>;A_LNC /FA_FNC/F TITLEC%/FPUBLISHERC/FDATEC/FISBNC/FINFOC/FdTYPEC?/FDESCRIPTCQ/FDESCRIPT2CO/FDESCRIPT3CI/F King Dean Skeletons on the Zahara - A True Story of Survival Little Brown 20050316835145 320p. adventure An account of an actual shipwreck of an American trading vessel at Cape Bojador on the west African coast about 1815. The crew suffers from incredible thirst is captured enslaved and after further adventure wandering with their captors in the western Sahara desert are ransomed through the intervention of a British consul and much good will from one of the capturers. Not all of the natives come off as savages some are very honorable. Their life-style is explored at length. This is a survival tale.An early version of it was a favorite read of President Abraham Lincoln. Moorhouse Geoffrey The Fearful Void Three Rivers Press 19880517571145 288p. adventure The author plans and executes to the limit of his ability a walking trip across the Sahara Desert from west to east including a stop at Timbuctu (sp?). A great read if you are considering a hike in a hot dry place. A very interesting traveling tale. Gilpin Vincent The Good Little Ship Sutter House. Litiz Pennsylvan19750-915180-01-4 (orig pub 1952 and reprinted 1961) 64p. - Co-published and distributed by Harrowood Books. Box 397. boatbuilding This book includes lines drawings for Presto a 41 ft (overall)10 ft. 6 in. beam ketch which draws 2 ft. 6 in. with the centerboard up. and for the Good Little Ship 35 ft. (overall) 10 ft. 6 in. beam which draws 2 ft. 6 in with the centerboard up. The author owned the Wabun and is intimately familiar with these lightweight shallow draft Presto class cruising sailboats. He was a friend of Commondore Munro who designed them and popularized the design in Florida at the turn of the century. This is a delightful book full of good common sense. Buehler George Buehlers Backyard Boatbuilding McGraw-Hill 19910-07-158380-7 371p. boatbuilding Buehler espouses a common sense approach to boat design and building. No magic here - just common sense. The author does assume access to lumber in dimensions and quality which may not be available in 2006 or at least not in south Texas. His advice on wood materials is probably more appropriate in the Pacific Northwest and some places in Northeast USA. Gerr Dave The Elements of Boat Strength - for Builders. Designers and Owners International Marine/McGraw-Hi20000-07-023159-1 368 p. boatbuilding This book is an in depth study. Includes graphs. charts etc. leading to an understanding of what it takes to build a strong boat. Gerr Dave The Nature of Boats pub 19__isbn - - __p. boatbuilding This book is an in depth study. Hereshoff L. F. The Compleate Cruiser pub 19__isbn (originally published 1952 )- __p. boatbuilding This book includes a great deal of common sense about cruising boat design - from one of the great designers of the 20th Century. Nichols John The Milagro Beanfield War Henry Holt 19740-805063749 (first published in 1974 by Hold Reinhart and Winston) - -456p. fiction A work of fiction. This book describes the clash of cultures between modern subsistance farmers and land developers in northern New Mexico. It is full of humor and describes the Taos. New Mexico area of the early 1970s - remember it is a work of fiction.This is the first of a trilogy of books on the area. I believe it is the best of the three. It was made into a movie in 1988 produced and directed by Robert Redford. This movie is a good translation from the book. Read the book / see the movie. Smith Martin Cruz Havana Bay Books on Tape 19990-7366-5186-1 10 CD audio disks - 67 min. long - Random House, Inc - Books on Tape fiction Russian investigator Arkady Renko travels to Cuba to investigate the disappearance/death of a friend. Set in post Cold War Cuba, the Cubans have no love for Russians. This novel has many plot twists, and reveals the authors view of life in Cuba, and thepost USSR Russia. It is read by Edward Lewis, who entertains wonderfully with Russian and Cuban Spanish accents, even for the female parts. - An entertaining mystery. Alexander Caroline The Bounty - The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty Viking 20030-670-03133-x maps. b&w illustrations -- 491 pages. history A tour de force of the Mutiny on the Bounty story. Examines the players - sometimes 2 generations back and follows these peoples lives after the court marshal or escape. There are a few surprises here. It was a very worth while -listen- in my case. It is a large book. Bligh does not come out the heavy and Fletcher Christian does not come off unscathed in fact recent interpersonal difficulties on Pitcairn Island have roots back to the original settlement. Alexander Caroline The Bounty - The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty Penguin Audiobooks 20031-14-280030-9 10 cassettes (unabridged). history The history of the Bounty incident. Very well done. Antier Jean-JacquesCharles de Foucauld - Charles of Jesus Ignatius Press. San Francisco 19770-89870-756-0 359p. indexed. history