Ebook: The Best Adventure and Exploration Stories Ever Told

An exciting collection of dangerous adventures and groundbreaking exploration, The Best Adventure and Exploration Stories Ever Told compiles the works of authors from all over the world and from the very distant past to recent eras. Popular and well-known authors such as Herman Melville, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, and Jules Verne are featured, as well as Homer's mythic tales and Iceland's mesmerizing sagas from the tenth and eleventh centuries. Nonfiction stories add a riveting, realistic aspect of adventure to the collection. These include accounts from Shackleton's p.;Front Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; A Chronicle of the Voyages of Saint Brendan: Stephen Brennan; Jonah: King James Bible; Book XII of the Odyssey: Homer; Northmen Voyage to Vinland: Icelandic Sagas; Drake's Circumnavigation: Richard Hakluyt; The First Lowering: Herman Melville; Youth: Joseph Conrad; The Most Dangerous Game: Richard Connell; A Nightmare of the Doldrums: W. Clark Russell; The Stowaways: Robert Louis Stevenson; The Seed of McCoy: Jack London; Tarzan of the Apes: Edgar Rice Burroughs; Charles Darwin and the Galápagos: V.W. von Hagen.