The Best Adventure and Exploration Stories Ever Told

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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 Homers mythic tales and Icelands mesmerizing sagas from the tenth and eleventh centuries. Nonfiction stories add a riveting, realistic aspect of adventure to the collection. These include accounts from Shackletons polar expeditions; early American stories from the famed Lewis and Clark; spellbinding accounts of Magellans perilous expeditions to uncharted areas; and many more no less exciting.
The stories compiled in this priceless collection represent a thousand years of adventure, expedition, danger, and discovery. They inspire as well as awe, and readers will find themselves with an urge to follow in these great adventurers footsteps. Ancient and modern escapades placed side by side make this book perfect for all who crave the adrenaline of adventure and discovery. This title is part of Skyhorses respected The Best Stories series, each of which is selectively edited and handcrafted to include only the best stories from the best writers of the genre.

Author Bio

Stephen Brennan is the coauthor of The Adventurous Boy's Handbook and An Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt, and editor of The Best Cowboy Stories Ever Told and The Best Ghost Stories Ever Told. He has worked as a circus clown, teacher, cabaret artist, actor, director, shepherd, and playwright. He resides in New York, New York, and West Cornwall, Connecticut.