John Canning ? 100 Great Adventures (Bounty Books, 2003)

John Canning – 100 Great Adventures (Bounty Books, 2003, 672 de pagini! Cartea este in limba Engleza. Stare excelenta!) – 35 lei

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„A collection of 100 of the greatest adventures over the last 3,000 years.

Joan of Arc and the siege of Orleans
The Conquest of Mexico
The first crossing of Greenland’s ice-cap
Amy Johnson’s flight to Australia
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The search for India

Collected together in this volume are 100 great adventures, ranging over a period of 3,000 years and spanning the earth. Within these pages are some of the greatest adventurers who ever lived – Moses, Mohammed, Richard I and Joan of Arc. Sailing their way into history are Drake, the mutineers of the Bounty, and the crews of the Emden and the Cossack.

Lawrence of Arabia wrecking trains; Howard Carter discovering the tomb of Tutankhamen; Gladys Aylward leading her Chinese children to safety; the first crossing of South America; the adventures of Buffalo bill – these are just a few of the many memorable exploits featured here.

Taken individually each achievement represents a new aspect of man’s ever-inspiring daring; taken collectively, they represent a saga of the human spirit that is not only exceptionally entertaining and impressive but also deeply moving.

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Moses and the Promised Land 
Mohammed’s Escape from Mecca
Saint Francis of Assisi
Richard I and the Third Crusade
Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans
In Search of India
The Conquest of Mexico
Pizarro and Atahualpa
The first crossing of South America
Marooned on the Isle of Demons
Sir Francis Drake sails into Cadiz
The first englishman in Japan
The sailing of the Pilgrim Fathers
Jesuit Missionaries in Latin-America
The Devil’s Highway
Robinson Crusoe’s Prototype
The Real Dick Turpin
Captain Viaud and Madame la Couture
The Stubborn Scot
The first men to fly
The mutiny of the Bounty
The finding of the Rosetta Stone
Lewis and Clark
The diversity of Monsieur Vidocq
Squire Waterton in South America
Elizabeth Fry at Newgate
How Hester Stanhope became Queen of the East
The search for the North-West Passage
The Battle of Chat Moss
The survivors of the Caroline
Grace Darling
The White Rajah of Sarawak
The extraordinary pilgrim
The discopery of Angkir Vat
The hand of Captain Danjou
The first scalp for custer
The origin of the Red Cross
Dr. Bernando’s eyes are opened
The building of the Suez Canal
The saga of the Cutty Sark
Stanley finds Livingstone
Hans Schliemann discovers Troy
Father Damien and the lepers
Captain Webb
Crossing Patagonia in 1879
First crossing of Greenland’s Ice-Cap
Desert of Dreams
Finding the Palace at Knossos
Agnes Lewis’s search for the Sinai Palimpsest
Isabella Bird, The Indomitable
Sven Hedin’s Trips in Central Asia
Mary Kingsley in West Africa
From the Cape to Cairo
The Siege of Mafeking
Winston Churchill’s dash to freedom from the Boers
Roger Pocock rides horseback from Canada to Mexico
Baisy Bates in Australia
Journey into the Unknown
First at the North Pole
The Discovery of Machu Pichu
Scott’s tragic dash to the pole
Gertrude Bell’s adventures in Arabia
The hospital in the forst
The Emden
Lawrence and Train-wrecker
The flight of Alcock and Brown
Rosita Forbes’s Journey to Kufra
Finding the Tomb of Tutankhamen
The Saga of Malcolm Campbell
Heroine of the Air
How Thetis died and lived again
The Navy’s here! – the Cossack and the Altmark
Gladys Aylward leads her children to safety
A raird with the L.R.D.G.
The Miracle Caves of Montignac
The little ships at Dunkirk
The Great Tokyo Spy-ring
The Arctic Convoy
He taught the Dalai Lama
The first aqualung dive
The man who never was
The man who saved London
The rescue of Mussolini
617 Squadron Bombs The Dams
The Vaulting-Horse of Stalag-Luft III
Fitzroy Maclean’s mission to Tito
The hunt for Eichmann
A girl’s adventures with the Foreign Legion
The struggle to build the Nautilus
Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Test pilot Neville Duke smashes two records at once
The escape of H.M.S. Amethyst
The ascent of Everest
The Delta Plan
The Conquest of Nanga Parbat
The Commonwealth Trans-Atlantic Expedition, 1955-58
Tunneling through the Alps
The mystery of the Yeti
The first journeys into Space
Francis Chichester’s single-handed journey round the world”