Biography of Charles de Foucauld French Army Officer who served in N Africa. He later became intensely religious and set up a hermitage in Tamanrasset in mountains of central Algeria. He was involved in French colonialization of N Africa and outside the of this biography one can glean a lot of information on European influence in north Africa. De Foucauld was eventually killed by a group who thought that they could re-take north Africa from the French while they were distracted by WWI. His hermitage still exists in Tamanrasset. Crawford Stanley Mayordomo - chronicle of an acequia in northern New Mexico University of New Mexico Press19880-826309992 231p. history A non-fiction book which won a Western Writers Award. The writer was elected to the office of mayordomo or ditch master of an acequia or irrigation ditch in northern New Mexico. This book describes the cycle of 1 year as a mayordomo. (ditchmaster) It is filled with humanity and insight on how ancient democratic structures function in a rural enviornment. - It is a very good read. Horwitz Tony Blue Latitudes - Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before Henry Holt and Co. NY 20020-8050-6541-5 index bibliography maps on endpages - 480p. history The author follows Captain Cook and asks how he is remembered in places where he visited and lived in his youth. Interestingly in some places he receives little response and in others hostility. The book examines Cook and his life and works. In some places this is a lighthearted read then you realize that you have learned something fairly painlessly. Kent George O. Bismark and his times Southern Illinois Univ Pr. 19780-8093-0859-0 184p. indexed. extensive bibibliography history Biography and times of Otto von Bismark. If you ever wonder why your German forefathers left Germany during the great migration of the 1870s here lies some of the answer. To build the German nation out of a group of principalities and stave off what was Austria and Russia Bismark warred threatned war and did a wide variety of underhanded deals. In the end he was successful in uniting Germany into a unified country at a cost. This is an academic book. It reads like one. If you have interest in the ti Lawrence T. E. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom pub 192_isbn (paperback ed.)(orig pub _ 192?) - __p. indexed. history WWI in Arabia. Palestine. Syria. This is the longer version of the story. the shorter version being Revolt in the Desert which I have not read. Manchester William A World lit only by fire - The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age Little. Brown Co. 19920316545317 index - 320p. history Another very readable work of history. This one covering the end of the Medieval and beginning of the Renaissance. Manchester is not an expert in this time period. His expertise is in more modern history nontheless his approach is fresh and very readableThis was another terrible time for the western world which civilization lived through. If you read this book start at the very beginning and read the preface forward etc. before launching into the rest of the book. Poolman Kenneth The Speedwell Voyage - A tale of piracy and mutiny in the eighteenth century Naval Institute Press 19991-55750-693-0 190p. indexed. history History of a freebooting trip around the world including a stop at Juan Fernandez Is. and raiding Spanish towns and vessels in the Pacific along S. American and N. American coasts. George Shelvocke was one of the major leaders. Rice Edward Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton - the secret agent who made the pilgrimage to Mecca discovered the Kama Sutra and ... Charles Scribners. NY 19900-684-19137-7 522p. Index. illus. maps history Richard Burton joined the Indian Army (the East India Co. Army) and served in what is now Afganistan. He visited Mecca posing as a Muslim. With John Speke attempted to find the source of the Nile and had may other adventures. Souhami Diana Selkirks Island Weidenfeld and Nicholson. Lond20010-297-64385-1 246p. index. illus. history The story of Alexanser Selkirk who was marooned on the Juan Fernandez Is. off the coast of Chile in 1704. Perhaps not scholarly but readable and thorough. It has good endnotes. Sverin Tim In Search of Robinson Crusoe Basic Books 20030-465-07689-x or 0-465-07699-8 - - 333p. history Tracks the Robinson Crusoe story to islands other than Juan Fernandez off the coast of Chile. Has a very interesting bits of information on the Moskito coast in Central America and other islands in the Caribbean. Thomas Lowell With Lawrence in Arabia New enlarged edtion Doubleday 1967LCCN 66-24339 (orig pub Century Co. 1924) - 320p. history World War I in Arabia and what is now Israel and Syria. This edition came out about the time of the Lawrence of Arabia movie and has an extra Forward written showing 40 years of perspective on the events. Tuchman Barbara W. A Distant Mirror - the calamitous 14th Century Knopf (a Borzoi Book) 1978isbn maps. pictures. index - 720p. history A very readable work of