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June 28, 2007
Book a trip to adventure
Our adult summer reading program features travel and who knows travel and adventure better than the National Geographic Society. They've tagged these four recent books as classic adventure stories not to be missed.
Nathaniel Philbrick's Sea of Glory focuses on Captain Charles Wilkes,whose cruelty to his crew earned him a courtmartial, and his famous South Seas expedition that collected the ethnographic material that became the Smithsonian's first major collection.
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig is a compulsive read. Part travelogue, part anecdotal history, travel writer John Gilmette explores the astonishing, isolated, completely bizarre world that is Paraguay.
The Darien gap in eastern Panama was at one time thought to be a suitable location for a canal linking the oceans. The Darkest Jungle is the story of U. S. Navy Lt. Isaac Strain's 1854 expedition to determine the gap's topography. The expedition was one of the riskiest, unluckiest undertakings in history, coming close to claiming the lives of the entire party.
Historian and journalist James Tobin brings the story of the Wright brothers to life in the award winning history of flight To Conquer the Air. National Geographic calls Tobin's book "a history of flight that ought to become the standard for his generation."
And don't miss out their list of the 100 greatest adventure books of all time at their website
Posted by MaryF at June 28, 2007 12:51 PM