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  • #16
    Originally posted by c.d. View Post
    Thanks to everyone who offered a suggestion. Much appreciated.

    So many books so little time.

    c.d.
    My suggestion is Kon-Tiki, possibly the first true adventure book I ever read, and certainly the one that stuck with me the longest.
    Pat D. https://forum.casebook.org/core/imag...rt/reading.gif
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    • #17
      Originally posted by Scott Nelson View Post
      What about Barn Flat Wyngarde? That sounds like quite an adventure.
      Yeah it was a hell of an adventure.

      Pity about the really sad ending.

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      • #18
        I liked Hungerford's books (his one on Shackleton is a good one too). Haven't read his book on Nansen though.

        Any account of Sir Douglas Mawson's struggle to survive alone in the Antarctic after both his companions died on a journey in 1917 or so is really worth reading.

        Recently I read an account of the career of Col. Percy Fawcett in the Amazon jungles where he eventually disappeared with his son and a friend of the son's in 1928 is good. I think the title was "The Lost City of "Z"" about Fawcett's quest to prove a lost civilization existed inside the jungles he explored.

        I suspect Lindbergh's accounts of his transAtlantic flight of 1927 ("We" and "The Spirit of St. Louis") are worth reading - the latter won a Pulitzer Prize. Similarly T. E. Lawrence's "Revolt in the Desert" and "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" are well worth getting into.

        Jeff

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Pcdunn View Post
          My suggestion is Kon-Tiki, possibly the first true adventure book I ever read, and certainly the one that stuck with me the longest.
          Thanks, Pat. Read it and agree it is a great book.

          c.d.

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          • #20
            I finally settled on "Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania" by Erik Larson. Good reviews and I really enjoyed "Devil in the White City." Not a true adventure book but should be a page turner.

            Again, thanks for all your suggestions.

            c.d.

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