Origins of a Journey: History's Greatest Adventures Marked by Ambition, Necessity, and Madness

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Feed the adventurer in you with Origins of a Journey, more than 120 stories of historys most famous travellers and their finest adventures.

Inside each of us lives an explorer who yearns to visit the great unknown. Feed the adventurer in you with Origins of a Journey, more than 120 stories of historys most famous travellers and their finest adventures. These are the tales behind the historys bravest pioneers, bringing you from the oceans black depths to the top of Mount Everest. Harriet Tubman ferries fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroadnot once, not twice, but 19 times. Teddy Roosevelt risks life, limb, and sanity as he charts the Amazons River of Doubt. Buoyed by the voice of God, Joan of Arc travels to Vaucouleurs to petition Charles for a chance to fight for France. Charles Darwin notices several different finch species while touring the Galpagos Islands, fundamentally changing how we understand life. Spanning from 500 BC to today, Origins of a Journey teaches us that there is always value in an adventure, no matter how smallor doomedit may be.

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Jake Grogan is originally from Ellenville, New York and currently resides in Queens. He has a BA from Fordham University, where he studied journalism.