Can Anyone Recommend a Good True Adventure Book?

[Pcdunn]

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.

[barnflatwyngarde]

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.

[Mayerling]

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

[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.

Thanks, Pat. Read it and agree it is a great book.

c.d.

[c.d.]

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.