Adventures by boat and on islands ...
A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe
The first book by the "father" of modern kayaking and canoe camping. Join MacGregor as he sails and paddles alone in a double-ended canoe on the lakes and rivers of Germany, France, and Switzerland through backwater streams, over waterfalls, past whirlpools, and into the history of the paddling sports. The paperback edition features an introduction by kayaking historian Brian Kologe.
John MacGregor
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John MacGregor's delightful second voyage in 1866 through Norway and Sweden, then across the Baltic to Denmark and Prussia, and on to the North Sea island of Heligioland. A joyous voyage that solidified MacGregor's reputation. Complete with MacGregor's 36 sketches and four maps of the voyage. Contains MacGregor's description of how the Rob Roy canoe was constructed.
The Rob Roy on the Baltic
John MacGregor
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The Adventures of a Tropical Tramp
At the end of WW1, former New York journalist Harry Foster chronicled his adventures as a miner, news reporter, war correspondent, diplomatic attache and part-time piano player from South America's Pacific Coast over the Andes mountains to the unexplored jungles of Bolivia and down unknown rivers until he reached the mouth of the Amazon. Plucky and humorous but also prone to the prejudices of his day, Foster's blind spots nevertheless remind us all how differently we now see the world.
Harry L. Foster
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A Beachcomber in the Orient
The indefatigable Harry L. Foster is off on another adventure that will take him from an opium den in Saigon to a honky-tonk bar in Singapore, from visiting an ancient temple in Pnom Penh to hopping a freight train down the Malay Peninsula, from theaters in Shanghai to jails in Hong Kong. The irrepressible “tramp” of the 1920s never worries about finding adventure—it always finds him!
Harry L. Foster
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Down the Columbia
Down the Columbia by Lewis R. Freeman is one of those forgotten classics by a noted outdoorsman and riverman of the early 20th Century who tackled some of the most difficult rivers in the world. He began this adventure close to the headwaters in the Selkirk Mountains and then traveled the sometimes raging, sometimes placid river almost--but not quite--to the Pacific. Find out why.
Lewis R. Freeman
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The Confessions of a Beachcomber
Americans have Henry David Thoreau, James Audubon, and John Muir.
Australians have E.J. Banfield, the "Beachcomber of Dunk Island."
In his Confessions, the Australian beachcomber who spent his last 25 years on tropical island reminds us that a simple life well-lived and keenly observed may be the happiest. This is the extraordinary story of a man so spent he literally crawled ashore from the transport boat--but then found a bliss in simplicity and nature that has reverberated through modern Australia and throughout the world.
E.J. Banfield
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My Tropic Isle
The "Beachcomber of Dunk Island" took the material for his second book from a series of "homilies" printed in the North Queensland Register to continue a detailed account of the birds, insects, animals, plants, people, and sights and sounds that fill up life on a paradise on earth.
In his Confessions, the Australian beachcomber who spent his last 25 years on tropical island off the coast of Queensland brought the world, as the Times Literary Supplement said, "strange and little-known happenings in remote corners of the earth . . . ." Revered as an early leader in nature preservation, Banfield's amateur insight into his island's ecology, and even anthropology, continues to charm and delight readers.
E.J. Banfield
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