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Alpine Circus: A Skier's Exotic Adventures at the Snowy Edge of the World
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Review Date: 5/2/2012
If you are a skier you will truly love this book. Lots of worldwide adventures involving snow. Written around the end of the 20 century...if you could only do this today.
Review Date: 12/16/2009
A great adventure travel book by one of the last English explorers to travel across the desert on camels with Arabs. Very insightful on the habits, customs and beliefs of the 'Desert People'. Reminds me of the Raiders of the Last Ark, with the turbans, eating dates, market bazaars, and blowing sands. Worth the time to read. Rated one of the 10 best adventure travel books, and I agree.
Review Date: 6/20/2020
True stories are always the best. Mason does an awesome job of telling these stories, and this one is a doozy! Back from Vietnam, listless, unable to hold a job, suffering PTSD, and drinking is a recipe for disaster. And that is where his life headed next. Ironically, he achieves fame and fortune just as he arrives at jail to serve his sentence for drug smuggling. This is a book I could not set down, just like his first, Chickenhawk. I just ordered his 2 fiction books to see how those turn out. Check Amazon for all his book reviews and you will see they are great!
Review Date: 10/1/2012
Want the real story on the war, and why it can never be won? Read this book. It is full of information and examples of the crazy life that is led by militant Afgan's and how it has been lived for centuries. Gripping book that you can not put down.
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
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Review Date: 12/7/2009
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Good read. Amazing story of WW2 prisoners of war on the Bataan Death March and their struggle to survive. Many did not. The planning and rescue from the camp is unheard of. Recommend to anyone.
Review Date: 7/26/2011
Excellent for back country travel.
Review Date: 10/23/2020
This is the equal to âInto Thin Airâ with kayaks. Adventure reading at its best. And a true story.
Review Date: 8/8/2018
All of Jim Collins books read like a documentary of success or failure. Learn from the mistakes of others, not your own. Great reading.
Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon
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Review Date: 11/29/2020
In depth research and insight of the USSR and USA space race and the Russian designer that got them there. They did not put a man on the moon, but they won just about every other sprint in this marathon.
Review Date: 4/9/2019
I like to fly, and Drury does too. This is the ultimate duty and adventure a man can do, tainted by the political morass of Vietnam and the real war in Laos.. Well told story of the risk and reward of a tour flying the Spad, which was a simple and slow airplane, but lethal and tough. Hard to put this book down at times. Enjoyable to the end.
Review Date: 5/11/2009
This book covers the autobiography of a pilot, Bob Buck, who started flying before WWII then spans his life in the left seat through jets.
His career went from small piston planes, to DC-2's & 3's, B-17's then into Constellations and the big jets. As the corporate pilot at TWA he spends many days with Howard Hughes and his celebrities. Great insights on the Hollywood scene and the life of a pilot when flying was glamour, not drugery. Funny and engaging reading that I could not wait to get back to.
This author is also a weather expert and tells many tales of his weather flying in icing and thunderstorms that no one had researched until he took them on. He flew the oceans well before GPS, and shares the difficulty in planning and executing these flights. Tales of both round the world and over the poles.
Well written and worth the effort.
His career went from small piston planes, to DC-2's & 3's, B-17's then into Constellations and the big jets. As the corporate pilot at TWA he spends many days with Howard Hughes and his celebrities. Great insights on the Hollywood scene and the life of a pilot when flying was glamour, not drugery. Funny and engaging reading that I could not wait to get back to.
This author is also a weather expert and tells many tales of his weather flying in icing and thunderstorms that no one had researched until he took them on. He flew the oceans well before GPS, and shares the difficulty in planning and executing these flights. Tales of both round the world and over the poles.
Well written and worth the effort.
Review Date: 5/16/2014
True story of the brutal Siberian prison work camp under Stalin's rule. Could not put it down. Recounts one day in the prison and work camp during a typically cold winter day. Quick read and worth the journey.
Review Date: 5/2/2012
Great insight from the 'losing' side of the war. A great commander of tanks.
Review Date: 10/1/2012
Excellent reading for adventure riders around the planet. There is no test of man and machine that is tougher than 'Dakar'. Charlie Boorman tells his tale of the planning and preparation that went into the race, followed by the race itself. Ride bikes? - you must read this.
Review Date: 8/22/2017
Great read on the inside picture of the elite SEAL team.
Review Date: 9/21/2014
Great story of sub war during WW2 & Korea. Non-stop action and downtime stories. Worthwhile read.
Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness
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Review Date: 8/8/2018
True story of a construction nightmare that was poorly planned and executed. Apollo 13 under the sea. Great reading.
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