history. Written from a French perspective it is refreshing as most of the historical work we Americans read is from an English or American perspective. It covers one of the more horrific centuries in western history and shows how civilization muddled through despite its problems. Wallach Janet Desert Queen - The extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell - Adventurer. Advisor to Kings. Ally of Lawrence of Arabia Anchor/Random House 19990-385-49575-7 (orig pub Doubleday 1996) - 419p. indexed. history Fascinating history of an interesting life and of the living history of Arabia Mesopotamia Syria and Iraq. Gertrude Bell was the English official who drew the map of modern Iraq and caused 3 administrative areas which were previously (before WWI) Turkishto be defined as a modern country and separate from Arabia and Syria. Masson Jeffrey M. Slipping into Paradise - Why I live in New Zealand Ballantine 20040-345-46614-4 p 248 has glossory of terms, maps, few pictures history Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson came to settle in New Zealind. He was raised in USA and lived in Canada, England, Ceylon, and Israel. He is most comfortable in New Zealand and states his reasons. It is child friendly, very egaletarian etc. He met and talked with Edmund Hilary and others. The book includes an itinerary of recommended travel. J. Masson is a psychologist by training. Weddle Robert S. Spanish Sea - The Gulf of Mexico in North American Discovery 1500--1685 Texas A and M University Press197_0-89096-211-1 index - 300+p. history This book is not an easy read. It is slow stylistically but it is incredibly detailed and well documented. If you have any serious interest in this part of the world in this time period. Read this book. Wills Gary St. Augustine Penguin Putnam 1999isbn 4 CDs. history An interesting look at a Father of the Church and Christianity in north Africa shortly after the major pagan persecutions. Dillard Annie Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Harper's Magazine Press 19740-06-095302-0 paperback edition by Bantam 1975. there are other editions. - _p. nature Pulitzer Prize winner for general non-fiction in 1975. Natural and philosophical explorations which follow natural events during a year lived in a cabin at Tinker Creek. This is excellent writin very well worth reading. OHanlon Redmond In trouble again - a journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon Random House - Vintage 19880-679-72714-0 273 pages. Map, Index, Bibliography, pen and ink sketches of animals nature OHanlon leads a small expedition in remote southern Venezuela seeking wildlife in the Nebulina highland area approaching it from San Carlos de Rio Negro. It is up river travel - doing it the hard way. He loses his English companion, who bails out of the second half of the expedition going up the Rio Casiquiare and overland to visit some fierce Yanomami. As per his custome OHanlon reports on the dynamics of the expedition members as well as the practical matters. His bibliography is wonderful. OHanlon Redmond No Mercy a journey to the heart of the Congo Alfred A. Knopf NY 19970-679-40655-7 462 p. B&W pictures - maps nature Redmond OHanlon travels with Lary Shaffer from USA and Marcellin Agnagna a minor govt. minister of Congo (Brazzaville) from Brazzaville up the Congo and Ugangi Rivers to Impfondo and west to lake Tele. This is the full tale of a small expedition. All details are revealed from dealing with governemt beaurocracy and the military in a -peoples republic- to the social structures of the people and the individual quirks of the members of the party. There is considerable discussion of the natural history encountered as well as the history of the people from the late 1800s to present. Nobody is spared all the clay feet are discovered and discussed. This is not a book for the squeamish. It discusses reality on the ground. It ends suddenly. OHanlon Redmond Trawler 2000 nature Redmond OHanlon travels on a fishing trauler in the North Sea in winter looking for the experience of being out in a winter storm of hurricane strength. He finds his experience. He travels with a fisheries officer whose job is to examine the catch and the by-catch - those fish caught and thrown back. As is his style OHanlon describes his situation and the people with whom he shares it. Considerable discussion on the natural history of various fish is included in the narrative. McAlister Wayne H. Natural History and Enviornment Life on Matagorda Island Texas A and M Univ. Press 20041-58544-338-7 Notes drawings maps. Index - 244p. nature A personal recollection of a college professor and wife who after retiring from teaching took up a job with the National Wildlife Service on Matagorda Island living there some 10 years. Warner William E. Beautiful Swimmers - Watermen. Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay Penguin (orig. pub. Little Bro19771-14-00-4405-1 paperback - drawings. maps - 256p. nature Pulitzer prize winner in 1977 and very deservedly so. Follows the life cycle of the blue crab whose scientific name translates from the Latin as beautiful swimmer. This is excellent writing very well worth reading. Brown, Jr. Tom Tracker Berkley Books. NY 19780-425-10133-9 229p. outdoors The first book where Tom Brown describes how he learned to track and live outdoors from his friends Apache grandfather. He lives in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Brown, Jr. Tom Case files of the Tracker - true stories from Americas greatest outdoorsman Berkley Books. NY 20030-425-18755-1 190p. outdoors Five case stories plus an introduction. Not all end happily. Hardymet Christina Captain Flint's Trunk pub 19___ _ ransome Good writing about the background to Arthur Ransoms childrens works. Kendall-Price Claire In the footsteps of the Swallows and Amazons - 19 illustrated walks in Arthur Ransome country Wildcat Publishing. England 19930-9521186-0-2 112p. ransome Describes 19 trails - walks - in the Lake District of England where Arthur Ransome lived and set many of his books. Ransome Arthur Swallowdale J. B. Lippincott Co. 1931_ _ ransome Recommended as great childrens adventures. Still very readable after all these years. This story set in the Lake District in England. Ransome Arthur Winter Holiday J. B. Lippincott Co. 1933_ _ ransome Recommended as great childrens adventures. Still very readable after all these years. This story set in the Lake District in England. Ransome Arthur Coot Club J. B. Lippincott Co. 1934_ _ ransome Recommended as grat childrens adventures. Still very readable after all these years. This story set in England. Ransome Arthur Peter Duck J. B. Lippincott Co. 1932_ _ ransome Recommended as great childrens adventures. Still very readable after all these years. Set in the Atlantic Ocean Ransome Arthur The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome Century Publishing 19850-7126-0726-9 (first by Jonathan Cape 1976- index - 368p. ransome Arthur Ransome. author of the Swallows and Amazons and other childrens books involving sailing and childhood adventure lived a very interesting life himself. He was in Russia when the revolution broke out and found himself thrust into being a foreign corHe met knew most of the revolutionaries but was himself a-political. He married Evangenia Trotskys secretary and had many sailing adventures with her in the Baltic. Read this book along with Hugh Brogans excellent biography of Ransome to get to know the full man. Ransome Arthur Swallows and Amazons J. B. Lippincott Co. 1930_ _ ransome Recommended as great childrens adventures. Still very readable after all these years. This is the first story in the series. It is set in the Lake District in England. Ransome Arthur The Picts and the Martyrs J. B. Lippincott Co. 1943_ _ ransome Recommended as great childrens adventures. Still very readable after all these years. This story set in the Lake District in England. Ransome Arthur Great Northern? J. B. Lippincott Co. 1947_ _ ransome Recommended as great childrens adventures. Still very readable after all these years. Set in Scotland. Ransome Arthur Missee Lee J. B. Lippincott Co. 1941_ _ ransome Recommended as great childrens adventures. Still very readable after all these years. Set in China. Ransome Arthur The Big Six J. B. Lippincott Co. 1940_ _ ransome Recommended as great childrens adventures. Still very readable after all these years. Set in Southeastern England. Ransome Arthur Pigeon Post J. B. Lippincott Co. 1936_ _ ransome Recommended as great childrens adventures. Still very readable after all these years. This story set in the Lake District in England. Ransome Arthur We didn t mean to go to sea J. B. Lippincott Co. 1937_ _ ransome Recommended as great childrens adventures. Still very readable after all these years. The Swallows accidentally sail from England to Holland.. Ransome Arthur Secret Water J. B. Lippincott Co. 1939_ _ ransome Recommended as great childrens adventures. Still very readable after all these years. Set in Southeastern England. Delaney Frank Simple Courage - A true story of peril on the sea Random House NY 20061-4000-6524-0 300p. sailing adventure This is the story of Captain Kurt Carlson - and the freighter Flying Enterprise. The ship was sailing from Hamburg Germany to New York in December 1951 and encountered a strong storm system in the North Atlantic. This storm system sunk several ships. After being hit by a rogue wave the Flying Entertrise hull cracked and cargo shifted. The engines refused to work (lube oil would not pump at the extreme angle). The ship was dead in the water and taking on water in an Atlantic winter storm. Other vessels stood by and the few passangers and crew were ordered to abandon ship. Carlson stayed aboard and when the salvage tug Turmoil eventually arrived assisted in the attempted salvage. The second officer on the tug Kenneth Dancy managed to j Hughes Lee The Biggest Boat I could Afford - sailing up the U.S. Coast in a dingy Sheridan House 20041-57409-192-1 - photos. map - 304p. sailing adventure Hughes manages to