The Ancestors and Descendants of Rulef Schenck
by Adrian Adelbert Schenck and Benjamin Robinson Schenck
This novel reveals the story of a young man (Marcus Brannon) discovering himself and his connection with nature using hallucinogenics. Throughout the book, he trips on LSD wandering through the city of Long Beach, eats psychedelic mushrooms in the hills of Laguna Beach, wanders around Las Vegas at night hallucinating on acid, and trips at a Grateful Dead concert in the desert. His many hallucinogenic experiences lead him from a frustrated college student in the early nineties to the role of an a...
When Kelly Perkins learned she needed a heart transplant at the age of 30, she thought the active healthy life she loved was over. From the brink of death to the summit of Mt. Fuji, Kelly, with the support of her husband Craig, not only survived the transplant surgery, but became the first heart transplant patient to summit some of the world's most recognized peaks. The Climb of My Life tells the story of Kelly's transplant, recovery, and ascents up such mountains as Mt. Kilimanjaro-all on a bor...
'Wholly original... It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that there is something Tolstoyan to Baker's vast project...remarkable' Neel MukherjeeJohn Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalayas. Michael Spender was the first to survey the northern approach to the summit of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers - W.H Auden and Stephen Spender - achieved literary fame, they vied for a place on an expedition that would finally conquer Everest, a quest that had become a metaphor for Brita...
Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains
by William F Drannan
The Number One Best-Selling Autobiography of Someone You've Never Heard of
by Steve Foreman
Two Years Before the Mast (American, #302) (Signet Books)
by Richard Henry Dana
Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882) of Boston left his studies at Harvard in 1834 in the hope that a sea voyage would aid his failing eyesight. He shipped out of Boston as a common seaman on board the brig Pilgrim bound for the Pacific, and returned to Massachusetts two years later. Completing his education, Dana became a leader of the American bar, an expert on maritime law, and a life-long advocate of the rights of the merchant seamen he had come to know on the Pilgrim and other vessels. Two years...