s company being drowned, and myself almost dead.”
Just eleven years [...]