buy Frank Dyes Wanderer probably the most fameous dingy in modern times. transports it from Canada to southern Florida then sails from there to the Canadian border. Ladd Stephen Three Years in a Twelve-Foot Boat Seekers Press 20000966933737 - map - 390p. sailing adventure The author designs and builds Squeek a 12 ft cold molded wooden boat. He sails down the Missouri River and Mississippi River then takes a steamer to Panama. From the west coast of Panama he sails down to Columbia goes inland and eventually heads down oneof the major rivers deciding to head out the Orinoco to the Carribbean. From there he island hops back north including sojourns in Haiti. Cuba and an outpost of the Bahamas back to Florida and USA. Adventure in the raw often as much concerning the people he meets as the places or process. Leighton Kenneth M. Oar and Sail - an odyssey of the west coast Cornerstone Press, Smithers BC19990-9684043-2-4 153p sailing adventure Small boat - Morag Anne - (14 ft.) traveling on the west coast of Canada. A great little read. Mackinnon A. J. The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow - a Mirror odyssey from north Wales to the Black Sea Sheridan House 20021-57409-152-2 drawings. maps - 355p. sailing adventure Mackinnon acquires a Mirror dingy at the school where he is teaching. He resigns and sails rows poles the dingy which he named Jack de Crow west along a river. Then crosses England through the canal system and across the English Channel. He enters the European canal system and works across France. Germany and into eastern Europe to the Black Sea. The story is told in a very engaging style and before it is over there are true adventures. Mohlke Matthew Floating Down the Country - a 79 day adventure down the Mississippi from its source at Lake Itasca to New Orleans Lone Oak Press. Red Wing. MN 20011-8883477-49-2 256p. sailing adventure Day-by-day adventure of a canoe trip down the full length of the Mississippi. Interesting to cross reference this trip with many others down the same route at different times in history. As per the authors card -Huck Finn meets Jack Kerouac in a canoe adventure down the Mississippi River. Has website www.floatingdownthecountry.com Raban Jonathan Passage to Juneau - a sea and its meanings Pantheon 19990-679-44262-6 435p. sailing adventure Raban sails from Seattle to Juneau Alaska. His write-up is full of thoughtful insights and historical tidbits. In the middle of the trip his father dies and he interrupts the voyage to deal with the funeral - in England - then returns to the voyage and completes it. It is an excellent read. - I recommend any of Rabans works as good reads. Raban Jonathan Old Glory - A Voyage Down the Mississippi Vintage book (reprint) 19980-37570100-1 (orig pub by Simon and Schuster in 1981) - maps - 409p. sailing adventure Raban buys a 16 foot outboard motorboat and travels the length of the Mississippi from Minnesota to Morgan City Louisanna (where the Mississippi would go if the Corps of Engineers let it have its way.) This is one of his earlier tales of travel in USA. Travel was done in the late 1970s. Being English he offers a non-natives views on what he sees. Raban is an excellent travel writer and is always readable. Slocum Joshua Sailing Alone Around the World Century 1909isbn (currently available from Sheridan House) - sketches. map - _p. sailing adventure The classic tale of a lone voyage around the world in his 30 ft sloop Spray. Lived and told by the man who made the voyage through Straits of Magellan and around the Cape of Good Hope not through the canals. Testa Serge 500 Days Trident Press 19880731648498 216p. sailing adventure Serge sailed Acrohc Australis a very specially built 12 ft. boat around the world. Well written. Common sense and good humored. Applebome Peter Scouts honor -a fathers unlikely foray into the woods Harcourt 20030151005923 330 p. scouting Applebome follows three years as an adult in his boys Boy Scout Troop - first in the south - then in NY State. A thoroughly interesting study of Boy Scouting - its history and current state. Hillcourt William Baden-Powell - the two lives of a hero G.P. Putnams Sons, NY 1964LCCN = 64-24263 457 pages, illustrated with photos and some of BPs sketches, sketch map of Mafeking scout This is an authorized biography which was written with the assistance of Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, BPs wife, who was some 30 years younger than BP. It covers his whole life from birth, death of his father when he was quite young and his mother marrying again. His step father died when he was still fairly young and his mother managed the family affairs skillfully, holding the family together. All the boys went on to live significant lives. BP had a military career in the British Empire in India, South Africa and at home in Ireland and England. His book on -Scouting- for the military became very popular & was used with youth. He re-wrote it for boys and founded and later fostered what is now the Boy Scout movement. This is a positive book.